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Seymour Siegel (September 12 1927 – February 24 1988) often referred to as an architect of Conservative Jewish theology was an American Conservative rabbi a Professor of Ethics and Theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) the 1983-1984 Executive Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and an advisor to three American Presidents Richard Nixon Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.Siegel was associated with JTS for 41 years first as a student and later as an instructor holding the Ralph Simon Professor of Ethics and Theology chair succeeding his friend and mentor Abraham Joshua Heschel in that position.