Balfour Brickner

Cleveland-born Balfour Brickner, a leading Reform rabbi, author, activist, and radio program host, founded Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C., and later became rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York. He participated in the civil rights struggle, and was arrested in the South while demonstrating for voting rights. He was also a spokesman for the Vietnam antiwar, Zionist, and abortion rights movements.