Rabbi Isadore Shalom Ravetch (1897-1957), born in Chudnov-Berdichev, Ukraine, was a liberal Conservative movement rabbi in the United States. He received his ordination at the Jewish Institute of Religion in Manhattan, training under Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. For a time he was a rabbi at Highland Park Temple in Newark, New Jersey. The health of his son Irving caused him and his wife to move to Long Beach, California, He served Temple Sinai in Long Beach beginning in 1935. In 1943, he self-published his Friday Night Siddur, Menuḥat Shalom. Conflicts with the board of directors at Temple Sinai led to his replacement in favor of a tradition Conservative leaning rabbi. He took a trip to Israel in the late 1940s -- one of the proudest moments of his life, according to his family. He wrote letters on behalf of our Jewish Troops in WWII and married many couples in Long Beach, California. He and his wife Sylvia had three children, Herbert who became president of Pierce College in Los Angeles, Irving who became a screenwriter with many Hollywood movies to his name, and Merona, named after Mt. Meron in Israel, who in 1945 became one of the first Bat Mitzvahs in California thanks to the support and encouragement of her father.