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About Rabbi Bernard Louis Levinthal
Rabbi Dov Arye b. Abraham ha-Kohen Levinthal (Bernard Louis, 1865–1952), was born in Lithuania, went to the United States in 1891 after having studied at the yeshivot of Kovno, Vilna, and Bialystok. Settling in Philadelphia, he succeeded his father-in-law, Eleazar Kleinberg, as rabbi of Congregation B’nai Abraham, where he served until his death, and as head of the United Orthodox Hebrew Congregations of Philadelphia.
Levinthal was an able organizer and was responsible for the establishment of a number of institutions tending to the religious and social needs of the immigrant Jewish community, such as the Central Talmud Torah, out of which later grew the Yeshivah Mishkan Israel, and a municipal va’ad ha-kashruth to supervise ritual slaughtering. One of the founders of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada in 1902, of which he was the first president, his energy and wide range of interests enabled him to represent the Orthodox point of view in the greater Jewish community.
He was a founder of the American Jewish Committee and a member of the delegation sent by the American Jewish Congress to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. An active Zionist as well, he helped to establish the Mizrachi Organization of America and was an honorary vice-president of the Federation of American Zionists.
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Rabbi Bernard Louis Levinthal's Timeline
| 1864 |
May 12, 1864
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Vilnius, Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė, Vilnius County, Lithuania
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| 1887 |
January 4, 1887
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Russia (Russian Federation)
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| 1888 |
February 12, 1888
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Vilnius, Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė, Vilnius County, Lithuania
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| 1892 |
April 5, 1892
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Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1895 |
May 25, 1895
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PA, United States
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| 1902 |
1902
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PA, United States
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| 1952 |
September 23, 1952
Age 88
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