r . ',... /• · ~~,' {. 4 - i....l V.!i t,- .. - .. '-. .. u. - c::. ~l 3 Bet'.1 E: 1 10 ~::::TH-EL 7 0 Occh a ·cd /. V'3 . OF T i:.MFL Provl::l 0:1 ce, R. I. 02906 \ Schedule Passover Services To Start Friday, Apr.ii 12 Passover, the Fesival of Services on Saturday, April 13 Freedom, born of the liberation and Sunday, April 14, will be held of the Jews from Egyptian at 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. bondage, will start this year on SONS OF ZION­ Friday, Ap,rll 12, with the First ANSHE KOVNO THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEW/SH WEEKLY IN R. I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. Seder to be held on Friday At Congregation Sons of Zion evening. Passover services have and Anshe Kovno, the search for been scheduled at all Rhode Chometz will take place after the 15¢ PER COPY 16 PAGES VOL.LII,NO.6 FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1968 Island synagogues and temples Maarlv services on Thursday starting Friday evening and evening, April 11. S.er-.'lces on continuing through Sunday. Friday morning, April 12, wm start at 6 o'clock and wm be CONGREGATIONS followed by a Siyum B'Chorim for B'NAI ISRAEL the first born at 6: 30. Friday Th e M o d e 1 S e d e r at evening services wm be at 6:30 Congregation B'nai Israel in o'clock. , Woonsocket will be held on Services on Saturday, April Sunday, April 7, at 11 a-.m., and 13, and Sunday, April 14, will be wm be conducted by the children held at 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. of the Hebrew School. During the week, according to Passover services will start Rev. M::>she Drazln, morning on Friday, April 12, at 6:15 p.m. services will be at 6 o'clock, and Saturday and Sunday morning evening services will start at ... services, April 13 and 14, will 6:30 o'clock. · start at 9 o'clock, and evening services will be at 6: 15. The TEMPLES sermons on Saturday and Sunday BETH DAVID will be delivered by Rabbi At Temple Beth David the William Kaufman. Siyum for the first born will be OHAWE SHOLAM held at 7 a.m. on Friday, April Th e M :> d e I S e d e r at 12. Services on Friday and Congregation Ohawe Sholam in Saturday evenings will start at Pawtucket will be held at 7: 30 6:15 o'clock. On Saturday, April p.m. on Tuesday, Aprll 9. The 13, and Sunday, April 14, children of the Hebrew school services wlll be held at 9 a.m. wlll conduct the services under Chol Hamoed services wlll be the direction of Rabbi Chaim held in the chapel. Cantor R a i z m an • An open forum Charles Ross will conduct all concerning the significance of services. Passover will follow. BETH SHOLOM Passover services will be The Siyum Bechorum services held on Friday, Saturday and wlll be held at Tem:9le Beth Sunday evenings, April 12, 13 Sholom at 6:45 a.m .. on Friday, and 14, at 6 o'clock, and on April 12, following Mlncha­ Saturday and Sunday mornings at Maarlv services which start at ~ Ohawe Sholom Synagogue Of Pawtucket 9 o'clock. The Talmud study will 6:15 a.m .. Services on Saturday, be at 5 p.m. on Saturday and April 13, and Sunday, April 14, To Celebrate 50th An.niversary Of Building Sunday. wlll start at 9 a.m., an~ evening SHAAR'E-ZEDEK­ services on Saturday w111 start at t' Standing at the corner of High community, which held its serv- , Uon in the new bulldlng which was SONS OF ABRAHAM 6:15. Rabbi Nathan N. Rosen wm and Jackson Streets in Pawi:ucket ices in the Pawtucket Grand started in 1918 and completed by Th e Religious School of conduct the services. is a 50-year-old building which Army Hall. The Ladies' Aid, as 1921. He was one of tne men who Congregation Shaare Zedek-Sons BETH TORAH serves a congregation which the women's auxiliary organiza- did a vital job in the fund-raising of Abraham wlll conduct its Passover services at Temple started in the 1890s. On the eve- tion was then known, gave active for the building. annual Model Seder on Sunday, Beth Torah wlll start with 6:30 ning' of Sunday, April 7, a dinner and enthusiastic support to the Records of the old days of the April 7, at 10 a.m. in the vestry a.m. services on Friday, April ,· has been planned which will serve organizers of the new congrega- congregation are not always of the synagogue. The members ,12, and will include the special ' a double function - to celebrate Uon. Mr. Eisenberg and his clear, but there are a few facts of the Sisterhood will act as service for the first born. the 50th anniversary of the build- building committee bought the which were brought up by some of hostesses to the student body. Evening services on Friday, ing of the synagogue for Congre- site of the present synagogue on the older mempers. They re­ Excerpts of the Haggadah will April 12, and Saturday, April 13; gation Ohawe Sholam, and to offi- High Street from Mr. Frank called the nami~ of a Rabbi Lakeb be chanted and recited by the will start at 6: 30 o'clock, and on cially in:,tall Rabbi Chaim Raiz- Crook. At the time of the pur- who was with the congregation for pupils of the schoo 1. Sunday evening at 6:15. man as the spiritual leader of the - chase, the property consisted of a short Um,? in 1924. In 1925 The search for Chom,:itz will Morning services on Saturday congregation. an old theatre and a house. The Rabbi Abraham Schisgall was take place on Thursday, April 11, will be at 9:30 o'clock, and on The congregation has grown theatre was torn down to make brought to Pawtucket by a mem­ at 7 p.m. The Siyum Bechorum Sunday at 9 o'clock. ·,),~'?.<. from a few men who met for room for the synagogue and the ber of the congregation. He came (the feast in the synagogue for the EMANU-EL prayers daily to a congregation of house was moved to the back to f!om Slutsk, Russia and remained first-born) will be held on Services for the opening days several hundred fami.lies, with a house the Talmud Torah. with the congregattsm for about Friday, April 12, at 6:45 a.m. of Passover will begin at Temple Hebrew School, a Ladies' Auxil- "Jewish teaching tells us- that seven years. At that tim~ they Evening services on Friday will Emanu-El with Maariv at 6:15 tary, and its own 50-year-old it ls the Jewish mother who is had about 150 families as mem-­ start at 6:30 o'clock. p.m. on Friday, April 12. building. responsible for the transmission bers. Morning services on Saturday, Services on Saturday, Ap:Ml 13, It was on March,28, 1905, that of Jewish tradition and learning A Rabbi Gold and Rabbi April 13, and Sunday, April 14, and Sunday, April 14, wm begin five men signed the original pa- ,from generation to generation. ' _ ~akovsky followed and a Hebrew wlll start at 9 o'clock, and (Continued on page 12) pers of incorporation naml.ng the The Ladles' Aid fulfilled this re- teacher, Mr. Sevelovlch. At the evening services will begin at group as The Congregation Ohawe sponsibility 1:o the fullest extent. tlm~ Rabbi Aaroh Goldin (who 6:30 o'clock. Rabbi Abraham Sholam of Pawtucket, R. I., "said It was the Ladles'· Aid who pur- died a few years ago in Por­ Ch111 will conduct the services. corporation • • • constituted for chased the cornerstone of the . tsmouth, N. H.) became the spiri­ SONS OF JACOB the purpose of maintaining and synagogue. The parchment listing tual leader_of the congregation in The sell1ng of the Chometz at conducting a House of Worship of the nam:is of the members of the- 1940, the mem"Jership was grow­ Congregation Sons of Jacob will the Orthodox Hebrew Religion in organization rests within the cor- ing and by the middle 40s was up be conducted by Rabbi Abraham Pawtucket, Rhode Island •••'' nerstone. Thus, the Ladies' Aid to approximately 300 families. At Klein on Sunday, April 7, between The five men who signed were of more than 40 years ago built one high holiday service, the 8, and 9 a.m., and on Friday, Reubin Bloomberg, Morris i;.,e- the foundation on which the synagogue, they said, "was, pack­ April 12, between 6:45 and 8 a.m. venson, Isaac Brown, Abraham cg:eams of this pres.ent Sisterhood ed to capacity" with people sit­ , The Siyum B'chorim service for Berrick and Henry Cossack. could be realized. When the ting in the aisles when almost 800 first born sons will also be Th meeting place ' Of the cong- bu1lding was completed, the people attended. conducted by Rabbi Klein on regation changed from the Cot- Ladies' Aid bought the key to the For several years after Rabol Friday morning, April 12. trell Building to a building on synagogue. So the women of my Goldin left, the mem"Jers con- Evening services on Friday, East Avenue in downtown Paw- generation helped to open and (Continued on page 9) April 12, will start at 6 o'clock. tucket. Also -used. were the Pas- keep open the door to Je\rjsh tra- time Theater at the corner of dition, culture and learning in the High and Exchange Streets and Pawtucket community.