Rabbi Elias Inselbuch, of New York, religious and Zionist leader, died today at the age of seventy. He was buried on the Mount of Olives near his wife, Fruma Chana, who died in 1931.
Rabbi Inselbuch settled permanently in Palestine in 1932. Previously, he had held important positions in several American rabbinical organizations and was rabbi of the Congregation Beth Hamedresh Hagodol for 19 years.
He is survived by his sons, Samuel, Jacob H. Solomon M., Simon and Samson, a member of the New York Board of Aldermen, and his daughters, Esther Burack of Brooklyn, and Agatha Leifer.
He was born in Neshwitz, Russia, May 22, 1866 and educated in the Yeshiva of Mir and Valozin. In 1902 he helped to found Mizrachi, world orthodox Zionist organization, and in 1903 acted as delegate to the first Russian Zionist Congress.
Migrating to the United States in 1906, he founded the Committee on Kashruth to aid in enforcement of Jewish dietary laws. Subsequently, he served as chairman of the executive committee of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, member of the praesidium of the Rabbinical Board of New York, first vice-president of the Mizrachi Organization of America, honorary president of the Orthodox Community of Brooklyn, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and honorary director of the Jewish National Fund.
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