Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
This drawing of Berkeley’s planned Thousand Oaks Baptist Church at Colusa and Catalina avenues appeared in July 1924, when the cornerstone was lain, in the Berkeley Gazette.Berkeley, a Look Back: Chamber of Commerce backs proposed civic center
Further south, in central Berkeley on the same day, “all Berkeley Jewry united … in the exercise of laying the cornerstone of its new synagogue at the corner of Bancroft Way and Jefferson Street,” the Gazette reported. “Many Hebrews from other cities about the bay were also present. “Rabbi Fried, who has known the struggles of the local congregation for years, told of the early meetings in a hall on Center Street, when a university student was secured to preach. Speaking of religion, he said that it is after all character building. ‘It is not how many prayers we say. The main thing is what kind of a heart we have — what we do for suffering humanity.”
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