More like 'cjhn92'

1 records – page 1 of 1.

Associated Synagogues of Ottawa fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101106
Collection
Associated Synagogues of Ottawa fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 minute book
Fonds No.
O0004
Date
1931-1933
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one minute book.
Collection
Associated Synagogues of Ottawa fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 minute book
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one minute book.
Date
1931-1933
Fonds No.
O0004
Storage Location
Individuals Boxes
History / Biographical
During the early 1930s, synagogues in Ottawa were having difficulty retaining the services of rabbis due to financial challenges facing the congregations. As a result, a committee known as the Associated Synagogues of Ottawa was formed with the purpose of hiring a community rabbi to act as the spiritual leader for the entire Jewish community. At the time, the Jewish community was exclusively Orthodox and numbered approximately 2,800 people. Early in 1933, after several months of negotiations, each of the four congregations; Agudath Achim Congregation (Rideau Street), Machzikei Hadas Congregation (Murray Street), B’nai Jacob Congregation (James Street) and Congregation of Adath Jeshurun (King Edward Street), agreed to pay a proportionate amount of the rabbi’s salary of $2500.00 per year. Rabbi Rev. Abraham H. Freedman was the Associated Synagogues of Ottawa’s first appointment and became Ottawa’s first Community Rabbi. Proportionate payment continued to be the standard working formula for the next 20 years for employing five different, “community” or “city” rabbis. With the successful engagement of Rabbi Freedman, the next logical step for the community was the formation of a community council, or Vaad Ha’Ir. Mr. Casper Caplan put forth this motion during a meeting of the Associated Synagogues of Ottawa on August 28, 1933, where he is quoted as having proposed that “the executives of the Associated Synagogues of Ottawa recommend that a Vaad Ha’Ir of twenty-six members be appointed by the Congregations ... and that this body administer the various branches of Jewish activities in the city, principally Kashrut, Jewish education and spiritual guidance, with powers to act for the Congregations in the advancement of Judaism in our city”. The Associated Synagogues were then organized into the Ottawa Vaad Ha’Ir in 1934.
Custodial History
Received from National Archives of Canada, July, 1996.
Access Restrictions
Please use photocopies.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Less detail