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Schaffer Law Library
Distance: 0.5 Mi80 New Scotland Ave
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Bishop Maginn High School
Distance: 0.7 Mi99 Slingerland St
12202 Albany -
Maria College
Distance: 1.3 Mi700 New Scotland Ave
12208-1715 Albany -
Albany Clothing and Promotions Co
Distance: 1.5 Mi26B Picotte Dr
12208 Albany -
Classroom Enrichment
Distance: 1.5 MiPO BOX 15000
12212 Albany
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Our cornerstone was laid on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1887 and the first congregational worship in January 1889 coincided with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Rabbi Schlesinger's rabbinate at Beth Emeth. Dedication ceremonies brought Dr. Wise, now president of Hebrew Union College, back to Albany. The mortgage was burned in 1917 and throughout World War I, the American flag was draped over our pulpit. Beth Emeth flourished at the Lancaster Street address growing to three hundred families around 1920, to four hundred in 1938 and after sixty-eight years at that location, its families numbered eight hundred. During his tenure as Governor of New York State (1933-1942), Herbert H. Lehman and Mrs. Lehman were often in attendance at Beth Emeth's High Holy Day worship services. Following Dr. Schlesinger, were Rabbi Martin Meyer in 1903, and then Rabbis Samuel Goldenson in 1907, Eli Mayer in 1918, and Marius Ranson in 1921. By now, Reform Jewish practice embraced a new expression more in parallel with changes in American history and society, thereby creating a religious outlook sometimes referred to as "American Judaism."