Martha Hadassah Ribalow Nadich – paid obituaries

It’s too late for students to interview WWII era Jewish champion of faith (Baltimore Examiner 2.22.08)

The kids in the eighth grade at Yeshivat Rambam, a Jewish school on Park Heights Avenue at Strathmore, have been getting ready to interview Holocaust survivors. Their oral history project is several months too late to include a giant from those days, a man raised in a grocery store not far from their school, down at the corner of Smallwood and Pressbury streets. Rabbi Judah Nadich, a World War II Army chaplain with the rank of lieutenant colonel, was General Eisenhower’sadviser on Jewish affairs when refugees flooded Western Europe at war’s end. He died at age 95 Aug. 26 in New York City.

Rabbi Judah Nadich – paid obituaries

NADICH–Rabbi Judah. Beloved husband, father, and grandfather. Mourned by Martha Hadassah, Leah and Aryeh Meir, Shira and James Levin, Nahma Nadich and David Belcourt and Natan, Adin, Vered, Alexander, Gideon, Benjamin, Rosina and Aliza. Funeral at Park Avenue Synagogue, Monday August 27th at 1pm. Shiva at 1040 Park Avenue Apt 4D, NY, NY. Contributions can be sent to the Nadich Fund at the Jewish Theological Seminary or the Heschel School.

Published in the New York Times from 8/27/2007 – 8/28/2007.

Saying farewell to a once local rabbi (The Jewish Advocate – Boston)

Saying farewell to a once local rabbi

By Raphael Kohan

Rabbi Judah Nadich, an influential figure in the Conservative movement for over half a century, died in his New York home on Aug. 26. He was 95 years old.

Nadich, who served the Boston Jewish community for a decade as rabbi at Kehillath Israel in Brookline from 1947 to 1957, was an early supporter of ordaining women rabbis and of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Rabbi Judah Nadich, adviser to Eisenhower (AP)

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Rabbi Judah Nadich, adviser to Eisenhower

By Associated Press

September 3, 2007

NEW YORK – Rabbi Judah Nadich, a military chaplain who advised General Dwight D. Eisenhower on Jewish affairs after the discovery of Nazi concentration camps in the last months of World War II, has died at age 95.

His grandson, Natan Meir, said Rabbi Nadich died of a heart attack at his home in Manhattan Aug. 26.

In addition to his military service, Rabbi Nadich was noted as an early supporter of the civil rights movement and as an advocate of equality for women in Jewish religious ceremonies, including their ordination as rabbis.

Rabbi Judah Nadich: An advocate of his people (New Jersey Jewish Standard)

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Rabbi Judah Nadich: An advocate of his people

By Dr. Alex Grobman

Published 08/30/2007

Much will be written about Judah Nadich, the 95-year-old rabbi emeritus of the Park Avenue Synagogue and founding board member and honorary trustee of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School who died on Sunday. He was an icon in the Conservative movement.

During World War II, Nadich was an American Jewish chaplain. After the liberation of Paris in August 1944, he served at the Office of the Theater Chaplain in the city. By virtue of his position, he became an unofficial spokesman on Jewish affairs for the foreign correspondents of The New York Times, The New York Herald Tribune, and other members of the American press in the region.

Rabbi Judah Nadich (editorial – New York Jewish Week)

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Rabbi Judah Nadich ((08/31/2007)

Judah Nadich, who died this week at the age of 95, served many constituents during his remarkable rabbinic career, most notably the members of Park Avenue Synagogue here in Manhattan and, prior to that, as chaplain to tens of thousands of Jewish soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.

A Rabbi’s Rabbi (New York Jewish Week)

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A Rabbi’s Rabbi

Rabbi Judah Nadich – World War II chaplain, Eisenhower adviser and longtime Park Avenue Synagogue leader – dies at 95.

Steve Lipman – Staff Writer (08/31/2007)

Rabbi Judah Nadich, spiritual leader of The Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan for 30 years and an army chaplain who served as an advocate for Holocaust survivors after World War II, died Aug. 26 in Manhattan. He was 95 and had been in poor health for a long time.Rabbi Nadich retired from the Park Avenue pulpit in 1987. “He was truly a rabbi’s rabbi,” said Menachem Rosensaft, president of The Park Avenue Synagogue. “He was a man of tremendous knowledge … a superb preacher. He dedicated his entire life to Jewish life.”

Judah Nadich, Rabbi Who Improved Care of Holocaust Survivors, Is Dead at 95 (NYTimes)

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Judah Nadich, Rabbi Who Improved Care of Holocaust Survivors, Is Dead at 95

 

By DENNIS HEVESI

Published: September 2, 2007

Rabbi Judah Nadich, a leader of Conservative Judaism who as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower‘s adviser on Jewish affairs battled the deplorable conditions faced by Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps after World War II, died last Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 95.

The cause was heart failure, said his grandson Natan Meir.

Rabbi Nadich, who was also an early advocate of civil rights for blacks and for the ordination of women as rabbis, led the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan for 30 years, until his retirement in 1987.

Rabbi Judah Nadich Dies (JTA)

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Rabbi Judah Nadich dies

Published: 08/27/2007

Rabbi Judah Nadich, the longtime rabbi at The Park Avenue Synagogue-Agudat Yesharim in New York City, died Sunday. He was 95.

Nadich served at Park Avenue, one of the largest Conservative synagogues in the country, from 1957 until 1987, according to his successor and the current spiritual leader, Rabbi David Lincoln. Nadich also served a two-year term as the president of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, Lincoln said.