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Beth Israel

Beth Israel WWI Service Flag

The Oregonian, 12 Apr 1918, page 4

Stars representing the names of men added to the honor roll of Temple Beth Israel will be dedicated on the service flag tonight at the temple service. Rabbi Wise will speak on “Can We Wave Their Offering Before the Altar of God?”

The new names for the service flag are:

  • I. C. Brill
  • Jacob Feldman
  • James Gilbert
  • Herbert Goldsmith
  • Louis G. Haas
  • David Levy
  • Jesse J. Rich
  • Herbert Sichel
  • Milton Smith
  • Clarence Fox
  • William Heller
  • Joseph Spellman
  • Sanford Adler
  • Bernie Baer

Those at present on the roll of honor and represented on the service flag are:

  • Marvin Arfeld
  • Joseph Arndt
  • Leo Baruh
  • Leon Behrman
  • Edward Bollak
  • Edward Blumenthal
  • Adolph Bloch
  • Alvin Binswanger
  • Edward Cohn
  • Alvin Citron
  • Samuel Chernis
  • H. David Chernis
  • Isaac DellarVictor Crick
  • Julius Cohn
  • A. A. Cohn
  • Sylvan Durkheimer
  • Jesse Ettleson
  • Paul Feldenheimer
  • Elmer Feldenheimer
  • Roy Feldenheimer
  • Adolph Friedenthal
  • Harry Fischer
  • Gus Feldman
  • Joseph Folop
  • Albert Grossman
  • Milton Gevurtz
  • George Jehlinger
  • Edgar Hexter
  • Louis Herns
  • I. H. Kramer
  • Leonard Kauffman
  • George Gerson
  • Leonard Krause
  • Harry Levinson
  • Bernard Metzger
  • Eugene Oppenheimer
  • Arthur Leonard
  • Harold Oberdorfer
  • Phil Phillips
  • Bert Rosenthal
  • Lawrence Rosenthal
  • Daniel Robinson
  • Arthur Rosenfeld
  • Sydney Schubach
  • Jerome Steinbach
  • William Spellman
  • Jack Spellman
  • Max Sommer
  • Dan Schandling
  • Lawrence Selling
  • Wilson Schiffer
  • A. Schilt
  • J. Schlossberg
  • Sidney Schlossberg
  • E. J. Soloman
  • R. Shirek
  • H. J. Silvestone
  • George Simons
  • George Wolfe
  • Sanford Wendel
  • Nathan Wurzweiler
  • Earl Wurzweiler
  • Edgar Wiel

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