Funeral services were held here yesterday for Rabbi Avraham Soltes, Jewish chaplain at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and a participant in many Jewish cultural and artistic activities, who died Monday at 66 after an illness of several months. He will be buried at West Point.
Soltes had been rabbi of Congregation Beth Chavairuth in Tenafly, N.J. since 1977 and had served congregations in Manhattan, Great Neck and East Orange, N.J. as a Reform rabbi. He started his association with the Military Academy as a voluntary chaplain in 1963 and was named a permanent member of the staff in 1981. Soltes had been chairman of the National Jewish Music Council from 1963 to 1969 and a board member of the National Jewish Book Council.
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