[2] Hyman Elias Goldin studied at the Yeshiva of Vilna, where he was ordained a rabbi.
[3] According to a possibly-apocryphal story, Goldin was dismissed from the Yeshiva for studying the writings of Charles Darwin at a time when Orthodox Jews considered evolution a to be heresy.
[4] He emigrated from the Eishyshok shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1900,[5] and settled in Brooklyn.
Goldin purchased 360 acres of land in the Adirondack Mountains and established children's summer camps and the Blue Sky Lodge Hotel, which become a meeting ground for modern Orthodox thinkers.
[2] His The Case of the Nazarene Reopened (1948), written in the form of a court transcript, acquitted the Jews of the charge of killing Jesus Christ.