History
Our Founders
Founding Convention
National Association of Temple Educators
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
New York City
December 26-29, 1955
- Allan Abrahams
- Rabbi Albert Adler
- Rabbi Leon M. Adler
- Mary Adler
- Florence Ahrenberg
- Cantor B.T. Allen
- Lee Aschenbrenner
- Meyer Barash
- Alan D. Bennett
- Gilda Bockfeld
- Rabbi Eugene Borowitz
- Rae Bragman
- Libbie Braverman
- Perry Brown
- Rabbi David I. Cederbaum
- Freda Charles
- Frances Chapkin
- Edna Chinog
- Julius Cohn
- Rabbi Leonard H. Devine
- Saul M. Daiment
- Dr. Norman Drachler
- Benjamin Efron
- Cantor Lawrence Ehrlich
- Carl B. Erdberg
- Dr. Chaim I. Essrog
- Mrs. Harold Farber
- Abraham A. Fisher
- Dr. Emanuel Gamoran
- Dr. M. Delott Garber
- Dr. Edward A. Gersuk
- Dr. Louis L. Gitin
- Rabbi Samuel Glasner
- Harry A. Glasser
- Cantor Marshall Glatzer
- Dr. Edward H. Goldstein
- Cantor Hermann Gottlieb
- Sidney Gottlieb
- Samuel Grand
- Berenica Grayzel
- Abraham Greenberg
- Dr. Sydney J. Greenberg
- Mrs. Everett G. Gruber
- Nathan Harris
- Walter Hartmann
- Manuel L. Helzner
- Rabbi Arthur H. Hershon
- Rabbi Marshall Hurwitz
- Raymond Israel
- Henry S. Jacobs
- Harry L. Kessler
- Nina K. Kimball
- Louis Kisner
- Isodore E. Krakower
- Eliezer Krumbein
- Toby Kurzband
- Dr. Elmer Lear
- Mrs. Arthur Lee
- Mervin N. Lemmerman
- James J. Levbarg
- Mrs. James J. Levbarg
- Stanley H. Levin
- Eli Lifton
- Dr. Herbert J. Lipsitz
- Louis Lister
- Rebecca Lister
- Cantor Julian Lohr
- Herschel Malick
- Rabbi M. P. Mann
- Martha Marenoff
- Max Nadel
- Rabbi Sol H. Oster
- Mrs. Benjamin Ostroff
- Rabbi Harry B. Pastor
- Cantor Joseph L. Portnoy
- Martha Rauh
- Harry Rosen
- Rabbi Joseph Rosenbloom
- Joseph Rosenfeld
- Dr. Jesse Ross
- Rabbi Martin Rozenberg
- Cantor Herman Russ
- Ben Saltman
- Rolf W. Schickler
- Albert Schiff
- Elizabeth M. Schwartz
- Benjamin Sellinger
- Jack Silverblatt
- David Silverman
- Celia S. Singer
- Rabbi Jacob Sober
- Rabbi Alan M. Sokobin
- Rabbi Paul Steinberg
- Rabbi Sidney E. Unger
- Heinz Warschauer
- Fred Weiser
- Abraham Zelen
- Sidney Zevin
- Rabbi Leonard Zion
- Herbert Zuckerman
Editor’s Note:
The National Association of Temple Educators first drew breath on December 26, 1955 with the election of its first officer and executive board members who convened for the first time on March 30,1956 at the House of Living Judaism. The first officers and board members were:
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Toby Kurzband
President
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James Levbarg
Executive Vice-President
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Norman Drachler
Program Vice-President
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Rebecca Lister
Corresponding Secretary
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Mary Adler
Recording Secretary
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Ben Saltman
Treasurer
Executive Board: Alan D. Bennett, Rae Bragman, Saul Diament, Harold Friedman, Raymond Israel, Elizer Krumbein, Mervin Lemmerman, Louis Lister, Samuel Nemzoff, Joseph Portnoy, Harry Rosen, Rabbi Joseph Rosenbloom, Bernard Schubert, Celia Singer, Harry A. Glasser, Edward Goldstein, Sydney Greenberg, Dr. Norton Stern, Heinz Warschauer, and Herbert Zuckerman.
However, and for some while prior to the historic founding conference, Temple Educators had come together regionally—on the east coast and in the mid-west. Their officers and board members at the time of NATE’s founding conference were:
Eastern Seaboard
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Harry Rosen
President
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Mary Adler
Secretary
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Rae Bragman
Executive Board
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Saul Diament
Executive Board
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James J. Levbarg
Executive Board
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Rebecca Lister
Executive Board
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Rebecca Lister
Executive Board
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Heinz Warschauer
Executive Board
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Herbert Zuckerman
Executive Board
Midwest
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Norman Drachler
President
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Harry Glasser
Vice President
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Alan D. Bennett
Secretary
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Ben Saltman
Treasurer
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Rabbi David I. Cedarbaum
Executive Board
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Raymond Israel
Executive Board
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Eliezer Krumbein
Executive Board
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Arnulf Pins
Executive Board
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Samuel Rosenkranz
Executive Board
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Celia S. Singer
Executive Board
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Dr. Emanuel Gamoran
Ex Officio
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Samuel Grand
Ex Officio
With the elections of December 26, 1955, the regional officers and board members relinquished their offices and the two regional organizations disbanded.
Thus began a glorious new journey…
General Information
The Reform Jewish Educator: Then and Now_by Alan D. Bennett,RJE (PDF 121.40 KB)