Rabbi Feinberg, Peace Activist and Writer, Dies at 87
Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, an author, entertainer and peace activist who visited Hanoi during the Vietnam War, died at his home in Reno on Sunday of cancer. He was 87.
His books included “Storm the Gates of Jericho,” “Sex and the Pulpit” and “Hanoi Diary,” which he wrote after meeting with North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh in 1967.
Feinberg, born in Bellaire, Ohio, was ordained a rabbi in 1924 but resigned to become a professional singer, taking the name Anthony Frome. He was on NBC radio five nights a week as “The Poet Prince.”
He returned to the rabbinate in 1944 and became the leader of Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple, holding the post for 17 years.
Feinberg retired in 1961 but in the early 1970s he went to San Francisco and was rabbi-in-residence at Glide Memorial Church.
Later he moved to Reno to be near his son and was honored there as the Civil Libertarian of 1986 by the Nevada American Civil Liberties Union.
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