Ephraim Ivan Rubenstein (January 1, 1895 – February 18, 1955) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from Brooklyn.
His father was appraiser of the Surrogates' Court of Kings County and the son of a Russian immigrant.
He then went to the Boys High School of Brooklyn, where he served as captain of the football team in 1913, and graduated from there in 1914.
In September 1917, during World War I, he enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to duty at Camp Upton.
[2] In January 1942, Governor Herbert H. Lehman appointed Rubenstein Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Second Judicial District to fill a vacancy caused by the election of Justice Francis D. McGarey to Kings County Surrogate.
[1] In 1925, he married Mildred Harris Levy at the Brooklyn Jewish Center in a ceremony performed by Rabbi Israel H.