"One of the most enduring memories of my childhood is the mental picture I carry of the great Abba Hillel Silver, thundering from the pulpit on Saturday mornings as we sat huddled in our seats in the main sanctuary of  “Silvers” Temple. I knew I would never see the Face of God, but I also knew that if I did, it would look like Abba Hillel.
 
Years later when the Silver Library was established, I would visit it almost weekly to marvel at the magnificent picture of Rabbi Silver taken by the Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh, one of the two greatest portrait photographers of the 20th Century. Interestingly enough, his son Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver, had his official portrait done by the other great portraitist, the Jewish American photographer Arnold Newman.
 
Such is the power of imagery that leaves the viewer with an indelible memory.
 
In this series of twenty rabbis, I have tried to produce images that will be as dramatic, and enduring, as those I grew up admiring."