Stephen Samuel Wise
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Stephen Samuel Wise was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Born in Budapest, he was an infant when his family immigrated to New York. He followed hi
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1920s–1930s
Wise (left) with Claude Montefiore (center) and Henry Morgenthau c. 1913
Stephen Wise on visit to Kiryat Anavim, 1935
Jewish activist Louise Waterman Wise, addressing the 1944 War Emergency Conference of the World Jewish Congress her husband was president of, in Atlantic City
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
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Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is a Reform Jewish synagogue at 30 West 68th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. The congregation was the first of multiple "free sy
Stephen Samuel Wise
…shall be free or whether the pulpit shall not be free, and, by reason of its loss of freedom, reft of its power for good"; in 1907 he established his Free Synagogue, starting the "free Synagogue" movement. Wise was an early supporter of Zionism. His support for, and commitment to Political Zionism was atypical of…
Seen from W 68th Street (2026)
The main office of Westchester Hills Cemetery