Levy, at Temple Emanuel in Chicago, then he served as a Navy chaplain in Japan during the Korean War.
[3] Rabbi Wolf marched in Selma, Ala., for civil rights and he traveled to Washington together with his temple members to protest the Vietnam War.
[4] Congregation Solel established an annual Holocaust remembrance weekends starting in the 1960s, making it one of the first synagogues in the United States to initiate the practice.
[3] He allowed his congregation to write its own prayer book and make decisions previously reserved for the rabbi.
[1] After leaving Congregation Solel, Rabbi Wolf spent eight years as Jewish chaplain and Hillel director at Yale University, where he could have found an activist compatriot in Rev.
[3] Wolf received a Brotherhood Award for his civil rights work from the National Council of Christians and Jews in 1962.
[3] He believed that "The core teaching of Torah for him had to do with justice, and one sometimes had to speak about that in ways that people didn't care to hear," and that "I am Adonai your God" was not a promise but a challenge to be lived up to every moment in every action."
He was the founder and leader of Breira, A Project of Concern in Diaspora-Israel Relations, which was in the 1970s a prominent organization for peace in the Middle East that supported a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.