Herbert S. Goldstein

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Herbert S. Goldstein (February 8, 1890 – January 1970) was a prominent

He attended Etz Chaim Yeshiva, Townsend Harris High School, and Columbia University (B.A., M.A.). He also graduated as valedictorian at the (then-more-traditional) Jewish Theological Seminary. He received rabbinic ordination both from Rabbi Shalom Elchanan Jaffe of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, and from the Jewish Theological Seminary.^[3]

Leadership roles

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Fights for Jewish rights

He led many fights for Jewish rights, beginning with the fight to expose unscrupulous fraudulent "

Institutional Synagogue

As the founder of the original

Goldstein almost left the Institutional Synagogue to assume the pulpit of America's oldest synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel, most commonly known as the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. Goldstein was to succeed the Reverend Doctor Henry Pereira Mendes in 1921, but ultimately did not take the position.^[4] Goldstein stayed at the Institutional Synagogue, and its eventual successor, the West Side Institutional Synagogue. The latter was one of the most influential Orthodox synagogues in the country under his leadership during its most influential years.

Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America

As president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA) for close to a decade, he led the establishment of national kosher food endorsements, which became the symbol of the

As president of the UOJCA, he played a role in getting

American Religious Palestine Fund

He was president of the Keren Hayishuv, the American Religious Palestine Fund, and of the Save-A-Child Foundation, which evolved into the Homes for Children in Israel;

National Conference of Christians and Jews

He was co-founder of the

Homiletics

He also headed the

The primary books authored by Rabbi Goldstein were: Bible Comments for Home Reading (The Five Books of the Chumash, plus the Book of Joshua), 'Between the Lines of the Bible (on each commandment in the Bible), and a commentary on the Pirkei Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers).

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