Martin Siegel

Martin Siegel attended and was ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. In the 1960s he began his career at Temple Sinai in suburban Lawrence, N.Y. He recorded these experiences in his book, Amen: The Diary of Rabbi Martin Seigel (1971). Following the publication of his book, he was fired from his position in Lawrence, and moved to Columbia, Maryland, where he led the unaffiliated, progressive, and much smaller Columbia Jewish Congregation. He stayed there for nearly 30 years. For …