More than fifteen hundred people attended the dedication exercises of the East Broad Street Temple Sunday, afternoon.
The Temple doors were officially opened by Mr. I. H. Schlezinger, Rabbi Solomon Rivlin delivered the invocation.
Mr. I. H. Schlezinger, Chairman of the Building Committee, presented the temple building to the congregation. Mr. Leon Nason, President of East Broad St. Temple, accepted the building on behalf of the membership.
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