Oheb Shalom Congregation

Oheb Shalom (Hebrew: Lovers of Peace) is a Conservative synagogue in South Orange, New Jersey.[1]

The congregation was founded in 1860 by a group of Bohemian Jews. Its 1884 Moorish Revival building, known as Prince Street Synagogue, in Newark, New Jersey is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2][3][4]

The present building, in South Orange, was constructed in 1958.[5] The speakers at the dedication of the congregation's 1911 Neo-Classical[6] building were Solomon Schechter, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the then Governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson.[7]

Cemetery

The Oheb Shalom Cemetery is located at 1321 North Broad Street in Hillside, New Jersey.[8]

At the close of the nineteenth century, a group of congregants from Oheb Shalom, then located on Prince Street in Newark, New Jersey, led by Emanuel Abeles, Isidore Grand and Meyer Kussy decided to acquire land to develop a conservative Jewish cemetery. They settled on a three-acre parcel in Hillside, New Jersey. They organized a board, Manny Abeles was elected chairman and dividing the land into available plots, developed a fee arrangement including perpetual care and planned for a Chapel House that would accommodate funerals and also house a groundskeeper and his family on the second floor.[9]

At inception, the cemetery was structured to be independent financially from the Oheb Shalom Congregation although it certainly was and is a very close relative. The cornerstone for the building was laid in 1900. Plots were sold, and Oheb Shalom Cemetery has been in continuous operation for the past 115 years.[10]

References

  1. ↑ South Orange, By Naoma Welk, Arcadia Publishing, 2002, p. 118
  2. ↑ "A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey.", embracing Practically Two and a Half Centuries 1666 - 1913, published by the Lewis Historical Publishing Col. New York & Chicago, in 1913
  3. ↑ Rediscovering Jewish Infrastructure: Update on United States Nineteenth Century Synagogues, Mark W. Gordon, American Jewish History 84.1 (1996) 11-27
  4. ↑ "Sanctuary's Fate in the Balance," New York times, May 30, 1993
  5. ↑ http://www.ohebshalom.org/home/page.jsp?pg=1&pgName=OurHistory
  6. ↑ http://www.newarkhistory.com/ohebshalomcemetery.html
  7. ↑ http://www.jtsa.edu/Library/Collections/Archives/The_Ratner_Center/Papers_of_Conservative_Rabbis_and_Synagogues/Oheb_Sholom_South_Orange_NJ.xml
  8. ↑ http://ohebshalomcemetery.org
  9. ↑ http://ohebshalomcemetery.org/about.html
  10. ↑ http://ohebshalomcemetery.org/about.html

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