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Moments in Time
Memorials and Bequests in the Sanctuary Print

Imagine our beautiful sanctuary in 1930—the building had just been completed, and none of the memorial plaques which we see existed.  The congregation did, however, transfer some very important furnishings from the original Albany Street Temple—our Ner Tamid and the candelabra that still stand on our bimah today.  These were bequests of Isador Hirsh, whose will provided $1,000 in 1918 for the installation of an “everlastingly burning light” in memory of his parents.  Mr. Hirsh’s legatees also provided the two “statuary bronze standards of seven lights each”.  Both gifts were made with the explicit understanding that they would be moved when the congregation built a new sanctuary, which they anticipated would happen within the next few years.

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A Unique Social Event Print

From the New Brunswick Daily Times, November 22, 1935 A Unique Social Event!

PLANS COMPLETED FOR NOVEL CRUISE OF ‘ANSHE EMETH’

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The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Congregation Anshe Emeth Print

The early years, 1900-1925

In October, 1900, acting on a suggestion made by newly-arrived Rabbi Morris Waldman, it was decided to organize an Anshe Emeth “Ladies’ Auxiliary.” The meeting took place “in the parlor” of Mrs. Theodore Cohn, and the first president was Mrs. Max (Henrietta) Lederer, recently married to the son of one of the Temple’s founders.

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The History of Bat Mitzvah at Anshe Emeth Print

In February 1965, Rabbi Jack Spiro suggested that Anshe Emeth consider instituting a ceremony of Bat Mitzvah, writing that “The ceremony is a valuable one emotionally, religiously, and socially for the new adolescent; it is just as valuable for the girl as it is for the boy.”  

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The First Rabbi of Anshe Emeth Print

The number “40” has special biblical significance:  Noah’s flood lasted 40 days; the Jews wandered in the desert for 40 years.  And it took Congregation Anshe Emeth (as it was then known) 40 years to acquire the services of a full-time rabbi.  

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The First Anshe Emeth Synagogue - 1897 Print

From the New Brunswick Daily Times, September 27, 1897
 
“Members of the Congregation Anshe Emeth, the only fully organized Hebrew congregation in the city, had two reasons for being truly happy yesterday, for they not only celebrated Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, in their new synagogue, but they also held services dedicating their new place of worship.

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Anshe Emeth's First Torah Print

One month after receiving its charter in 1859, the congregation’s leaders wrote letters to several European synagogues appealing for a Torah.  Within two months they received this response from the Alte-Nue Synagogue in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

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The Beginnings of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple Print

In the 1850’s the New Brunswick Jewish population was still very small (less than 100 people).  Over the preceding decade most of them had come from Germany, the birthplace, 50 years earlier, of Reform Judaism.

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The World in Which Anshe Emeth Began Print

150 years ago, in 1859, a small group of Jews from Germany and Bohemia established the Congregation Anshe Emeth to keep their heritage alive in a world exploding with knowledge, innovation and political crises.

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