Funeral services were held today for Theodore Broido, administrative secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) and a long-time Reform Jewish leader, who died Sunday after a long illness. He was 56 years old.
A life-long Zionist, Broido was one of the prime movers in the establishment in 1977 of the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA) — a UAHC affiliate — and was a former secretary of the organization. He represented ARZA as a delegate to the Zionist Congress in Jerusalem in 1982. He was a member of the Zionist General Council, the Jewish Agency Assembly and the Board of the American Zionist Federation.
Broido, a native New Yorker, was graduated from De Witt Clinton High Schooland attended the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the administrative staff of UAHC in 1949 where he served as director of regional activities, director of administration, director of both the New York State and New Jersey regions, and associate director of the New York Federation of Reform Synagogues.
Broido also served as secretary of the Rabbinical Pension Board — a joint instrumentality of the UAHC and the Central Conference of American Rabbis — and as director of the National Commission on Rabbinic-Congregational Relations of the UAHC-CCAR. Both bodies deal with developing professional standards between rabbis and their congregations.
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