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Rabbi Leonard B. Gewirtz (1918-2003) was ordained in 1945. He moved to Wilmington, where he served the Adas Kodesch Congregation for over 50 years. As a rabbi, he began the state’s first bat mitzvah program, sanctioned a women’s prayer group, and…

Rabbi Simon Krinsky was a Polish immigrant who moved to the U.S. after being ordained in Palestine. Prior to his ordination, he attended the Theological Seminary of Slabodka in Lithuania and earned a teaching degree from the Polish government. He…