Background
Weinstein, Lewis H. was born on April 10, 1905 in Vilna, Lithuania. Came to the United States, 1906. Son of Jacob Menahem and Kuna (Romanow) Weinstein.
Weinstein, Lewis H. was born on April 10, 1905 in Vilna, Lithuania. Came to the United States, 1906. Son of Jacob Menahem and Kuna (Romanow) Weinstein.
Harvard College (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1927). Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, 1930). Awarded: DHL (Doctor of Humane Letters), Brandeis University, 1986.
DHL (Doctor of Hebrew Laws), Hebrew College, 1987.
Associate, then partner Rome & Weinstein, 1930-1945. Assistant Corporate Counsel Boston, 1934-1945. Partner Foley, Hoag & Eliot, 1946-1979, senior partner, 1979-1993.
Lecturer law Harvard University, 1960-1975. Senior visiting lecturer department city and regional planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960-1968. Occasional lecturer Practising Law Institute, New York City, New England Law Institute-American Bar Association-American Law Institute, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education.
Past clerk Spencer Companies. Member faculty National Institute Trial Advocacy, Boulder, Colorado. Member finance committee, board directors B&M R.R., 1960-1974, Ling-Temco-Vought Corporation, 1973.
Trustee Boston 5 Cent Savings Bank, 1964-1978. Consultant United States Housing Authority, 1940-1942.
Chairman Massachusetts Emergency Housing Commission, 1946-1947. Chairman Massachusetts Board Housing, 1947-1948, Massachusetts Housing Council, 1948-1952. Member rent control and housing committees National Defense Commission, 1941-1942.
Chairman National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, 1960-1964, Armed Forces Advisory Committee Greater Boston, 1946-1948. President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies Greater Boston, 1954-1957, general campaign chairman, 1957, member executive committee. Past president Jewish Community Relations Council Metropolitan Boston, 1952-1954.
Former member national council Jewish Welfare Board. Chairman Conference Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, 1964-1966. Chairman National Conference Soviet Jewry, 1968-1970.
Member national committee Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Past lay representative National Assembly for Social Policy and Development. Former member executive committee City of Boston Civic Unity Committee.
Former member advisory council Massachusetts Department Education. Massachusetts Department Mental Health. Member human rights committee housing and urban renewal committee World Peace Through Law Center.
Former member executive committee, board directors New England region, national board directors National Conference of Christians and Jews. Executive committee President's Committee Equal Opportunity Housing, 1961-1968. Past chairman Governor's Task Force to Establish Massachusetts Department Community Affairs.
President, 1965-1966, now member executive committee Council Jewish Federation. Member national council American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Past vice president National Federation Jewish Men's Clubs.
Honorary trustee United Israel Appeal. Past trustee Social Law, Library Court House Boston. Past vice president American Jewish League for Israel.
Past trustee Massachusetts Federation Taxpayers' Association, Memorial Foundation Jewish Culture. Past board overseers Hiatt Institute. Past member board overseers Lown Institute Contemporary Jewish Studies, Heller Graduate School Public Welfare.
Fellow Brandeis University. Past member visiting committee, board overseers Middle Eastern Center and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Member steering committee capital fund campaign, past class agent, vice chairman '27 College Law School Class of '30.
Member steering committee Divinity School Fund for Christian-Jewish Relations. Honorary life trustee National Foundation Jewish Culture. Trustee Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Boston, 1955-1996, Beth Israel Hospital, 1956-1996, Institute for Jewish Life.
President Hebrew College, Boston, 1946-1953, now trustee. Member assembly Jewish Agency for Israel. Founding trustee Encyclopedia Judaica Foundation.
Member executive Seminar program Aspen (Colorado) Institute, 1978. Member Massachusetts Ward Commission To Investigate Corruption and Malfeasance in State and County Construction, 1978-1980. Honorary life trustee Temple Emanuel.
Board directors Temple Mishkan Tefila, Newton, Massachusetts Served to colonel Army of the United States, World World War World War II. Fellow American College Trial Lawyers. Member American Bar Foundation, American Association Jewish Education (vice president, member advisory panel on Alzheimer's disease to Congress and executive departments 1988-1996).
Member American Bar Association (past member standing committee federal judiciary), Massachusetts Bar Association (past chairman grievance committee), Boston Bar Association (past member council, chairman real estate and eminent domain committee), American Jewish History Society (past member executive council), Association of the United States Army (board directors Bay State chapter), Military Government Association (past president Massachusetts chapter), Harvard Club Boston, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Selma Yeslawsky, September 2, 1932 (deceased April 20, 1986). Children: David J., Louise W. Dozois.