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  • 1968
    Posted on May 15, 2017 by Valley Temple,

    Rabbi Solomon T. Greenberg becomes the rabbi of the Valley Temple after serving for a few years as an Assistant Rabbi of Isaac M. Wise Temple. At the time of Rabbi Greenberg’s election, the congregation boasts 37 families. 

  • 1962
    Posted on May 15, 2017 by Valley Temple,

    Rabbi Herbert Stern becomes the first rabbi of the Valley Temple.  He later moves to Chicago to pursue a different career path. In 1964, Rabbi David M. Zielonka becomes the second full-time rabbi. The congregation meets in the Friendship Methodist Church on Springfield Pike in Wyoming, OH.

  • 1969
    Posted on May 15, 2017 by Valley Temple,

    A house (122 Springfield Pike) is purchased as the first permanent home of the Valley Temple. Previous spaces included the Jewish Community Center (Roselawn), the Masonic Temple of Wyoming (currently the Wyoming Fine Arts Center), as well as the Friendship church.  Some ceremonies, including HHD are held in the HUC-JIR chapel in Clifton.

  • 1952
    Posted on May 15, 2017 by Valley Temple,

    A small group (primarily Wyoming, OH residents) organizes as a response to too much Hebrew at their congregation, and starts educating their children in group members’ homes. School formally incorporates as the “Cincinnati School for Judaism” in 1957.

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