Sunday, November 14, 2010

HISTORY TIME LINE

  • 1911
    • Families meet to establish new congregation “on the hill”
  • 1914
    • Women allowed to sit with men during services
  • March 15, 1915
    • Ohav Sholom officially incorporates
  • 1916
    • First cemetery purchased
  • September 1922
    • 441 Washington Ave. purchased
  • Circa 1935
    • Ohav Sholom becomes a Conservative synagogue
  • 1949
    • Fire at 441 Washington Ave., records destroyed, Torahs rescued
  • Circa 1954
    • Sisterhood forms first PTA to support Talmud Torah
  • 1961
    • 441 Washington Ave. sold and congregation holds services in “The Loft’ at 268 Central Ave.
  • September 15, 1963
    • Ground Breaking
  • November 30, 1964
    • Dedication of new building
  • 1968
    • Ohav Shalom joins United Synagogue of America
    • First USY chapter formed
  • January 6, 1974
    • Dedication of Ohav Shalom Senior Housing
  • April 5, 1981
    • Mortgage on temple paid off and burned
  • 1985
    • Women allowed to have aliyot
  • 1987
    • New school wing added to building
  • 1993
    • Ohav Shalom becomes an egalitarian congregation
  • 2006
    • Ohav Shalom hires first woman rabbi
  • 2008
    • Major renovation of temple completed
RABBIS
Rabbi Nachman
Rabbi Strauss
Rabbi Henry Segal
Rabbi Aaron Decter
Rabbi Solomon I. Moseson
Rabbi Harold Schecter
Rabbi Louis Schecter
Rabbi Nephtali Rubinger
Rabbi Leonard Kaplan
Rabbi Joel Chazin
Rabbi Baruch Friedman-Kohl
Rabbi Daniel Orenstein
Rabbi Rena Kieval

CONGREGATION PRESIDENTS
Jacob LaCholter
Jacob Miller
Abraham Krantz
David Katz
Abraham Kohn
Louis Breslaw
Solomon Wise
Louis Kaufman
Morris Ungerman
Bernard Brody
Elias Bennett
Harry Novik
Louis Osher
HenryFluster
Rueben Kohn
Harry Kaplan
Joseph Greenberg
Harry Feinman –1951-1954
Morris Simonovitz –1954-1956
Alex Corbat –1956-1958
Marvin Levine –1958-1959
Morris Simonovitz –1959-1966
Richard Marowitz –1966-1968
Al Posner –1968-1969
Nate Goldberg –1969-1971
Howard Gruft –1971-1973
Marvin Glazier –1973-1975
Joseph Simon –1975-1977
Harold Hoffman –1977-1979
Robert Ainspan –1978-1981
David Diamond –1981-1983
Avrum Tabachneck –1983-1986
Neil Davidoff –1986-1988
Richard Weisz –1988-1990
Barbara Loewy –1990-1992
Robert Silverman –1992-1994
Beth Kloppott –1994-1996
Robert Ganz –1996-1998
Walter Greenberg –1998-2000
Buzz Rosenthal –2000-2002
Alan Dorn –2002-2004
David Weinstein –2004-2006
Cynthia Laks –2006-2008
Alan Dorn –2008-2009
Jeff Cohen –2009-