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Nathan Marx
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1929 - 2017
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Obituary for Nathan Marx Landman

Rabbi Nathan M. Landman, who served as a rabbi for decades, died after a long illness on Wednesday, January 25. Rabbi Landman, of North Andover, MA was 87.

Rabbi Landman was born in Madison, WI in 1929. He grew up in Kew Gardens, NY where his father founded Temple Isaiah. He earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, an M.A. in English from Trinity University, a Bachelor of Hebrew Letters and Master of Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. He was ordained as a Rabbi in 1956. After two years in the Air Force, he left the service to take up congregational work in Los Angeles and served part-time as Chaplain with the VA in the Sepulveda and San Fernando, CA.

In 1963, just before the Vietnam War, he was recalled to active duty as Chaplain in the Air Force and continued until he retired in 1981. In the course of his service, he spent 10 years overseas providing Jewish coverage to almost all Air Force bases in Europe. He later served stateside at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. In 1974, he was awarded the Chaplain Alexander Goode-Ben Goldman Lodge B'nai Brith Four Chaplain Award for distinguished service in Interfaith Relations. He retired with the rank of Lt. Colonel with 25 years of accredited services.

After retirement from the Air Force in 1981, he worked as a Chaplain to the Home for the Aged Blind in Yonkers. He also worked for the N.Y. Board of Rabbis providing visitations to 13 homes for the elderly in Westchester County. Responding to additional requests, he expanded his service to 22 homes, covering 500 square miles. He continued this work for 28 years.

He provided weekend ministrations to Temple Emanuel, Elmhurst, Queens from 1982 to 1987 and Temple Beth El, Elizabeth, NJ from 1989 to 1994.

From 1985 to 2007, Rabbi Landman was Deputy Director of the Jewish Welfare Board Jewish Chaplains Council. In that capacity, he edited a quarterly newsletter CHAPLINES, distributed to all Jewish Chaplains and Jewish military lay people. He edited many of the pamphlets on the Jewish life cycle and holidays, distributed to military installations. He conducted periodic training workshops, enabling volunteer lay personnel to run Jewish programs in the absence of a Chaplain. He also taught introduction to Judaism for prospective converts.

He was awarded the Rabbi J.X. Cohen Chaplain of the year in 1995 and the Zagelbaum Family Award as Chaplain of the Year from the Board of New York Rabbis in 2003. He published articles in The Jewish Spectator, Reconstructionist, The Chaplain, and Humanistic Judaism.

In 2009, Rabbi Landman and his wife Libby moved to Edgewood Retirement Community in North Andover, MA. At Edgewood, he was a lecturer on the tenets of Judaism. He initiated and conducted a Passover Seder open to all Edgewood residents. He spent the last years of his life writing and publishing five books on his life’s work: Make It Short Rabbi: Brief Jewish Lessons from Scripture, Take Words With You: Sermons and Addresses of a Lifetime, Making Jewish Values Yours: An Unorthodox Approach to Jewish Living, My Sky Pilot Career, and My Potpourri of Published Articles 1969-1996.

He was an avid baseball fan. His favorite team was the Cincinnati Reds. He was a regular jogger for many years and later took up swimming.

Rabbi Landman was the father of Nathaniel Landman of St. Peters, MO. He was stepfather to Priscilla Lynch of Indianapolis, IN, Jonathan Lynch of Albuquerque, NM, and Andrew Lynch of Chelmsford, MA. He was “Saba” (grandfather) to Joshua, Chelsea, and Hayley Landman, and to Rachel, Natasha, and Alexa Lynch. He was brother to Louis Landman, and uncle to Daniel, Lawrence, Benjamin, and Naomi Landman.

A prayer service for Rabbi Landman was performed by Rabbi Robert Goldstein on January 26. At Rabbi Landman’s request, there will be a graveside burial at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.
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