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Sidney Greenberg
SIDNEY GREENBERG (1917-2003) was an American rabbi and author. Born on September 27, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York to Morris and Sadie Armel Greenberg, he was educated at Hirsh Laib Berlin Yeshivah in...view moreSIDNEY GREENBERG (1917-2003) was an American rabbi and author. Born on September 27, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York to Morris and Sadie Armel Greenberg, he was educated at Hirsh Laib Berlin Yeshivah in New York. He received a BA from Yeshiva University in 1938, was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1942, and received a Doctor of Hebrew Letters in 1947. He served as an army chaplain during WWII. In 1941, he became the rabbi of Temple Sinai in Dresher, Pennsylvania at the temple’s founding and served his entire career there. Under Greenberg, Temple Sinai was a leading conservative synagogues in Philadelphia and received several Solomon Schechter awards. He wrote numerous books on Judaism, several prayer books, and many newspaper columns. He wrote a weekly column for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1978-1982 and for Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent from 1982 until late in his life. He served on the editorial boards of The Jewish Digest and The Reconstructionist, and the executive boards of the United Synagogue of America, Technion, Bonds for Israel, and the Rabbinical Assembly. He was president of the Philadelphia Region of the Rabbinical Assembly from 1953-1955. Greenberg died on March 31, 2003, aged 85.
HARRY LEWIS GOLDEN (1902-1981) was a Jewish-American writer and newspaper publisher. Born Herschel Goldhirsch on May 6, 1902 in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Ukraine, then part of Austria-Hungary, he worked as a newspaper seller on New York’s Lower East Side. In 1941 he moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to work as a reporter for the Charlotte Labor Journal and The Charlotte Observer. From 1942-1968, he published The Carolina Israelite as a forum. His books include three collections of essays from the Israelite and a biography of his friend, poet Carl Sandburg. One of those collections, Only in America (1958), was the basis for a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Golden died on October 2, 1981, aged 79.view less