Funeral services will beheld tomorrow at Temple Emanu-El for Rabbi Ephraim Frisch, rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth-El in San Antonio, Tex., since 1948, who died Tuesday at his home here. He was 77.
A graduate of the Hebrew Union College, he organized in 1915 the New Synagogue of New York which eventually became part of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. Author of a number of textbooks on Reform Judaism, he was a former editor of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Yearbook.
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