Masliansky. He finally settled in Jaffa by the end of the summer of 1923 and he was invited to preach a number of times at the Neveh Tzedek synagogue. A few months later, however, he was compelled to return to Washington because his wife became ill. Attempts to settle in Safed in 1936 and in Jerusalem between 1938 and 1939 failed as well and he returned to America each time. He returned once more a few years later, this time remaining until his death in 1944. He was buried on the Mount of Olives. Involvement in Jewish Society Rabbi Silverstone was a vice president of the Agudath Harabbonim, a director of the Hebrew Sanitarium of Denver and the Hebrew Home for the Aged of Washington, D.C., and a member of B'nai B'rith. He also founded the first Talmud Torah in Washington, D.C. and many of his sermons refer to the poor state of Jewish education. An active Zionist, Silverstone attended the Sixth Zionist Congress in 1903 as a delegate from Belfast. Family Rabbi Silverstone was a grandson of Rabbi Elijah Abramsky, a nephew of Rabbi Chaim Zev Hirsh Braude, the father of Rabbi Dr. Harry Silverstone, a cousin to Rabbi Zelig Reuben Bengis; an in-law of Rabbi Gershom Ravinson of Cleveland, Ohio. References Goldman, Yosef. Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography (YGBooks 2006). . External links Rabbi Silverstone's bookstamp 1871 births 1944 deaths 19th-century Polish rabbis Irish Orthodox rabbis People from Washington, D.C. American Orthodox rabbis Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbis Orthodox rabbis in Mandatory Palestine Rabbis in Jerusalem 20th-century American rabbis