Protector of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe
 

A long-time HIAS board member, Rabbi Arthur Schneier has served as the Rabbi of the historic Park East Synagogue in Manhattan since 1962. He founded the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School and the Minskoff Cultural Center, and is the founding president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation. A Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Schneier is know for his pioneering role in the struggle on behalf of Soviet Jewry and the rebuilding of Jewish religious life in Russia, the Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He successfully negotiated the return of the Moscow Synagogue to the Jewish community and was instrumental in the restoration of the Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai.