Philip Sidney Bernstein (June 29, 1901 – December 3, 1985) was a reform rabbi who served as the advisor to the U.S. Army during World War II.
[2][3][4] At the age of 25, in 1926, Bernstein returned to Rochester to serve as assistant rabbi of Temple B'rith Kodesh.
[1][2][5] In his capacity as a rabbi, Bernstein would begin taking a prominent role in fighting antisemitism; exemplified by his correspondence with his acquaintance Cardinal Edward Mooney.
Bernstein requested the Cardinal join him in combatting Father Charles Coughlin and his antisemitic National Union for Social Justice.
[6] During World War II Bernstein, a reform rabbi acted as the official advisor on Jewish affairs to United States Army commanders in Europe.