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This publication features an image of Ohavay Zion Synagogue at its location on Edgewater Court in 1989 in celebration of the Synagogue's 75th anniversary.

The top right of this article features an image with 45 and 50-year members of Ohavay Zion Synagogue at the time of the congregation's 50th anniversary. Below this image, the article details the jubilee celebration of Ohavay (spelled "Ohavey" in the…

A list of members and their contact information.

This image is the front page of the 1963-1964 Ohavay Zion Sisterhood Year Book.

This image contains details of Ohavay Zion Congregation's ceremony for transferring Torah scrolls from the congregation's previous location on Maxwell St. to its subsequent location on Edgewater Ct. on May 10th, 1987.

This page of the 1914-1959 Ohavay Congregation Sisterhood Yearbook continues the story of how Ohavay Zion came to be a Synagogue.

This page acknowledges that since its beginnings as a corporation in 1912 till this publication in 1959, the Ohavay Zion Congregation had not kept documentation of its progress throughout the years. However, with the help of the last surviving…

This is the front cover of Ohavay Zion Congregation's Sisterhood Yearbook for the years 1914-1959.

Rabbi Moshe Smolkin was born in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1970s, though he grew up in Clear Lake City, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a child, he practiced as an Orthodox Jew, but he experimented with both other faiths and Hasidic Judaism…

Morris Weiss begins the interview by discussing his family background dating back to Alten-Schoenbach, Germany and how his uncle, Josef Solomon, emigrated to Louisville, Kentucky in 1863. He explains how his family became one of the founding families…