Even rabbis (the non-Orthodox ones) ask tougher questions than the rabbis of my childhood.
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Rabbi Tubul denied that the rabbinate was rejecting modern Orthodox rabbis, and said that "dozens" of rabbis in America were approved to conduct conversions.
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"Reform rabbis, along with Reconstructionist and Conservative rabbis, decided to forgo hosting the annual High Holiday call with the president this year," he said in an email.
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The rabbinate provided a partial list of rabbis it said had been certified over the previous six months; Rabbi Lookstein and other major Orthodox rabbis in the United States were not on it.
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One was the first female rabbis on the West Coast!
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The rabbis of yore didn't do much debating about parenting.
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They told ministers, priests, rabbis and nuns to go back.
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"They'll do what rabbis tell them to do," Heilman said.
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" With the rabbis, I finally just said, "I'm her mom.
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Rabbis, imams and the Dalai Lama were among his friends.
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So did monks and rabbis from Greece, Persia and Spain.
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I sought out other rabbis and scholars on kosher law.
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Our synagogue was too secular even for the Reform rabbis.
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Rabbis and scholars have often judged Noah harshly for this.
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"I study with elders, with rabbis, with everyone," he said.
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So I made phone calls, spoke to rabbis, scholars, linguists.
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Rabbis and party activists revolted and demanded that he resign.
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And if not now, as the ancient rabbis asked, when?
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Israel's two chief rabbis have a large amount of control.
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He's the exception to my "rabbis are my inner circle" ethos.
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The army welcomes women and gays, despite objections by some rabbis.
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Whether the rabbis like it or not, they've been Goop-ed.
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He reminds parents that many rabbis have strongly supported routine shots.
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Probably not, but some rabbis are reportedly prepping a silent protest.
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"We had faxes coming in nonstop from rabbis," Ms. Srinivasan said.
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The list of such rabbis has long been shrouded in secrecy.
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"I have Kabbalistic rabbis in the family," she said and shrugged.
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Which is why so many rabbis end sentences on a rise.
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"The Chabad rabbis in our community do not give permission for a woman to take off their hair covering if they have children," says Cohen, who notes that other rabbis in other communities do give permission.
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As most rabbis and cantors have been male in the past — the Rabbinical Assembly, a Conservative Jewish association, didn't let women become rabbis until 1985 — men have performed most of the rituals involved in Jewish life.
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The rabbis who wrote the Haggadah thousands of years ago say yes.
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It's human nature to seek out guidance from rabbis, coaches, and gurus.
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Google is doing the work that priests and rabbis used to do.
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A few fake beards (making the Kansas rabbis appear even more rabbinical).
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JOHNSTOWN, N.Y. — The rabbis had never inspected a medical marijuana plant before.
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She eavesdropped as he gave younger rabbis advice on their contract negotiations.
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She styled herself "rebbetzin," the Yiddish honorific bestowed on wives of rabbis.
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I know rabbis who do cartwheels down the aisle after the pronouncing.
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His sons, Yeshaya Yaakov, Meir, Ephraim, Zvi and Shmuel, are all rabbis.
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They were both grandsons of rabbis from Eastern Europe, and both atheists.
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That they turned out that morning because their rabbis told them to.
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Many members of the Orthodox Jewish community rejected Berg's teachings, and the families of Rabbis Yehuda Ashlag and Avraham Brandwein—renowned rabbis Berg claimed to study under—have denounced his claims that he was the heir to their tradition.
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Rabbis and friends pressed her to remain with her husband, whatever his misdeeds.
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Rabbis and cantors wish Muslims "Shabbat Shalom" and regale them with Hebrew incantations.
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The German Imperial Army also had its rabbis who served alongside Christian chaplains.
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EDT: President Trump has a Rosh Hashanah call with Jewish leaders and rabbis.
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Others, like religious-school tuition for children, apply particularly to rabbis and cantors.
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Rabbis with T'ruah ("the rabbinic call for human rights") traveled to the city
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"With all the advancement, in the end people still listened to the rabbis."
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Rabbis since then have repeatedly stressed the importance of protecting children through vaccination.
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There is the Hasidic tradition, with its Zenlike parables and wisdom-working rabbis.
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But Rabbi Hayoun, like hundreds of other rabbis, isn't recognized by the rabbinate.
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Since girls cannot become rabbis, they typically receive more secular education than boys.
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And groups of rabbis said they would boycott conference calls with Mr. Trump.
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He invited in Roman Catholic priests, rabbis, imams and leaders of other faiths.
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At Sunday's service, the rabbis of the three congregations embraced after tearful tributes.
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The organizations withdrawing from the call hail from three branches of American Judaism: the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism represent Reform Jews, while the Rabbinical Assembly is a coalition of Conservative rabbis.
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" The rabbis — representing groups like the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Rabbinical Assembly — ended their statement by saying they pray that Trump "will recognize and remedy the grave error he has made in abetting the voices of hatred.
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In a statement this week, Israel's chief rabbis acknowledged the need for "serious reform" and said they, the country's rabbinical council and the rabbinical court judges would prepare a formal list of criteria for recognizing conversions performed by foreign rabbis.
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We need to rely on "rabbis" to give advice and keep us in check.
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Nor were some of the liberal rabbis who had criticized her comments in March.
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As engineers search for earthly solutions, rabbis in Jerusalem see a warning from God.
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Hasidic rabbis point to the many men who wear fur hats on the Sabbath.
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I'm not exactly in the habit of listening to the Conservative Movement's rabbis myself.
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Rabbis also objected, noting that many Hasidic men wear fur hats on the Sabbath.
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Most rabbis would rule that such a child should not be vaccinated, he said.
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Rabbis and doctors organized a public health campaign to stress the importance of vaccines.
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Plus a heroic drag queen, a drug-addled wife, rabbis, Mormons and Ethel Rosenberg.
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Hundreds of Israeli rabbis have pledged to hide migrants facing the threat of deportation.
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Since historically the rabbis have prohibited usury between Jews, the same may apply to bitcoins.
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Rabbis pointed out that this claim wouldn't matter, since one does not eat a vaccine.
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Religious troops can expect to receive permission, but some rabbis complain about the heightened scrutiny.
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Her parents are senior rabbis at the Temple-Congregation Adath Israel Brith Sholom in Louisville.
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Somewhat more surprising was the criticism emanating from modern-Orthodox rabbis, political leaders and citizens.
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Behind Dr. Barber, Imam Antepli, two rabbis and a lesbian bishop were some 80,000 people.
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Charles A. KroloffWestfield, N.J.The writer is past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
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Mr Lieberman is tapping into widespread frustration over the disproportionate influence of rabbis over public life.
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I asked a lot of questions and consulted three different rabbis, ranging from Orthodox to Reform.
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We have very close friends that are Jewish, and rabbis, and we also fellowship with them.
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Several times during the fall, Zucker met with the rabbis, in groups of thirty to forty.
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Rabbis rarely approve the disinterment of Jews, with rare exceptions for things like reburial in Israel.
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Another organization, InterfaithFamily, which is overseen by rabbis, demonstrates the ripple effect of this new attitude.
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What chemicals did Vireo use to extract the cannabis oil, the rabbis had needed to know.
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Some New England rabbis stated it "wasn't Kosher" to patronize Stop & Shop while the strike continued.
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There are now over 21982 chaplains employed in the prisons, including priests, ministers, rabbis and imams.
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We have very close friends that are Jewish and rabbis and we also fellowship with them.
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Israel is a Jewish state in which Orthodox rabbis are often the official interpreters of Judaism.
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Dozens of rabbis let us know how they and their congregations have reacted to the massacre.
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He began organizing conferences with representatives of other religions, including the Dalai Lama, imams and rabbis.
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Orthodox rabbis "have no issue with vaccination — it's seen as a lifesaving good," Dr. O'Connor said.
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A delegation of rabbis brought President Ronald Reagan a menorah during a Hanukkah visit in 1984.
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Notable American Jewish leaders and rabbis were also invited to deliver remarks at the two ceremonies.
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He is prepared, he said, to file a civil suit, using the rabbis' ruling as leverage.
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Health officials met with rabbis and pediatricians, who sounded the alarm to their congregations and patients.
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Instead, they said rabbis made the list for merely technical reasons, and the controversy is overblown.
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Previously, I had sought "professional guidance" from priests and rabbis to make things clearer and more understandable.
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I sought advice from multiple rabbis who insisted I was a lucky wife with a respected husband.
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Like him, most rabbis in the area support vaccination and even urge people to get the jab.
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The groom's father was the president of the New York Board of Rabbis from 2006 to 2008.
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"I grew up religious, but he didn't look like the rabbis I grew up with," she said.
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Instead it is divided into many different factions and groups, each with its own rabbis and leaders.
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Even so, some leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis have begun to instruct their followers to obey government restrictions.
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His three daughters, Leah Libba Stern, Chaya Sarah Weinberger and Nechamah Klughaupt, are all married to rabbis.
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Most prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis agree that vaccines are kosher, and urge observant Jews to be immunized.
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Still, some Israelis are opting for the more flexible, egalitarian ceremonies offered by Reform and Conservative rabbis.
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Its early years were susceptible to criticism, especially from local rabbis at synagogues with long membership rolls.
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It is why Israelis from all parts of society — doctors, diplomats, rabbis, artists — have opposed this policy.
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A few also have backgrounds as ordained rabbis and, once inside, some assume a spiritual leadership role.
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Another group of Jewish religious leaders told Politico they would be seated inside wearing "Rabbis Against Trump" buttons.
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Newspapers filled with petitions signed by Israeli doctors, pilots, rabbis, musicians and Holocaust survivors, all opposing the policy.
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As the campaign gathers support, he predicts, traditionalist rabbis will be forced to bow before the popular will.
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Both her second husband, who died three years ago, and her first (they divorced in 1986) were rabbis.
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Several rabbis organized a protest of Trump's speech at AIPAC on Monday, though a mass walkout never materialized.
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Priests, rabbis and imams will be relieved to learn that religious practice and sprituality are not completely unconnected.
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" She added, "We have very close friends that are Jewish, and rabbis, and we also fellowship with them.
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But even though the rabbis banded to together to stop Stern, they did not condemn unlicensed therapists outright.
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One conference, hosted by the Dalai Lama, brought rabbis together with Tibetan monks to discuss points of overlap.
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He also argued for the ordination of gay, bisexual and lesbian rabbis, which the movement approved in 2006.
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"Don't spread it around, but it really is — halachically — the same," one of the book's many rabbis says.
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Other rabbis are encouraging their worshippers to avoid physical contact with each other and wash their hands thoroughly.
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Rabbis back then must have determined, he said, that Roman artichokes were impervious to worms, and thus edible.
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Rabbis have always loved acronyms, and collectively these four main types of exegesis are known as פרדס, Pardes.
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Lipa Schmeltzer (pictured), an ultra-Orthodox Jew from New York State, combines club beats with lyrics about Jewish rabbis.
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A Protestant minister, two rabbis, a representative from the Catholic Church, a representative from the Buddhist religion and Sen.
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The ruling shocked ultra-traditionalist rabbis, who insisted that the woman's divorce was made on false premises and invalid.
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As Sanders moved to Vermont and began his political career, local rabbis learned not to invite him to services.
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Local Detroit-area rabbis, including Rabbi Jason Miller, condemned Pence and Jacobs on social media immediately following their appearances.
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Rabbis who object to the recruitment of religious women, or of ultra-Orthodox men, are fighting a losing battle.
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The president midday will join a Rosh Hashanah telephone call with Jewish leaders and rabbis from the Oval Office.
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"We're not going to be a country that arms teachers, that arms rabbis or that arms bartenders," he said.
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The Rabinnical Assembly, the international association of Conservative rabbis, has issued guidelines that suggest congregations could stream the reading.
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Rabbis, ministers and other faith leaders spoke alongside officials from the city, the county, and the state of Israel.
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There was a public health campaign in which community officials, doctors and rabbis testified to the importance of immunizations.
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This is not a position held by most prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis, and most ultra-Orthodox Jews are vaccinated.
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A coalition of prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis and community members have accused critics of yeshivas of attacking religious freedoms.
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Maybe the rabbis worried that forbidden grains would be mixed into sacks of peas or corn without anyone noticing.
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Video monitors are strategically placed featuring experts — historians, archaeologists and rabbis — explaining their choice of artifacts or historical events.
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Most in the ultra-Orthodox community are vaccinated, and a vast majority of prominent rabbis support the vaccination requirements.
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We asked rabbis to tell us how they and their congregations have reacted to Saturday's massacre, and dozens responded.
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The ultra-Orthodox will show up en masse at the urging of their rabbis, which helps Mr Netanyahu's allies.
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And a proposed conversion law would give the chief rabbis unprecedented power over who can join the Jewish people.
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Rabbis encourage their congregations to follow health procedures Other leaders have taken proactive steps, including sending notices to worshippers.
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In November, liberal rabbis carrying Torah scrolls led a protest at the wall, known in Hebrew as the Kotel.
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One was the son and grandson of rabbis, a legal scholar whose life revolved around the University of Chicago.
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Although numerous historians, writers and rabbis long had referenced this document, research showed its origin could not be determined.
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He has been touched by the kindness of the rabbis' relatives, who bring him soup on a cold day.
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Others have blamed the attacks on all Black Israelites, including Rabbi Capers Funnye, a member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis and the chief rabbi of the International Israelite Board of Rabbis, who recently received a social justice award from the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs for his work against racism and antisemitism.
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He played a priest performing an interfaith wedding — a religious taboo for Rabbi Gellman (though not for all Reform rabbis).
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It also includes letters signed by some rabbis decrying vaccination as well as "cherry picked" and outdated research, Feldman said.
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While rabbis once tried to reject the internet altogether, telling people to stay offline is no longer a tenable position.
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Health authorities have worked with rabbis to explain that vaccination is safe, but that still hasn't turned the outbreak around.
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Other rabbis said they will not join a conference call with the president ahead of Jewish holy days next month.
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A Catholic priest testified for the prosecution while Orthodox Christian theologians, along with Moscow's leading rabbis, spoke for the defence.
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But some ultra-Orthodox rabbis endorse the debunked tenets of the antivaccination movement, contributing to a relatively low vaccination rate.
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Those rabbis say that rejecting a Jew, especially one's own kith and kin, is, in our world, counterproductive and improper.
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Of the more than a dozen Hasidic rabbis and yeshiva officials Fox News reached out to for comment, none responded.
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Among those on hand were two modern Orthodox rabbis and three tenant association leaders, two Latino and one African-American.
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Across nearly 70 years the clergy at inaugurations have been Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jewish rabbis, and evangelicals like Billy Graham.
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Rabbi Tubul said that he was pushing to have a list of approved rabbis published on the chief rabbinate's website.
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The rabbis plan to hold a prayer service outside the room where the Republican presidential candidate is delivering his remarks.
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Women studying to be ministers or rabbis share wrenching #MeToo tales of sexual abuse and of infuriating gender pay gaps.
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But he did not seek to end government's role in religious affairs — only to put more moderate rabbis in charge.
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Both rabbis not only endorsed existing vaccines but said mandatory vaccination was justified, as was excluding unvaccinated children from yeshivas.
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Some rabbis are contributing to the spread of disinformation, repeating unfounded claims about the health risks of the M.M.R. vaccine.
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Seven rabbis recently banded together and released an edict, advising that the vaccinations are a matter of life and death.
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The annual phone conversation between the rabbis and the president began under former President Obama, according to The Washington Post.
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Rabbi Ethan H. Witkovsky is to officiate, with the groom's three brothers, Rabbis Eli, David and Ariel Zafarani, to participate.
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In the 123s, ministers and rabbis formed the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, advising pregnant women how to obtain abortions.
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So I turned to Charlottesville's rabbis and Jewish residents, including a historian of Jews in Charlottesville, to find the answers.
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Cases have plaintiffs and defendants, and proceed in Hebrew, with witnesses, evidence presentations, questions from the rabbis and cross-examinations.
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Can we ever express our appreciation to the rabbis who chose to give moral witness with us in St. Augustine?
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Our group is usually my sister and her boyfriend and my mother, father and stepfather, all of whom are rabbis.
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Jared Kushner, however, believed it was "a matter to be handled by the family or by the rabbis," Christie wrote.
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Some of the rabbis teaching at the yeshiva, Pri Haaretz, are associated with the extremist margins of the settlement movement.
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They tried education and outreach, working with rabbis and distributing thousands of fliers to encourage parents to vaccinate their children.
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He built ties with rabbis, white union leaders and black gang members, even traveling to India and Africa to forge relationships.
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We could go through rabbis, priests, stepfathers and boy scouts and athletic coaches and choir directors and politicians and Hollywood directors.
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When the late Patriarch Alexy of Moscow gave a warm speech to rabbis in New York, he faced huge internal criticism.
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Mr. Fhima now gives several lectures in French during the week and invites rabbis from France to speak to the congregation.
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"Yesterday I received the directory of Michigan Board of Rabbis" Jason Miller, a rabbi in the Detroit area, wrote on Facebook.
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Rabbis are sent to inspect the products and practices of suppliers in distant lands like Vietnam, where Freund's rice paper originates.
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Passing the torch to this younger generation is already a difficult undertaking — as many leaders, educators, rabbis and parents will attest.
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The Tree of Life synagogue where the massacre took place was not even a real synagogue according to Israel's chief rabbis.
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In contrast, the rabbis' call for "safeguarded learners" would cut students off from crucial ethical questions and crises of our time.
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With cheeks and chest full, he exhaled a tekiah-gedolah as well as any of the talis-draped rabbis beside him.
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But religious bodies employ vast numbers of people who are not priests, imams or rabbis: teachers, bureaucrats, charity workers and so on.
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At such times, the rabbis say, the pain is so deep, the loss so profound that no words of comfort will work.
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"When the council of rabbis tell us they want children vaccinated, it tells us it is not a religious exemption," Day said.
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It was reopened by the president of the Great Rabbinical Court, Yitzhak Yosef, who is also one of Israel's two chief rabbis.
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But under the current chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Gadi Eizenkot, there has been a deliberate attempt to curb the rabbis' power.
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"The rabbis led their revolution, but didn't have an end-game planned for its success," says Amiram Gonen of Jerusalem's Hebrew University.
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Netanyahu made phone calls to rabbis and family members of party members and issued numerous public statements calling on them to unite.
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Education at yeshivas emphasizes the Torah and other religious teachings, particularly for boys, who are being prepared for possible futures as rabbis.
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As of 2012, more than 100 men — rabbis, teachers and camp counselors, among them — had been arrested by the authorities in Brooklyn.
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Since the comments, rabbis have demanded that he stop invoking the Holocaust "for political purposes," The Kansas City Star reported in April.
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Rabbis say that Jews are still forbidden to step on the Temple Mount, for fear of intruding on the Holy of Holies.
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During the 1800s, different Yiddish versions popped up, featuring commentary delivered through parody that mocked everyone from rabbis to politicians to capitalists.
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Today, at age 66 I am one of eight rabbis at Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the biggest and oldest synagogue in Los Angeles.
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Some rabbis derided the health department's scientific expertise, and one respected rabbi went as far as to question the health department's statistics.
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But in Chicago, Rabbi Hara Person, the chief executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, saw the president's action and worried.
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There's a growing tendency among Jews — whether rabbis, teachers, community leaders or lay people — to employ Jewish texts to score political points.
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There, things proceeded like a Hasidic People's Court, with the judges — three rabbis — dressed in traditional all-black garb, facing the litigants.
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In the pizza case, the rabbis took the unusual step of visiting the restaurants, using an Uber car to drive them there.
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Anti-Semitic graffiti was recently found on the historic Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., the synagogue's rabbis notified congregants Monday.
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The Orthodox rabbis who control the Western Wall insist that men pray in one area and women in a separate, smaller area.
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About 100 rabbis, including prominent voices in the religious Zionist and settler establishment, signed an open letter in support of the youths.
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In Beit Shemesh, a fast-growing ultra-Orthodox center, thousands ignored their rabbis' orders and helped elect a woman mayor in October.
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These religious combat soldiers answer to hard-line rabbis who call for the establishment of a greater Israel that includes the West Bank.
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Several prominent rabbis have since ruled that the seven models the Shatnez Laboratory identified as containing wool and linen are forbidden to buy.
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Salkin confirmed to CNN that he's organizing a boycott of Trump's speech and calling for rabbis to simply be absent from the room.
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Since the 1980s more than 90,000 Ethiopian Jews (known to some as Falashas) did so after Israel's rabbis accepted them into the fold.
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There are still deathbed lesbian weddings performed by rabbis to remind both the characters and viewers of what's worth clinging to in life.
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According to the rabbis, God will refuse your thanks for the good things in life, unless you also thank Him for the bad.
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Some religious groups, for instance, worry they won't be able to make their pastors and rabbis employees, according to The New York Times.
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The handful of rabbis I canvassed were in uniform agreement that there's no place for psychedelic substances in the bar or bat mitzvah.
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The non-Orthodox rabbis then led a joint egalitarian prayer service in the upper plaza, where men and women read from the Torah.
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We asked rabbis across the country to let us know how they and their congregations have reacted to the massacre, and dozens responded.
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When local rabbis were reluctant to support it publicly, her husband went to Israel and filmed himself getting rabbinical approval from senior sages.
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Temple Emanu-El, a Reform congregation on the Upper East Side, hosted the affair, in which some 40 Conservative and Reform rabbis participated.
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"This one hits Jews in the gut," says Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director of T'ruah, a network of Rabbis that champions human rights.
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The majority of ultra-Orthodox rabbis said they, too, urged vaccination, citing religious scripture about protecting one's health and the health of others.
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After the meeting, anti-vaccine organizers sent a robocall to Hasidic homes, urging people to persuade their rabbis not to support the measure.
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Rabbis across North America told us how they are comforting their congregations and securing their synagogues in the wake of the Pittsburgh shooting.
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Security during services has been a central concern, with many rabbis telling us their chief question is whether to arm their security officers.
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There were, to be sure, rabbis in the crowd, but the vigil was dominated by the students from nearby Taylor Allderdice High School.
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In our quest to understand the ripple effects of the shooting, we would like to hear how rabbis are helping their congregations cope.
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Unbelievably, Israel's two chief rabbis both wrote approbation letters in the last year for a book that supports DNA testing to prove Jewishness.
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Ministers, imams and rabbis have all visited, as have politicians including New Haven's mayor, Toni Harp, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Senator Richard Blumenthal.
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He was a spiritual adviser to Michael Jackson and has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation's most influential rabbis by Newsweek.
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And now women — many of them doctors and not necessarily rabbis — are offering a new option, holistic in its approach, for Jewish parents.
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From this cautionary tale, the rabbis of the mystically oriented, kabbalistically inclined tradition of thirteenth-century Spain created an entire system of study.
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With both of the girl's parents in attendance, two rabbis described Shirr as a vivacious but resilient girl with an unpredictable home life.
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The Hungarian-born photographer Arnold Eagle, in his "One Third of a Nation" series, captures children in tenements and rabbis at the yeshiva.
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Many rabbis and teachers seemed comfortable with settlements, and some students said they never learned that Israel's borders were a highly contested topic.
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"Anything that's kosher and fried is appropriate on Hanukkah," said David-Seth Kirshner, the former president of the New York Board of Rabbis.
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But Hasidic Jews are prey to the same misinformation that has affected others, and some ultra-Orthodox rabbis have come out against vaccines.
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In a survey, 40 percent of national religious respondents said that IDF units should refuse to evacuate settlers if their rabbis ordered them to.
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While most of the amicus briefs filed were from Christian or Christian-affiliated religious groups, imams, rabbis, and other religious representatives also filed briefs.
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Many left Jewish rituals behind, in large part because of anti-Semitism and corrupt rabbis in their homelands, while clinging to Judaism's ethical teachings.
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Rabbis at the event said Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa told them the longtime boycott of Israel by Arab countries should end.
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Another group of rabbis and students called Come Together Against Hate is planning to walk out of the room after Trump takes the stage.
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It blanketed parts of Brooklyn with a brochure claiming that vaccines are harmful and unnecessary, attaching letters by rabbis in support of its cause.
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While the religion as a whole does not shun vaccination, certain rabbis do discourage the practice, often having been influenced by anti-vaccination propaganda.
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Now, rabbis at the Tree of Life synagogue find themselves in a similar position, after a gunman killed 11 worshipers last month in Pittsburgh.
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He was a devout student of Judaism, and was sent to Jerusalem for schooling with one of the most eminent rabbis of the age.
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Now, one such case with a celebrity connection could break open the rabbinate's longstanding secrecy over which foreign rabbis are approved to conduct conversions.
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Deeply insulted, not just by the host but by all the rabbis who were present and did nothing, Bar Kamza decided to get revenge.
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Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella organization for Hasidic groups, released a statement reinforcing that Orthodox rabbis and leaders are in favor of vaccination.
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But Trump's past statements on Israel have prompted rabbis and other AIPAC conference attendees to organize a walkout of the Republican frontrunner's AIPAC speech.
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The rabbis also discussed foot traffic in marketplaces: They wanted to make sure that people lit their candles when pedestrians were flooding the streets.
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A "vaccine symposium" in Rockland County was denounced by health authorities and some ultra-Orthodox rabbis, who said the speakers were spreading dangerous propaganda.
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His teachers, like those of the great priests and rabbis, were the long dead — Matthias Buchinger, Johann Hofzinser, Max Malini, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin.
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" Some rabbis are especially concerned about Mr. Trump's comments last weekend in Florida, when he said that some Jewish people "don't love Israel enough.
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The most generous interpretation of the rabbis from whom he seeks religious justification for an assassination is that they see his questions as hypotheticals.
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The message from community leaders and rabbis was that the massacre at Tree of Life should not change our fundamental assessment of this country.
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Once a rabbi is recognized, all of that rabbi's conversions will be recognized and no longer subject to the scrutiny of local Israeli rabbis.
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The rabbis sided largely with Mr. Branover, finding that Calabria was so close both geographically and in food style that it jeopardized Basil's livelihood.
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European rabbis said the Court had added to rising incidences of hate crime to send a message that "faith communities are no longer welcome".
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The president of the Conference of European Rabbis, Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, complained: "This decision sends a signal to all religious groups in Europe".
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" Rabbis from four major Jewish organizations criticized the president on Wednesday, saying they found his response to Charlottesville "lacking in moral leadership and empathy.
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Afterward, about 40 rabbis from all denominations, including Modern Orthodoxy, joined the couples on the stage for concluding prayers, songs and spirited circle dancing.
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In 2011, he reached an agreement with the Rabbinical Council of America, which oversees American Orthodox rabbis, to stop taking congregants to the sauna altogether.
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The rabbis' decision comes after multiple business councils, the president's arts and humanities committee and other advisers resigned in protest of Trump's handling of Charlottesville.
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The two chief rabbis sell the country's entire supply of bread to Hussein Jaber, a jovial hotelier from the village of Abu Ghosh outside Jerusalem.
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But in the end he succumbed to pressure from rabbis and settlers not to bring down the coalition, which now has a one-seat majority.
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I've got my bag of rabbis when we get off the bus and saunter over to what's left of our second destination: the Warsaw ghetto.
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The Democratic presidential candidate joined imams, rabbis and pastors at the Islamic Center of Southern California for the event, his campaign said in a release.
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Not even those who rightly insist that rabbis ought not always be subjected to the rules of political correctness accept attempts to humiliate fellow Israelis.
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He said on Twitter that there are more than 60 Jewish rabbis in Michigan that campaign rally organizers could have asked to offer a prayer.
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The giant menorah, which shined bright against the dark fog that blanketed Central Park, has been lit hundreds of times by rabbis, mayors and governors.
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By midcentury, an influx of German Jews, including the first trained rabbis to arrive in America, brought some intellectual and theological heft to these reforms.
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On Friday, rabbis met in Brooklyn to consider a proposal that would require all Hasidim to be vaccinated in order to attend synagogues and yeshivas.
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"These rabbis had such ultimate power in that school that the sense I had was that they could do anything they wanted to," Singer said.
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But many Israelis have since expressed outrage that the rabbis and the party would put strict adherence to Jewish law and prejudice above family unity.
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But the more hard-core rabbis, who refuse to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state before the arrival of the Messiah, have resisted change.
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They start off observant Jews — kissing a mezuza on the door of their store, citing rabbis — and become less so as the play wears on.
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When it was clear the heavy rain would not soon subside, the rabbis continued to lead the wedding ceremonies away from the crowds still outside.
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A number of stories recount the legendary piety of the town's rabbis and sages, portraying a Jewish ideal that unites immense learning with extreme humility.
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While Talmud study by women was not forbidden by rabbis, it was generally frowned upon, and still is in parts of the strictly Orthodox world.
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The rabbis also said that under the new criteria, Ms. Trump's conversion, which had been in some doubt in Israel, likely would be considered legitimate.
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His paternal grandfather, Philip Rabinowitz, who emigrated to America, was the last of a line of prominent rabbis from Minsk, in what is now Belarus.
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Recently, I read a strong endorsement of Ellison for DNC chair from 2628 Jewish American leaders from across the country, including more than 28503 rabbis.
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Rabbis for the three congregations that met at the Tree of Life have been grappling with how to help families navigate public and private mourning.
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Following the controversy, Mallory and organizer Linda Sarsour met with a group of rabbis — a majority of whom then encouraged Jews to participate in the protest.
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Because of the local outbreak, the New York City Health Department will meet with rabbis and elected officials in Williamsburg on Thursday to talk about vaccination.
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Like contemporary rabbis, Alliata said, Jesus "was teaching daily life, how to manage in the daily life," and spoke in terms familiar to the common folk.
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The federal Bureau of Prisons said in an email that only four of the more than 100 prisons run by the agency have full-time rabbis.
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To fight back against vaccine misinformation, city health officials are working with sources in Orthodox neighborhoods that people already trust, including rabbis and community health organizations.
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The text of the flyer provided phone numbers for a call-in discussion with doctors, lawyers, rabbis, and politicians on March 31 at 8:30 pm.
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Now, though, Conor McGregor and his rabbis at the UFC, President Dana White and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, have drifted a thousand miles away from each other.
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Among them are casual Catholics, born again Baptists, ordained Rabbis and preachers, secular atheists, and teachers who use the podcast as an example of close-reading.
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Now, five years later, she has built a practice from her home office in suburban St. Louis negotiating contracts for rabbis and cantors — 125 so far.
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But Marc Meyer, the director of the Conference of European Rabbis, estimates that about 25,000 of them live in London, out of about 500,000 French citizens.
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For shmurah matzo, the guarding against chametz begins not in the bakery but in the field, with rabbis overseeing the grain from harvest through to milling.
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They included the chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, the president of the Sharia Court of the Palestinian Authority and two rabbis from a West Bank yeshiva.
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"For some rabbis it is O.K. for a woman to wear a jacket over a less modest dress when they are under the huppah," he added.
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But as the congregations grew and realized that rabbis could enhance funerals and weddings and provide counseling, several of its members, including Rabbi Cowan, pursued ordination.
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But this year, many rabbis say, Hanukkah's original message — a celebration of Jewish resilience and Jewish identity in a troubled time — is all the more important.
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"It's got everything — crooked rabbis, leaks, a photo of the rabbi with Bibi the day before: It's brilliant," said Anshel Pfeffer, a political columnist for Haaretz.
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Top rabbis are refusing to hold an annual conference call with President Trump over his response to the violence at a Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rally.
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As well as acting as kingmaker, he wants to establish himself as the champion of secular Israelis, who complain of the rabbis' excessive influence in politics.
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He parsed religious texts and rabbis' words for justification in killing Rabin as a "pursuer" or "informer" (discussion around these themes was commonplace in Israeli settlements).
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Rabbis used to joke that when young Jews became a bar or bat mitzvah, tradition held that they be given lifelong membership in the Labour Party.
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Walk into any Reform or Conservative synagogue in the world and women will be doing exactly that, without fanfare, often in synagogues helmed by female rabbis.
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On the one hand, most in the ultra-Orthodox community are vaccinated, and the vast majority of prominent rabbis have urged people to vaccinate their children.
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Then came the discovery of the blacklist of the 161 Diaspora rabbis, and with it a wave of anger from Jerusalem to Montreal to New York.
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His conflicting comments on Israel and other divisive campaign statements have prompted rabbis and other AIPAC conference attendees to plan a protest during his speech Monday evening.
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PEACH also has used a conference call line to connect moms with anti-vax rabbis and other guest speakers, where they can ask questions and share stories.
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In that circumstance, there is consensus among Jewish decisors (rabbis who decide on matters in Jewish law) that an abortion is not just allowed but is necessary.
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The demonstration attracted more than 300 people including many Christian ministers, rabbis and imams, all of whom insisted that their faith mandated kindness to the vulnerable stranger.
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Friends and family are shocked at the murders of the Rabbis, who immigrated to San Jose from Bangladesh more than three decades ago, according to the Chronicle.
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That year his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" stressed the failure of even the most enlightened white ministers and rabbis to abandon tokenism on behalf of actual justice.
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Under current Israeli law, Jews can only be married through the Chief Rabbinate, the supreme religious council in Israel, which, unsurprisingly, is dominated by ultra-Orthodox rabbis.
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Indeed, there is a good chance that some rabbis and other conference participants will either not show for Trump's speech, or walk out as he speaks. Why?
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Politicians, rabbis and government ministers visited a Tel Aviv restaurant district to show solidarity and resolve a day after Palestinian gunmen fatally shot four Israeli civilians there.
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" In a statement, the Rabbinical Assembly, which speaks for Conservative rabbis, said, "Judaism itself is a multi-denominational religion that encompasses multiple forms of expression and belief.
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That this tradition is sufficiently flexible to include prosperity preachers, rabbis, Catholic bishops, evangelicals and many others who don't typically coalesce is a confirmation of its strength.
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Our identity would be inspired by the Jewish dynasties that ruled from its palaces, and our traditions instilled by the great rabbis who taught in its streets.
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Jewish marriages performed by rabbis of the more liberal streams of Reform and Conservative Judaism, though popular in the United States, are not officially recognized in Israel.
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We described what far-right anti-Semitism looks like, but, since we are liberal rabbis, we spent most of our time discussing anti-Semitism among the left.
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And in a country that calls itself home to all Jews, ultra-Orthodox rabbis have a state-sanctioned monopoly on events like marriage, divorce and religious conversions.
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The 1,500-year-old Talmud is a meandering text including interpretations of biblical Halakha, or Jewish law, ethics and narratives full of digressions and arguments among rabbis.
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The editor-in-chief of a top Jewish-American newspaper has called for a boycott of Trump's speech, and dozens of rabbis announced plans not to attend.
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CHARLES A. KROLOFFWESTFIELD, N.J. The writer, the author of "54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless," is a past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
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There's the panic that can come from learning to live outside the strictures of the laws set by the rabbis, even if you chafed against those laws.
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During the Super Bowl, we staged a football game between faith leaders with one of our more prominent rabbis, a woman, throwing a pass to an imam.
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"The multipronged threats of anti-Semitism today demand concerted action," said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization.
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There's nothing in Judaism that teaches against vaccination; on the contrary, rabbis encourage vaccination in keeping with Jewish teachings on protecting your health and the health of others.
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Rabbi Jason Nevarez serves Temple Shaaray Tefila in Northern Westchester, N.Y., and was recently part of a CCAR (Central Conference of American Rabbis) fact-finding mission to Berlin.
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I added events where rabbis and other zealous Jews try to encourage other Jews to lose bad traits such as jealousy, pride, greed, and develop good traits instead.
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"So suddenly everybody is together, we are all one people!" one man said to a friend as they walked passed the politicians, the rabbis and the singing youths.
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In 2016, Abbas told the European Parliament that Israel's rabbis urge its government to poison the water of Palestinians, resurrecting a blood libel that Jews poison non-Jews.
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Yet when the rabbis of the Talmud read the Bible, they found a legal system, and when the adepts of kabbalah read it they found a mystical doctrine.
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Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper of the U.S.-based Jewish human rights organization the Simon Wiesenthal Center said Abbas' words were those of "a classic anti-Semite".
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In the case of conversions it means that a very small group of rabbis have the right to determine who can legitimately call him or herself a Jew.
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The idea of a special messianic "mission" for Jews achieved an apotheosis at the conclave of rabbis in Pittsburgh who established what became known as Classical Reform Judaism.
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She is a chairwoman of the Joint Commission on Mentoring of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.
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We need infectious disease doctors, government officials, epidemiologists, priests, and rabbis to all get together in a room and try to figure this out as a world community.
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And when its rabbis convene in February, the Jewish group T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights will offer training on how to turn synagogues into sanctuary congregations.
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I did not know David's father, Rabbi Morris Friedman, who had a community in Woodmere and who served as the president of the New York Board of Rabbis.
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Still, as Phinney's case names indicate, these font capers can topple governments, force news anchors from office, defrock rabbis, and decide the fate of millions of dollars in lawsuits.
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Because the location of the Holy of Holies (the inner sanctum of the former temple) is unknown, say the rabbis, ritually impure Jews might accidentally enter and defile it.
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The religion as a whole does not discourage vaccination, and rabbis in the Rockland area have worked with health officials to find and convince people to vaccinate their children.
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Vireo's products that have been certified by the Orthodox Union can have the recognizable "OU" stamp on their packaging, and must submit to periodic inspections from the group's rabbis.
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And it shows the gunman consulting several right-wing rabbis about whether Mr. Rabin deserved to die, none of them bluntly declaring that to kill him would be wrong.
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Esther Naomi Jungreisz was born on April 27, 1936, in Szeged, Hungary, to Abraham Jungreisz, a rabbi descended from a long line of rabbis, and the former Miriam Cohen.
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His subjects are by no means the people who did most to shape the Judaism of their time: we meet only a few theologians or rabbis in these pages.
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American pastors, imams and rabbis have spent endless amounts of time trying to cater to millennials' tastes, or at least what they perceive to be millennials' tastes: Coffee bars.
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Jesus and Nachman—two eccentric rabbis, both dead in their 30s, both outcasts, both rejected by their coequals, both magnets for the disenfranchised, the weak, the spurned, the suffering.
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Alone among the grand rabbis of the Hasidic world, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub had no ample beard, just a few short wisps of facial hair framed by long sidelocks.
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Angela BuchdahlElliot CosgroveJoshua M. DavidsonPeter J. RubinsteinNew YorkThe writers are rabbis at, respectively, Central Synagogue, Park Avenue Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York and 92Y.
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That is why Chabad rabbis travel all over the world to set up Jewish communities: I have colleagues in Kathmandu, in Ghana, as well as in Paris and Sydney.
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Instead, the rapidly growing ultra-Orthodox Israeli population, also known as the Haredim — Hebrew for "those who fear God" — proved overwhelmingly that its voters obey the dictates of rabbis.
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Peach's handbook — with letters signed by rabbis and sections like "Halachic Points of Interest" — has become one of the main vehicles for misinformation among ultra-Orthodox groups, including Hasidim.
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Mr. Moster noted that girls already receive a better secular education than boys in the Orthodox system, because girls are not allowed to study the Talmud or become rabbis.
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A compromise with Israel's then-fledgling religious community gave Orthodox rabbis control over family and dietary laws, among other things, in exchange for their support for the new state.
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He also counts among his supporters other Israeli Jews who share his suspicions of Israel's Arab minority or oppose the religious authority and political clout of ultra-Orthodox rabbis.
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According to a "historic compromise" overseen by the government in January 2016, the main plaza in front of the Western Wall would remain under the administration of ultra-Orthodox rabbis.
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A sympathetic Israel welcomed them with open arms, though rabbis had long debated whether the Beta Israel, as they are known, were really Jewish (and therefore eligible for Israeli citizenship).
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As the trade in Tokaj wines flourished, the Jewish community became more established around Mád with the building of the synagogue and the setting up of a school for rabbis.
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Until last month, the city had two dueling rabbis who knew the rituals of slaughter, but each was old and very sick, and too feeble to wield a butcher's knife.
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LAST month, surrounded by a throng of beaming pastors, nuns and rabbis in the White House's Rose Garden, Donald Trump signed an executive order "promoting free speech and religious liberty".
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District VII used to be a quiet, sleepy neighbourhood, says Michael Miller, a long-term resident, author of "Rabbis and Revolution", who teaches Jewish history at Budapest's Central European University.
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The rabbis have been warning that if more combat units are mixed, their students who abide by strict Jewish-orthodox codes of gender segregation will refuse to serve in them.
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Mr. Sharansky's proposal came after the arrest of 10 members of the group, including two American rabbis, who were detained for wearing prayer shawls that are traditionally used by men.
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He was rabbi to Michael Jackson, Cory Booker and other public figures and has been recognized as one of the nation's most influential rabbis by Newsweek and The Washington Post.
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Rabbis both in Israel and abroad have signed petitions opposing the plan and pledging to hide Africans in their homes to prevent their deportation — citing Anne Frank's story as precedent.
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The Hardest Working Women We Know I was inspired by the extraordinary (and extraordinarily busy) rabbis, preschool teachers, and social workers interviewed by author Curtis Sittenfeld and her sister Jo.
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In Israel, a small group of ultra-Orthodox women have formed a political party to run for office, despite opposition from rabbis who still disapprove of women entering public life.
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"I think they should also propose that parents should not take the children skiing — or pierce their ears," said Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
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On Yom Kippur in synagogue, these Jews read the stories of rabbis murdered by the Romans, including Rabbi Hanina ben Tradyon, who was wrapped in a Torah scroll set aflame.
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"In the Haredi community it's only about the rabbis," said Liora Cohen, 291, an ultra-Orthodox employee of a company that provides software services in the Modiin Illit business center.
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It stirred angry reactions from ultra-Orthodox legislators and from Israel's chief rabbis, who argued that the proposal would "encourage assimilation" by not requiring a sufficiently high standard for conversions.
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Rabbi Rex D. Perlmeter, the father of the bride, officiated and led the offering of the seven blessings, with the other parents, all rabbis also, taking part in the ceremony.
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While harking back to my pious, head-covered days, I am reminded of a notion that our rabbis taught us: The theft of time is a crime like any other.
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A number of parents did not want to speak on the record about their decision, and some rabbis who had done alternative bris ceremonies asked not to be named publicly.
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He said Jews were appalled by the experience of rabbis in Charlottesville, who feared that they would become the targets of neo-Nazi violence, and by Mr. Trump's equivocal response.
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The rabbis on the list hail from all over the world, and from different sides of the spectrum of Jewish religious identity: They are Orthodox and conservative, reform and progressive.
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They discussed topics as diverse as the kosher status of gelatin, the religious rulings of venerated medieval rabbis and the ingredients of the solution that encourages lab-grown meat to grow.
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"Just a week ago, a week, a group of rabbis in Israel announced, in a clear announcement, demanding their government, to poison, to poison, the water of the Palestinians," he said.
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A large gathering was expected at the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site in the Old City, on Monday night, with the chief rabbis of Israel scheduled to be in attendance.
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Some rabbis and others who will be attending the pro-Israel group's event are organizing a walkout during Mr. Trump's speech to protest views that they say conflict with Jewish values.
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Leaders of Zurich's Jewish community are bristling at the demonstrations abroad by the Orthodox rabbis, who in turn contend that those local leaders are too intimidated to challenge the museum project.
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They discussed topics as diverse as the kosher status of gelatin, the religious rulings of venerated medieval rabbis and the ingredients of the solution that encourages lab-grown meat to grow.
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Over the centuries, it was fine for women to be martyred (or, at times, to be burned as witches), but they were denied the right to become priests, rabbis or ministers.
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Bucharest had become a kind of Hasidic Casablanca, with desperate refugees, including the grand rabbis of Skver and Bobov, seeking documents that could take them to the United States or Palestine.
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Aliza Bloch, a 51-year-old former high school principal, didn't just defeat the two-term incumbent, an ultra-Orthodox man who enjoyed the backing of rabbis from the dominant sects.
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Thousands of ultra-Orthodox voters — voting their own minds, rather than their rabbis' dictates — split their tickets, voting for Ms. Bloch for mayor and for Haredi candidates for the City Council.
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"Von tam" was a rite of passage, like a bar mitzvah in the land where the rabbis had been sent to the gulags and synagogues were refurbished into Komsomol youth centers.
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Numerous rabbis and community leaders have reported feeling that Hanukkah's meaning as a holiday about Jewish survival in a diverse religious landscape is more vital in America in 2018 than ever.
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Rabbi Hara Person, the chief strategy officer at the Central Conference of American Rabbis, likewise highlighted the extent to which she saw Hanukkah as a vital symbolic affirmation of Jewish resilience.
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He did not speak in a "singsong" voice, nor does my brother, who is an ordained rabbi, nor did my childhood rabbi, nor do the many other rabbis whom I know.
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The accident leaves the rabbi's wife in a coma and the rabbi in a state of shock, which puts the future of the congregation in limbo; rabbis have to supervise repairs.
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The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Dr. Brager's Twitter account, which by Friday had been made private, had included posts critical of the two rabbis asked to speak at Thursday's assembly.
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In his decades of experience dealing with priests, rabbis and imams advising families in the ward, he said, none of the major religions appeared to support extending life at all costs.
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In the late 1960s, before abortion was legalized again in the United States, concerned pastors and rabbis set up the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion to help women find safe illegal abortions.
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More than 1,500 rabbis from nearly every state in our great country chose this month, the month of international Holocaust remembrance, to join HIAS by signing a statement of welcome for refugees.
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Another impediment is that many senior rabbis have forbidden their followers from having internet in their homes or owning smartphones because of the temptations to sin that they may be exposed to.
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She became obsessed with the concept, researching it at the library of Hebrew Union College, a seminary with a campus in Los Angeles, talking about it with rabbis, and reading their works.
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Minutes later, accompanied by Jewish rabbis, William approached the Western Wall, at the foot of the sacred hilltop, through a passage formed by police barricades that held back a crowd of onlookers.
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What the "perverts" incident proved is that not even the people who supposedly share the rabbis' view that according to Jewish law homosexuality is an abomination are willing to tolerate hateful language.
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In diaspora, jurisprudence is a crucial tool: a way for rabbis to try to make sense of new experiences and edge cases that the five books of Torah didn't cover or anticipate.
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The New Right broke away from a more established right-wing party, aiming to free itself of the influence of ultra-Orthodox rabbis and more extremist elements in the pro-settler community.
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Even a small but growing number of observant Orthodox couples are rejecting the Rabbinate and marrying according to strict Jewish law, but in private, more egalitarian ceremonies performed by maverick Orthodox rabbis.
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She was raised ultra-Orthodox in Monsey, N.Y., as part of a family of revered rabbis — her grandfather is the founder of the Hasidic sect to which she formerly belonged, Emunas Yisroel.
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He became involved in a Jesus-worshiping Hebrew Israelite organization, Israel of God, where he was baptized in 2013; he has also been studying alongside Jewish rabbis since around that same time.
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He speculated that the Israeli rabbi was perhaps not as "illuminated" as some of Rome's rabbis, and had had the bad luck of cutting into an infested, and clearly non-Roman, artichoke.
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In the midst of the ceremony, as five couples and two rabbis under one huppah were poised to sign the ketubahs, the traditional marriage contracts, the skies turned an ominous dark gray.
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In an interview, the rabbis who heard the pizza case said they had considered Calabria's location, as well as Mr. Branover's substantial investment in his restaurant and the reputation it had won.
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But there were more than 1,300 guests, six rabbis leading the ceremony and about 40 more who stood with them to bless the newlyweds at the closing of the Sunday wedding ceremony.
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Urged on by their rabbis and often bused in by their high schools, thousands of teenage girls in long skirts and teenage boys in black hats showed up to flood the zone.
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"It is the documents that were presented which are unrecognized, not the rabbis," said Moshe Dagan, director general of the rabbinate, in a letter translated and reprinted by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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And so I get hammered constantly by everyone, from the rabbis to the old ladies to the young parents who are like, 'It's your responsibility to do this,' and I'm like, 'I can't.
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Donald Trump's inauguration speakers -- from reverends, rabbis and bishops to Jackie Evancho -- walked away from the historic day with way more than a memory ... like some gold to spruce up their swag bag.
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In the letter, which was obtained by CNN, Rabbi Emeritus Haskel Lookstein, along with Rabbis Chaim Steinmetz and Elie Weinstock, slammed President Donald Trump's response, saying they are "deeply troubled" by his comments.
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She is survived by her two brothers, Jacob, a rabbi, and Benjamin; two sons, Yisroel and Osher, both rabbis; two daughters, Chaya Sora Gertzulin and Slovi Wolff; 23 grandchildren; and 32 great-grandchildren.
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The rabbi, Haskel Lookstein, is one of the most respected Orthodox rabbis in New York, where he has led Manhattan's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun for decades, after taking over the pulpit from his father.
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Rabbi Lookstein, 84, is now in an emeritus position at Kehilath Jeshurun, which has a membership of 1,100 families, and is considered one of the most established and mainstream Orthodox rabbis in America.
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Speaking of political commentators, he said, "One wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem" — creatures of fable that were set in motion by rabbis in time of danger.
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She sent me links to videos of Rabbis from Israel, Christian Evangelicals from the US, Freemasons, and a strange collection of D-list celebrities from countries across the Middle East and Central Asia.
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It organizes retreats for rabbis, cantors, educators and ordinary congregants interested in enhancing their religious life with contemplative Eastern practices like meditation, yoga and mindfulness, as well as reimagined concepts from within Judaism.
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The elder Mr. Bloch's prominence made him a target of the Nazis, and one day in August 1941, he was one of about 200 Jews — teachers, rabbis, doctors and others — who were abducted.
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"It is important that President Trump is holding this outreach call with Jewish leaders and rabbis ahead of Rosh Hashana," said Nathan Diament, the executive director for public policy at the Orthodox Union.
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Jim Tankersley INTERNATIONAL Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has met with President Trump, business leaders, journalists, technology executives and even rabbis on his whirlwind multiweek tour of the United States.
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This year, Welch's Manischewitz demonstrated that it really meant business by turning out juice with an additional kosher certification from a panel of exacting rabbis from the rigorous Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox communities.
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Israel is a democracy whose population is overwhelmingly secular, but the chief rabbinate, which has long been dominated by Orthodox rabbis, controls all matters concerning marriage, conversion, birth, and death for Jewish citizens.
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HIAS, a Jewish refugee resettlement group based in Maryland, published a letter signed by more than 1,700 rabbis urging the United States to remain a safe haven for thousands fleeing war, poverty and genocide.
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The role of these rabbis in controlling the army raises the question: If a two-state agreement miraculously emerged out of the current rampant violence, what are the realities of putting it into place?
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In both areas, measles has struck particularly hard in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, and health officials have worked with rabbis and other community leaders to spread the message: Vaccines are safe, and they save lives.
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The 124-year-old bathhouse on East 21993th Street has long been a New York institution, a bona fide melting pot, where the sweat of celebrities mingles with that of rabbis and taxi drivers.
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The Orthodox Union, representing Orthodox Judaism, is a long-standing advocate of lifting the FEMA ban, but some liberal rabbis have said the current rule is a necessary consequence of America's church-state separation.
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But it was the Ashkenazi Jews in Germany who adopted it into their Hanukkah celebrations because it was one of the few times in the Jewish calendar year that rabbis permitted games of chance.
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"We came because we could not stand silently by our brother's blood," the rabbis said in a letter from jail, written mainly by Rabbi Borowitz, before invoking the silence that greeted the Nazi crematories.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's long-running struggle to balance modern standards with Jewish tradition has come to a head in the military, where new orders curtailing beards among soldiers have met protests from some rabbis.
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Washington (CNN)Several groups of rabbis and Jewish religious leaders are planning to protest Donald Trump's speech to a major pro-Israel conference in Washington on Monday, accusing the presidential candidate of encouraging hatred.
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I also happened to have, as souvenirs from a bar mitzvah, three red-and-blue yarmulkes bearing the University of Kansas Jayhawks logo, so three rabbis from Kansas were among the snooty inn's guests.
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At the 92nd Street Y, we have created a new tradition of the New Year Song, an uplifting video that features rabbis, cantors and choirs from across the globe performing a beautiful original song.
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Frustrated by the lack of progress, and with a petition pending before Israel's Supreme Court, non-Orthodox rabbis and lay leaders defied traditional convention by marching to the Western Wall holding 14 Torah scrolls.
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In both Lebanon and Israel, only religious leaders can perform marriages, so lovers who wish to keep the rabbis, sheikhs, priests and pastors out of their love life have to tie the knot elsewhere.
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This Passover, many of them will — not to mention less-observant Ashkenazi Jews who didn't need a group of conservative rabbis to tell them not to follow rules that didn't make sense to them.
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But according to the Orthodox news website Hamodia, Rabbi Portugal, unlike other grand rabbis, did not create yet another yeshiva for his followers in the United States, preferring to devote himself to spiritual development.
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Mr. Netanyahu's decision was "a stunning surprise, because this was the prime minister's own proposal," said Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the chief executive of the Rabbinical Assembly, which represents Conservative rabbis in the United States.
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Rabbi Shmuel Teitelbaum, whose rabbinical court, Minchas Chinuch Tartikov, certified Welch's, said that in September some 20 rabbis ventured to a factory in Westfield, N.Y., outside Buffalo, and monitored the grapes for a week.
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" Ms. Olitzky, a marketing executive whose husband and two sons are rabbis, started the first Sisterhood women's meeting in New Jersey six years ago on the theory that "women navigate the world through relationships.
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Rabbis and priests and pastors, ministers because the support for me was a record, as you know, not only in terms of numbers of people but percentages of those numbers that voted for Trump.
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An important component, she said, is to work with rabbis in the community to discount some of the false claims in the Peach handbook, notably one that says the MMR vaccine violates kosher dietary law.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday retracted his allegation that Israeli rabbis had called for the poisoning of Palestinian water, a remark that had drawn strong condemnation from Israel's prime minister.
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Hotels promise sizzling entertainment — this year, The Amazing Kreskin and the reggae artist Matisyahu will be at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, P.R. Notable rabbis, authors and politicians are scheduled to give guest lectures.
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After the murder in 1975 of a journalist, Vladimir Herzog, that the government called a suicide, Cardinal Arns led an ecumenical service, along with rabbis and a Presbyterian minister, that was attended by 8,000 people.
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In the child sex-abuse cases, victims' rights advocates had long expressed concern that Mr. Hynes was reluctant to pursue accusations against ultra-Orthodox Jews because their rabbis were some of his strongest political supporters.
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You don't need to understand the prayers to grasp that men with sidecurls in olive drab and with rifles at their feet are, as Mr. Lieberman assures voters, "the worst nightmare" of the Haredi rabbis.
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But rabbis have long debated the correct approach to homosexuality, and more liberal streams of Judaism, arguing that ancient laws need to allow room for new understandings, have embraced gay members and perform gay weddings.
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It sold 20,000 copies, Rabbi Scherman said in an interview, and Rabbi Zlotowitz, encouraged by the response from leading rabbis, wound down the invitation business and from then on devoted himself to publishing religious works.
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Religious texts say rabbis burned it as offerings in Jerusalem's temples, the three biblical Magi gifted it to the newborn Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad prescribed it for fumigating houses and treating numerous ailments.
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Two of the four national co-chairwomen of the Women's March, Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, met with a group of 13 rabbis, after which nine of them encouraged Jews to join this year's demonstration.
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On Tuesday, a group of rabbis and workers delivered a letter to a manager at the photo giant's flagship store in Manhattan that expresses concerns over incidents of verbal abuse, discrimination, and hazardous workforce conditions.
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