Temple De Hirsch Sinai In 1899, Seattle’s Reform Jews established Temple De Hirsch, which they named after the nineteenth-century French philanthropist, Baron Maurice De Hirsch. Services were held at Jefferson Hall and Morris Hall. The first president was Leo Kohn and the first rabbi was Rabbi
Read more →Ohaveth Sholem In 1878, there were about 56 Jews in Seattle, Washington. By 1889, several hundred lived there, prompting the formal development of a Reform Jewish community. In 1889, led by David Kaufman, Congregation Ohaveth Sholem was established. The first president was Sigismund Aronson and
Read more →David Kaufman Values Codes I – E – L – P David Kaufman was born in Fordon, Prussia, in 1833. Along the way . . . David Kaufman came to America, where he settled in San Francisco in 1858, where he worked briefly as a clothes renovator.
Read more →Congregation Herzl / Congregation Ner Tamid / Herzl-Ner Tamid In 1906, Congregation Herzl was founded as a progressive Sephardic Orthodox synagogue. The First Building — 1909 In 1909, the cornerstone of the first synagogue building was laid at 16th Avenue and East Fir. Its first rabbi,
Read more →George Adolf Reich, MD Values Codes I – E – L George Adolf Reich was born in 1846 in Wroclaw, Poland. Reich graduated (but did not complete his studies) from the University of Breslau’s medical department in 1869. After serving in the Prussian army at the
Read more →Chevra Bikur Holim In 1880, 145 Jews lived in the Washington territory. There was no official synagogue, nor was there a Jewish cemetery. Services were held in Jacob Alpern’s store on Front Street. Jewish holidays often were celebrated in rented rooms and the deceased were shipped
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