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:

 

  • Toby Kurzband

    President
  • James Levbarg

    Executive Vice-President
  • Norman Drachler

    Program Vice-President
  • Rebecca Lister

    Corresponding Secretary
  • Mary Adler

    Recording Secretary
  • 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

 

  • Harry Rosen

    President
  • Mary Adler

    Secretary
  • Rae Bragman

    Executive Board
  • Saul Diament

    Executive Board
  • James J. Levbarg

    Executive Board
  • Rebecca Lister

    Executive Board
  • Rebecca Lister

    Executive Board
  • Heinz Warschauer

    Executive Board
  • Herbert Zuckerman

    Executive Board

 

 

 

Midwest

 

  • Norman Drachler

    President
  • Harry Glasser

    Vice President
  • Alan D. Bennett

    Secretary
  • Ben Saltman

    Treasurer
  • Rabbi David I. Cedarbaum

    Executive Board
  • Raymond Israel

    Executive Board
  • Eliezer Krumbein

    Executive Board
  • Arnulf Pins

    Executive Board
  • Samuel Rosenkranz

    Executive Board
  • Celia S. Singer

    Executive Board
  • Dr. Emanuel Gamoran

    Ex Officio
  • 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…