Simon Greenberg (Hebrew: שמעון גרינברג; 1901 – July 26, 1993) was a Russian-born American Conservative rabbi and scholar.
[1] In 1922, Greenberg graduated from City College of New York having previously attended the University of Minnesota.
[1] Throughout his career, Greenberg was committed to both the academic and sacred spheres, often undertaking overlapping tasks.
Thus 1925 marked Greenberg's ordination, his enrollment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of its first class of students, and his appointment as rabbi of the Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia,[1] a position he would hold until 1946.
The same year, at the organization's biennial conference, he was instrumental in persuading fellow attendees to call for the repeal of the McCarran Internal Security Act.
He was the institute's first president, and stepped down down from the role in 1963 to become chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization of America.