Funeral services were held here for Rabbi David Novoseller, spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Joshua, and head of the Orthodox rabbinate of Philadelphia, who died here at the age of 88. He was a vice-president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada and a member of the Vaad Hakashruth here. Temporary interment was at a suburban cemetery here pending burial in Israel.
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