A group of Temple of Aaron congregants sing together before a director and KSTP microphone. Directing in front is Arthur Paymar. Holding the sheet music is Cantor Ben Nosowsky. Row 1: Adeline Tenzer Garber Fremland, Sylvia Butwinick, Alice Adelman Gustelle, Marilyn Zipperman Schatzberg, Esther Vitoff Schwartz, unidentified, unidentified, Leah He...
Created:
1940 - 1950
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Rabbi Alfred H. Khan, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, is shown here with his students. Confirmation is a coming-of-age practice for post Bar- and Bat Mitzvahs. between age 15 and 18. It was originally developed by the Reform Movement to follow bar- and bat mitzvahs in the belief that thirteen year olds were not yet ready to be con...
Created:
1920
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In Conservative congregations, girls graduating from confirmation classes wore white: in Reform rituals, participants wore secular clothing, suggesting a more "Americanized" approach.
Created:
1945
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Group portrait of the Temple of Aaron 1932 confirmation class with Rabbi Herman Cohen. Bottom row, left to right: Lillian Braverman, Elaine Greenberg, Ethel Tankenoff Daybock, and Fern Butwin Kaplan. Top row, left to right: June Rosenfeld Hendelman, Melissa Rubenstein Horowitz, Ada Rifkin Rubenstein, Lynne Gordon Black, and Adeline Cohen Silverman.
Created:
1932
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.