[6] In addition to his business activities, Jarmulowsky also served as the first president of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, during which he helped raise the money to construct its 1887 building.
[3] He served as one of the twenty-five members of the New York Kehillah (Jewish Community) executive board, representing the interests of Eastern European Jews.
In his memoirs, Louis Lipsky testified to the high regard for Jarmulowsky among Eastern European Jews in New York, writing that "so far as [Jarmulowsky's] immortality is concerned , he remains in the memory of thousands of American Jews as the man who freed them on the soil of the United States".
During World War I, in 1917, customers attempted to withdraw money to send overseas to their relatives.
[12] (As part of his real estate investments, Meyer had funded the construction of Harlem's Lafayette Theater in 1912).