SummaryRon Schweiger tells the history of Temple Beth Emeth, today B’shert. (00:30) In 1909, thirty families formed the first reform congregation in Flatbush, officially recorded as Beth Emeth of Flatbush in 1911 -- (09:28) Ron Schweiger, president from 2004 to 2009, talks about one hundred years of successive mergers with other congregations -- (18:30) Most recently, in 2018, merged with Ahavat Shalom of Borough Park and Temple Beth Emeth V'ohr Progressive Shaarei Tsedek of Flabush to form Beth Shalom Emeth Reform Temple, acronym: B'shert ("it was meant to be" in Yiddish) -- (22:00) At present, Ron is historian of the congregation and in charge of the congregation's burial plots, first purchased in 1913 -- (28:30) Ron speaks about to Temple newsletter, started in 1912: The truth, and meeting with descendants of Anna Hirsch, who founded the original congregation in her home in 1909.
NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Audio interview conducted 2020 January 29, by Ariane Loeb at Brooklyn Public Library. Collected through the Brooklyn Collection Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
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TitleB'ShERT: Beth Shalom v'Emeth Reform Temple. Oral history interview with Ron Schweiger on January 29, 2020.