Rededication of the Synagogue on Lodge Street, Cincinnati.
The Synagogue of K. K. Benai Yeshurun having undergone a thorough repair during the last three months, ranks now among the neatest and finest edifices of this city, and is probably one of the handsomest Synagogues in this country…
A large congregation assembled long before the appointed hour, and filled the house to its utmost capacity. Precisely at 5 o’clock the organist, Mr. Sofsky, commenced the Preludium. The doors were opened, and the procession headed by Messrs. Fechheimer and Buchman, Marshal and Assistant Marshal of the day, came in, consisting of the oldest members bearing the Scrolls of the Law, followed by the Rev. Drs. Lilienthal; Rothenheim, and Wise, the Reverends Judah and Lewin, the Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the other Officers of this congregation and of K. K. Benai Israel…When the procession had reached the first pillar, the choir, directed by Mr. Junkerman, chanted the Mah Tobu, as composed by S. Sulzer, the solo parts being sung by the Hazan of the congregation, Mr. Moses. This finished the procession stopped before the platform around the Ark, Mr. Moses joined the procession, and Rev. Dr. Rothenheim mounted the pulpit, and recited in German the introductory prayer, which being a master piece of literary composition, was listened to with much attention, and made an elevating and touching impression on the congregation…The usual evening service of Sabbath concluded the solemn occasion, which came off to the glory of G-d, to the satisfaction of all present, and to the honor of the congregation, the choir, their organist and their leader. We were highly pleased to see in one building so much oratory and musical talent, so much devotion, and notwithstanding the immense crowd of people and the intense heat, so much decorum, such a solemn silence, and so many countenances beaming with sacred happiness, divine satisfaction and just pride in the grace of G-d, visible in the accomplishment of this grand and noble work…
—August 31, 1855
A Fable from the Talmud.
A lion caught a fox and the hungry monarch was ready to devour his shrewd subject. The fox reasoned with his hungry lord thus: “If thou eatest me, slim as I am, it will not satisfy thy hunger; spare me, and I will show thee a fat man on whom thou canst make royal meals.” The lion consented, and the fox led him to a place where a heavy man was sitting quietly behind a covered trap pit. “Here he is,” said the fox. “But I fear,” replied the lion, “his prayer might bring down upon me the punishment of heaven.” “G-d’s punishment would nowise overreach either thee or thy children,” said the fox; “it comes upon the third generation of the offender only, and that takes a good long while. Thou art hungry now, go eat, and mind not thy grandchildren.” The lion was persuaded, leaped toward the man, but fell into the trap pit, and was caught without any hope of escape. The fox came to the crown of the pit to condole with the captured lion. Angrily the lion roared, “Deceptive fox, didst thou not say, punishment overreaches only the grandchildren of the offender?” “I did not know, however,” replied the fox, “that thy grandfather also was a sinner; thou shouldst have known it.”
—August 25, 1876
WHEN LOVE PASSED BY.
I was busy with my plowing
When Love passed by.
“Come,” she cried, “forsake thy drudging. Life’s delights are few and grudging;
What hath man of all his striving, All his planning and contriving, Here beneath the sky?
When the grave opes to receive him, Wealth and wit and honors leave him—
Love endures for aye!”
But I answered: “I am plowing
When with straight and even furrow All the field is covered thorough, I will follow.”
Love passed by.
I was busy with my sowing,
When Love passed by.
“Come,” she cried, “give o’er thy toiling— Follow me, where meadows smiling
Bloom unsown with rose and myrtle, Laugh for joy the thousand flowers, Mirth and brooks—the laughing hours All unnoted fly.”
But I answered: “I am sowing.
When my acres all are planted
Gladly to thy realm enchanted
I will follow.”
Love passed by.
I was busy with my reaping
When Love passed by.
“Come,” she cried, “thou planted’st grieving, Ripened sorrows art thou sheaving;
If the heart lies fallow, vain is
Garnered store. Thy wealth of grain is Less than Love’s least sigh. Haste thee—for the hours fast dwindle Ere the pyre of Hope shall kindle In life’s western sky.” But I answered: “I am reaping. When with song of youth and maiden, Home the heok-cart comes full laden, I will follow.”
Love passed by. I had gathered in my harvest
When Love passed by.
“Stay,” I called—to her swift speeding, Turning not, my cry unheeding— “Stay, O Love, I fain would follow, Stay thy flight, oh, fleet-winged swallow Cleaving twilight sky! I am old and worn and weary, Void my fields and heart—and dreary, With thee would I fly. Garnered woe is all my harvest, Sad ghosts of my dead hopes haunt me, Fierce regrets, like demons, taunt me—
Stay!—I follow!”
Love passed by.
—SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN
—August 29, 1901
LOCAL
Mr. and Mrs. Minden and family and Miss Shirley Pearlstein of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, while on a motor trip, stopped for a few days in Cincinnati. During their visit here they were the guests of Mrs. Loshinsky and Rabbi Iser L. Freund, formerly Rabbi of Hamilton, Ontario…
Mrs. Wm. Stern of New York donated a dinner to the inmates of the Home for the Jewish Aged and Infirm of Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 23rd, in memory of the sixty-second birthday anniversary of her departed husband, Wm. Stern. This is an annual attention that Mrs. Stern gives to the inmates and which is very much appreciated by them…
—August 26, 1926
BAR MITZVAH
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pollins announce the forthcoming bar mitzvah of their son, Marvin Stuart, Saturday morning, Sept. 1, at Louis Feinberg Synagogue. Marvin’s grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sweet and Mr. and Mrs. A. Polinsky.
Friends are invited to attend the services.
—August 30, 1951
Bar Mitzvah
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Levy are pleased to announce the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their son, Barry Robert, on Saturday, August 28, 1976, at 10:45 a.m. at Temple Sholom, 3100 Longmeadow Lane.
Barry is the grandson of Mrs. Jacob Levy and the late Jacob Levy, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Gordon.
Relatives and friends are cordially invited to worship with the family, and attend the Kiddush following the services.
Bas Mitzvah
Our daughter Leslie De Montis will be a Bas Mitzvah, on Friday, Sept. 3 at 8:15 p.m., at Adath Israel Synagogue.
We would like to extend an invitation to all our friends to worship with us on this happy occasion, and to join us at the Oneg Shabbat following the service.
—Shirley and Joel Thorpe
—August 26, 1976
—August 26, 1976
Plum Street Temple celebrates 150 years
“We have planned a wide range of activities to engage members with all different interests over the year ahead,” said Anniversary Chair and past president Lynn Warm. “I’m excited so many of our congregants will be able to celebrate these important milestones in our history as a congregation, especially scribing two new Torah scrolls.”
—August 25, 2016
Historic cemetery gates restored
“Taking care of Jewish gravesites is a very special mitzvah,” said Larry Neuman, Board President of JCGC.
“We believe it’s important to maintain the cemeteries not just for our community’s burial needs, but also to communicate to the community and neighbors that these are historic and sacred spaces that deserve respect,” added David Harris, executive director of JCGC.
—August 26, 2021
