2 Quotes & Sayings By Rabbi Israel Salanter
The founder of Conservative Judaism in America, Rabbi Israel Salanter was born in Poland in 1887. He immigrated to New York in 1910 and worked as a hatmaker. At about this time, he began studying with the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Brooklyn. After spending several years at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, he moved to Philadelphia to establish his own yeshiva
After the war, Rabbi Salanter founded the Jewish Theological Seminary of America to train Conservative rabbis for the Reconstruction era.