Congregation Talmud Torah started in 1904, using rented quarters in downtown Los Angeles, at 114 Rose Street.

The façade includes alternating bands of dichromatic brickwork, "dense prickly foliage carving", other organic motifs, and Stars of David in bas-relief cast stone detail.

[2] The Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, located east of downtown, was home to the city's most populous Jewish community from 1910 to 1950.

[2] In 1945, Rabbi Osher Zilberstein of Breed Street Shul opened the city's first Jewish parochial elementary school.

[2] In the years after World War II, the Jewish community in Boyle Heights dispersed, moving to areas such as the West Fairfax District, Beverlywood, and Encino.

[6] The building fell into disrepair in the 1990s, and the City of Los Angeles foreclosed on the property after recording an assessment for barricading and protection.

In July 2000, the City quitclaimed the property to Breed Street Shul Project, Inc., a subsidiary of the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California.

The name of the shul (Congregation Talmud Torah) made it clear[clarification needed] that a Yeshiva/day school would have to await his successor.

[citation needed] Neches also is recognized for having begun the Los Angeles-based Western Jewish Institute, and initially led it.

In 1935 he assumed the rabbinical position as the rabbi of the Breed Street Shul, also known by the name Talmud Torah Los Angeles.