Rabbi Kass joined the NYPD in 1966 at the age of 30, becoming the youngest chaplain in the department's history.
Rabbi Alvin Kass, the NYPD’s beloved chaplain and longest serving member of the department ever, was remembered as the “moral ...
Rabbi Alvin Kass joined the NYPD in 1966 at age 30, becoming the youngest chaplain in the department’s history.
The youngest and longest-serving chaplain in New York City history, he was also the first Jewish chief chaplain in the modern era.
Rabbi Alvin Kass, the NYPD's chief chaplain and a bedrock of the department's faith for nearly six decades, died overnight. He was 88 years old.