Career
He wrote several articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia in 1906. He is today mainly remembered for having been the factual base for the picture of Joseph Strelitski, the rabbi who emigrated to America in Israel Zangwill"s Children of the Ghetto. Lipkind was born on 27 June 1878 in Whitechapel, London.
On 13 June 1911 the Milwaukee Journal reported that "the largest Hebrew congregation in the United States", at Street Louis, had elected Lipkind, who was then at the Sinai congregation in Milwaukee, to succeed Henry Messing as it new Rabbi.
He was rabbi of the Gates of Heaven temple in Schenectady, New York until 1926. He died on 1 May 1973 at Long Beach, Nassau County, New New York