89:, and a board member of various Jewish and non-Jewish institutions. He was a founder of the Ontario Jewish Immigrant Aid Society and served as vice-president of Canadian Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. On behalf of those two organizations, he helped arrange for the Canadian government to admit five thousand Russian Jewish refugees stranded in Romania and settle them in Canada. He helped establish a Jewish agricultural training farm at
114:. He served as rabbi there for the next 33 years. Under him, the Temple grew from 700 families to over 2,500, making it the largest Reform congregation in the country. As rabbi, he created the first Young People's Congregation and reinstituted Hebrew in the Sunday School curriculum. He also established an annual institute on Judaism for Christian religious educators. He had a weekly radio program from the late 1920s to
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Fairmont Temple, which attracted large audiences and improved the congregation's educational program, although it was later discontinued. An active Zionist and a significant figure in the
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