Collections: Synagogues & Congregations
The collections include photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, anniversary programs, and memorabilia documenting synagogues in Washington, Maryland, and Northern Virginia from 1869 to the present.
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In 1869, thirty-five members of Washington Hebrew Congregation, including some of its founders, resigned to form a new Orthodox congregation—Adas Israel. This resignation letter is signed by Bendiza Behrend, first president of Adas Israel.
JHSGW Collections.
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Sephardic Hebrew Congregation Banquet, 1936.
JHSGW Collections, Gift of Ereza Diamond.
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Myer Freeman, first President of the Montgomery County Jewish Community, ca. 1950.
JHSGW Collections, Gift of Rabbi Tzvi and Esther Porath.
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Members of Agudas Achim Congregation presenting a Torah on loan to the Marine Corps based at Quantico, Virginia during World War II, 1942.
JHSGW Collections, Gift of Rabbi Tzvi and Esther Porath.
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