Funeral services will be held tomorrow at the Jackson Heights Jewish Center for Rabbi Morton Waldman, the Conservative synagogue’s spiritual leader, who died of a heart attack Tuesday night at the age of 39.
He had been rabbi of the Jewish Center since 1972 and had been serving at the time of his death as dean of the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Waldman had been a co-founder of the Jackson Heights Kehilla, representing a majority of synagogues and secular organizations in Jackson Heights. Among other functions, the Kehilla has been helping Soviet Jewish newcomers to become part of the community.
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