Alfred Gottschalk (rabbi), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Gottschalk (rabbi)

American rabbi

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1930

Place of Birth: Oberwesel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Sep-2009

Profession: writer, rabbi, author, university teacher

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Alfred Gottschalk (March 7, 1930 – September 12, 2009) was a German-born American Rabbi who was a leader in the Reform Judaism movement, serving as head of the movement's Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC) for 30 years, as president from 1971 to 1996, and then as chancellor until 2000.
In that role, Rabbi Gottschalk oversaw the ordination of the first women to be ordained as rabbis in the United States and Israel, and he oversaw the development of new HUC campuses in Jerusalem, Los Angeles and New York City, three of the school's four campuses.