Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Rabbi Harold H. Gordon, executive vice-president of the New York Board of Rabbis, who died Saturday night after suffering a heart attack. He was 69 years old.
Gordon came to the Board of Rabbis, an association of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform spiritual leaders in the metropolitan area, in 1946 as general secretary and as the coordinator of chaplaincy. In 1960 he was named executive vice-president. During his years with the Board he traveled widely, organizing a delegation that visited the Soviet Union and other East European countries and he himself also visited many parts of South America. He was a co-founder of the international Synagogue at Kennedy International Airport here.
Born in Minneapolis, he received a B.A. at the University of Minnesota and continued his studies in Jerusalem, where he was ordained in 1934. As an Army Air Force chaplain, he traveled 250,000 miles by air in visits to bases of the Air Transport Command from Iceland to the Azores. In 1968, he helped to start the Brith Milah School to train ritual circumcisers, in cooperation with Mount Sinai Hospital.
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