Jacob Pressman

Jacob "Jack" Pressman (October 26, 1919 – October 1, 2015) was an American Conservative rabbi. He served as the rabbi of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, California, from 1950 to 1985. He was a co-founder of the American Jewish University in Bel Air. He penned a weekly column in The Beverly Hills Courier, from 2004 to 2015.

Early life Jacob Pressman was born on October 26, 1919, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was Solomon Pressman, and his mother, Dora (Levin), was a Pressman. He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was ordained as a conservative rabbi in 1945. It was renamed Temple Beth Am in 1957. He was a co-founder of the Brandeis-Bardin Camp Institute. They resided in Beverly Hills, California. Their second son, Daniel, is a rabbi.