Tag: Congregation Beth El

  • Benjamin P. Rosensweig

    Benjamin P. Rosensweig

    Benjamin P. Rosensweig was born in Pennsylvania in 1891, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. During the 1920 Census, he was married to his wife Katie and living in the 400 block of Ritner Street in South Philadelphia. At that time, Benjamin was working in the ice cream sales industry and proved to be…

  • Herman Z. Cutler

    Herman Z. Cutler

    HERMAN Z. CUTLER is best remembered in Camden for the company he founded, Cutler Metal Products Company, which operated at 1021-1025 Line Street into the 1980s. Herman Cutler was born January 6, 1888 in the town of Ilintsy, in what is now the Ukraine. This town had a relatively large Jewish population at that time,…

  • My Camden Heritage

    By Dr. Samuel Zuckerman As published in the Jewish Community Voice, January 5, 2005. I am sitting in my den and close my eyes, I see the city as it was in my youth and recall the many people that crossed my path. I was eligible to go to Kaighns School but my parents didn’t…

  • E. George Aaron, Ex-Camden Aide, Attorney, Is Dead

    E. George Aaron, Ex-Camden Aide, Attorney, Is Dead

    Camden Courier-Post – May 13, 1960 Public Safety Director for Nine Years E. George Aaron, former public safety director and an attorney active in Camden’s public, civic and philanthropic affairs more than 30 years, is dead. Mr. Aaron died shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday in the Cherry Hill Apartments, Delaware Township, where he had lived…

  • NOTED RABBI SPEAKS IN CAMDEN TONIGHT

    Camden Courier-Post – February 1, 1938 Jewish Community to Fete Dr. Goldstein, President of Palestine Fund Rabbi Israel Goldstein, of New York, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, will speak tonight at a mass meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman, in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Jewish National Fund. Preceding the…

  • Hebrew School Marks Graduation

    Hebrew School Marks Graduation

    Camden Courier-Post – June 15, 1933 Three Graduated With High Honors at Beth El School Three students were graduated last night at commencement exercises of Beth El School of the Congregation Beth El, Park Boulevard and Belleview Avenue. Rabbi Nachmim S. Arnoff said the three were graduated with distinction in the Hebrew Department. They are…