Congregation Ohav Sholaum Collection

The Orthodox Congregation Ohav Sholaum was founded by German-Jewish immigrants in Washington Heights, New York, in August 1940. Rabbi Ralph Neuhaus (died 1990) was hired in 1942 and remained rabbi until his death. Richard Wolpe was rabbi for the remainder of the congregation's existence. The congregation first worshiped at 3863 10th Avenue, near 207th St, but in 1942 moved to 34 Sherman Avenue. In 1951 the congregation built a synagogue at 4624 Broadway, where it remained until the congregation's dissolution in 2005.

The congregation offered its members services such as a Hebrew school, Chevra Kadisha, burial plots in Cedar Park cemetery in Westwood, New Jersey, men's and women's clubs, a choir, and an Old Age club. It also supported the charitable organization Gemiluth Chessed of Washington Heights (later Gemiluth Chessed of Greater New York), which among other activities sent children to summer camps and ran the retirement home Gemiluth Chessed Home for the Aged.

Significant members included Moses Braunschweiger, Meinhard Marburg, Herman Kramer, Maurice Lind, Isaak Adler, Adolph Kann, Fred Freund, and Hans Fischel (founders); Max Stein, Max Abraham, and Leo Klein (presidents); Erich Neumann and Sidney Seelig (cantors).

Starting in the 1990s, the changes in the neighborhood and an aging membership caused the congregation to shrink, to the point where assembling a minyan became impossible. The congregation closed in January 2006.