Photo of Students from the Talmud Torah (Hebrew School) at the Agudas Achim Synagogue, 1948

Photo of Students from the Talmud Torah (Hebrew School) at the Agudas Achim Synagogue, 1948

Students from the Talmud Torah (Hebrew School) at the Agudas Achim Synagogue prepare to conduct their own junior congregation services for the high holidays and sabbath. This photo accompanied a newspaper article discussing the 1948 Jewish New Year holiday (Rosh Hashanah 5709 ). Seated from left to right: Ruth Ann Novick, Susan Stein, Meril Sweet, Gloria Rozansky, SandraTurchik and Riva Mazur. Standing second row: Sandra Aronin, Donna Navin, Eva Barash, Judith Shapiro, Miriam Feigenbaum, and Phyllys Mintz. On the stairs from lower left to top: Jimmy Ehrman, Jefferey Rosenfeld, Harvey Barash, Herman Shapiro, and Abraham Schwartz. On the stairs from lower right to top: Ronald Sweet, Cyrus Joseph, Marshall Shapiro, and Samuel Moss. Standing at the pulpit level from left to right: Stuart Rosenfeld (holding the torah scroll),Irwin Rosenberg, Alan Lerner, Gary Sweet, Michael Stein (blowing the shofar/ram’s horn), Rabbi Max A. Lipschitz, Michael Lewis, Marshall Mintz, Melvin Goldfein, and Ben Heifitz (holding the right torah scroll).

Copyright 1948, Wisconsin State Journal. All rights reserved.

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