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* {{Flag|United States}} : [[Presidential Citizens Medal]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Rabbi Arthur Schneier|url=http://www.torahcafe.com/scholar/rabbi-arthur-schneier_0000000453.html|website=torahcafe.com|publisher=Torahcafe.com|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* {{Flag|United States}} : [[Presidential Citizens Medal]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Rabbi Arthur Schneier|url=http://www.torahcafe.com/scholar/rabbi-arthur-schneier_0000000453.html|website=torahcafe.com|publisher=Torahcafe.com|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* {{Flag|United States}} : [[Awards of the United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State Special Recognition Award]]<ref>{{cite web|title=March 20 Dinner to Support YU's Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs|url=http://blogs.yu.edu/news/2005/03/07/march-20-dinner-to-support-yus-rabbi-arthur-schneier-center-for-international-affairs/|website=yu.edu|publisher=Yeshiva University News|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* {{Flag|United States}} : [[Awards of the United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State Special Recognition Award]]<ref>{{cite web|title=March 20 Dinner to Support YU's Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs|url=http://blogs.yu.edu/news/2005/03/07/march-20-dinner-to-support-yus-rabbi-arthur-schneier-center-for-international-affairs/|website=yu.edu|publisher=Yeshiva University News|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* Named one of the 100 Most Trusted People in America by [[Reader's Digest]] in 2013<ref>{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Courtenay|last2=Caporimo|first2=Alison|title=Reader’s Digest Trust Poll: The 100 Most Trusted People in America Read more: http://www.rd.com/slideshows/readers-digest-trust-poll-the-100-most-trusted-people-in-america/#ixzz37dy41Xsx|url=http://www.rd.com/slideshows/readers-digest-trust-poll-the-100-most-trusted-people-in-america/#slideshow=slide48|website=rd.com|publisher=Reader's Digest|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* Named one of the 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America 2009-2013 by [[Newsweek]]<ref>{{cite web|title=America's Top 50 Rabbis for 2013|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/03/21/america-s-top-50-rabbis-for-2013-photos.html#9db838d8-e7fb-4379-aee4-f9c73b98cee8|website=thedailybeast.com|publisher=The Daily Beast|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* In 2004, Rabbi Schneier’s alma mater, Yeshiva University, established the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs in his honor.<ref name=PES>{{cite web|title=Rabbi Arthur Schneier|url=http://www.parkeastsynagogue.org/about-us/clergy/rabbi-arthur-schneier/|website=parkeastsynagogue.org|publisher=Park East Synagogue|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* In 2004, Rabbi Schneier’s alma mater, Yeshiva University, established the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs in his honor.<ref name=PES>{{cite web|title=Rabbi Arthur Schneier|url=http://www.parkeastsynagogue.org/about-us/clergy/rabbi-arthur-schneier/|website=parkeastsynagogue.org|publisher=Park East Synagogue|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* [[Hofstra University]] Garu Nanak Interfaith Prize<ref>{{cite web|title=2010 Guru Nanek Interfaith Prize|url=http://www.hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/hclas/rel/nanak/nanek_award_2010.html|website=hofstra.edu|publisher=Hofstra University|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>
* [[Hofstra University]] Garu Nanak Interfaith Prize<ref>{{cite web|title=2010 Guru Nanek Interfaith Prize|url=http://www.hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/hclas/rel/nanak/nanek_award_2010.html|website=hofstra.edu|publisher=Hofstra University|accessdate=16 July 2014}}</ref>

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Rabbi Arthur Schneier, (b. March 20, 1930 in Vienna, Austria) is a Hungarian-American rabbi and international religious freedom and human rights activist. Rabbi Schneier has served for over 50 years as the Senior Rabbi of New York City’s Park East Synagogue. While being honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Bill Clinton in 2001, Rabbi Schneier was described as “a Holocaust survivor who has devoted a lifetime to overcoming forces of hatred and intolerance and set an inspiring example of spiritual leadership by encouraging interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding, and promoting the cause of religious freedom around the world.” [1]

Education

Rabbi Schneier graduated with a B.A. from Yeshiva University in 1951, was awarded an M.A. from New York University in 1953 and received his rabbinical Ordination from Yeshiva University in 1955. [2] Schneier is also the recipient of 11 honorary doctorates from American and European universities.[3]

Career

In 1962, Rabbi Schneier became the Senior Rabbi at Park East Synagogue in New York City in 1962.[3] During his service at Park East Synagogue, Rabbi Schneier has received several world religious and political leaders including Pope Benedict XVI—the first-ever papal visit to an American synagogue—and two Secretaries General of the United Nations.[3] Schneier has also met with Popes John Paul II,[4] Francis,[5] and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I[6] to promote and facilitate interfaith dialogue. In 2012, the New York Senate passed a resolution in celebration of Rabbi Schneier’s 50 years of service at Park East Synagogue.[7]

In 1965 he founded the Appeal of Conscience Foundation[3] an “interfaith coalition of business and religious leaders” dedicated to promoting “peace, tolerance and ethnic conflict resolution.”[8]

Throughout his career, Rabbi Schneier has actively advanced the cause of peace and tolerance. He is known for his efforts to rebuild Jewish and religious life in Russia after the collapse of the USSR and was instrumental in the return of the Moscow Synagogue to the Russian Jewish community.[9]

Rabbi Schneier has led 68 interfaith missions in China, Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. In 1992, he convened the Religious Summit on the Former Yugoslavia in Switzerland, and in 1995, he convened the Conflict Resolution Conference in Vienna to mobilize world religious leaders to stop the conflict in the Balkans.[10] These efforts helped to forge a pathway to the Dayton Accord.[11] In 1998, President Clinton appointed him as one of three religious leaders to discuss religious freedom with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.[3] Throughout his career, Rabbi Schneier has convened six international conferences to ease ethnic and religious conflict and promote peace and tolerance.[12]

Rabbi Schneier also served as U.S. Alternate Representative at the U.N. General Assembly in 1988[13] and as a member of the U.S. Delegation for Return of the St. Steven Crown to Hungary in 1979.[14] In 2006, he became a member of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations High-Level Group (UNAOC) and in 2008, he was appointed an ambassador to the UNAOC.[15] That same year, Rabbi Schneier was the keynote speaker at an Interfaith Conference convened by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Madrid. In 2009, he had a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI to reaffirm Nostra Aetate adopted by Vatican Council II.[16]

Awards and recognitions

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He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations; Asia Society; United Nations Development Corporation; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience; Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations; Joint Distribution Committee; Past President and Honorary Chairman, Religious Zionists of America, Honorary Chairman, World Jewish Congress American Section.[3]

Personal Life

Born in Vienna in 1930, Rabbi Schneier lived under Nazi occupation in Budapest during World War II and arrived in the United States in 1947. He is married to Elisabeth Nordmann Schneier.[3]

References

  1. ^ "President Clinton Awards the Presidential Citizens Medals". FirstGov. FirstGov. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  2. ^ Reagan, Ronald. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1988-1989". Google Books. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Rabbi Arthur Schneier". parkeastsynagogue.org. Park East Synagogue. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Pope was trailblazer for peace". jta.org. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Pope Francis Welcomed By Rabbi Arthur Schneier At The Kotel At The Start Of His Historic Visit To Jerusalem". appealofconscience.org. Appeal of Conscience Foundation. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  6. ^ Borschel-Dan, Amanda. "Pope's East-West church summit sends message to Mideast, NY rabbi says Read more: Pope's East-West church summit sends message to Mideast, NY rabbi says". timesofisrael.com. The Times of Israel. Retrieved 16 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Text "The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/landmark-east-west-church-meet-will-send-message-to-mideast-ny-rabbi-says/#ixzz37duyb1A6 Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter" ignored (help); Text "timesofisrael on Facebook" ignored (help)
  7. ^ "Honoring Rabbi Arthur Schneier on the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of his installation as the Rabbi of Park East Synagogue on March 18, 2012". open.nysenate.gov. New York Senate. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  8. ^ "About Us". appealofconscience.org. Appeal of Conscience Foundation. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Rabbi Arthur Schneier". hias.org. HIAS. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  10. ^ "President, Appeal of Conscience Foundation". theglobalexperts.org. The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  11. ^ "Rabbi Arthur Schneier". hias.org. HIAS. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  12. ^ "Vienna 5 UNAOC: Speakers". vienna5unaoc.org. Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  13. ^ "Reagan Names Rabbi to Alternate U.N. Post". latimes.com. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  14. ^ "50th Anniversary, 1956 Hungarian Uprising". appealofconscience.org. Appeal of Conscience Foundation. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  15. ^ "Vienna 5 UNAOC: Speakers". vienna5unaoc.org. Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  16. ^ "In New York City Irish-Americans and Jewish Americans – both American Minorities – have something in Common – March 17th". sustainabilitank.info. Sustainabilitank. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  17. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour" (pdf) (in German). p. 1140. Retrieved November 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)
  18. ^ "Rabbi Arthur Schneier". torahcafe.com. Torahcafe.com. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  19. ^ "Republic of Hungary Honors ACF President". appealofconscience.org. Appeal of Conscience Foundation. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  20. ^ "Honoring Rabbi Arthur Schneier on the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of his installation as the Rabbi of Park East Synagogue on March 18, 2012". open.nysenate.gov. New York Senate. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  21. ^ "Rabbi Arthur Schneier". torahcafe.com. Torahcafe.com. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  22. ^ "President Nikolas Sarkozy Honors Rabbi Arthur Schneier". blacktiemagazine.com. Black Tie Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  23. ^ "Archons Bestow Athenagoras Human Rights Award to Rabbi Arthur Schneier". goarch.org. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  24. ^ "Rabbi Arthur Schneier". torahcafe.com. Torahcafe.com. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  25. ^ "March 20 Dinner to Support YU's Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs". yu.edu. Yeshiva University News. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  26. ^ Smith, Courtenay; Caporimo, Alison. "Reader's Digest Trust Poll: The 100 Most Trusted People in America Read more: http://www.rd.com/slideshows/readers-digest-trust-poll-the-100-most-trusted-people-in-america/#ixzz37dy41Xsx". rd.com. Reader's Digest. Retrieved 16 July 2014. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  27. ^ "America's Top 50 Rabbis for 2013". thedailybeast.com. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  28. ^ "2010 Guru Nanek Interfaith Prize". hofstra.edu. Hofstra University. Retrieved 16 July 2014.

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