I was ordained on June 5, 1962 by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at Temple Emanuel in New York City and served my first congregation in Glen Falls, NY, from 1962 – 1967.  In 1967 I accepted a position at Temple Shalom, Aberdeen, NJ, where I served as rabbi until my retirement in 1999.   My thirty two years at Temple Shalom evolved around three personal philosophical levels: the rabbi and...

Ordained in 1962 at HUC-JIR, New York, Shelley Waldenberg served as a chaplain with the U.S. Army at Fort Riley Kansas, and then in Germany from 1962 to 1964.  After military service, he became Rabbi at Temple Beth El in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where he served from 1964 to 1968.   A fellowship to Hebrew university in Jerusalem in 1068 led to a teaching position at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he taught from 1968 to 1971.  In...

After Ordination at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Cincinnati campus on June 2, 1962, Rabbi Slavkin led congregations in the Mid-West and on the East coast.  Upon retirement in 2001 he remained on the faculty of the Suffolk County Community College on Long Island where he is presently completing his 21st year as an Adjunct Professor in the Humanities Department in which he teaches Holocaust and education courses.   Rabbi...

Norbert M. Samuelson is the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.  He is an internationally renowned scholar of Jewish philosophy, who is the author of twelve books and over 200 articles.  He is the founder and secretary of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy.   Professor Samuelson’s scholarship focuses on Jewish philosophy and theology. ...

After graduation from HUC-JIR ’62, where I was privileged to learn much and meet inspiring Jewish mentors, I fulfilled my four year obligation to the U.S. Military as a Jewish Chaplain.   After ten years in three pulpits as an Assistant Rabbi, religious educator/Associate Rabbi, and Rabbi, I realized that I needed a different, more fulfilling Rabbinate.   During my last four years as a pulpit Rabbi, I was also a part-time prison...

After a half century as a rabbi I have many memories and great gratitude for the people who sustained me and challenged me to be better than I am: my teachers, especially Ellis Rivkin (z”l) and Ezra Spicehandler; my mentors, Leonard Beerman and Arnie Wolf (z”l); some  colleagues; my Jews; and especially my wife, Masayo Isono (we were married the day after ordination in what was then called the chapel in the presence of a number of my...

(A few explanatory notes have been added by a friend.)   Ordained in 1962 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati.  Concurrent award of MAHL with honors.  I served 2 years 1962 – 1964, with Rabbi Dr. Selwyn Ruslander, at Temple Israel of Dayton, Ohio, and as Chaplain for the Dayton State and Receiving Hospital, a custodial psychiatric institution.  (He had to get a note from the Director to leave.)  Received...

I am sitting at my desk high up in my aerie looking out at the full expanse of the George Washington Bridge with its twinkling lights – white headlights dashing toward me and red tail lights retreating towards Manhattan- ruminating about a long life well lived, or so I believe.   I turned 80 a half year ago and in another half year, the 50th Anniversary of my Ordination as a Rabbi by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion...

A few months before I finished my five year course of studies at the Leo Baeck College in London (1957-1962), I was invited by the South-West Essex Reform Synagogue in North-East London to succeed Rabbi Alan W. Miller who had left for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York. I spent seven very happy years there before transferring to North-Western Reform Synagogue in the Golders Green area of London, the congregation of which Leo...

1962            Beth El, Somerville, NJ  Agreed to pay same salary as a military chaplain, the condition of my being exempted from entering the chaplaincy as a conscientious objector.  Resided on top floor of temple’s property.   1963            Matriculated Columbia University Graduate School in Biblical Archaeology; Akkadian and Art History.  Got involved with antiwar movement.   1963           ...

Hirshel Jaffe was ordained as a Reform Rabbi at the Hebrew union College and is the Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Jacob in Newburgh, NY.   He is the co-author of “Why Me? Why Anyone?” which chronicles his rescue from a life threatening illness and his spiritual triumph over despair.   Known as “The Running Rabbi”, he participated in the New York Marathon and led the Team in Training for the Leukemia Society of...

Sy, a member of a distinguished rabbinic family, was ordained at HUC-JIR, Cincinnati in 1962, and for the next two years, served as the Alaskan Air Command Chaplain in Anchorage. During this time, he helped to design and find funding for the first synagogue in Anchorage, Beth Shalom, and organize the first Jewish Sunday School in Fairbanks. He was also an instructor in Hebrew in the Department of Linguistics at the University of...

Daniel Friedman, a native of Denver, received his BA degree at Brandeis University in 1957.  Following his ordination at the Hebrew Union College in 1962, he served for three years as Rabbi Jacob Weinstein’s assistant at KAM Temple in Chicago.  After that apprenticeship, he became the spiritual leader of a young congregation in suburban Chicago, Congregation Beth Or, in Deerfield, Illinois, where he remained for thirty-five...

Rabbi Forman was born and raised in Seattle, Washington and received his B.A. from the University of Washington.  He was ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and received a Masters of Arts in Hebrew Letters from the Seminary.  Upon Ordination, Rabbi Forman served as Post Jewish Chaplain in the U.S. Army, where he attained the rank of Captain.   Rabbi Forman became associate Rabbi at the Abba Hillel Silver Temple in Cleveland,...

For the majority of my rabbinical career I served Jewish college students on a number of campuses under the auspices of the Hillel Foundations.  I began my career at the University of Georgia where I worked from 1962 through the summer of 1966 during the civil rights movement on campus.  From 1966 through the summer of 1976 I served first as Associate Director and then Director of Hillel at Brooklyn College in New York.  During the years 1976...

  Graduate of Adelphi University 1957 (BA in History) Ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati 1962 (MHL) Honorary DD in 1987   Following in the footsteps of his father, Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, Jonathan became the second generation of Reform rabbis in his family.  Upon ordination, he entered the US Army Chaplaincy, serving as Seventh Army Chaplain in posts in Grafenwoehr (1962 – 1963) and Stuttgart (1963 – 1965),...