Tanchum Silberman, formerly a rabbi here, and Mrs. Silberman, and Benjamin Erkes, for twenty-six and a half year sexton of the Chizuk Amuno Synagogue, and Mrs. Erkes, expect to sail August 24 from New York on the Roma to make their home in Palestine. The Silbermans expect to live in Jerusalem.
Mr. Silberman came here from Lithuania fifty-two years ago when he was nineteen. He retired last March. The Silbermans have five sons and a daughter in New York and four daughters in Baltimore.
A reception will be August 14 in their honor in the community hall of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association, tendered by the Mizrachi and other organizations.
Mr. and Mrs. Erkes will reside in Mount Carmel in the Holy Land, in a modern two-story home.
They came from Russia in 1904, where Mr. Erkes had been a teacher in Hebrew schools, and made their home here.
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