
Isaac Neuman
Rabbi Isaac Neuman (1923-2014), born in Poland, was a Reform movement rabbi in the United States. A survivor of the Holocaust, he emigrated to the US on 11 April 1950 and studied at Hebrew Union College and the University of Cincinnati, completing his rabbinical degree in 1958. He went on to serve in Panama and throughout South American Jewish communities. worked for social justice reforms, Rabbi Neuman was part of the 1965 civil rights march with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama. In 1974, he came to Sinai Temple (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois). In 2000, he published The Narrow Bridge: Beyond the Holocaust, a memoir of his experiences before and during the Holocaust.
Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies | 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust | 🇺🇸 United States of America | 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan)
English vernacular prayer | U.S. House of Representatives | Prayers of Guest Chaplains | תחינות teḥinot | the Holocaust | 98th Congress | 20th century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Isaac Neuman on 11 April 1983
Contributed by Isaac Neuman | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 April 1983. . . .