Rabbi Simeon Maslin, former senior rabbi at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel for 17 years, and a leader in the Reform Judaism movement, has died at the age of 90 from cancer.

Rabbi Maslin lead Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel from 1980 to 1997. His over 50 year career also included positions in Chicago, Curaçao and Monroe, New York. He was also president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which is an organization that unites close to 2,000 Reform rabbis.

Rabbi Maslin was born in 1931 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on the outskirts of Boston, and graduated from Harvard University. In 1957, he became ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

In 1979, Rabbi Maslin wrote the book “Gates of Mitzvah” introduced classic Jewish life cycle practices into the Reform movement.

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