Morris Lichtenstein was the founder of the Society of Jewish Science

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. Born in Lithuania

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, he later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio

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 where he was ordained by the Reform Hebrew Union College

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 in 1916, becoming the first Eastern Europe

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an student to ever study at the institution.

Lichtenstein served as a Rabbi in Amsterdam

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, Troy

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, and New York City

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, where he received a Master's degree

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 in Psychology

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 from Columbia University

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 in 1919. He briefly served a congregation in Athens, Georgia

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 before moving back to New York to marry Tehilla Hirshenson in 1920. Together they founded the Society of Jewish Science in 1921 (or 1922).

After Lichtenstein's death in 1938, his wife took over his post and became the first Jewish woman in America with her own congregational pulpit. However, she was never ordained, and never held a rabbinic title. She also took over his duties as editor of the Jewish Science Interpreter magazine

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, serving until her death in 1973.