Congregation Ezras Tzadickem charter
The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Congregation Ezras Tzadickem obtained a charter in January 1926 “to maintain a place of worship, a school of instruction and a communal center.” Charter members included A. Antis, Jake Bida, Esther Benkovitz, Jake Benkovitz, Morris Benkovitz, Yudel Benkovitz, Anna Berger, Eshia Berger, Anna Caplan, Hymen Caplan, Jacob Colker, Adella Davis, B. Eisner, Annie Faderman, A. Feldman, Fannie Goddy, I. Goddy, Dora Goodstein, Hyman Goodstein, David Hausman, S. Hausman, Isaac Horovitz, Anna Katz, R. Katz, Sam Katz, Esther Kramer, David Levenson, W. Lando, Isaac Laufe, Rose Lefshitz, Anna Linetsky, Frank Linetsky, Bella Morris, Samuel Morris, Leah Mullen, Philip Onickman, Ruth Rosen, Esther Rosenson, Louis Schwartz, Eshia Shapira, Louis Shelkrot, Louis Shussett, R. Silverman, Jerome Solomon, D. Solominsky, Rosie Solominsky, Louis Spector, George Stern, Fannie Tufshinsky, Boruch Twersky, Gertrude Twersky, Jacob Twersky, Frank Weinstein, Mrs. Frank E. Weinstein, and David Wurhaft.
Several of these founders had been members of Shaaray Tefillah Congregation. George Stern later became president of Congregation Kehilleth Isaac/Beth Mogen David.