Raphael Ḥai Melamed (1883-1948), born in Ḥeḇron, Ottoman Palestine, was a Sefaradi Conservative movement rabbi and scholar in the United States. He immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1892 and received his semikhah in 1909 from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. While pursuing graduate studies at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, he began serving Congregation Ohel Jacob in 1911. From 1916 to 1918 he taught at Gratz College after which, he took the pulpit at the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in Montreal. His dissertation at Dropsie College, published in 1921, was The Targum to Canticles according to six Yemen Manuscripts. In 1923, he moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey where he took the pulpit at B’nai Israel Congregation. As guest chaplain before the US House of Representatives in May 1943, he explicitly mentioned "the victims of the inhumanity of our foes, lingering in concentration camps and behind ghetto walls." We know little else about the life and career of Rabbi Melamed. If you can add a relevant detail or image of Rabbi Melamed to this short bio, please contact us.