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Equating Nazi soldiers with Holocaust victims, responded Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, was "a callous offence for the Jewish people". Some believed Communications Director Pat Buchanan had written the statement, which he denied in 1999. [ 4 ]
Alexander Moshe Schindler (October 4, 1925 – November 15, 2000) was a rabbi and the leading figure of American Jewry and Reform Judaism during the 1970s and 1980s. [1] One of the last European-born leaders of American Reform Jewry, he served as president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) for 23 years.
Rabbi and head of the Union for Reform Judaism Alexander Schindler was speaker at the 150th anniversary in 1999. [2] Beth Israel's current membership is "a combination of long time local residents, as well as those who have relocated to Northeastern Pennsylvania from nearby metropolitan areas such as New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.
Rabbi Klein also mentored Yoffie's predecessor, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler who was hired in 1953 as Temple Emanuel's first Assistant Rabbi. Schindler served as Assistant Rabbi from 1953 to 1955 and as Associate Rabbi from 1955 to 1959 when he left the congregation to become Executive Director of the New England Region of what was then known ...
Reform Outreach was first proposed by Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, then president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), the congregational arm of Reform Judaism in North America, at a meeting of the organization's Board of Trustees on December 2, 1978 in Houston, Texas. Deploring the rising rate of intermarriage, which he ...
The yeshiva was founded in 1953 at the behest of Rabbi Aaron Kotler, the Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. Rabbis Shmuel Kamenetzky and Dov Schwartzman first headed the yeshiva. The yeshiva's first location was at Thirtieth and Berks Streets in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia. [2]
A stone on the façade, marking the architect, H.I. Feldman Millinery Center logo. The synagogue was designed by H.I. Feldman, [6] a prolific, [8] Yale-educated architect who designed thousands of Art Deco and Modernist-style buildings in New York City, [9] [10] notably 1025 Fifth Avenue (between 83rd and 84th Streets) on the Upper East Side and the LaGuardia Houses on the Lower East Side, as ...
Rabbi Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm [27] (1550–1583), co-signer of the Agunah laws; chief rabbi of Chelm; Rabbi Menachem Ziemba, Warsaw Rabbinate; Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira; Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter (1798 – March 10, 1866), also known as the Chiddushei HaRim. First Gerrer Rebbe; Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), also known as ...