By-Laws of Ahaveth Sholem Lodge No. 160, I.O.B.B. and Constitution of the Order and of District Grand Lodge No. 3, I.O.B.B. (Independent Order Bnai Brith) Instituted May 30, 1871.

The Ahaveth Sholem Lodge of B’nai B’rith located in Corry, Pennsylvania, was founded by Meyer Berliner and his son Jacob, prominent citizens of Corry and active in the fur business there for many decades. The American B’nai B’rith Organization was first established in New York City’s Lower East Side on October 13th, 1843, by 12 newly arrived German Jewish immigrants. The new organization represented an attempt to organize Jews of the local community to confront what Isaac Rosenbourg, one of the founders, called “the deplorable condition of Jews in this, our newly adopted country”. The new group’s purpose, as described in its constitution, called for the traditional communal functions as performed by Jewish fraternal societies in Europe, dominated by mutual aid, social services and philanthropy. <<See also lot 27.>>