With nearly 400 persons in attendance, Congregation B’nai Abraham, New Jersey’s largest Jewish temple, last night concluded the joint observance of its eightieth anniversary and the tenth year of its new building with a community dinner in the Gertrude O. Aronson Memorial Hall.
Bernard S. Deutsch, Aldermanic President of New York City and former president of the American Jewish Congress, delivering the principal address, charged that “anti-Semitism is real in the United States. So real indeed that among the rank and file there is no Jewish family which does not face with dread the economic future of its youth.”
“Imported anti-Semitism after the Nazi model,” he said, “has set up a prototype for a specifically native product. And whether or not one believes in the nationhood of the Jewish people, one is forced to accept the nationhood of their suffering on both sides of the ocean.”
Michael A. Stavitsky, who headed the joint jubilee committee, acted as toastmaster. Guests of honor at the fete were Louis V. Aronson, who headed the building committee when the present temple was erected a decade ago; Mayor Ellenstein, who is a member of the board of trustees; Albert Hollander, president of the congregation, and Philip J. Schotland, honorary president.
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