Mr. Speaker. it is my distinct pleasure to recognize the sesquicentennial of the Temple Bnai Brith of WilkesBarre. I am pleased to join in the celebration commemorating the congregations 150 years of leadership and community participation in the Wyoming Valley. Although historical records cannot determine the exact organizational beginning of the temple. it is known that the first Jewish families emigrated to the Wyoming Valley as early as the 1830s. Because the records show its founding to be somewhere between 1840 and 1848. Bnai Brith has chosen to observe its founding year as 1845. With the support of all denominations. the first temple was erected in WilkesBarre and dedicated in 1884.
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