Background
Rosenberg, Israel was born in March 1875 in Lomzo, Poland. Son of Gershon and Zipporah (Rachmilevitch) Rosenberg.
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Israel Rosenberg
Israel Rosenberg, Polish rabbi. Member Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (president 1928-1930 and since 1940; Member committee of 5 representing leading Jewish nat. orgns. received by President Roosevelt December 9, 1942, leaving memorandum relative to Nazi persecuted Jewry.
Education
Educated Rabbinical Seminary, Lomzo, Rabbinical Seminary, Slobodko, Kollel Navaredok.
Career
Came to the United States, 1902, naturalized, 1914. Ordained orthodox rabbi, 1899. Rabbi, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1902-1903, Bayonne, New Jersey, 1903-1910, Burlington, Vermont, 1910-1912, Paterson, New Jersey, 1912-1919, Jersey City, 1919-1920, 1st vice president, rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological College of America (Yeshiva) 1910-1912.
Acting dean Rabbi Isaac Elchanon Theological College of America, 1923-1924. President Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, since 1940. President Central Relief Committee, Ezras Torah Fund for Relief of European and Palestinian Rabbis, American Committee Kenesseth Israel of Palestine (Ramban), American Committee United Charity Institutions of Jerusalem, American Committee for Yeshivah Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, American Committee for Lomza Yeshiva, Kollel Navaredok, Kollel Kovno.
Honorary president, treasurer Yeshiva of Telz. Past presiding officer presidium, Vood Ha-Zolah (Emergency Committee for War-torn Yeshivoth). Presiding judge Rabbinical Tribunal of Supreme Court, Province of Ontario, 1926.
Treasurer American Committee Grodno, Yeshiva. Honorary president American Committee Kamynetz Yeshiva. President Central Orthodox Committee.
Delaware World Zionist Congress, London, 1920, Zurich, 1929. Chairman delegate Central Relief Committee to Europe, 1920.
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Contributor to rabbinical publications.
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Membership
Member Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (president 1928-1930 and since 1940. Member committee of 5 representing leading Jewish nat. orgns. received by President Roosevelt December 9, 1942, leaving memorandum relative to Nazi persecuted Jewry.
Connections
Married Sarah Greenberg, 1895. Children: Sadie (Mistress.
- Father:
- Gershon Rosenberg
- Mother:
- Zipporah (Rachmilevitch) Rosenberg
- Spouse:
- Sarah Greenberg
- child:
- Sadie (Mrs Rosenberg
