Past Rabbis and Presidents

SINAI TEMPLE RABBIS

In addition to our current Rabbi and Rabbi Emeritus, Sinai Temple has been blessed
with a distinguished past rabbinate. Included are Benjamin Frankel, founding national
director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation; Abram Sachar, founding president of
Brandeis University and also a national director of Hillel; and Sally Priesand, the
world’s first ordained female rabbi.

1904-1915 Rabbis shared with nearby communities
1915-1923 Rabbinic students from HUC
1923-1929 Rabbi Benjamin Frankel
1929-1947 Dr. Abram L. Sachar
1947-1950 Rabbinic students from HUC
1950-1958 Rabbi Bernard Martin
1958-1964 Rabbi Henry Cohen
1964-1968 Rabbi James Rudin
1968 Student Rabbi Sally Priesand
1968-1974 Rabbi Samuel Weingart
1974-1987 Rabbi Isaac Neuman
1987-1995 Rabbi Brad Bloom
1995-2013 Rabbi Norman Mark Klein

PRESIDENTS OF SINAI TEMPLE
Sinai Presidents serve a two-year term and have responsibility for many crucial decisions during their term. Each president first serves as a Vice President, and then serves two more years as a President Emeritus.

1904-1907 Jacob M. Kaufman
1907-1908 Wolfe Lewis
1908-1909 Morris Lowenstern
1909-1910 Isaac Kuhn
1910-1911 Samuel Weingarten
1911-1912 Morris Lowenstern
1912-1918 Jacob M. Kaufman
1919-1920 Albert Stern
1921-1923 Leonard Lewis
1923-1925 Charles A. Wolff
1925-1926 Leonard Lewis
1926-1934 Isaac Kuhn
1934-1939 Leonard Lewis
1939-1945 Charles Loeb
1945-1946 Lee Reineberg
1946-1947 Harry Levinsohn
1947-1950 Arthur Lewis
1950-1951 Samuel Libman
1951-1952 Ezra Levin
1952-1954 Louis Garfinkel
1954-1955 Ralph Berkson
1955-1956 Charles Loeb
1956-1958 William M. Youngerman
1958-1960 Herman Lewis
1960-1961 Marvin Steinberg
1961-1963 Carl Greenstein
1963-1965 Joseph Hamburg
1965-1967 Arthur Winakor
1967-1969 Chester Siess
1969-1971 Charles O. Silverman
1971-1975 Edward Tepper
1975-1977 Donald Brotherson
1977-1979 Michael Tepper
1979-1981 Annette Glaser
1981-1983 Miles Klein
1983-1985 Charles Kozoll
1985-1987 Seymour Sudman
1987-1989 Aaron Kurland
1989-1991 Stanley Levy
1991-1993 Nancy Tepper
1993-1995 Leonard Heumann
1995-1997 Michael Shapiro
1997-1999 Gary Porton
1999-2001 Susan Schomer
2001-2003 Lisa Lane Libman
2003-2005 Blanche Sudman
2005-2007 Arnold Blockman
2007-2009 Tony Soskin
2009-2011 Tony Novak
2011-2013 Paul Weichsel
2013-2015 Randy Rosenbaum
2015-2017 Gary Bernstein
2017-2019 Rob Ore
2019-2021 Jacob Sosnoff
2021-2023 Julia Rietz