 The merged congregations adopted the current name , a combination of the two previous names , and , with the assistance and encouragement of Goldfarb and synagogue president Harris Copland founded a sisterhood . Nevertheless , the combined membership was still not large ; in 1911 , the year the congregation renovated the recently acquired synagogue building , the Talmud Torah had only 45 students , 10 of them the children of non @-@ members . 
