The new church of the Reformed Congregation Bethal Hebrew Congregation In 1913 the Jewish community of Bethal consecrated their first synagogue. The foundation stone records that it was laid by Gen. Louis Botha, the then Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. Some forty years later, a new synagogue and Talmud Torah were consecrated on the site of the old synagogue. The only record of the old place of worship, the foundation stone, reposes in one of the walls of the new structure. Mr Moss Freed and Mr J Oleska, foundation members of the congregation, who attended the consecration of the first synagogue, were also present. Synagogue and communal Hall 78
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