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Jehiel Orenstein
Jehiel Orenstein (1935 – 2013) was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1961 and received the Lawrence Prager award for outstanding scholarship in medieval Hebrew literature. The Seminary awarded Rabbi Orenstein a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1987. After 3-1/2 decades at Beth El’s pulpit, in 2005 Jehiel Orenstein became Rabbi Emeritus of Beth El. Rabbi Orenstein o-founded the annual South Orange Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance, and serving as president of the Maplewood-South Orange Clergy Association and chaplain of the New Jersey State Police. He was also president of the Rabbinical Assembly of New Jersey.
109th Congress | English vernacular prayer | Prayers of Guest Chaplains | U.S. Senate | תחינות teḥinot | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein on 12 April 2005
Contributed on: 08 Nov 2019 by the Congressional Record of the United States of America | Jehiel Orenstein | ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 12 April 2005. . . .
