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Comments, July 2025

  Will Schafer   via  schafer301.onmicrosoft.com  12:22 PM (5 hours ago) To Arthur, Will HI Arthur,   I hope you and your family have been well and are having a wonderful summer.   I connected with you a few years back.  You may remember that you were involved at Har Sinai when I attended Hebrew School there, and I was in class with your son, Danny.  Please pass along my regards to Danny.   The story of Har Sinai is so-so sad.  My grandfather, Julius Schafe, was the president who was there when they built the beautiful Har Sinai building on Bellevue, and he is mentioned in the story below.  I was pinge. You could email me PDFs of the following so we can keep records of: ·         Any info you may have on the macro-level history of the Trenton Jews – especially the German Jews ·         Any information involving Har Sinai and our family, and kindly includ...
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Comments, June 2005

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  Trenton Jewish Historical Society  640 followers The organization that captures the history of the Trenton Jewish Community from 1850 to 1937 (and later)   Richard Ross replied  · 1 Reply   Mark Melmed Several of Barbara’s (née Goldstein) relatives - some quite near, others quite far.   Jon Klinghoffer Sol and Marty Klinghoffer representing... Bruce Zagnit replied  ·   George W. Case III I played high school basketball against Ronnie Bash (1957-58)   George W. Case III And Hal Lefcourt was a basketball official for many of the basketball games I played in high school! May 3 at 7:45 AM  · Trenton-Princeton-Becks Jewish Historical Society, Bulletin May 2025 - Trenton-Princeton-Becks Jewish Historical Society, Bulletin May 2025 Trenton Memory Lane Chris Maik  · October 3, 2022  · Sponged from the Trenton Histo...
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Trenton Blizzard of 1996

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    Trenton Blizzard of 1996    26
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Star of David

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  Star of David "Magen David" redirects here. For the  halakhic  commentator, see  David HaLevi Segal . Tekhelet  colored Star of David, as depicted on the  flag of Israel . The  Star of David  ( Hebrew :  מָגֵן דָּוִד ,  romanized :  Magen David ,  lit.  'Shield of David') [a]  is a generally recognized symbol of both  Jewish identity  and  Judaism .  Its shape is that of a  hexagram : the compound of two  equilateral triangles . A derivation of the  seal of Solomon  was used for decorative and mystical purposes by  Muslims  and  Kabbalistic Jews . The hexagram appears occasionally in Jewish contexts since antiquity as a decorative motif, such as a stone bearing a hexagram from the arch of the 3rd–4th century Khirbet Shura synagogue. A hexagram found in a religious context can be seen in a  manuscript of the Hebrew Bible  from 11th-century Cairo. ...
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