 The synagogue formed a sisterhood in 1920, and that year a "mikva" was constructed below the synagogue.The synagogue also established a cemetery on Route 33 in Freehold, which it has maintained for more than 90 years.In the 1940s, the Ku Klux Klan became active in the Howell Township area, and members of the synagogue regularly patrolled the synagogue grounds armed with shotguns to protect it against Klan members.