David Hollander (rabbi)

(1943-1980)Hebrew Alliance of Brighton Beach(English)Algemeiner Journal(Yiddish)Rabbi David B.

[4] Hollander served as Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America, a national assembly of Orthodox rabbis.

[6] In 2003, Hollander became the oldest active pulpit rabbi in the United States, and continued in that capacity until his death six years later.

Following a merger in the 1990s of the Hebrew Alliance of Brighton Beach with Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (F.R.E.E), the majority of his congregants were from FSU (Former Soviet Union) countries.

[3][5] Hollander's father-in-law was Shimshon Zelig Fortman, a Lithuanian rabbi who led the White Shul in Far Rockaway, Queens.