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In 1842, the Hebrew Benevolent Society was formed to care for needy Jews. In 1843–44, various religious practices were initiated by the United Hebrew Congregation. Regular Ashkenazi services in the Polish tradition were conducted in a rented room. By 1850, when the city's total population was 77,680, about 700 Jews comprised the community.
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On Rosh Hashanah in 1836, the first minyan (prayer quorum) in St. Louis, Missouri was founded at 2 nd and Spruce Streets, above Max’s Grocery & Restaurant. Services were led by Louis Bomeisler. In 1841, this minyan became the United Hebrew Congregation, the first congregation established west of the Mississippi.
United Hebrew Congregation was founded in St. Louis in 1837, a mere fifteen years after the incorporation of the City of St. Louis. It was the first Jewish congregation to be established in St. Louis, and is the oldest west of the Mississippi River.
The Hebrew Free and Industrial School Society, an organization for the instruction of children in Jewish history and religion, was founded by Rabbi H. J. Messing in 1879, with J. B. Greensfelder as president; and the Jewish Alliance Night-School for immigrants was established a few years later by Prof. W. Deutsch, and was presided over by Elias ...
The United Hebrew Congregation (also Congregation Achdut Yisroel) is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 13788 Conway Road in Chesterfield, a western suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States. It was the first Jewish Congregation established west of the Mississippi River.
United Hebrew was formally founded in 1841 when the number of Jews in St. Louis had increased to around 50. Weigel became the Congregation’s first president. The “Sepher Torah” and prayer books were a gift of Louis Bomeisler, a Jew who had moved to St. Louis from Philadelphia.
