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At
an annual meeting of the Congregation Mikve Israel, of Savannah,
Georgia, held at the Synagogue, on the 24th Ab, 5603 (21st
August, 1843), in conformity to charter, the following gentlemen were
elected officers for the year 5604.
Isaac
Cohen, Parnass ; Sheftall Sheftall, Levy Hart, Solomon Cohen, Jacob de
la Motta, Junr., Octavus Cohen, and Judah M. Isaacks, Adjuntas; from
whom Levy Hart was elected Gabay, and J. de la Motta, Jr., Secretary.
The
United Hebrew Beneficent Society of Philadelphia, instituted in the
month of Tamuz, 5582, corresponding with June 16th, 1822, for
the relief of the poor and sick of the Jewish persuasion, to procure
attendance, medicine, &c., for such indigent individuals as are
unable to provide for themselves, and in case of death, to bury them; to
bind poor children apprentices to mechanical trades, and to encourage
the acquirement of the holy tongue among the children of our persuasion,
held its annual election agreeably to the charter on the 1st
of October, 1843, when the following gentlemen were elected officers for
the current year:
A.
L. Hart, President; J. A. Phillips, Vice President; J. L. Moss;
Treasurer; Z. A. Davis, Secretary; Jacob Phillips, A. Hart; H. M.
Phillips, I. J. Phillips, S. Elfelt, Samuel Hart, J. Jacob, D. Samuel,
Managers; E. S. Linze, Messenger.
Contributions
$4 per annum, $30 paid at once constitutes a life-member.
The
United Hebrew Beneficent Fuel and Savings Society, was instituted
February, 1841, for the distribution of fuel and stoves where required
among the poor of our persuasion, and for the encouragement of laying up
during the summer sufficient funds to procure themselves fuel, which the
society will furnish them at first cost, during the winter season:
At
an election held on the 5th March, 1843, the following
gentlemen were elected officers:
Z.
A. Davis, President; Joseph L. Moss, Vice-President; David Samuel,
treasurer; M. A. Dropsie, Secretary; Isaac Jacob Levy, Samuel Lyons,
Isaac J. Phillips, Louis Bomeisler, Henry Cohen, Jacob Ulman, David
Pesoa, H. Van Beil, Abraham Hart, D. A. Davis, M. Cauffman, Julius
Jacob, Managers; E. S. Linze, Messenger.
Contribution
$1 per annum ; $10 paid at once constitutes a lifemember.
At
an election held at Cincinnati, on Sunday, the 7th of
Tishry, (October 1st,) the following persons were elected
officers of the Congregation Benai Jeshurun* for the ensuing year:
Mordecai
Levy, Parnass; Abraham Fechheimer, Gabah Zedoka; Abraham Aub, Gabah Beth
Hayim; Henry Sacks, Treasurer, Lewis Goldsmith, Secretary; Levi
Friedman, Charles Sticks, Benjamin Simonds, and Julius Goodhart,
Trustees; and Simon Banberg, Reader.
*
We learn in a communication from the president that this congregation
was commenced about two years. ago, and numbers now already about eighty
members. It began its operation without any means whatever, and has now
nearly one thousand dollars in funds and good debts. It is intended to
purchase soon a lot of ground for the building of a new Synagogue, and
the increase of Israelites at Cincinnati is so great, that it is
confidently expected that a building having five hundred seats will be
needed, and this will be without any injury to the old congregation,
whose place of worship was built about ten years ago.
The
Minhag of the old congregation is the Polish, that of the new the
German. There are in that city two societies of men, also two ladies'
societies for the distribution of charity, which is constantly called
into requisition for the relief of the needy, who never go away
empty-handed.
The
state of religion is also improving, and we learn that it is in
contemplation to call a meeting of all the Israelites in Cincinnati, to
concert measures for the better observance of the holy Sabbath and other
religious duties. The members of the Congregation Benai Jeshurun also
contemplate to engage, as soon as possible, a permanent reader, who can
come well recommended, and is capable of being a teacher for the
children. The salary and perquisites will for the present not be above
$900 per annum, but as the congregation increases in prosperity, the
emoluments will no doubt be much augmented. Any one who may be desirous
of becoming an applicant for this office is recommended to reside at
Cincinnati at least six months before the election. The present reader
is elected only for one year. Any communication on congregational
matters must be addressed to the president (Mr. M. Levy), Officers and
Trustees of the K. K. B. Jeshurun of Cincinnati.
On
the eve of New Year, 24th of September last, a meeting of
Israelites, residing at Montreal, Lower Canada, was held, in order to
organize a German and Polish Congregation, which they accomplished, and
elected as their officers for the year 5604, Mr. L. Lyons, President;
Mr. M. Moses, Secretary and Treasurer,
and Messrs. D. Hart, I. Aarons, and D. Moss, Committee, and Mr. Elias
Vineburg, Hazan.
They
have already made arrangements to build a Synagogue, and have received
ten pounds as a donation from his Excellency, Sir Charles Metcalf, the
Governor General. The late arrival of the accounts furnished us by the
Secretary prevents us from giving a more detailed statement at present. |
