SPECIAL MEMORIAL ISSUE

Kehilath Jeshurun Bulletin © FALL 1979 o"wn ,i

RABBI JOSEPH H. LOOKSTEIN

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And God was with Joseph And he was a successful man... [Genesis, 39:2]

RABBI JOSEPH H. LOOKSTEIN DIES AT AGE 76

WAS RABBI AT CONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUN FOR ALMOST 56 YEARS

The Week of Shiva On Friday afternoon, the 18th of Tammuz, 5739, .cor¬ The period of shiva was observed at the residence of Mrs. responding to July 13, 1979, at 4:45, Rabbi Joseph H. Joseph H. Lookstein. Throughout the week thousands of Lookstein died peacefully in Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami t people came through the Lookstein home in an expression of Beach. The Rabbi, who would have been 77 years old next love and respect. The minyanim were filled to Chanukah, had served in the rabbinate of Congregation overflowing. At Mincha and Ma'ariv services throughout the week there were Kehilath Jeshurun for almost 56 years. He came to the Con¬ as many people who had to remain downstairs in the gregation on Sukkot 1923. lobby of the apartment house as there were who Rabbi Lookstein had taken ill on June 28 and he remained crovyded into the apartment itself. People waited patiently to express their con¬ in the hospital for a period of fifteen days, until his passing. dolences in person to all the members of the bereaved Mrs. Lookstein, his daughter, Dr. Nathalie Friedman, and his family, including the Rabbi's brother, Arthur Lookstein, and his son, Rabbi , and son-in-law, Fried¬ sister, Mrs. Sylvia Schatzman. It was a beautiful man, were at his bedside when the end came. outpouring of friendship and family solidarity. One sensed that untold When the Rabbi's coffin was brought to New York on Satur¬ numbers of people were deeply moved personally by the loss day night, there was a very large group from his extended which the Lookstein family had experienced. family of Kehilath Jeshurun which came to the airport to meet The highlights during the week of shiva were provided by the plane, to offer comfort and solace to the family and to the grandchildren of Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein who took escort the coffin back to the Riverside Memorial Chapel. The turns teaching Mishnayot in memory of their grandfather. All officers of the Congregation, many members, of Kehilath of them are either or students of Ramaz and Jeshurun, parents and officials of Ramaz and the entire graduates they not only taught the Mishnayot but they Chevra Kaddisha met the plane .at Kennedy Airport. also related each Mishna to the life and principles of their Throughout the night the members of the Chevra Kaddisha, grandfather. The Reaction in the Community augmented by several minyanim of men from the community Beginning on Friday night when, we are the Rabbi's recited T'hilim while staying with the coffin. told, picture appeared on the evening news throught the On Sunday, at 12 noon, more than 1300 mourners filled New York area, the public media reacted profoundly and extensively to the main to overflowing to participate in a final, the Rabbi's passing. Detailed and comprehensive articles ap¬ tribute to the Rabbi, which was at the same time one of the peared not alone in the New York papers, but saddest and greatest events in the recent history of New throughout the country, overseas and in Israel, in the general, Yiddish, York Jewry. The congregation was composed of young and Hebrew and press. Columns of obituaries ap¬ old. It included close friends who came in wheelchairs and lit¬ Anglo-Jewish peared in throughout week of shiva. tle children whose parents wanted them to be part of this the Individuals, organizations and institutions wanted to record historic tribute to a man whose life had made such a major im¬ for public knowledge their gratitude to the Rabbi for having af¬ pact not alone on the Congregation and Ramaz, but upon all fected them deeply. It was a great of New York Jewry and, for that matter, the Jewish people outpouring of warmth, around the world. respect, love, concern and grief. Elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin we have The funeral service was conducted by Rabbi Sol Roth, reprinted on¬ ly a very small sampling of the obituaries and the press spiritual leader of the Atlantic Beach Jewish Center, who was notices which appeared. the first rabbinic assistant to Rabbi Lookstein almost thirty Two Books That Tell a Story years ago and who returned to the Congregation for a term as Two books, one by the Rabbi and the other a memorial to Assistant Rabbi after his tour of duty in the chaplaincy of the him, are currently about to be made available to the communi¬ U.S. Armed Forces. Steven Schacter, the oldest grandchild ty at large. One of them is the Rabbi's second volume of of the Rabbi read a Psalm as an expression of respect from all homiletical of the grandchildren. Dr. , President of Yeshiva essays entitled: "Yesterday's Faith For Tomor¬ row." It contains a beautiful collection of sermons and essays University, who also served a term as a rabbinic assistant at on many of the problems and concerns that we all face as a Kehilath Jeshurun, delivered the eulogy in behalf of the people and as individuals. This volume will be sent to the Jewish community. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, who came to the K.J.-Ramaz family very shortly. We are sure that it will have Congregation twenty-one years ago as his father's assistant, added then offered words of tribute as a son and also as a student of meaning now as the last expression of Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein's his father. mind and pen. A volume of scholarly essays is almost The moving service was brought to its conclusion with the ready for publica¬ tion. It was intended to be a Jubilee Volume in the Rabbi's Memorial Prayer chanted by Cantor Avrum Davis. honor. It will now be The Chevra Kaddisha then carried the coffin from the published as a Memorial Volume. It con¬ tains essays from some of the most important scholars and synagogue and a procession of almost one hundred cars authors in the Jewish and formed to follow the hearse to the cemetery grounds of the general world, including, among others, Rabbi Joseph B. Dr. Norman Lamm, Dr. Congregation on Mt. Carmel in Cueens. Hundreds of men, Soloveitchik, Haym Solovietchik, Elie Wiesel, Dr. Harold Fisch, Dr. Zorach women and children of all ages participated in the burial at the Wahrhaftig and Herman Wouk. The volume also contains cemetery out of a beautiful desire to perform the last possible several act of kindness for their friend, teacher and Rabbi. scholarly essays by graduates of Ramaz. It should be ready for publication this winter and it too will be sent to the K.J.-Ramaz family.

1 "God Owes Me Nothing" In The Months Ahead For the past two years the Rabbi had been at work on his A number of specific plans are now being made which will autobiography. It is about two-thirds complete and his son help our community respond to the Rabbi's passing in a con¬ and daughter have indicated that they are going to try to finish structive and meaningful way. It is hoped that we will be able the volume. The book provides a picture of a man who lived a to give proper expression to our grief and to our resolve that great life, who affected many people and many institutions, the great work of this spiritual father of our community shall who made an impact upon Jewish history, not alone in New be continued. York City but throughout the world, and who played an impor¬ At services in Kehilath Jeshurun every morning Psalm 1 21 tant role in many of the events that took place in the crisis will be recited responsively until the completion of one year filled years between 1902 and 1979. and the observance of the yahrzeit. What Shall Be Done Now. There was a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of As we look ahead we realize that the members of the the Congregation during the week between Rosh Hashanah Kehilath Jeshurun and Ramaz community have a challenge to and Yom Kippur at which each Trustee had an opportunity to carry on the extraordinary life's work of Rabbi Joseph H. record for posterity his or her feelings about the Rabbi and Lookstein. Whatever else he was interested in, his primary how the Rabbi affected the life of this community both per¬ concerns were the congregation in which he ministered for sonally and generally. almost 56 years and the school which he founded 42 years Beginning in late Fall, a Sefer will be written by the ago. Congregation and the School in memory of the Rabbi. Each It will be our task to maintain the standards of religious sen¬ member of the community, young and old, will have an oppor¬ sitivity, dignity, decorum and warmth which he implanted in tunity to participate in the writing of this Sefer Torah. Upon its this synagogue. Whenever we worship together we will completion, that Torah will become the one from which we recognize that in addition to carrying out the mitzvah of public will read every Shabbat. prayer we will be granting a measure of immortality to a man At the Ramaz dinner on Sunday, January 20, 1980 the who gave his life and soul to the service of Kehilath Jeshurun. Journal will constitute a memorial tribute to the Founder and The same is true for . It is in a very real sense first Principal of the School. the embodiment of the Rabbi's philosophy of Judaism and his As a further symbolic expression, throughout the year, passion to make traditional Judaism an inspiring way of life for every meeting of the Congregation and the School, their Of¬ modern American Jewish children. As we continue to main¬ ficers, Trustees and general lay bodies, will begin with the tain the high standards of educational excellence and Jewish recitation of Psalm 121. commitment which he set for Ramaz we will recognize that In short, we would like to remember throughout the year we are furthering his life's work and carrying on a noble tradi¬ that the head of our family has been called to his eternal tion. reward. At the same time, we do not want to mourn ex¬ The New Building For Ramaz cessively. On the contrary, we want to celebrate his life and Of course, the new building which Ramaz is constructing express gratitude for what he meant to each one of us per¬ on East 78th Street between Park and Madison Avenues sonally and to the total community in general. now has greater meaning than ever. The building will house The Rabbi's unfinished autobiography is called "God Owes the Rabbi Joseph Ft. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz and it Me Nothing." We feel, as Rabbi Haskel Lookstein expressed thus will be a living memorial to the man who conceived the it in his eulogy, that this title is an accurate statement about idea of Ramaz, who established the school and who brought the Rabbi's life. In truth, God owed Rabbi Joseph H. Look¬ it to its present eminent status in the leadership of the Day stein very little. But this community, the Congregation, the School world. School and the wider Jewish world owe the Rabbi and God a great debt. We shall strive to discharge that debt through our own personal and communal lives.

2 WORDS OF EULOGY

by Dr. Norman Lamm

I feel woefully inadequate to the task of speaking the Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein was acclaimed by thousands, eulogy for my teacher, my colleague, and my friend, Rabbi esteemed by colleagues and disciples, adored by his con¬ Joseph H. Lookstein. In truth, there is only one person who gregants, loved by his family. But it would be incorrect to por¬ could do justice to this occasion in honor of Rabbi Joseph tray him as a consensus-seeker who played to the galleries in a Lookstein, and that is — Rabbi . Who else quest for popularity and unanimous approbation. He was but that master orator could compose the proper farewell for tough-minded, controversial, often combative in pursuing so distinguished a man? what he perceived as principle. Yet, I feel that I must try, both because I want to and The tributes to Rabbi Lookstein will continue to pour in. Yet, because it was his wish that I do so. I believe that the Jewish world owes him more than it will My own relationship with Rabbi Lookstein began thirty-two acknowledge, precisely because his communal philosophy years ago, when I took his course in Jewish Sociology at and policy were complex, subtle, sophisticated, and devoid Yeshiva College. I remember how impressed I was by this of over-simplification. vital, jovial, articulate, and knowledgeable man. He read my He was born in an era when worlds were in collision. An im¬ papers carefully, commented upon them incisively with his migrant Jewish generation had come to these shores, all too beautiful penmanship, and encouraged me to further work. A ready to cast overboard its sacred traditions, its tallit and few years later, I was his student in the Homiletics and Prac¬ tefilin, along with its painful memories of poverty and tical Rabbinics courses that he gave for many decades at persecution in Europe. Others, aghast at this mindless Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. What a gifted cultural-religious vandalism, advocated an equal and opposite teacher he was, what a scintillating lecturer! I felt enormously reaction: isolation, ghettoization, pulling out of the broader flattered when, towards the end of these courses, he invited streams of history and society. me to be his rabbinic assistant at Congregation Kehilath Rabbi Lookstein accepted neither counsel, but opted in¬ Jeshurun and, during the course of that year, to teach at stead for living in two cultures. In the course of this integra¬ Ramaz School as well. This was an apprenticeship in which tion, the tensions and controversies and polemics were un¬ he taught me the fundamentals of the art of the rabbinate and nerving. But they engaged him fully, for he accepted them as that profoundly influenced my following twenty-four years in a challenge. He never shirked his duty. He never fled from that profession. before a mahloket le'shem shamayim. During this period, I had the opportunity to spend time in Rabbi Lookstein was fully heir to the complete rabbinic the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Lookstein. There I experienced tradition. It seemed that he was all but born in the pulpit, the the dignity, the warmth, the mutual respect, the love and care modern rabbinic analogue of the prophet Jeremiah who was and concern of Rabbi and Mrs. Lookstein, of their two told, "before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and children Nathalie and Haskel, and their two young grand¬ before thou earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee" children. (Jeremiah 1:5). Yet, it is instructive to compare him with the Subsequently, I became Rabbi Lookstein's colleague in the generation of his revered predecessor and grandfather-in- Rabbinate and on the faculty. law, Ramaz Margolies. They were saintly men, wise, great During this time, our relationship continued to develop and, if scholars all, steeped in and the sacred tradition. Be¬ some times our relations were a bit complex, they were tween them and Rabbi Lookstein there was an identity of fun¬ always for me a source of enlightenment and learning. damental values and of ultimate principles, but a most signifi¬ Hence, it was for me a special pleasure when, shortly after I cant divergence in personal style and communal policy. Such assumed the presidency of Yeshiva University, I appointed a shift in strategy was necessary in order to implement and him as University Professor of Homiletics. preserve those self-same principles and sacred goals in a For me — as for so many others like me, both older and new generation which was American, more affluent, socially younger — he was genuinely unforgettable. He was a giant in mobile, and often arrogantly obsessed with its new-found stature, and tall in our esteem. He was probably the greatest modernity. It was easier to appreciate those less complicated rabbinic orator of his generation of , certain of the Or¬ Orthodox rabbis of Ramaz's generation, than it was to thodox rabbinate. He was a master of rhetoric, and blessed understand sympathetically the complex and sometimes ar¬ with a sense of the dramatic, with epigrammatic brilliance, cane policies devised by a Joseph H. Lookstein. with an intuitive gift for timing, and with a marvelous and When the Patriarch Jacob died, we read that, "the Egyp¬ redeeming sense of humor. He was a darshan be'hesed tians wept for him three score and ten days" (Gen. 50:3), "and there elyon — a creative homiletician of the first rank. As a they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and raconteur, he captivated his audiences. To be in his company he made a mourning for his father seven days" (Gen. 50:10). was to become alive. In the infinite variety of situations in Yet, a few verses later when we read of the death of Joseph, which he found himself, there was always a twinkle in his the Torah is surprisingly sparse. It is the last verse of the book of Genesis: "so eyes — sometimes funny, often delightfully mischievous, Joseph died, being one hundred and always benevolent. His undulating, arched eyebrows asked ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a provocative questions, and his twinkling eyes punctured any coffin in Egypt." Even later, in the Book of Joshua, when we pretense in a disingenuous or foolish answer. read of his burial in Canaan, there is no mention made of any mourning period.

3 How strange! No mourning, no wailing, no eulogy? No grief The biblical Joseph was placed in the coffin, and no official and no bereavement for Joseph who saved his father and mourning was announced. But no less a personage than brothers from famine,who reacted to his brothers' treachery Moses carried the remains of Joseph through the forty years with grace and love? of Israel's sojourn in the vast desert. While the rest of the The answer is that of course he must have been mourned, people were occupied in the bizat mitzrayim, with business- but it was not on the same scale as the mourning for his as-usual, Moses understood full well the unique value and en¬ father. The grief could not come as easy or be as open as it during significance of the cherished Joseph. And so he car¬ was with Jacob the Patriarch, the old Rav, the Rosh Yeshiva, ried, as the Sages tell us, the aron or coffin of Joseph side by who carried over intact into Egypt the wisdom which he had side with the aron or Ark of the Covenant. Only occasionally acquired in the "tents of Shem and Eber," and who refused did people recognize the marvelous congruity and ap- * to confront the new social and psychological and cultural propriateness of these two boxes, these two aronot, the cof¬ threats that loomed in the Egyptian environment. He had had fin and the Ark, and they exclaimed, as the Talmud teaches, enough problems and vicissitudes and turmoil in his life, and kiyyem zeh mah she'katuv ba-zeh, "this one [Joseph] ob¬ he simply was not ready for the difficult challenges of the served — and made it possible for others to observe — what Egyptian experience. So, despite the fact that Jacob even is written in this one [the Ark of the Covenant]." had difficulty recognizing his Egyptian-born grandchildren, he He taught us — his disciples, colleagues, congregants, was universally loved, venerated, and mourned. The very fact contemporaries — the value of hinnukh, of Jewish education, of his cultural distance and social detachment made it possi¬ on all levels from pre-kindergarten to post-doctoral graduate ble for him to become an easily perceived and cherished work; the centrality of the State of Israel to Jewish life; the symbol for all that was beautiful, sacred, deathless, and en¬ possibilities of living both as fully Jewish and as creative during in the Abrahamitic tradition. But Joseph had thrust members of society at large; the imperatives of ahavat Israel upon him a historic task infinitely more difficult, demanding, (the love of Israel) and ahavat ha-beriyot (the love of complex — and thankless. He had to be simultaneously two humankind). To Mrs. personalities — the Yosef Ha-tzaddik of his Hebrew tradition Lookstein, to Nathalie and Israel and their children,, and the Tzaphenat-paneiah, the name Pharaoh gave to him. to Rabbi Haskel and Audrey and their children, to his brother He had to learn an alien language and culture, and master it and his sister — to all of you go our deepest sympathy. While until he became second to Pharaoh alone. He had to impress no one can miss him as much as you do, we know what you upon his own mind, as the Rabbis put it, the demut deyokno have lost, because we share your grief. shel abba, the appearance or gestalt of his father, and yet Rabbi Haskel, your father introduced you into Jewish rab¬ travel in the highest political and economic and social circles binic leadership, for he was both your father and your master. of ancient Egypt. He was much too complicated and many- He had the privilege of seeing you flourish in this, his own faceted, and too close to his contemporaries in style and pulpit. He placed upon your shoulders the mantle of spiritual social involvement, to serve as a widely popular symbol, leadership which was his, and his pride was enhanced by his despite his total commitment to all that his father Jacob has and our confidence that you will grow and develop in ways

stood for. But — he saved the House of Israel! yet unperceived and unforeseen. It was a special blessing Joseph H. Lookstein had before him a task reminiscent of from heaven that he was present at the commencement exer¬ the biblical Joseph. Like his ancient namesake, he was an ish cises at Yeshiva University but a month ago to see you matzllah, a successful man. And like him too, his true value receive your Doctor of Philosophy degree. was not, or is not yet, fully appreciated. * * * He was one of the pioneers in creating the modern Or¬ thodox synagogue'here at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun which, while totally conforming with the Halakhah, was yet Rabbi Lookstein, how would you have concluded this decorous and attractive and appealing to men and women eulogy? of our generation. It was not an easy and not a simple task, I think you would have wanted me to follow your style: so and one which required constant vigilance. shall I do. He was an education trail-blazer in establishing the Ramaz Farewell, revered teacher, worthy colleague, dear friend School, famed the world over. and, above all, esteemed rabbi! Where you are going, before Rabbi Lookstein was a staunch member of Mizrachi, when the celestial court, the bet din shel maalah, they will ask you Zionism was often berated and bitterly attached by fellow Or¬ many questions. thodox rabbis and leaders. Do not just answer them. Rise to the occasion — as you He had to overcome opposition of both the left and the right always did here on earth. in Israel as he joined the late Dr. Pinchas Churgin and others Deliver your greatest derashah, preach your most magnifi¬ in founding Bar-llan University, where he remained cent sermon! Chancellor until his death. Let them know, up Above, of our worries and cares and He joined the earliest group of pioneers who directed the concerns. Remind them that all is not well with the Jewish affairs of Yeshiva University in the days of my two sainted and people here below. Inspire them, as only you can, to pay revered predecessors, Dr. Bernard Revel and Dr. Samuel more loving attention to those Jews the world over whom you Belkin, and in the tense and difficult interregnum that led and loved; to the State of Israel caught in a web of tension separated their administrations. and perplexity and jeopardy; to a humanity struggling to retain He was involved with Yeshiva University for over half a cen¬ a modicum of dignity and security; to your beloved congrega¬ tury as student, faculty member, trustee, and confidant of its tion whom you nurtured and raised for over half a century, three presidents. As a "rabbi's rabbi," he trained over a thou¬ ministering to three and sometimes four generations; and, sand American rabbis at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan above all, to your wonderful, loving, and grieving family. Theological Seminary. He was to me, in these first years of Lekh be'shalom — go in peace. my presidency, a source of encouragement, inspiration, and valued assistance.

4 WORDS OF EULOGY

by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein

Fifteen years ago, following a terrible tragedy in our family, was a great source of comfort, pleasure and nachas for him in my father told me, for the first time, something which he all of the things that she did, but especially in her beautiful repeated several times since both orally and in writing. He family life and particularly through the grandchildren whom said to me, "I want you to deliver the eulogy for me when the she gave him. He loved each of them individually in their own time comes." This explains my position today, which is a very right and for their own qualities. He rejoiced in their happiness difficult one for me. I am trying to practice honor toward my and he worried over their problems. Of course, the greatest father as he expected it of me, in the same way as I recall his pleasure of all was his two great-granddaughters. "My little delivering the eulogy for my grandfather, of blessed memory, Erica" he would say and his eyes would light up whenever 36 years ago on the 1 5th day of Tammuz. she was spoken of, but then he would add: "I'm afraid that Many of you have heard my father read the Ne'ilah service Elizabeth is going to outdo her." Maybe so, but not in the which concludes Yom Kippur and you have been stirred by heart of their loving great-grandfather. his interpretation of the prayers. His final Ne'ilah came late What can I say about his relationship with me? We were not last Friday afternoon as the shadows of the 1 8th day of Tam¬ only son and father; we were co-workers, associates and muz lengthened and Shabbat Pinchas approached. We had partners in the service of the Jewish community. It is never the responsibility of reading the concluding verses of Ne'ilah: easy for a father and son to work together in close associa¬ Shema, Baruch Shem, and Ha-Shem Hu Ha-Elokim, at his tion. I must say that my father was extremely gracious in giv¬ bedside, at the moment of y'tzi'at n'shama, as a beautiful soul ing me every opportunity to grow and develop. We had our departed this world peacefully and flew to an eternal life. differences in style but never in content or in fundamentals. I This final Ne'ilah came on the eve of the Shabbat when we believe in, and respect, his whole philosophy of Jewish life as read Moshe's description of the ideal Jewish leader. it is expressed in Kehilath Jeshurun and Ramaz. And he knew ws -it27n mm in 'mV-x 'n npm clearly of the depth of that belief. I am very grateful to God that my father lived to celebrate with me my 20th anniversary jDn'^sV Hi' ~i®tn Drpas1? KX, ,myn in the rabbinate in this community and that last month we both my mnn kVt -)®*n djoxt ~iwm participated in the graduation exercises of Yeshiva University where I received my Ph.D., a milestone which was as much a ,t"d ,-inan ) nyn anb ps iws fsxa rn tribute to his encouragement and urging as it was to my modest scholarship. . ( T " ' — T " 0 I guess, also, the most precious thing that Audrey and I Let the Lord, God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a person gave my father was our four children whom he also loved over the community who will go before them and come greatly. He had a different Yiddish term of endearment for before them and who will lead them forth and bring them each of them: Chuchiket, Schmendrik, Ketzete, or whatever. back. And let not God's people be like sheep deprived of It must be a source of satisfaction to his soul that Mindy and their shepherd. Debbie flew in from Israel to be here for this final farewell. It is My father was a leader in that image. He was, first and a source of pain and sorrow to all of us that my father will not foremost, an "Ish." The Kotzker Rebbe comments that a Rav be present to officiate at the weddings of four grand¬ has to be a mensch and not a mal'ach, a human being and not daughters and at the Bar Mitzvah of his youngest grandson, an angel. Whatever else my father was to Kehilath Jeshurun, but I have a feeling that whenever those blessed events take Ramaz and the entire Jewish world, he was primarily and fun¬ place his soul will be a full participant in the rejoicing and damentally a warm, feeling, vibrant man, who lived for his somehow the grandchildren will know it and all of us in the family first even though we all knew we had to share him with family and the community will feel it. As a matter of fact, he the community. promised us that participation. In a letter he wrote to me two- He was a magnificent husband to my mother. They led a and-a-half-years-ago in which he indicated how we should ac¬ beautiful life together for, thank God, more than 53 years. cept and react to his ultimate passing, he said: They were great for each other and, except for the rarest of Whatever occasions you will celebrate together be sure occasions, they were never apart. Wherever he went, she that my spirit will be there. was with him as a constant source of love, support, guidance My father was also blessed with a sister and brothers who and encouragement. They rejoiced together, planned loved him deeply and admired him greatly. He was the head together and worried together. Most of all, they really loved of a very large family which included his own as well as my each other very much. They were a stirring example to us — mother's family and my brother-in-law's family and my and to all of the rabbinic world — of how a marriage should be mother-in-law and lived. .'131 pai D"nn pa V'TinV My father was deeply attached to my sister. "My little my father-in-law. The relationships among all of the members redhead" he called her, an appelation that he also reserved of the family were exquisitely reciprocal and mutually sup¬ for one of her daughters. They shared many intellectual portive. The presence of sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law endeavors in common, both of them being students of from thousands of miles away attest to the depth of that rela¬ sociology. Even in his most recent illness they talked tionship. sociology and my sister was astonished to realize that his Again, let me read from that letter, this time a message for memory of classic sociology was even better than hers. She the entire family:

5 My brother arid sister and all of my in-laws are flesh of my He had a third quality of leadership, after his mensch- flesh and spirit of my spirit. Remain close to them and main¬ lechkeit and his sense of tolerance and love for all Jews. That tain our traditional family solidarity. quality too was mentioned by Moses in his prescription for a leader. So, dear friends, don't forget that the great Jewish leader .orpus1? xm -|®xi DrpJS1? x^' "iwx( to whom we all bid farewell today was first and foremost an "one who would go before them and come before them, who "Ish." He had all of the grand, beautiful and outstanding at¬ would lead them forth and bring them back." tributes of an Ish and even a few of the failings of a human be¬ My father was constantly on the go, doing for people and ing. He was never afraid to acknowledge those failings in serving his fellow Jews. He used to tell his students at himself just as in his sermons he sometimes pointed them out Yeshiva: "Don't try zu zittsen auf the rabbonus. The only in Biblical personalities. thing that happens when you sit on the rabbonus is that you This special kind of man, however, was also a unique kind wear out the seat of your trousers. If you want to be a rabbi of Rabbi. Rashi, noting that Moses addressed God as you have to be a XII X2 1 ■> . And he was. Nothing in shul . nwa Vb1? ninnn ti^-x escaped his concern. No hour was too early or too late to God of all the different kinds of spirits, comments that Moses serve the community. No member was too insignificant for his urged God affection and service. He was the most fervent davener I -mxi inx *?no xrn® atijo ma have ever seen and yet he watched the faces of the worship¬ pers in while he was davening and . i nyq ■> 31? shul he would detect on their faces concern, anxiety, depression or happiness and "appoint a leader who will tolerate each person in accordance joy and he would react immediately to what he saw. That's with his outlook." My father's rabbinate was built on that prin¬ one of the reasons he never took his tallis over his head in ciple. He loved every Jew, no matter what his state of shul. He was xn 1 XS 1 "> , on the go, even when sitting in religiosity, piety or observance. He was prepared to meet his seat. By the way, unbeknownst to any but my mother, every Jew where he was, and, through warmth and genuine when he davened at home he frequently did take the tallis affection, he tried to bring him closer to tradition. Kehilath over his head. Jeshurun and Ramaz were built on this foundation of love and No matter how far my father traveled or how high he went in acceptance. They are not and they never will be "hard-sell" the Jewish community, Kehilath Jeshurun was his home base institutions. Rather, their philosophy is and will be one of and Ramaz was his home sanctuary. This Congregation and gradualism and tolerance, understanding and respect for dif¬ this School were his real family. He loved everyone here and ferences — not an easy philosophy to maintain in an age of he loved everything about this place. He spent his life here "holier than thou" piety. and he gave his life here. He cherished most of all the hours It was not surprising that the news of my father's illness that he spent in the shul, the leaders, past and present, who elicited prayers from the great sage and tzadik, the Rebbe of helped him to build the shul and all of his associates among Lubavitch, even while it brought forth beautifully expressed the synagogue officials, yes, and especially his co-workers in words of encouragement from Reform rabbis and Jews in the the office who were very much a part of his extended family. philanthropic community who would classify themselves as In behalf of his congregation and Ramaz and Bar-llan and secular. My father never classified any Jew as secular. Every JDC and UJA and Federation and so many other important Jew was religious; it was just a matter of time before he or causes and projects he was a Xll XX I' , a vigorous goer she would become observant; but the religion was there, cer¬ and doer before God and man for almost 56 years. He was, in tainly if the Jew was involved in philanthropy. the best sense, the image of what he urged his students to It was no accident that when the Synagogue Council of be: rn 'iny1? my , a servant to the servants of the America looked for an Orthodox leader to serve as President Lord. And when he could no longer perform that function ac¬ during the bi-centennial celebration in 1976, my father was tively, vigorously and effectively, when he could no longer be the most widely accepted candidate by all of the religious a XII XKI'.he breathed his last and the Ne'ilah was groups. This pattern was already in evidence in 1 943 when final. the late Stephen S. Wise looked for a rabbi who was a Zionist There is an added word of Moses to God: to oppose an American Council for Judaism candidate for the presidency of what was then called The New York Board of nyn an1? j'x nwx fxxa 'n my mnn x^i Jewish Ministers. He chose a young Orthodox rabbi by the "Let not God's people be like sheep deprived of its name of Joseph H. Lookstein shepherd." That, too, my father took care of. He has trained .inyq 's1? -rnxi qnx bb Vno xm® two generations of rabbis at Yeshiva University to serve as "servants to the servants of the Lord." He has left hundreds He had the capacity to accept each and every Jew with his of heirs to a own outlook. glorious rabbinic tradition. He not only affected vitally the past and the present of traditional Judaism in this This aspect of my father's philosophy of Judaism is country and around the world; he planted seeds which will summed up by something which he repeated often from the yet bring forth fruit in the future for a vital Jewish community pulpit of this synagogue. He used to say: "I love every Jew. here and throughout the world. The only Jew I don't love is one who doesn't love other Dad: You made many demands of me. This last one was Jews." It followed naturally that he in turn was loved, ad¬ among the hardest. I violated a cardinal rule of yours. You mired, respected and cherished by the total Jewish com¬ always taught your students to give brief was munity. eulogies. Mine

6 The title of your unfinished autobiography says volumes lengthy. But I only touched the surface and I'm afraid I didn't about your own view of life. You called it "God v begin to do you justice. Owes Me On Wednesday night, a little over two weeks ago, the night Nothing." On balance, with sad hearts and with grieving souls, we agree. God does owe you owe you before you took ill, you began another chapter in your nothing. But we and God more than we can ever properly acknowledge. We « autobiography. You entitled it will try in a small way to discharge our debt to both you and pnno njn ny " pimV pmnh God by carrying on your tradition in the family, in Kehilath in Ramaz way A Time To Embrace And A Time To Let Go." I think you Jeshurun, and in the community and in that to express our gratitude to you and to God for all that you were trying to tell us something with that unfinished chap¬ have done to make our lives more and more beautiful. May ter. We embraced you as you embraced us throughout a noble long, productive and extremely valuable life. Even as God your soul rest in peace and may it be a blessing for all of us said to you that it was time to let go we have to accept whom you loved so much. Amen. His judgement and let go ourselves. We will try to do that in dignity, just as you did.

7 SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1979 Slje iXVut jjork eimcs Joseph H. Lookstein Dead at 76; A Rabbi and Orthodox Educator

By WOLFGANG SAXON

Rabbi Joseph Hyman Lookstein, a Jew¬ ish educator long prominent in Orthodox Judaism and rabbi at Congregation Kehi- latb Jeshurun on the for half of its more than 100 years, died Friday in Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach. He was 76 years old. Rabbi Lookstein was president of the Synagogue Council of America and pro¬ fessor of homiletics and practical rabbin- ics at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. At the time of his death, he was senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun at 125 East 85th Street and divided his time between his home nearby and a resi¬ dence in Florida. He also made occa¬ sional trips to Israel, where he had been associated with the American-sponsored Bar-Ilan University since shortly after it was founded in the mid-1950's. His synagogue is the spiritual home of 540 families and one of the largest and most influential in New York City. He arrived first to serve as assistant rabbi under his grandfather, Moses S. Margolies, longtime rabbi of the congre¬ gation, and then to succeed him when Rabbi Margolies died in 1936. Responsibilities Increased The New York Times Rabbi Margolies was the dean of the Rabbi Orthodox rabbinate in this country. He Joseph H. Lookstein had been in failing health for a number of years, during which Rabbi Lookstein Rabbi Lookstein prayed a leading role Dpgan to take over more responsibilities in the Zionist movement in the United a£ associate rabbi of the congregation. States in the 1940's. After Bar-Ilan Uni¬ ; Rabbi Lookstein was born in Russia on versity was established at Ramat Gan, Dec. 25, 1902, and received his education near Tel Aviv, Rabbi Lookstein took an in New York at City College and Colum¬ active interest in it and served as acting bia University, where he did graduate president for nine year until becoming its work in sociology. He acquired his Jewish chancellor in 1966. learning at the Rabbi Jacob Joseph During his association with Bar-Ilan, Sthool and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan the institution grew from its beginnings Theological Seminary at Yeshiva Univer- With one building and 40 students to its sity, where he was ordained as a rabbi in psresent status as a recognized force in Is¬ 1926. raeli higher education, its student body By that time, he had already served as numbering in the thousands. an assistant to his grandfather for three Rabbi Lookstein's interest in education years, and he began his long rabbinate at previously had led him to found the He¬ the synagogue upon his ordination. brew Teachers Training School for Girls Rabbi Lookstein was a past president in 1930. For 10 years he was the principal of the Rabbinical Council of America and of ,the school, which now is part of the New York Board of Rabbis. He held Yeshiva University. leading posts at one time in such organi¬ He also founded, in 1937, the Ramaz zations as the Mizrachi Zionist Organiza¬ ScAooL a jewish day ichool on the tipper tion of America, the Rabbinical Council East Side that of the Union of Jewish Orthodox today has a student body of Congre¬ 800. gations of America, the American Zionist Rabbi Lookstein is survived Council, the Commission on Jewish by his Chap¬ wife, the former Gertrude laincy of the National Jewish Welfare Schlang; a son, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein of the same Board, the Gustav Wurzweiler Founda¬ congregation, Kehilath a tion and the World Council on Jewish Jeshurun; Education, which furthered Jewish daughter, Nathalie Friedman; seven grandchildren; education around the world from its New two great-grandchildren; York a brother, Arthur, and a sister, Sylvia headquarters. Schatzman. He was elected head of the Synagogue A funeral service was Council in 1975. scheduled for noon today at Kehilath Jeshurun. The

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Stroke fatal to at 77;Looksteinwas an outstanding Jewish education builder Rabbi Joseph Hyman Lookstein spent all of thousands of refugees from the Hitler but one year of his rabbinical career at one Holocaust. Those who were present when synagogue, Kehilath Jeshurun on East he reported on what he had seen to the 85th street in Manhattan, and some fifty chairman of the Joint Chiefs said that he years later he was to remark, with a charac¬ had moved General McNarney to tears. teristic twinkle, that "I must have done Rabbi Lookstein's primary interest was something right." Jewish education, and he was chairman of That he had indeed done so was shown the World Council on Jewish Education last Sunday when Rabbi Lookstein's sanc¬ for five years. In this role, he exerted an in¬ tuary was filled to the last seat and people fluence on the progress of Jewish educa¬ crowded aroundthe doors, craning to hear tion in the leading Jewish communities of the world. what was being said about him as his body reposed in its plain pine coffin in front of He was the founder of the Hebrew the bima. Teachers Training School for Girls and served for almost ten They came to hear, and to shed a tear, years as its principal. and each could have added story after sto¬ Founded Ramaz School ry of his own about his scholarship, his erudition, his oratorical gifts and, above His greatest achievement, however, was all, his humanity and ever-present humor. the founding of the Ramaz School in 1937, On the pjilpit were Rabbi Norman which he named for Rabbi Margulies, Lamm, president of Yeshiva University whose initials spell RAMAZ. where Rabbi Lookstein was ordained and This was the first progressive Jewish day where he was, for years, University Profes¬ school in the country, and the mold from sor of Homiletiys and Pra'ctical Rabbinics; which hundreds of day schools have been Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, his son and now cast. Some 1,000 boys and girls have rabbi of Kehilath Jeshurun; Steven graduated from Ramaz since it was found¬ Schacter, a grandson, and Rabbi Sol Roth, ed 42 years ago, and all of them pursued a former student and now a rabbi of the higher education in the leading colleges Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach. All deliv¬ and universities of the land, to become not ered moving eulogies. only skilled professionals but to remain dedicated Jews. Died in Florida Some 17 years ago he became the Chan¬ Rabbi Lookstein died in Mt. Sinai Hospi¬ dean of the American rabbinate. After his cellor of Bar-Han, and commuted regular¬ tal in Miami Beach last Friday, following a ordination, in 1926, he married Rabbi ly between New York and Ramat Can. stroke. He was 77 years old. Margulies' granddaughter, Gertrude During his incumbancy, the university He was one of the few, if not the Only Schlang, and they had two children, Mrs. grew from several hundred to several man, to have held all these positions during Nathalie Friedman, who holds a doctorate thousand students, and .because of his ef¬ a crowded lifetime: president of the Rab¬ in sociology and has taught at Barnard and forts, it now has a faculty of law, schools of binical Council of America, of the Mizrachi Stern College; and Rabbi Haskell Look¬ education and social work, and a full com¬ Zionist organization, of the Commission on stein, ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan plement of undergraduate and graduate Jewish Chaplaincy of the Jewish National seminary and with a doctorate from the courses leading to all academic degrees. Welfare Board, of the Synagogue Council Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva Rabbi Lookstein was as good a teacher as of America and of the New York Board of University. he was an orator, and filled both classroom Rabbis. In addition he was chancellor, and This was a unique case in the rabbinate and auditorium when he mounted the ros¬ former president, of Bar-Illan University — grandfather, grandson and great trum. He was from earliest youth affiliated in Israel. grandson becoming the spiritual leaders of with the Zionist cause, and succeeded the Rabbi Lookstein was both a champion the same congregation. late Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver as chairman of the Palestine Commission of the Ameri¬ and product of a blending of Jewish learn¬ During the war years, Rabbi Lookstein, ing and secular education. The former he as head of the Commission on Jewish can Jewish Conference. As such, he served acquired at the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Chaplaincy, helped in the recruitment of as consultant to the U.S. delegation at the and later at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan The¬ Jewish chaplains and their training, and founding converence of the United Na¬ ological Seminary of Yeshiva University. supervised the hundreds of American rab¬ tions in San Francisco in 1945. The latter he acquired at City College and bis who served in this country's armed ser¬ Some ten years ago, Rabbi Lookstein where he did his gra¬ vice. took on the title of Senior Rabbi of Kehi¬ lath duate work in sociology and in other social In this role, with the rank of general, he jeshurun and son Haskell became sciences. His doctoral dissertation was on "Rabbi. He is survived also by a brother, Ar¬ visited most of the military installations in The thur; a sister, Mrs. Sylvia Schatzman; eight Primogeniture in Jewish Law and Society. this country and, after the war, he was sent grandchildren and two by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Europe¬ great-grandchil¬ Started as a student rabbi dren. an and Mediterranean theatres. While He came to Kehilath Jeshurun as a stu¬ overseas, he was commissioned to visit the dent rabbi to be the assistant to Rabbi M.Z. dp camps where he met literally hundreds Margolies who in his dav was known as the A SAMPLING OF THE MANY ARTICLES OF TRIBUTE ■>^"70 HADOAR

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14 A Giant of the Spirit Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein

A personal tribute by Robert Gordis

The passing of Rabbi Joseph H. never confused himself with God or as¬ Lookstein has deprived American and sumed that his ideas were Divine pro¬ world Jewry of one of its trilly eminent nouncements. His sense of humor figures. The columns of obituaries in served as the foundation for his bound¬ the newspapers and the extensive eulo¬ less love of humanity and his genuine gies published throughout the world humility. have high-lighted his extraordinary "He was my friend, faithful and just achievements as the rabbi of Congrega¬ to me." In the last analysis, whenever tion Kehilat Jeshurun, the architect of we mourn a loss, it is what we have lost the Ramaz School, the Chancellor of that we mourn. During the early years, Bar-Ilan University, and a leader in vir¬ when he was rabbi of a fashionable con¬ tually every movement and cause dedi¬ gregation and I was a principal and cated to the welfare of Klal Yisrael, in teacher in Hebrew schools in the Bronx, America, in Israel and throughout the he was a welcome and cherished visitor world. in our home. When he organized the I believe that as important as his Hebrew Teachers' Training School for achievements is his role as a model, a Girls, which later was the nucleus for symbol of a type of Jewish leadership Stern College, he encountered indiffer¬ and loyalty that has grown all too rare ence and even opposition. Nevertheless, in our generation. he persisted in creating the school, on Our friendship began before my Bar the faculty of which I served during its Mitzvah, when he was only a few years first, formative years. past his. It is from the vantage point of Years later, when I became Rabbi of this life-long relationship that I should Temple Beth-El of Rockaway Park, I like to pay a tribute to him. His personal determined to established what is now life demonstrated that profound devo¬ the oldest day school in the Conserva¬ tion to one's own convictions can go tive movement. I was able to turn for hand in hand with genuine respect for counsel and aid to two dissimilar but the convictions of others. His commit¬ dedicated leaders in the field of Jewish ment to Orthodox Judaism did not lead day-school education. One was the late him to denigrate those who adhered to Joel Braverman, principal of the Yeshi- other philosophies, whether they dif¬ va of Flatbush; the other was Rabbi fered much or little from his own. Jo¬ seph Lookstein, founder and principal Two factors, I believe, made it possi¬ of the Ramaz School. Both generously ble for him to unite loyalty to his own placed their experience and expertise at views with tolerance for other opinions. my disposal, so that we could avoid The first was his total adherence to many an error and pitfall in launching what, with apologies to the Latin poet the school. Years later, I was instrumen¬ Terence, I regard as the ideal credo of a tal in having the Jewish Theological Jfw, Judaeus sum el nihil humani atqueju- Seminary confer an honorary degree dkici alirnutn me esse puto, "I am a Jew and upon Joel Braverman. Joseph Look¬ nothing human or Jewish is alien to stein, me." The second factor that made for fortunately, did not lack for rec¬ ognition. the character of Rabbi Joseph H. Look¬ stein was his sense of humor. By this I Both educators knew that the study do not merely mean his superb gifts as a of Torah, as the Sages of old under¬ raconteur, for he was fully at home in stood it, unites Jews meaningfully in¬ the rich treasure-'rove of Jewish folk¬ stead of dividing them needlessly. In lore and traditional wisdom. It goes far the rich legacy of achievement that Jo¬ beyond the knack of telling funny sto¬ seph H. Lookstein has left behind him, ries. His gift of humor gave him a sense not the least is the man himself. Yehi of balance and proportion, so that he zikhro barukh!

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18 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1979

Scatha LOOKSTEIN—RABBI JOSEPH H. LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. Con¬ The Sisterhood of Congregation Ke¬ gregation Kehilath Jeshurun hilath Jeshurun mourns the passing LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The mourns with profoundest grief the Massad family mourns the a of our beloved Rabbi Joseph H. American Jewish Joint Distribution loss of its illustrious passing of Rabbi and Lookstein. He and his entire family Committee deeply mourns the death great and inspired leader in Jewish teacher. Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein, education. —his dear son, our Rabbi Haskel of Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, an We join with his son, who served the Congregation with Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, our Board Lookstein, his adoring wife, Ger¬ honored member of our executive extraordinary devotion and love for member, and all the family in their trude, and his beloved daughter-in- committee, a devoted friend and ad¬ more than fifty years. He was in¬ sorrow over this loss to the entire law, Audrey, who are both former mired colleague. His association deed a giant of American Judaism Jewish Community. presidents of the Sisterhood, and his with the J DC began almost 35 years in MASSAD CAMPS, INC this century. His service to the ago he cherished daughter, Nathalie Fried¬ when undertook a mission to Jerome Lefkowitz greater Jewish community of New man, herself a member of the Sis¬ South America. He continued to President Yqj-k, to world Jewry and, not the terhood—devoted themselves tire¬ serve the J DC a* he served his Shlomo Shulsinger least, to Israel—all of which he per¬ lessly to the well-being of our entire people and his country in- many Founder formed with the same unflagging Congregation. He shared our joys ways through the years, giving elo¬ zeal up to the very end—made him and we shared his. He shared our quent expression to his learning, his LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph. The well-known and highly-respected sorrows and now it is our unhappy compassion and his dedication to members of the James Striar fami throughout the world. His vision in task to try to console his family as humanity. He reached a high sta¬ ly express condolences to the family creating and administering Ramaz he and they have always tried to tion and gained wide reknown and of Rabbi Joseph Lookstein. He was School was unique and set the pat¬ console us in times of tragedy. M§y remained a modest and gentle man, a very cldse friend and will be re¬ tern tor much of what is good and they be comforted among all those possessed of a ready smile and a membered for the many wonderful in modern pertinent Jewish educa¬ who mourn for Zion and Jerusalem. grand sense of humor. deeds performed throughout the tion. But however much he may Sisterhood In behalf of the officers, board of di¬ world. He was a very active leader have devoted himself to other Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun rectors, and staff, we ioin with fel¬ and educator of Jewish life. Our en¬ worthwhile institutions and causes, low Jews in the U.S. and overseas in tire family will miss him very. he cared most for our Congregation, LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The mourning his passing. To his be¬ much. The James Striar Family the members of which he regarded Officers of the United Jewish Ap¬ reaved family we offer deepest as much a part of his family as his peal-Federation of Jewish Philan¬ sympathy. LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H We Joint wife and children. Therefore, just thropies Campaign are pro¬ Donald M. Robinson, Pres. are terribly and deeply saddened at as his passing will leave an unfillab- foundly saddened at the passing of Jack D. Weiler, Chrmn Brd of Dir. the passing of our dear Rabbi who one of the great le void in the lives of his beloved Jewish leaders of Ralph I. Goldman, Exec V.P. besides being our beloved leader, our time. Throughout his life, he ex¬ wife, Gertrude, his daughter, Nath¬ was also, through so many years, a LOOKSTEIN—DR. JOSEPH H. We alie Friedman, his son, our es¬ pressed deep concern for the our personal friend. mourn the loss of the Chancellor of teemed Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, his plight of oppressed Jews every¬ We convey our sincerest condolen¬ where and was an.eloquent spokes¬ Bar-llan University. His devoted grandchildren and great-grand¬ ces to his dear wife, Gertrude, to his support and brilliant leadership children, his brother, Arthur, his man, leader and supporter of our children and to all the members of cause. We extend heartfelt started with the formative years of sister, Sylvia Schatzman, and all con¬ his family. the University. Under his guidance, , other members of his family, so will dolences to his wife Gertrude and Mr and Mrs. Nathan Salzman its po¬ there be an unfillable void in our children Rabbi Haskel Lookstein the University was brought to sition as an leader in Is¬ Congregation. Just as his family and Mrs. Nathalie Friedman. educational rael and in will mourn, so, too, shall we all aurence A. Tisch, President the Jewish world. His LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The Ernest W. care of the welfare of all of the Men's Club of Kehi¬ mourn the passing of this great, pi¬ Michel and parts Congregation University reflected his lath Jeshurun expresses ous and genuinely good man. May Sanford Solender, Exec Vice Pres¬ remarkable its great idents his memory be a blessing for «H personality, his concern for educa¬ grief and sorrow at the passing of Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, who mourn him. May his family be LOOKSTEIN " Rabbi Joseph H. tion, his love of the Jewish people, w|o and his commitment was the guiding spirit tie comforted among all of us who Adored husband of Gertrude. Be¬ to the State of behind Israel. His friendship, his guidance,, formation of the Men's mourn for Zion^nd Jerusalem. loved father of Nathalie Friectoen Club, in Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and Rabbi Haskel Lookstein. pu¬ and his wisdom will be sorely which he took such a strong interest rest brother of Arthur Lookstein and missed. for so many years. LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY We shall miss his wisdom, his wit Ramaz School is grieved over the Sylvia Schatzman. Devoted father- in-law of Audrey Lookstein and Is¬ Dr. Emanuel Rackman, and his piety more than it is possible loss of its Founder. Our School and President rael Friedman. Cherished grand¬ for us to express. every student will always bear the Phillip Stollman, father of Steven and Sheira Schac- May his family be comforted among mark of his educational genius and Chairman, Board of Trustees all of us mourn Zion ter. Jessica and Allen Gribetz, Judy who for and Je¬ personality. His devotion to the idea Jane Stern, rusalem. Club and Mark Tykocinski, Naomi Men's of Jewish scholarship and know¬ Schacter, Mindy Lookstein, Debbie President, Board of Overseers Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun< ledge thoroughly integrated with Rabbi Karpol Bender, Lookstein, Lookstein and American tradition marked his own Shira LOOKSTEIN—Joseph H. The Warsaw great¬ Executive Vice Chairman life and the School which he created Joshua Lookstein. Precious Ghetto Resistance Organization grandfather of Erica and led as Principal for over 40 Schacter and (WAGRO) is deeply grieved at the Elizabeth Schacter. Funeral servi¬ years. It was the success of the LOOKSTEIN—Joseph H., we mourn passing of Rabbi Joseph H. Look¬ ces today, Sunday, at 12 noon at School in continuing to nurture thou¬ the passing of our dear friend, rabbi stein, a great friend and spiritual Congregation sands of children in their heritage Kehilath Jeshurun, and teacher. We have suffered a leader. We, the survivors of the Ho¬ 125 East 85th Street. which gave him most pleasure and severe loss. Brown Family locaust, pay tribute to his efforts on for which he will always be remem¬ LOOKSTEIN—RABBI JOSEPH H our behalf and offer deepest sym¬ bered by us. The Couples' Club of Congregation pathy to his bereaved family and RAMAZ SCHOOL Kehilath Jeshurun expresses its congregation. Benjamin Meed, President, WAGRO Lawrence A. KobTin, profound sorrow at the passing of Hirsch Altusky, Chairman of the Board our great Rabbi Joseph H. Look- A. Phillip Goldsmith, Stein. For more than fifty years, he Executive Secretary Joseph Lorch, and his beloved wife Gertrude were, Honorary Chairmen indeed, the first and foremost Judy Tanz, couple in our Congregation. He was President, Parents' Council close to all of us as a friend, counse¬ Albert Goetz, lor, rabbi, and teacher. Words are Chairman, Faculty Council really inadequate to express our Dr. Noam Shudofsky, grief at this moment. May his me¬ Administrator mory be a blessing to all ot his fami¬ ly, friends, students and congre¬ gants who mourn him. Couples' Club Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun

THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1979

LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H., the LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H., Con¬ LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. We Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach is gregation B'nai Jehuda, the York- deeply mourn the loss of our friend deeply distressed by the passing of ville Synagogue, ioins with the en¬ and teacher. His towering presence a great Rabbinic personality, an tire Jewish community in mourning graced every significant occasion of eloquent orator, a trailblazing edu¬ the loss of Joseph H. Lookstein, our lives. His wit, warmth and con¬ our cator, a superb teacher, a dynamic Rabbi, teacher and leader in K'lal cern enlarged joys and eased leader who gave shape to Jewish Yisroel. May his family be comfort¬ our sorrows. Our most sincere con¬ life in the United States and Israel ed among the mourners of Zion and dolences to his wife, Gertrude, to his He was, at the same time, an irre¬ Jerusalem. children, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Bleich, sistible personality who inspired J.David Rabbi and Natalie Friedman and to-all lasting friendship and aroused Edwin J. Blick, Chairman Bnai Yisrael. Carol 8. Mel Newman and Family many to magnificent acts of sacri¬ fice and commitment. The Jewish community is impoverished by his passing. Heartfelt sympathy is ex¬ tended to the bereaved family. Dr. Sol Roth, Rabbi Samuel Borenstein, President Hermann Merkin, Chairman, Board of Trustees THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1979

LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. Fifth LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. We LOOKSTE IN—Rabbi Joseph H-AII the SeatijB Avenue Synagogue offers its pro¬ mourn the loss of a great friend and Members of the Rabbinic Alumni of LOOK STEIN—Rabbi found sympathy to the family of a Jot#* H. The we exextend our sympathy to be¬ the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi¬ New York Board of Rabbis brilliant visionary leader of Ameri¬ grie¬ loved Gertrude,his wife, and Rabbi cal Seminary an Affiliate of Yeshi- vously mourns the can and Israeli Jewry, and pioneer passing of its dis¬ Haskel and Natalie. va University, grievously mourn the tinguished Past President whose in Jewish education for all ages. We Klal Israel lost a great lover. tragic loss of our distinguished for¬ 50th anniversary as a member of share the bereavement with his fa¬ Margie and J. Harry Frankel mer president,revered mentor .dedi¬ mily and our sister congregation, our Board was to be celebrated this cated teacher and exemplary Kehillath Jeshurun, and pray that year. His dedication to the rabbinic LOOKSTEIN—Joseph H. Emunah spokesman. His profound impact the Almighty console them in this community was demonstrated Women of America note with pro upon the lives of his countless stu¬ great loss. Nisson E. Shulman, Rab¬ through his active involvement in found sorrow the passing of an ardu¬ dents in the Rabbinate today is liv¬ bi a our most important programs. His ous and benevolent worker for Tor- ing tribute to his lasting contribu¬ wise Adoiph A. Kreitman, President counsel and dynamic leader¬ ah and Eretz Israel tions to American Jewry. Our war¬ Henry Hirsch. Chairman ship guided the Board to greater Shirley Billet, National President mest sympathies to hjs illustrious service to the Jewish community, LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H„ JWB son. Rabbi Maskel Lookstein, the inspired his colleagues with zeal for LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph. The mourns the passing of Rabbi Joseph current president of our Rabbinic their sacred calling and enhanced Jewish H Lookstein, a founder and former Alumni, and all his dear family. the image of the American Rabbin¬ Community Relation Council of NY Chairman of JWB's Commission on Rabbi Abraham Avrech,Director. ate A trailblazing educator and elo¬ and its 27 member agencies deeply Jewish Chaplaincy. He received the LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. We quent preacher, he matched creed mourn the passing of this distin¬ Frank L Weil Award of JWB in >957 mourn the loss of a beloved friend with deed, words with work. His guished leader of NY and World for his "distinguished contribution and past president. A great educa¬ love for K'lal Yisroel was translated Jewry. His unique combination of to the welfare of Jewish Personnel tor, he was teacher to generations into service and respect for col¬ strength & gentleness, leadership & In the US Armed Forces." JWB's A pioneer in Torah education, he leagues and laymen of every posi¬ service, of Torah and Secular know¬ condolences are extended to mem¬ built Torah institutions here and in tive Jewish religious ideology. A ledge had earned him the respect & bers of his bereaved family. Israel. His silver tongue, most valued of his many legacies to admiration of all he encountered. Robert L. Adler, President inspired ever greater effort to Orthodo* Ju- our Board is his beloved son, Rabbi His guidance and assistance will be Arthur Rofman, Executive Vice diasm. We extend our deepest sym¬ Haskel Lookstein, Officer of the sorely missed. We pray that his s<5n, President pathies to his son, our member, New York Board of Rabbis. Heart¬ Rabbi Haskell Lookstein, who car¬ LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, and to the felt condolences to Gertrude, Has¬ ries on in the tradition of his father, Upper East Side Jewish Community grieving family. May thev be con¬ kel, Natalie and the entire family. and the entire Lookstein family will Council mourns the loss of Rabbi torted with all who mourn in Zion. Rabbi Joseph Lookstein was a bless¬ know of no further sorrow and will Joseph H. Lookstein, revered spiri¬ Rabinical Council of America ing to us in life. His memory will be comforted among the mourners tual and communal leader, arid be¬ Rabbi Bernard Rosensweig. Pres. surely inspire us to continued ser¬ of Zion and Jerusalem. loved father of Rabbi Haskel Look¬ Rabbi Sol Roth, First V P. vice to the Jewish community and Richard Ravitch, Pres stein, a distinguished member of Rabbi Milton H. humanity. Malcolm Hoenlein, Exec Dir Polin, Secy. our Executive Committee. We ex¬ Rabbi Israel Klavan, Exec. V.P. RABBI BARUCH SILVERSTEIN, tend heartfelt condolences to all President LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph. The LOOKSTE I N-nJpseph H. We rr>ouft\ members of the Lookstein Family. RABBI JUDAH CAHN, Chairman United Synagogue of America the passing of our beloved and es¬ Elihu Rose, Chairman, Upper East of the Board mourns the loss of a great leader teemed friend. His devotion to the Side Jewish Community Council RABBI PAUL L HAIT, Executive and educator in the Jewish Commu¬ memory of the six million marytyrs Director nity. A luminous soul and eloouent LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The and his true friendship for the survi¬ preacher. Rabbi Lookstein always Trustees of the Gustav Wurzweller vors of the Holocaust reflected his LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H.¬ emphasized the over arching impor¬ Foundation mourn the passing of noble end great personality. His American Mizrachi Women are tance of Kelal Yisroel. We share in Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein. From memory will always be with us. Our deeply saddened by the passing of a the burden of his loss and we pray the inception of the Foundation, he deepest sympathy to the entire devoted friend and great spiritual that his family and his disciples will took a leading part in its work and Lookstein family. leader. A dedicated champion of his be comforted by the magnificent guided his fellow trustees in their World Federation of people and Medinat Israel, he gave heritage that he has left for us all. deliberations and decisions. His illu¬ Bergen Be I sen Associations unique leadership to the causes that Simon Schwartz, President minating personality and his coun¬ Hadassah Rosensaft enhance and furthered religious life Rabbi Benjamin Z. Kreitman, sel will be sorely missed. Sam E. Blcch in all its aspects. Heartfelt con¬ Executive Vice-President Max Gruenewald. Vice President Norberf Wollheim dolences to his wife Gertrude, son LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, daughter LOOKSTEIN—Joseph H. Congrega¬ Joseph H.-The LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The JWB Commission on Jewish Park Nathalie, daughter-in-law Audrey, tion Bnai Jeshurun ioins the entire Cha¬ Avenue Synaoogue Family ex¬ tends a son-in-law Israel, and their fami¬ world Jewish community in deeply plaincy mourns the passing of its il¬ hand of friendship and sym¬ lustrious past chairman a founder pathy to its lies, all devoted supporters of our mourning the passing of our distin¬ neighboring congrega¬ of the commission and of tion, Kehilath cause. guished neighbor and respected col¬ one its Jeshurun, at a time of sorrow Mrs. Sarah Shane, league, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein. leading members since Warld War and bereavement. They heartfelt condolences have lost National President Most especially, at this grievous II. Our go to their teacher and guide, his bereaved family. but are the fortunate beneficiaries Mrs. Charlotte Kline, hour, we link hand and heart with Rabbi Judah Nadich, Chairman of his wisdom, wit and National Board Chairwoman our neighboring congregation, Kehi- learning, Rabbi Gilbert Koflin, Director which will Marvin Left, Executive Oirector lath Jeshurun. For while we have continue to inspire them in the future as shared in part the same name and LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. We in the past. LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. We DR.JUDAH in full the same values, now we record with deep sorrow the passing NADICH. Rabbi mourn the passing of our friend and, must share their pain and anguish of a revered member of our board of GEORGE M.SHAPIRO, Chairman mentor, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein. of upon the loss of a great and mighty trustees. May the family be con¬ the Board His devotion to the Jewish people, to spiritual leader. Like Joseph of old, soled together with all the mourners ABRAHAM I.SHERR, President education and to young people was Rabbi Lookstein wove many radiant of Zion and Jerusalem. untiring, and his advocacy for the colors into his coat of communal ac "Emet"-Rabbi Herzog World LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. Lin¬ rights of Soviet Jews was unceas¬ tivities, leaving in turn the fabric of Academy coln Square Synagogue mourns the ing. Jews throughout the world have Jewish life stronger and richer than Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, passing of a great rabbi and teacher suffered a great loss. Our heartfelt before. Whether the cause was a Chairman in Israel, Rabbi Joseph H. Look¬ sympathy goes to his wife, his son Torah education for every age or stein. May his family be comforted Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a former Lookstein—Rabbi Joseph H-Park Zionism or Ecumeoicism or Jewish among the mourners of Zion and Je¬ member of our Executive Commit¬ East Synagogue Congregation Zictv unity or the revitalized synagogue, rusalem. tee, and his entire family. May they ron Ephraim mourns the loss of a Joseph H Lookstein, for more than Shlomo Rlskin, Rabbi be comforted among the mourners great educator and Rabbi, and ex¬ half a century, lent them all his ori Stanley Getzler. President of Zion. tend their deepest sympathy and ginal blend of wit, wisdom, energy Burton D. Levinson, Chairman condolences to the members of his and enthusiasm. He was among the Jerry Goodman, Executive Direc¬ family signed last of an era that was singular tor tor Rabbi Arhtur Schneier its giants, men of vision and deed, M. National on Soviet Jules Sax, President Conference Jew¬ men who were never echoes in the Harry Bardin, Vice President ry chorus of Jewish life but vigorous LOOKSTEIN—Joseph. The officers resounding voices calling us to do and directors of The of Union Ortho¬ and to act, to build and be rebuilt. dox Jewish Congregations of Ameri¬ Indeed through his subtle embrace ca mourn the passing of the distin¬ of tradition and modernity both, or guished spiritual leader of one of religious and not-vet-religious alike, our foremost Orthodox synagogues this Joseph served as a stirring arid THE NEW a pioneer of Jewish education. model and mentor to all his brothers YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1979 Rabbi Lookstein made a lasting in the Household of Jacob. Sadly, a contribution to the Orthodox com¬ Rabbi has departed from this earth munity and Israel in LOOKSTEIN—Joseph H. Rabbi. The over 50 years and we are the LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H., we poorer for it. For we members of Shaaray of distinguished service and leader¬ Temple Tefila mourn the know that his kind of figure may be passing of a great Rabbi extend heartfelt sympathy to our ship. May his many friends and fa¬ succeeded but and teacher in Israel. May his fami¬ never replaced. And brothers and sisters of Kehillath Je¬ mily be comforted among the mour¬ ly be comforted among She mour¬ now if we should seek Joseph our shurun and to the Lookstein ners for Zion and Jerusalem. family. and brother, we shall have to discover ners of Zion Jerusalem. Julius May God comfort you and all the West Side Institutional Berman, President him in memory and good deeds and Synagogue Harold M. mourners of Zion. Jacobs, Chairman, in a legacy which will continue to Dr. O. Asher Reichel, Rabbi Board of Directors Rabbi Harvey M. Tattelbaum guide and inspire us all. William Foont, President Rabbi Pinchas Bernard J. Bamberger, Rabbi Stolper, To the congregation and most parti¬ Executive Vice President Emeritus cularly to my esteemed colleague. H. Roger Spiegel, President Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, and the en¬ tire family go our deepest sympathy LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph, Congre¬ and profoundesf prayer that in the gation Shearith Israel, the Spanish days ahead God may wipe the tears and Portugese Synagogue mourns from all grieving faces, with His the loss of a great leader in Jewry. merciful lovingkindness. We extend our sympathy to his fa¬ William Berkowitz mily and congregation who can be Rabbi comforted in the knowledge that his Charles H. Silver, Pres life's labors will live on through ge¬ nerations to come. Edgar J. Nathan, III, President THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1979

Rabbi. The LOOKSTEIN—Joseph H Rabbi, LOOKSTEIN—Joseph H., LOOKSTEIN—R,bbi Josetfl H. The' Board of Trustees Ye¬ LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The Scholar, Teacher and Builder if and the entire Religious Zionists of America deep¬ shiva University Family mourn the officers, board members and sfaff ly mourn the passing of a prominent judged but by a single act he earned passing of its distinguished alumnus of the Board leader of our movement, member of his due share in this world by creat¬ of Jewish Education of Greater New and esteemed colleague. For half a its Executive Boaid, great educa¬ ing The Ramaz School. At the pre¬ York century he was an integral part of deeply mourn the passing of tor, Chancellor of Bar-1 Ian univer¬ cise moment that life was fast leav¬ esteemed honorary board member, our institution as a student, profes¬ sity, and express condolences to the ing him past Friday Erev Shabos, sor, and Trustee. A pioneer of the Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein. His il¬ bereayed family. the massive main four steel girders lustrious educator and Torah U'Nadah concept, he became career as Rabbi Dr. Louis Bernstein, Pres- were being swung into place at the Rabbi was highlighted by his pion¬ its prototype and planted its seeds / ident new High School site on 78th Street all over the world. His total involve¬ eering efforts for. the Jewish Day Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman, that is to bear his revered name It School, teacher training and higher ment in Yeshiva University, Jewish Chairman, Executive Board was as it his last strength and spirit Jewish education. We will remem¬ education, communal endeavours, Shragai Cohen, Treasurer was directing this very major oper¬ ber his and Israel, epitomized the highest lifelong concern for all Jew¬ Israel Friedman, Executive Vice ation so that he might be certain traditions of our people. Our heart¬ ish youth and his brilliant leader¬ Pres. that the firm and solid foundation ship to Klal Yisrael. Our felt condolences to the survivors heartfelt Greater New York Councik was being prooerly readied for the and mav they be comforted amoung condolences to his dear wife Ger¬ Rabbi Ezra Gellman, President Grand Structure that is to follow. trude and to his children Rabbi Has- the mourners of Zion and Jerusa¬ George Bomzer, Chairman, Board This now was the man—like Joseph Lookstein and Mrs Natalie lem. kel Rabbi David Winter, Exec. Director of old—a dreamer who pushed his Dr. Norman Lamm, President, Friedman and their families. May dreams to realization ignoring all LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. Ye- Yeshiva University they be comforted among the mour¬ obstacles. Our full of shiva Torah Vodaath and Mesivta hearts are Hon. Herbert Tenzer, Chairm ners of Zion and Jerusalem. sympathy for Gertrude, Rabbi Has¬ faculty and student body records Boardof Trustees Alvin K. Hellerstein, President kell, Natalie, and all members of with deep sorrow the passing of a Dr. Alvin I. Schiff, Exec Vice Pres the Lookstein family Stanley Stern, Vice-Chairman great friend and spiritual leader Boardof Trustees Arthur Barcan, Chairman of the Bd A. Phillip Goldsmith Family Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, a gene¬ Eli Rousso, Chairman rous benefactor of our Yeshiva. We LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The Board of Overseers LOOKSTEIN—Joseph H., Ribbi The extend our deepest sympathy and Officers and Staff of the National Officers, Plenum, and Constituent heartfelt condolences to his wife United Jewish Appeal express their Organizations of LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H Fe¬ tbe Synagogue Gertrude and his son Rabbi HasKel profound sympathy at the untimely Council of America, feel the deration of Jewish Philanthropies of pro¬ Lookstein and to the entire be¬ j Joseph found grief of the loss of the leader¬ death of Rabbi H. Lookstein. New York expresses deepest sorrow reaved family. May the Almighty' I dedication, A deeply compassionate individual at the a ship, and inspiration of send them solace and spare them passing of Life Trustee of its former President. Rabbi Joseph j he always gave generously of his our Board, as well as a member of from further sorrow. time and knowledge to help others. H. Lookstein. the Boards of our affiliated His strengthening of Henry Hirsch, President I Constantly demonstrating his con- agen¬ the cies, the New of Rabbis Synagogue, of Torah, and the Fred F. Weiss, Chairman of the York Board Jewish j cern with the needs of the Jewish and the Board of Jewish Education. people in this land and in is- Board people, he devoted his entire life to raei, reflected his personal A scholar, a spiritual and commun¬ piety, helping them around the corner and LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The al leader of pre-eminent stature in scholarship, and love for his people around the world. As Chairman 61 all Officers and Staff of the Greater the Jewish life of the city, he and people. Master teacher and the U J A Rabbinical Advisory Board gave orator, his many gave new New York Conference on Soviet selflessly of his superb talents he set a standard of service that will knowledge Jewry mourn the loss of Rabbi ' and direction and purpose to the tota.l be remembered for generations to insight to guide our delibera¬ .American Jewish religious commu¬ Joseph Lookstein, a great teacher of tions. With utmost compassion and come. Our sincerest condolences to the Jewish People, and the beloved dedication, he served the human nity as represented by the Syna¬ the bereaved family. father of Rabbi Haskell Lookstein, needs of Jewry and gogue Council. All who were pri- Irwin S. Field, National Chairman worldwide was our Associate Chairman. A pioneer¬ revered and emulated viledged to be touched by the bless-! Frank R. Lautenberg, President universally ings of his ing leader has been taken from us. fpr his impassioned commitment to example and influence Irving Bernstein, Executive Vice May the Lookstein family be com¬ the of Jewish exotrience a most personal sense of Chairman cause freedom and sorrow. We extend our deepest sym¬ forted among the mourners of Zion. progress. To his son, Rabbi Haskel pathy to his precious wife, to his Mervin Riseman, Chairmen LOOKSTfeIN—Rabbi Joseph H. The Lookstein, also a distinguished soft, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, our Margy-Ruth Davis, Exec. Director Greater New York Committee for member of our Board and of major State of Israel Bonds notes with pro¬ Asilfclate and colleague, and to his LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. ityd- Federation committees concerned loving family. town Chapter, American Mizrachi found sorrow the passing of one of with the religious and humanitarian America's most illustrious and rev¬ needs 5YNAGOGUE COUNCIL Women, records with sorrow the of our Jewish brethern, to his ered leaders and OF AMERICA death of Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein. religious Jewish wife and daughter, and to all the educators. He leaves an extraordin¬ Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, beloved illustrious husband of our members of the bereaved family, ary legacy devotion and President Past President, GertrudeLookstein. of service w^ offer our most heartfelt and pro¬ to Israel, world Jewry and Congre¬ found Rabbi Bernard Mandelbaum, We extend our deep sympathy to sympathy. Executive Vice-President her and to the family. gation Kehilath JeshOrun. A dyna¬ Harry R. Mancher, Preadent mic force in the spiritual lite of this Mrs. Joseph J. Green, President Sanford Solender, Exec Vice Pres LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H The city, be played a vital role in the Is¬ Ernst Englander, Secretary LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. in American Jewish Joint Distribution rael Bond Rabbinic Cabinet. His grateful and loving tribute to our counsel and dedicated leader¬ Committee deeply mourns the death wise Rabbi, teacher and friend. A man of ship Vof Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, an will be sorely missed. Our H vision and humor, he enriched our honored member of our executive heartfelt condolences to his wife. lives and through Ramaz will con¬ Gertrude committee, a devoted friend and ad¬ and the family. tinue to enrich the lives of future ge¬ SAMUEJ.S mired colleague. His association HOWARD nerations. \ - General Chairman with the JDGbegan almost 35 years Campaign Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum DAVID H. ZYSMAN ago when he undertook a mission to and children , South America. He continued to serve the JDC as he served his LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H. Dr. people and his country in many i and Mrs. Meyer Texon and family ways through the veers,, giving elo- mourn the loss of their Rabbi, auent expression to his learning, his teacher, and friend. Heartfelt sym¬ compassion and his dedication to pathy to the Lookstein family. humanity. He reached a high sta¬ tion and gained wide reknown and remained a modest and gentle man, possessed of a ready smile and a grand sense of humor. In behalf of the officers, board of di¬ rectors, and staff, we ioin with fel¬ low Jews in the U.S. and overseas in THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1979 - mourning his passing. To his be¬ reaved; family we offer deepest sympathy Donald M. Robinson, Pres. SratljB Jack D. Weiler, Chrmn Brd of Dir. LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H Con¬ LOOKSTEIN—Rabbi Joseph H The LOOKSTEIN " Rabbi Joseph H Ralph'I. Goldman, Exec V.P. Rabbi Jacob Joseph School and the gregation Shaare Torah mourns the American Women Bar-1 Ian Univer¬ passing of Rabbi J. Lookstein, dis¬ Alumni Association rt:ords with sity mourns the passing of their tinguished Rabbi, educator and deepfett sorrow the passing of our leader, guide and friend, beloved leader in the Jewish Community revered alumni/* Rabbi Joseph H husband of their esteemed Board and extends deepest sympathy to Lookstein. He his basic Member, Gertrude Lookstein Our received our esteemed officer, Arthur Look¬ foundation of Torah knowledge ahd sincere condolences to the entire fa¬ stein, on the loss of his beloved Yiddfshkeit In the Mother Yeshiva. mily. Our thoughts and prayers are brother. May the Almighty console He was a proud and vibrant spfrH with them the Lookstein family in their be¬ tual leader who always remem¬ Henrietta Shapiro, President reavement. bered.his Alma Mater. May ell the Arye D members of-his illustrious family be Gordon, Rabbi David Kamerman, President comforted with all mourners of Zion. May his memory be for a blessing; Doctor Marvin Schick, Pres R^J Harry Pilchick, Pres RJJ Alumni Louis Rodin, Hon.Pres. RJJ Alumni