Alex Pollack

Rabbi Alex Pollack (1923-1991), born in New York, was an educator and rabbi. He attended the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary and during the 1950s, was principal of Hebrew schools in Syracuse, New York and Paterson, New Jersey. He received his ordination from the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in the early 1960s and served congregations in Stratford, Connecticut, Congregation Emanu-El (in Philadelphia, now Melrose B'nai Israel - Emanu-El), Temple Beth Israel (in Lansdale, Pennsylvania), and, in 1981, Adas Israel Congregation (Washington, DC). In Pennsylvania, he served on the Senatorial Scholarship Committee of Montgomery County, and as chaplain for Congregation Bet Knesset Shel Kalut at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford. (Thank you to Louis Kessler for contributing to this bio. If you have additional details or a photo of Rabbi Pollack you would like to share, please contact us.)