[4] He moved to Israel in 1948 to complete his rabbinical studies and then returned to England where he was Head of Jewish Education and then rabbi at Western Marble Arch Synagogue.
[4] In South Africa he set up a special fund for their improvement and this was tied with Prime Minister Menachem Begin's urban revitalization program, Project Renewal.
[4] He consulted with community organizer Moshe Kahan and suggested that they present the dormant agencies with concrete evidence of what could be done.
[6] One of his significant achievements was the 1965 concordat he arrived at with Chief Minister of the United Progressive Jewish Congregations, Rabbi Arthur Saul Super.
His counterpart in Cape Town, Rabbi David Sherman was opposed to the position taken by Super, stating that it amounted to “allowing ourselves to be read out of the community of Klal Yisrael.