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Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian church in Englewood. The first Kingdom Hall opened in 1939 on North Van Brunt Street. By 1948, it had moved to Engle Street and then moved again in 1963 to West Palisade Avenue.Tags Religion -
Silbermann, Kurt (1923-2016)
Kurt Silbermann was a spiritual leader, musician, and educator. He trained in Germany before the school he was attending was closed on Kristallnacht or "The Night of Broken Glass." He fled with his parents to New York in 1939. He graduated from the Hebrew Union School of Sacred Music, the first Cantorial School in the United States. He served as Cantor at the Congregation Tifereth Israel in Pennsylvania before moving to the Temple Emaun-El in Englewood. He served as president of the Cantors Assembly from 1977 to 1979. He married Inge May. He had a daughter, Judy Freilich. -
Hertzberg, Arthur (1921-2006)
Arthur Hertzberg was a spiritual leader, social activist, author, and teacher. He studied under philosopher Ernst Alfred Cassier from 1944 to 1945. He graduated from John Hopkins University in 1940, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1943, and Columbia University in 1966. He acted as director of the Campus Hillel for Amherst College and taught at Princeton, Rutgers, Columbia, Hebrew, Dartmouth, and New York Universities and Colleges. He published numerous scholarly works.
He was also active in social causes, walking with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 and marching in the Selma to Montgomery Marches. Hertzberg also acted as an intermediary between the Jewish Community and Henry Kissinger. From 1972 to 1978 he was the president of the American Jewish Congress and the vice president of the World Jewish Congress from 1975 to 1991. He served Temple Emanu-El in Englewood from 1956 to 1985. He married Phyllis Cannon in 1950. He had two children, Linda Beth and Susan Riva. -
Vorsanger, Ferdinand (1874-1946)
Ferdinand Vorsanger was a businessman and spiritual leader. He founded the Englewood Market at 16 East Palisade Avenue. He helped found Temple Emanu-El in Englewood and was its first president. He was also a president of the Englewood Chamber of Commerce. He married Bertha Blatt. He had two children Berthold and Helen Wise. -
Ernest Isitt to the Editor of The News of Cumberland County, March 7, 1911
Ernest Isitt writes a tribute about Ozi William Whitaker to the Editor of The News of Cumberland County. -
Whitaker, Ozi William (1830-1911)
Ozi William Whitaker was a Reverend. He attended Middlebury College and the General Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1863. He served St. John's Church in Nevada before coming to Englewood and serving at St. Paul Episcopal Church. He returned to serve in Nevada afterward and became the Consecrate Missionary Bishop in 1869. He became the Bishop-Coadjutor of the Pennsylvania Diocese in 1886 and maintained the position by himself a year later. He married Julia Chester Sidell.Tags Religion -
Samuel, William (1926-1989)
William Samuel was a Reverend and mason. He founded Mount Calvary Baptist Church in 1957. He owned Samuel Mason Contracting in Englewood for thirty years. He married Nannie B. Fisher. He had a daughter, Annie R. Thompson.Tags Religion -
Wilson, Joseph (1893?-1978)
Joseph M. Wilson was a Reverend and carpenter. He built the Community Baptist Church in the 1940s. He was also a member of the North Jersey District Baptist Association and the American Legion. He married Maggie M. Thompson. He had a daughter, Dora Allen.Tags Religion -
McQueen, Frank D. (?-?)
Frank D. McQueen was a Reverand. He founded Galilee Methodist Church in Englewood.Tags Religion -
Pearson, Edward Lawrence, Sr. (1888-1982)
Edward Lawrence Pearson Sr. was a Reverend. He founded the Galilee United Methodist Church in Englewood. he was also a minister at the A.M.E. Zion church in Orange, New Jersey, for seventy years. He retired in 1972. He married Estelle. He had three children, Edward Lawrence Jr., Etheal, and Neva.