The Barnert Memorial Temple is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 747 Route 208 South, in Franklin Lakes, Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States.
The congregation is led by Rabbi Rachel Steiner.
History The synagogue is the place of worship for the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun (transliteration from Hebrew as "Children of the Upright"), founded in Paterson in 1847. The name "Barnert Memorial Temple" originally referred to its landmark building at Broadway and Straight Street in Paterson. It was named in honor of Miriam Barnert, the wife of Nathan Barnert, a local real estate developer and Mayor of Paterson, who donated the building in 1894. In 1970, the Paterson former synagogue building was deconsecrated and converted into a warehouse.
In 1987, the congregation moved to a new temple building in Franklin Lakes.
Helga Newmark was the first female Holocaust survivor ordained as a rabbi;HUC-JIR: Press Room - In Memoriam: Rabbi Helga Newmark she was ordained in 2000Helga Newmark, rabbi late in life, dies : page 2 - NorthJersey.com and served as a rabbi at Barnert Temple for two years.
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