Norman Gerstenfeld

Background

Gerstenfeld, Norman was born on September 1, 1904 in England. Son of Samuel and Bronwyn (Pachman) Gerstenfeld.

Education

M.H.L. and Rabbi, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati 1933, fellow philosophy, 1933-1934, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1946, Doctor of Divinity, 1958. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Tampa, 1946. Doctor of Letters, American U., 1955.

Career

Rabbi with Washington Hebrew Congregation, 1935-1968. Broadcast preacher on Message of Israel, ABC, Canadian Broadcasting System, Church of the Air, Columbia Broadcasting System, also radio station WMAL. Chairman Committee on Religious Life in Nation’s Capital, 1946-1947. Member Board Public Welfare District of Columbia.

Membership

Member Board Public Welfare District of Columbia. Member advising committee National Cultural Center Center, Washington. Member Central Conference American Rabbis (former Chairman of Commission interfaith policy and program), American Jewish Committee (member of national Board of Governors, honorary chairman Washington chapter).

Club: Cosmos.

Connections

Married Louise Mundheim, March 22, 1934. Children: John, Lynn (wife of Doctor Bernard Kapilof), Roger William, and Norma.

Father:

Samuel Gerstenfeld

Mother:

Bronwyn (Pachman) Gerstenfeld

Spouse:

Louise Mundheim

child:

Roger William Gerstenfeld

child:

and Norma Gerstenfeld

child:

Lynn Gerstenfeld (wife of Doctor Bernard Kapilof)

child:

John Gerstenfeld