While there, he served as school board chairman of the Talmud Torah and president of the Independent Chebrah Kadisha.
He helped establish schools, libraries, sheltering homes, and other institutions, and founded HIAS in New York City.
He wrote two religious works in Hebrew, Maase Hoshev in 1906 and Divre Heshev in 1908.
While he was a strict Orthodox Jew, he never publicly criticized the Reform and Conservative movement and was occasionally invited to preach in their temples.
His children were Nathan H., Rae, Beatrice, Florence, Sophie, Hannah, Sarah, and Yetta.