 Isaac Bunin succeeded Golobowsky as rabbi in December 1926 . Born in Malistovka , Krasnopoli ( near Mogilev , Belarus ) in 1882 , he had emigrated to the United States in 1923 . While practicing as a rabbi in Russia , he issued a responsum in 1908 that permitted Jews to shoot — on the Sabbath — anarchist communists who terrorized local Jewish communities , and extorted " contributions " from them . Before coming to Beth Jacob Anshe Sholom he served as rabbi in Trenton , New Jersey , where he was instrumental in the creation of the re @-@ established Dr. Theodor Herzl 's Zion Hebrew School ( opened October 1926 ) . 
