Article: Alexander Schindler, longtime leader of Reform movement, dies

Wiener, Julie
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
11-16-2000
Alexander Schindler, longtime leader of Reform movement, dies

By Julie Wiener

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (JTA) -- Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the longtime leader
of the Reform movement who was considered a "giant" in the larger Jewish
community, has died at the age of 75.

He died early Wednesday morning from heart failure at his home in Westport,
Conn.

As president of Reform Judaism's Union of American Hebrew Congregations
from 1973 to 1996, Schindler -- who viewed Judaism as a dynamic faith --
advocated a number of revolutionary changes.

Reversing the tradition of discouraging proselytizing, Schindler devised a
controversial "outreach" program for non- Jewish ...

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