Magnin, Edgar F. (Edgar Fogel), 1890-1984

Edgar Magnin was born in San Francisco, California on 1 July 1890. He attended Temple Israel in San Francisco as a boy and always knew that he wanted to enter the rabbinate. Magnin was ordained from Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914.

Magnin returned to his beloved California immediately following ordination to serve one year in Stockton, California, before becoming the rabbi at the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles, B'nai B'rith Temple (which became Wilshire Boulevard Temple in 1929) in 1916. Magnin served at Wilshire Boulevard Temple for 69 years, a record for the Reform rabbinate. He chaired numerous temple building campaigns, including one in 1923 following damage by an earthquake. In 1962, the temple named their new religious school after their long-term rabbi.

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