Annual Congregational Meeting led by John Morse, Sr., and Service for the Dedication of the Joshua Loth Liebman wing of the Temple Israel Meeting House led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, December 15, 1957. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.

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Title:
Annual Congregational Meeting led by John Morse, Sr., and Service for the Dedication of the Joshua Loth Liebman wing of the Temple Israel Meeting House led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, December 15, 1957. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.
Description:
Annual Congregational Meeting and Service for the Dedication of the Joshua Loth Liebman wing of the Temple Israel Meeting House. The synagogue’s annual meeting, presided over by John Morse, Sr., the Board President, includes the yearly Treasurer’s Report by Al Frank and the President’s Report, as well as a short performance by the Brotherhood and Sisterhood Glee Club. It was followed by the Service of Dedication, which opens with personal remarks about Rabbi Liebman by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, followed by a program in which narrators read some of Liebman’s words, alternating with graduates from each of Rabbi Liebman’s nine Confirmation classes, who offer personal statements. The speakers included Robert Morrison, Josephine Benedek, Philip Friedlander, Elizabeth Friedman, Justin L. Wyner, William R. Sapers, Nancy Glazer Katz, Joy Barron Rachlin, Lawrence A. Bean, and Barbara Rudofsky Shadovitz.
Speaker:
Gittelsohn, Roland Bertram, 1910-1995
Speaker:
Morse, John S., 1905-1987
Speaker:
Frank, Abraham Alfred (1903-1989)
Creator:
Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.)
Date:
December 15, 1957
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Location:
Temple Israel of Boston
Wyner Archives
Collection (local):
Past Voices, Audio Recordings, 1934-1979
Subjects:
Reform Judaism--United States
Jewish sermons--United States
Psalms (Music)
Synagogue music--Sabbath services--United States
Synagogue dedication services
Liebman, Joshua Loth, 1907-1948
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1/4" audio tape (1 hour, 27 min., 51 sec.)
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Preferred Citation:
Annual Congregational Meeting led by John Morse, Sr., and Service for the Dedication of the Joshua Loth Liebman wing of the Temple Israel Meeting House led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, December 15, 1957. Audiovisual Collection, Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.
Notes (funding):
This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Notes (historical):
Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn (1910-1995), social justice activist, Zionist, and writer, was Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel from 1953-1977 and Rabbi Emeritus thereafter. He served as founding rabbi of Central Synagogue in Rockville Center, NY from 1936-1953. During WWII, he became the first Jewish Marine Corps chaplain, and, in 1945, he delivered a moving, oft-quoted eulogy on brotherhood at Iwo Jima. After his retirement he was a co-founder of ARZA (the Association of Reform Zionists).
Abraham Alfred Franks (1903-1989), a long-term member of Temple Israel, spearheaded the Brotherhood’s successful effort in the early 1950s to add a monthly television program, This is Temple Israel, to its bi-weekly radio program.
John Morse, Sr. (1905-1987) was a long-term member and Board President from 1956-1958 and was also a trustee of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies for many years. A banker, he became the Chairman of US Trust, a private bank.
Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman (1907-1948), scholar, Zionist, teacher, and orator, was the senior rabbi of Temple Israel from 1939-1948. His book, Peace of Mind, Insights on Human Nature That Can Change Your Life (1946), a spiritual guide to healing and forgiveness in the post-Holocaust era, became an international bestseller and is still widely read today.
Identifier:
TI-AV-90052.001