Chesed Shel Emeth

The Chesed Shel Emeth was also known as the Hebrew Funeral Home Association. It was founded in 1900 and purchased land for a cemetery on Mahl Avenue around 1905. It maintained a funeral chapel and provided the necessary details of burials for the community. The Association dissolved around 1987, but the name has recently been revived for a business operated by a descendant of the man who was for many years the director of the Association.

The Chesed Shel Emeth Auxiliary, also known as the Hebrew Ladies' Sheltering Home, had its own projects and identity. The Chesed Shel Emeth Auxiliary, organized in 1914, was also known as the Independent Ladies Chesed Shel Emeth Society, the Hebrew Ladies Aid Society, and Hachnoses (or Achnosis) Orchim. One of its duties was to maintain the funeral chapel of the Chesed Shel Emeth, but it also took on the duty of providing appropriate food and lodging for transient Jews plus clothing and help with employment if they were destitute. By 1921 it had raised the funds necessary to purchase part of a house and soon incorporated itself as the Hebrew Ladies Sheltering Home. The group maintained a house for lodging until 1969 and finally disbanded in 1976. At some point, the organization also began to provide scholarships to Jewish college and graduate students.