Английская Википедия:David M. Posner

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David M. Posner (November 4, 1947 - October 19, 2018) was an American rabbi who led the flagship reform temple,[1] Temple Emanu-El, in New York, NY for 40 years as a congregational rabbi. He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease[2]

Posner was a scholar of comparative Semitic languages, including Aramaic and Syriac.[2]

Biography

Posner was born in Atlantic City to Ralph and Doris (Silver) Posner. His mother was a homemaker who later became a schoolteacher. His father was an executive at a shipping logistics company. When he was a child, the family moved to Brownsville, Brooklyn, where he attended Meyer Levin Junior High School and Samuel J. Tilden High.[2]

Immediately following his ordination from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1973, Posner joined the rabbinical staff of Temple Emanu-El. Known as the consummate congregational rabbi,[3] the New York Times wrote that he was "a thoughtful, meticulous man, not a showboat", and that "rather than forming institutes or posing with politicians, he liked to stay at the temple — his battle station, as he called it — waiting for his congregants to call."[4] In 1998, he received the Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa[5] from Hebrew Union College.

Awards and recognition

  • 2007, ranked 23rd most influential rabbi in America in Newsweek's Top 50 Rabbis in America[6]
  • 2014, received Dr. Bernard Heller Prize from Hebrew Union College - Institute of Religion[7]

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