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Personal Information for
Tehilla
Lichtenstein
Born: May 16, 1893
Died: February 23, 1973
Occupations:
Civic Leaders, Humanitarians, Scientists
Subjects:
Jewish Community Centers, Jews - Charities, Science, Charities
Biographical Information: A Jewish prayer enthusiast, Tehilla Lichtenstein was born in Jerusalem in 1893, the daughter of Hava (Cohen) and Rabbi Haim Hirshenson. She earned her B.A. from Hunter College and M.A. from Columbia University. Her husband, Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein, founded the Jewish Science movement in 1921. Jewish Science originated as a response to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science movement which, Lichtenstein felt, was making great inroads into the American Jewish community. Its primary concern was to harmonize Judaism with modern science (notably medicine and psychology) through a program of meditation and prayer that would reveal Judaism to be the highest of healing sciences.
With the death of her husband in 1938, Lichtenstein took over the leadership of the movement, becoming editor of the Jewish Science Interpreter and head of the Congregation of Jewish Science in New York City. She taught that prayer linked people to God and that that link supported the power of positive thinking, essential to psychological and physical well-being. Tehilla Lichtenstein died in 1973. (Source: Joseph Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives)
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