1. Samuel Schafler was a New York-born rabbi, historian, editor and Jewish educator.
12 Facts About Samuel Schafler
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Samuel Schafler was Superintendent of the Board of Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago and President of Hebrew College in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Samuel Schafler was born in the Bronx, New York in 1929.
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In 1951, he married Sara of Toronto, then a student at the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, where Samuel Schafler was studying for the rabbinate.
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In 1950, Schafler graduated with honors from the City College of New York, where he was awarded the Cromwell Medal and the Nelson P Mead Prize in History.
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Samuel Schafler pursued graduate work in Jewish history and education at Columbia University.
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Samuel Schafler served as associate director of the United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education and director of its Educational Placement Service.
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Samuel Schafler was a believer in the study of texts and felt that cultural dissonance was a necessary factor in Jewish education, allowing for the expression of varying passions and commitments within Judaism.
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In 1969, Samuel Schafler was a visiting professor at the Melton Center of Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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In 1987, Samuel Schafler was elected president of Hebrew College in Boston.
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Samuel Schafler was the first pulpit rabbi to become president of a New England college.
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Samuel Schafler served in that position until his death from cancer in 1991.