Rabbi Max Raisin of the Barnert Memorial Temple here has been invited to fill the pulpit of the leading Jewish congregation of Berlin, Germany, the Reform Gemeinde, during the month of August. This is the first time that an American rabbi has been called to be a guest preacher for a long period in a European pulpit of prominence.
The invitation to Dr. Raisin came both from the rabbis of that congregation, of whom there are three, and from the “vorstand,” or board of directors. A leave of absence was granted to Rabbi Raisin unanimously by the board of trustees of the Barnert Temple last Wednesday for the period which he will spend in Europe this summer.
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