One of the most unusual records of accomplishment in this community is enjoyed by Rabbi A. B. Rhine of the Congregation House of Israel.
Not only a noted scholar, translator of the Hebrew Bible and author of a five-volume history of the Jews, Rabbi Rhine in the thirty-three years of his connection with the House of Israel has become known over the countryside as the friend of the poor, Jews and non-Jews alike.
A unique distinction came to him when in 1924 his congregation voted to retain him as rabbi for life. As executive secretary of the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital he has rendered help to many a mountaineer suffering bad luck. To meet the needs of the hospital’s expanding sphere of influence, a burden that no one else cared to shoulder, Rabbi Rhine refused calls to centers where facilities for biblical research might have given outlet to his intellectual leanings.
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