1. Rabbi Schneier has served for over 50 years as the Senior Rabbi of New York City's Park East Synagogue.
14 Facts About Arthur Schneier
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Arthur Schneier is the recipient of 11 honorary doctorates from American and European universities.
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In 1962, Rabbi Arthur Schneier became the senior rabbi at Park East Synagogue in New York City.
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Arthur Schneier has met with Popes John Paul II, Francis, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to promote and facilitate interfaith dialogue.
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Arthur Schneier is the Founder and Dean of Park East Day School, a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school.
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Arthur Schneier is known for his efforts to rebuild Jewish and religious life in Russia after the collapse of the USSR and was instrumental in the return of the Moscow Synagogue to the Russian Jewish community.
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Rabbi Arthur Schneier has led 68 interfaith missions in China, Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
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For more than 20 years, Rabbi Arthur Schneier worked closely with Grand Mufti Ceric of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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In 2012, Rabbi Arthur Schneier helped commemorate the Srebrenica massacre that occurred during the breakup of Yugoslavia by delivering the keynote address at the 17th annual Srebrenica memorial.
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Arthur Schneier is thus far the only non-Muslim to do so.
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Arthur Schneier led efforts to preserve and restore Ohel Rachel Synagogue, one of only two remaining historic synagogues in Shanghai.
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That same year, Rabbi Arthur Schneier was the keynote speaker at an Interfaith Conference convened by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Madrid.
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Arthur Schneier is a member of Council on Foreign Relations; Asia Society; United Nations Development Corporation; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience; Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations; Joint Distribution Committee; Past President and Honorary Chairman, Religious Zionists of America, Honorary Chairman, and serves as Vice President of the World Jewish Congress American Section.
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Arthur Schneier is married to Elisabeth Nordmann Schneier and is the father of Rabbi Marc Schneier and Karen Schneier Dresbach.