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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.
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 ]
Kogan was born in 1996 in Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem, to Alexander and Etel Kogan. [3] He was raised in his Litvak-Haredi family with his older brother, Reuven. [3] [4] [5]As a teenager, Kogan learned at Yeshiva Maoz Chayil in Jerusalem, Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Ozer in Bnei Brak, and finally at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. [6]
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 ...
His children were Dr. Eva Schindler Oles and Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1973 to 1996. Schindler was a student of the Austrian Jewish philosopher and Zionist activist Nathan Birnbaum. He was an active member of the Bais Yaakov movement, for which he wrote an anthem and a number of ...
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 ...
Orthodox Rabbi Siegfried Alexander (1886–1943, Auschwitz) won the congregants to elect the first woman, Martha Ehrlich (née Eisenhardt; 1896–1942) as gabba'i, equally participating in gabba'i decisions and tasks, however, except of – unlike her male colleagues – calling congregants up to read the Torah.
First ordained female rabbi in Germany, rabbi at Neue Synagoge in Berlin, killed two months after entering the camp. Itzhak Katzenelson: July 1, 1886: May 1, 1944: 57 Jewish Teacher, poet, dramatist; his son Zvi Katzenelson was on the same transport and was killed the same day as Itzhak. Peter Kien: January 1, 1919: c. October 16, 1944 25 Jewish