Hebrew Educational Alliance (Denver, Colo.)
Sources
found: NUCMC data from Judah L. Magnes Museum for Celia Ragooland scrapbook, 1928-1932 (Denver Hebrew Educational Alliance; collection contains a scrapbook with a poster about the dedication of the Denver Hebrew Educational Alliance)
found: Hebrew Educational Alliance WWW, Jan. 24, 2007 (on June 17, 1920, the Denver Hebrew Institute [no publs. in LC database] was incorp. with the mission to provide a Jewish education for the growing numbers of Jewish youth living in the are of West Colfax. In the fall of 1926, through the efforts of Mrs. N.H. Chernyk and Mrs. S. Friedman, the Beth David Sisterhood [no publs. in LC database] was founded; by 1928, the Sisterhood had succeeded in interesting a number of local men in their efforts to create new facilities for Jewish education and the Beth David Brotherhood [no publs. in LC database] was formed; in Nov. 1928, the Beth David group and the Denver Hebrew Institute, wanting to work together to encourage Jewish education, formed an alliance; the newly created Hebrew Educational Alliance, with William Yoelin serving as it first president, acquired a gift of ten lots; on Oct. 25, 1932, Rabbi Manuel Laderman arrived to serve as the first Rabbi of the Hebrew Educational Alliance; congregation grew and flourished; third synagogue planned and completed; variants: Congregation Hebrew Educational Alliance; HEA)
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
Rabbi Daniel & Ida Goldberger, 1994
Rabbi Laderman Illnesses, 1953, 1977
Contains correspondence from the HEA and Alliance Sisterhood about contributions and correspondence from Denver Symphony Society (1953). Also contains correspondence from HEA after the Rabbi's cataract surgery in 1977.
Rabbi Manuel Laderman, 1932-1991
Contains a congratulatory letter for the choice of Rabbi Laderman from The Hebrew Theological College to the Hebrew Educational Alliance, copies of "A Love-Letter to My Congregation," a letter to Arnold H. Cook (President of HEA) and a letter from Rabbi Manuel Laderman to Alliance members announcing his retirement, and a flyer announcing a program announcing the posthumous publication of "Letters of Faith."
Rabbi Manuel Laderman at Union Station, 1932 October 25
Twenty-three-year-old Rabbi Manuel Laderman (tallest man in the group) surrounded by delegates from the Hebrew Educational Alliance upon his arrival at Union Station, Denver, Colorado in 1932. He graduated from the Hebrew Theological College in Illinois and had just been ordained when he came to Denver to serve as the first Rabbi of the Hebrew Educational Alliance. He served as rabbi at the Orthodox synagogue until 1979. He was born August 25, 1909 and died in Denver on November 27, 1989.
Samuel Froimovitz, 1932-1985
Samuel Froimovitz was very active in Denver's Orthodox Jewish community. He was elected as president of the Denver Mizrachi Organization (year unknown), and served on the organization's National Council from 1939-1941. Froimovitz was the first president of the Denver Hebrew Educational Alliance and sat on its executive board until 1933.