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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 ]
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.
The On Demand version of Shalom TV expanded to more than 20 video distributors available to more than 40 million homes throughout North America. [4] In May 2012, Shalom TV became available as a Roku channel. [5] On December 7, 2012, Optimum Cable (Cablevision) launched the Shalom TV Channel. [6] Shalom TV was renamed JBS on September 24, 2014. [7]
LONDON (Reuters) -In Los Angeles, a man screaming "kill Jews" attempts to break into a family's home. In China, posts likening Jews to parasites, vampires or snakes proliferate on social media ...
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 ...
As Russian missiles rained down on Kyiv, Rabbi Alexander Dukhovny recorded an emotional plea from a shelter in the basement of a five-story building on Feb. 25. The 71-year-old progressive rabbi ...
The congregation elected its first spiritual leader, Rabbi Michael Fried, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, in 1898. [9] The longest-tenured rabbi of the congregation was Rabbi Herman Hailperin, who acceded to the position in 1922 while in his early twenties, the same year he was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary; he ...