I recount these anecdotes not only to give you a sense of the personality of the man who is in some important respects
synonymous with American Jewry and who is responsible for conceiving of some of its major institutions, from the once liberal
orthodoxy of the Young Israel movement, to the Reconstructionist movement in Judaism, to the very structure of the American synagogue, which he called a synagogue center, to my own institution, The University of Judaism.