Aubrey Glazer

Simon Glazer (or Shimon Glazer; 1876?-1938) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi who flourished at the turn of the twentieth century. He was known for founding and leading two major organizations of American Orthodox rabbis. == Background == Born in a Lithuanian Jewish family in Kaunas, Lithuania (known as Kovno at the time, or Kovne in Glazer's native Yiddish), his year of birth is not certain, and may have been either 1876 or 1878. He was president of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis of the United Sta…