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Rabbiner Seminar fuer Orthodoxes Judenthum, founded by Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer . He thus had a solid foundation in Talmudic and rabbinic learning. His successor, Jacob Mann had a traditional Jewish education in his hometown of Przemysl , Galacia and later studied rabbinics at Jews’ College in London . The fourth chair, Israel Bettan, was an ordainee of HUC. In his youth, however, he came to America at age 18 he studied in the renowned Slabodka Yeshiva .

34. Yearbook, V. LX 1950, pp. 107-110.

35. The CCAR Journal began to appear in 1953. Its first issue contains a responsum by Israel Bettan.

36. Walter Jacob , American Reform Responsa, New York , CCAR, 1983.