To take care of religious duties of the community, a teacher was employed from time to time, who also acted as a prayer leader and shochet. The children were taught Hebrew and religion. In the 19th century they were integrated into the general school system.

In 1926 Sigmund Krautkopf was the head of the association.

The largest wine and grain store in the area was the company S. Herzog & Co. The owner from 1925 was Henry Herz, who held the business until his emigration in 1937. Herz was also on the board of the local gymnastics club from 1918.

In Heppenheim an der Wiese Jews could settle probably since the beginning of the 18th century  1722 two Jewish families were in the place, 1743 one family.

The Jewish cemetery in Alsheim was established only in 1896. Previously (since 1840) the dead of the community were buried in Osthofen . Jewish people who died in Mettenheim and Gimbsheim also found their final resting place in the Alsheim cemetery. The cemetery area covers 6.38 ar.

The religious school was called Israelitische Volksschule from 1873. In 1881, it had 18 pupils, including two Christian children. 

A prayer room existed around 1743, when Jacob David had provided a room in his house for worship and prayer and at the same time donated a Torah.

The Women's Benevolent Society was under the leadership of Mrs. Isidor David in 1924 and had nine members.

The club was under the leadership of Alfred David in 1924 and had eight members.

There was no religious school in Weimar. For the first time, and only temporarily, a rabbi was employed in 1839/40 to teach the children the Jewish faith: Dr. Avraham Hirsh Levisohn, tutor to the Elkan family. It was not until the turn of the century that there were renewed activities to establish regular Jewish religious education. The Israelite Religious Association, founded in 1903, was dedicated to this purpose. From 1909 to 1913 there was a religious school with 10 children, later still small group instruction.