Fineberg, Solomon Andhil

Solomon Andhil Fineberg was born on November 29, 1896, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Cincinnati, graduating in 1917 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After a stint in the U.S. Marine Corps (from 1917-1919) during World War I (later he was designated as the National Chaplain for the Jewish War Veterans), Fineberg returned to Cincinnati to study at Hebrew Union College. He was ordained a rabbi in 1920 and received a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1958 from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In 1932 he was awarded a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

After ordination Fineberg accepted the pulpit at Temple Beth El in Niagara Falls, N.Y., remaining there from 1920 to 1924. In 1925 he was assistant rabbi of Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1926-1929 he served at the Jewish Community Center at White Plains, N.Y. From 1929-1937 he was rabbi at Sinai Temple in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Rabbi Fineberg also served Temple Judea, Manhasset, N.Y., and Temple Emanu El of Westchester in Harrison, N.Y., in their earliest years.

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