Schindler, Alexander Moshe
- Schindler, Alexander Moshe
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▪ 2001
German-born American rabbi (b. Oct. 4, 1925, Munich, Ger.—d. Nov. 15, 2000, Westport, Conn.), was president (1973–96) of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), Reform Judaism's main governing body. Fleeing Nazi Germany with his family, he arrived in the U.S. at the age of 12. After serving with the U.S. Army during World War II, during which he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for bravery, he studied at the City College of New York and Hebrew Union College, New York City; he was ordained in 1953. As president of the UAHC, Schindler was praised for developing an outreach program in 1978 to attract non-Jews to Judaism and draw nonobservant Jews back to the faith. He also supported the rights of gay and lesbian Jews to become rabbis.
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