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Decade |
Year |
Date |
Event |
Location |
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1896 |
Meetings in private homes to discuss founding a formal synagogue (beginning of Anshai Sfard) | |||
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1898 |
May 6 |
Anshai Sfard chartered | ||
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Cambridge/Somerville Hebrew Literary Association founded |
meets at house at 280 Windsor | |||
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Cambridge Hebrew Ladies Educational Society chartered. (later known as the Cambridge Hebrew Women's Aid Society) | ||||
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1900 | ||||
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1900 |
Congregation Beth Israel founded | |||
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1901 |
June 17 |
Groundbreaking - construction begins on Beth Israel Building |
238 Columbia St. | |
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1903 |
Dedication of Beth Israel building | |||
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Cambridge/Somerville Gemeleth Chesed Benevolent Society founded (to give interest-free loans to those in need) | ||||
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1906 |
February 28 |
Mortgage taken out by Barnet Shifres for construction of building for Anshai Sfard |
83 Webster Ave., Som. | |
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1908 |
Congregation Agudath Ashkenazim (Temple Ashkenaz) chartered (after break from Beth Israel due to difference over Sephardic & Ashkenazic modes of worship) | |||
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1910 | ||||
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August 10 |
Hebrew Literary Association (private Hebrew School) buys building (Bldg also houses th YMHA) |
178 Elm St. | ||
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1911 |
December 15 |
Temple Ashkenaz purchases land at 8 Tremont St. (home of Joshua Kaplan) | ||
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Hebrew Literary Associiation acquires property on Elm Street for $1 | ||||
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1914 |
The Menorah Society at MIT is founded (organization for Jewish men - women first accepted in 1930's) | |||
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1918 |
January 4 |
Congregation and Talmud Torah Yavna chartered |
242/244 Western Ave. 123 River St. | |
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1920 | ||||
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1920 |
Temple Yavna opens new building |
8 Howard St. | ||
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1924 |
August |
Groundbreaking - construction begins on building for Temple Ashkenaz |
8 Tremont St. | |
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1925 |
Completion of Temple Ashkenaz building | |||
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1930 | ||||
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Young Judea Youth Group founded, housed at Temple Ashkenaz | ||||
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1931 |
Auxiliary No. 6 (Cambridge aux. of Jewish Tuberculosis Sanatorium) organized. | |||
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1932 |
Jewish War Veterans - Cambridge Post 35 - is chartered |
Continues to meet at TBS | ||
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1934 |
Sisterhood of Congregation Beth Israel formed | |||
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June 26 |
Temple Yavna sells building to Church - congregation disappears | |||
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1937 |
Hadassah, Cambridge Chapter, founded | |||
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1940 | ||||
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1945 |
Hillel Foundation at MIT founded | |||
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1946 |
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel founded | |||
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1950 | ||||
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1950 |
Jewish Tuberculosis Sanatorium becomes New England Sinai Hospital and moves to Jamaica Plain - Auxiliary continues | |||
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1951 |
Cambridge Jewish Community Center incorporated | |||
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1952 |
December 31 |
Cambridge Jewish Community Center, Inc. purchases building |
Harvard & Lee Sts. | |
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1954 |
March 31 |
Hebrew Literary Assoc. building sold. (Closed around 1952) |
becomes Portuguese social club | |
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1957 |
June 17 |
Anshai Sfard merges into Beth Israel (Anshai Sfard ceases to exist) |
(Charter dissolved Oct.) | |
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1960 | ||||
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1962 |
August 29 |
Temple Beth Shalom of Cambridge is chartered (Congr. Beth Israel and Temple Ashkenaz cease to exist) | ||
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mid 60's |
Harvard Hillel Children's School Community founded at Harvard | |||
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1970 | ||||
1972? | September 30 | Annual community-wide Simchat Torah celebrations begin at Temple Beth Shalom | ||
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1977 |
November 22 |
Jewish Community Center sells building | ||
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Harvard Hillel Children's School Community becomes independent | ||||
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1978 |
Cambridge Hebrew Women's Aid Society dissolved | |||
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1980 | ||||
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1988 |
April |
Alef-Bet Child Care Center opens in Temple Beth Shalom building | ||
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Hadassah, Cambridge Chapter disbanded | ||||
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1990 | ||||
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1990 |
Hadassah, Cambridge/Somerville group initiated under aegis of Boston Chapter | |||
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Harvard Hillel Children's School becomes Congregation Eitz Hayim | ||||
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1992 |
Kesher After-School Hebrew School founded | |||
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Havurah Or Chadash founded | ||||
1994 | Alef-Bet Child Care Center expands to include Gimmel class | |||