The Hebrew Ladies Benevolent and Free Loan Society was founded in 1910 by members of New Brunswick's thriving German-Jewish community. The Society maintained a home for transients, the Roger Smith Hotel, for which they raised money, as well as for other old age homes in the state. The Society endured into the 1950s, fund-raising for a variety of charities including a Hebrew School book fund, the Jewish Federation United Fund, the Middlesex Tuberculosis League, Hadassah, and Saint Peter's Hospital, as well as collecting clothes for the needy, until it finally closed its books in 1967. Today the Jewish Federation and Jewish Family Service have taken over the role of many of these small charities.