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Rabbi David Einhorn was the most prominent Jewish opponent of slavery when the Civil War began, and from that point on KI was known as the "Abolitionist Temple." Its third rabbi, Joseph Krauskopf was the founder of the Delaware Valley University [1] and was a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, son of Joseph Lookstein, was installed as an assistant rabbi on June 14, 1958, serving under his father, and became Senior Rabbi after his father died in 1979. [6] The younger Lookstein was a member of the first class of six students at Ramaz when the school was established in 1937.
Joseph Krauskopf (January 21, 1858 – June 12, 1923) was a prominent American Jewish rabbi, author, leader of Reform Judaism, founder of the National Farm School (now Delaware Valley University), and long-time (1887–1923) rabbi at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI), the oldest reform synagogue in Philadelphia which under Krauskopf, became the largest reform congregation in the nation.
Tzniut includes a group of Jewish laws concerned with modesty of both dress and behavior. In the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Elazar Bar Tzadok interprets the injunction at Micah 6:8 to "go discreetly with your God" as referring to discretion in conducting funerals and weddings.
Rabbi Joseph Spielman: Spokesperson in the Luabvitch community. Reverend Canon Doctor Heron Sam: African-American pastor at St. Mark's Crown Heights Church. Anonymous Young Man #1: resident of Crown Heights, Caribbean-American man in his late teens or early twenties. Michael S. Miller: Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Haym Soloveitchik (born September 19, 1937) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi and historian.He is the only son of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.He graduated from the Maimonides School which his father founded in Brookline, Massachusetts and then received his B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1958 with a major in History.
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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]