Massachusetts Board of Rabbis
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-239
Abstract
Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (known colloquially as the Crawford Street Shul), was founded in 1913 in a small house on Harold Street in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1915, the cornerstone of the synagogue was placed at 105 Crawford Street in the Elm Hill District of Roxbury. The congregation elected Louis M. Epstein as their first Rabbi in 1918. This collection contains the business, activity and social records of Beth Hamidrash Hagodol, including correspondence, financial records, ledgers,...
Dates:
undated, 1922-1924, 1933-1973
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis Records
Collection
Identifier: I-56 and I-56A
Abstract
The Massachusetts Board of Rabbis was founded in 1938 as the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston by Rabbis Herman Rubenovitz, Louis Epstein, Joshua Loth Lieberman, Beryl D. Cohen, and Sam Abrams. During the 1970s the Board focused on its chaplaincy work in hospitals as well as timely topics, such as social action, chevruta, and health insurance for Rabbis. This collection contains minutes, correspondence and statements regarding the Board's work around hospital chaplaincy, kashruth,...
Dates:
undated, 1970-1980
Rabbi Albert I. Gordon Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-86
Abstract
Albert I. Gordon was a Rabbi, author, and sociologist. Rabbi of Temple Israel of Washington Heights, New York (1929-1930), Adath Jeshurun in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1930-1946) and Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts (1949-1968), Rabbi Gordon also served as Executive Director of the United Synagogue of America (1946-1949) and wrote numerous articles and pamphlets, as well as the books Jews in Transition, Jews in Suburbia, ...
Dates:
undated, 1915-1971
Synagogue Council of Massachusetts Records
Collection
Identifier: I-454
Abstract
The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts was founded in 1941 as the Associated Synagogues of Greater Boston (and later the Associated Synagogues of Massachusetts). The documents in this collection describe the proceedings and activities of the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, as well as those of its affiliated organizations, including the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston, the Kashruth Commission, the Beth Din, and the Jewish Chaplaincy Council....
Dates:
undated, 1908-2014
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- Minutes (administrative records) 3
- Rabbis -- Massachusetts 3
- Business records 2
- Chaplains, Hospital -- United States 2
- Clippings (information artifacts) 2
- Financial records 2
- Newton (Mass.) 2
- Photographs 2
- Publications (documents) 2
- Reports 2
- Account books 1
- Arab-Israeli conflict 1
- Book reviews 1
- Conservative Judaism 1
- Conversion 1
- Directories 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Jewish -- United States 1
- Industrial Relations 1
- Intermarriage -- United States 1
- Intermarriage -- United States -- Case studies 1
- Interviews 1
- Jewish cemeteries 1
- Kosher food industry -- United States -- Directories 1
- Legal documents 1
- Memorandums 1
- Military chaplains -- Judaism 1
- Minneapolis (Minn.) 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Notes 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Rabbinical courts 1
- Radio speeches 1
- Research 1
- Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Sermons 1
- Surveys (documents) 1
- Synagogues 1
- Synagogues -- Massachusetts 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Public opinion -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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