Our Jewish community has a rich and proud history dating back to 1845 when John Stockton, a United States Senator from New Jersey, married Sara Marks – a Jewish woman from New Orleans.
Prior to the 1920s, Princeton’s Jewish families relied upon the established Jewish community in Trenton to fulfill their Jewish needs. In 1937, the Jewish Welfare Board helped waves of immigrants and displaced persons resettle in the Princeton Mercer Bucks area. The Jewish Welfare Board would become our Jewish Family and Children’s Service.