SYDNEY'S CHIEF RABBI.
A HOLIDAY OVERSEAS.
SERVICE FOR. 25 YEARS.
After 25 years' unbroken service as minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Rabbi F. L. Co'ien is taking his first holiday abroad. Ha is a passenger by the Aorangi for Vancouver and intends touring through America and Europe. Rabbi Cohen, who is president of the Jewish Ecclesiastical Court for New South Wales, wis born in England and had charge of the Dnblin Hebrew Congregation ia 1855-86. He was minister of tho Borough Mew Synagogue, London, from 1886 to 1904 and at the same time acted as tutor at Jews' College. He was ordained mbbi in 1905 and for many years occupied the post of chaplain to the Jews in the British Army. He was among the founders of the Jewish Lads' Brigade. In 1905 he went to Australia to tak® up the ministry at {he Great Synagogue, Sydney. Ho has a world-wide reputation as an authority on synagogue music, and is the author of a number of works oi:i the subject. Ho visited New Zealand in 1923.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20604, 1 July 1930, Page 12
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