Dedication Booklet for the North Avondale Synagogue Albert & Sadye Harris Memorial Sanctuary

December 10 1989

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Albert and Sadye Harris were known by their family and throughout the Jewish community as warm and loving couple whose lives centered around the children and grandchildren, and whose hours were filled in not only financial support of nearly every traditional Jewish cause but also in personal volunteer time freely give.

For the last several decades of the Harris’ regularly attended services of Noth Avondale Synagogue, where Albert was a long time Vice-President and was involved in maintaining the building year by year. Sadye is especially remembered for her kind and loving help in all synagogue function and classes. Even in their advance years when it was increasingly difficult to walk, they slowly and painfully made their way to shut, stopping halfway to rest on a bench, but never missing a Sabbos.

Albert was known as a strong supporter of Rabbi Eliezer Silver, of blessed memory. It has been said he never refused anything that Rabbi Silver asked, and thus he became involved in many important Jewish causes. In this way, My. Harris helped a number of victims of the Holocaust come over from Europe and get a new start here. He also great aided causes in Israel, such as Bonds for Israel, Shaare Tzedek Hospital and others. He served in both World War I in the U.S. Navy, and in World War II in the U.S. Coast Guard, and was for many years a member of the Jewish War Veterans Post #438 and the American Legion Wittstein Middleman Post #524.