He worked to rehabilitate Jewish criminal offenders and to educate and minister to poor immigrants in the Lower East Side.
[4] Radin contributed to a wide range of papers, including the Hebrew Hamagid, Ha-Melitz, Hakarmel, Ibri Anochi, and Hatofesh, the German Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums and Die Neuzeit, the Polish Israelita, and American Jewish papers.
[1] He wrote, among other works, Offener Brief eines polnischen Juden an Heinrich von Treitschke in 1885, Asirei Oni u-Varzel in 1893, and a report on Jews in New York prisons.
A private funeral service was held in his home with his close friends and family, led by Rabbi Elias L. Solomon of the Temple Kehilath Israel.
The pallbearers were members of the immediate family, with representatives of Jewish organizations from upstate New York serving as a guard of honor.
Over 25,000 Lower East Side residents stood in the streets to watch the funeral procession, with over 5,000 of them walking with the procession to Williamsburg bridge and over 300 policemen called in to keep order and prevent a repeat of the violent clash from Rabbi Jacob Joseph's funeral several years beforehand.