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Lewis Levendel
- Accession Number
- 2023-5-10
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-5-10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 13 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1968-1979
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting journalist Lewis Levendel's reporting on Beth Tzedec. Included are an auditor's report; newspaper articles relating to the Beth Tzedec controversy; correspondence of Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg, board members, parents for youth and education, the Joint Placement Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly, New York, and the United Synagogue of America; drafts of newspaper articles; a press release marking the retirement of Rabbi Rosenberg; legal documents, including a writ of summons and state of claim; meeting minutes; committee reports; and publications, including a proposed revison of the guide to congregational standards and the Beth Tzedec constitution and by-laws.
- Administrative History
- Lewis Levendel was born in 1943. In 1965, after graduating from Carleton University in his hometown Ottawa with degrees in arts and journalism, Levendel worked as a reporter-editor at the Globe and Mail, CBC-TV National News, the Canadian Press-- Toronto, Ottawa Bureaus, and the Canadian Jewish News (CJN) from 1971 to 1978. During his position as associate editor at the CJN , Levendel covered the controversy which occurred at the Beth Tzedec Synagogue in the 1970s involving Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg and the congregation's staff, officers, and members. This became a national news story over several years due to legal issues, wherein the CJN in 1971, under new ownership, competed successfully with other news outlets to provide its readership with accurate coverage of a communal issue. Levendel subsequently wrote about the dispute in his 1989 book, "A Century of the Canadian Jewish Press: 1880-1980s."
- If you wish to include this information, I married Tel Aviv-born Lili Elagin, a former employee of El Al (Israel Airlines) in Israel and Toronto, on 1 April 1973. While working as a freelancer for the CJN, Levendel interviewed several of Israel's prime ministers, including Golda Meir, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, and Ariel Sharon, and covered Yitzhak Rabin and David Ben-Gurion.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Digitized material.
- Subjects
- Journalists
- Name Access
- Levendel, Lewis, 1943-
- Source
- Archival Accessions