Milton Richman

Rabbi Milton Richman (1921-2001) born in Brooklyn, New York, was a Reform movement rabbi in the United States. He was ordained at HUC in 1952 and became rabbi of Temple Israel, Lafayette, Indiana, while teaching at Purdue University. He next served in Buffalo, New York, and arrived in Scranton in 1957, when he became rabbi of the Madison Avenue Temple (now Temple Hesed). Rabbi Richman served on the boards of Jewish Family Services, the Scranton-Lackawanna Jewish Federation, the Family Service Association and the United Way, but is remembered for his commitment to social justice and for beginning dialogues between leaders of all the city's religions.