Founders
The following people are listed on the founding documents of Akiva: Ithamar Koenigsberg, Dr. Charles Levi, Rabbi James I. Gordon, Rabbi Hayim Donin, David Berris, Phillip Stollman, Seymour Ribiat, Jerome Kelman, Dr. Jacob E. Goldman, Elliot Steiman, Fayga Dombey, Raiselle Snow, Rabbi Max Kapustin, Rabbi Israel Halpern.
Rabbi Gordon was the rabbi of Young Israel of Oak-Woods at the time, and Akiva's first home was in that synagogue, until 1972.
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