Hersh M. Ginsberg

Rabbi Hersh M. (Tsvi Meir) Ginsberg (1928-2016), born in Vienna, was a Ḥaredi Orthodox rabbi in the United States. He served as director of Agudas Harabonim (the Union of Orthodox Rabbis) and of the United Jewish Council (a social service organization). He also served as rabbi of Beit Ḥasidim and principal of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. While director of Agudos Harabonim he was instrumental in alienating non-Orthodox Jews. In 1997 he declared, "We call upon all Jews to discontinue to pray any time in a Conservative or Reform temple and instead pray in an Orthodox synagogue."