David Hollander

Rabbi David B. (Dovid Dov) Hollander (1913–2009) was an American Orthodox rabbi, and president of The Rabbinical Council of America from 1954 to 1956. At the time of his death, he was the longest serving active pulpit rabbi in the United States.

Early life David Hollander was born in Hungary in 1913 to Yonoson Binyomin (Jonathan Benjamin) and Rachel Hollander. Nine years later, Yonoson Binyomin accepted a rabbinical position in Upstate New York. The rest of the family soon followed, and together they moved to New York City shortly before David's Bar Mitzvah.

Hollander served as Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America, a national assembly of Orthodox rabbis. In 1954, he was elected its president.

In 2003, Hollander became the oldest active pulpit rabbi in the United States, and continued in that capacity until his death six years later.

Hollander was a columnist for many decades, writing both in Yiddish in the Algemeiner Journal, and in English in The Jewish Press.

Soviet Jewry In 1956, Hollander made his first visit to the Soviet Union. Although married 61 years, sadly the couple did not have any children

Hollander was survived by a brother in Israel. Rabbi Moshe Sherer was his brother-in-law.