User talk:Romanskie

Abraham Cristall # 2411 was established 17 years ago in 1989.

Our first Godol, Joel Benjamin was unhappy with not being elected in Mandel Bloomfield so he decided to make his own chapter and thus Abraham Cristall was born.

The man himself, Abraham Cristall, was an important man in the development of Judaism in early Edmonton.

The Jewish presence in Edmonton goes back over 110 years, when Abraham Cristall and his wife Rebecca became the community?s first Jewish settlers in the autumn of 1893. They moved into a house on the eastern side of the Hudson?s Bay Reserve, near 95th Street. As other Jewish newcomers arrived, they settled near the Cristalls. Abraham Cristall was the first president of the Edmonton Hebrew Association. Our chapter is named after this important man and our official animal is the bull.

Abraham Cristall is part of the Aleph Zadik Aleph which came into existence in June 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska with fourteen boys between the ages of 15 and 17 meeting to form a fraternal club which might fit comfortably into their American and Jewish environments. Whether or not the original members formed because there was a fraternity called the Alpha Zeta Alpha at their school that would not let them join due to their Judaism is disputed. The Aleph Zadik Aleph though definitely was formed to bring Jewish youth together in the Diaspora.