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April 9, 2020 – A Passover Seder for Hundreds at Goldwater Hospital

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A Little Jewish History  

Passover at Goldwater

The Womens’ Service Group Who Made a Better Life 
National Council of Jewish Women

HOW DID WE AND  

HOW DO WE GET OUR WATER? PART ll

Thursday, April 9, 2020

21st in our FROM THE ARCHIVES series

A LITTLE JEWISH HISTORY

& 
 PASSOVER AT GOLDWATER

THE COUNCIL SYNAGOGUE, WELFARE ISLAND
SOLICITATION GREETING CARD OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN
ROSELLE HELLENBERG OAK (1884-1954) 
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW  YORK (C)
The Council Synagogue opened in 1927 to serve the Jewish population of Welfare Island.  It was funded by the NCJW.
Brown Brothers (c)
Photo of Central Synagogue   Shaton Stern (c)
Rabbi’s Residence adjoining synagogue. RIHS Archive (c)
Rabbi Jacob Grossman, the Rabbi at Council Synagogue, Goldwater  Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital served the island for 17 years.
Chapin Collection RIHS Archives (c)
Rabbi Abraham M. Moseson preseding at Passover Seder at Goldwater Hospital in the 1960’s.  Goldwater Collection RIHS Archives (c)
Goldwater Collection  RiHS Archives (c)

In 1907  a small group of women from the NCJW came to the island to serve the Jewish residents.  They have served the island for decades as volunteers providing kosher food, ritual symbols and even built a  synagogue.  Photo shows ceremonial opening of new Jewish Chapel at Goldwater in 1971.  RIHS Archives (c)

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Dottie Jeffries

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