Following the death of his father-in-law Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam in 2005, a dispute arose as to who should succeed him as Bobover Rebbe.

The compilation and publication of the writings of the previous rebbe, Rebbe Avrohom Menachem Danziger ( d. 2005 ) is currently underway in the book Imrei Menachem ( Words of comfort ).

For eight years up to late 2005 the president of the movement was Rabbi Ehud Bandel.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner succeeded Louis Jacobs as head of the New London Synagogue, but when Weiner was appointed head of the new European Masorti Beth Din in 2005, Jacobs returned.

Further afield, in northeast India, the Kuki-Chin-Mizo Jews claim descent from Manasseh, and call themselves Bnei Menashe ; in 2005 Shlomo Amar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, announced that he regarded this claim to be true, which under the Law of Return allows them to migrate to Israel, as long as they formally convert to Judaism in accordance with halachic standards.

* Rabbi Israel Salanter: Religious-Ethical Thinker, Menahem G. Glenn ( 1953, 2005 )

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 2005.

Rabbi Steve Gutow has served as executive director since August 2005.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a leader of the Jewish Renewal movement, in 2005.

Moore and Kutcher married on September 24, 2005, in a private ceremony conducted by a Rabbi of the Kabbalah Center.

These being his grandsons Danfi, Tsedakah, Mafraj and Sarawi Further afield, in northeast India, the Mizo Jews claim descent from Manasseh, and call themselves Bnei Menashe ; in 2005 Shlomo Amar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, announced that he regarded this claim to be true, which under the Law of Return allows them to migrate to Israel, as long as they formally convert to Israel's official form of Judaism.

Directors of NFTY include Rabbi Samuel Cook ( 1945 – 1967 ), Rabbi Henry Skirball ( 1963 – 1971 ), Rabbi Allan Smith ( 1971 – 2002 ) Rabbi Michael Mellen ( 2005 – 2011 ).

* R. Benny Lau, Mimaran ad Maran: Mishnato ha-Hilkhatit shel ha-Rav Ovadiah Yosef ( From R. Yosef Karo to R. Ovadiah Yosef: The Halachic Teaching of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ): Tel Aviv 2005

* Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence ( 2005 – present )

In 2005, Chief Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky was physically removed from the Synagogue by two men hired by the community's secular leader Mr. Alperovich, who then declared a new Chief Rabbi.

Rabbi Naftali Zvi died on March 23, 2005 ( 12 days in Adar, 5765 ) at age seventy-four leaving a wife, two daughters and two sons in-law ; Rabbi Yehoshua Rubin and Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger ; as well as his brother and sisters.

Members who have studied Hebrew and who observe the Sabbath and other Jewish laws received in 2005 the support of the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel in arranging formal conversion to Judaism.

In 2005, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's ( SWC ) Rabbi Marvin Hier announced plans to construct a " Museum of Tolerance and Human Dignity " in Jerusalem by destroying the historic Mamilla Cemetery.

Rabbi Halberstam died in summer of 2000, and was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Naftali Halberstam ( 1931 – 2005 ).

# Rabbi Naftali Halberstam ( 1931 – 2005 )

# Rabbi Naftali Halberstam ( 1931 – 2005 )

* Brettler, Marc Zvi, " How to read the Bible " ( Jewish Publication Society, 2005 )

Peter Zvi Malkin (), ( May 27, 1927 – March 1, 2005 ), was an Israeli secret agent, and member of the Mossad intelligence agency.

Mayr died on 3 February 2005 in his retirement home in Bedford, Massachusetts after a short illness.

On February 3, 2005, Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania died of carbon monoxide poisoning in an apparent gas leak at the home of Raul Usupov, deputy governor of Kvemo Kartli region.

In Lewis's 2005 book Dean and Me ( A Love Story ), Lewis wrote of his kinship with Martin, who died in 1995.

" His wife, artist Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, died several years later in 2005.

Herman Alphanso Regusters died on 19 December 2005, aged 72.

When the Pope died on April 2, 2005, Ağca's brother Adnan gave an interview in which he said that Ağca and his entire family were grieving, and that the Pope had been a great friend to them.

This account was challenged in a book by Aaron Klein, who claims that Al-Gashey died of heart failure in the 1970s, and that Safady was either killed by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon in the early 1980s, or, according to a PLO operative friendly with Safady, is still alive ( as of 2005 ).

In 2005, Wellington Mara, who had been with the team since its inception in 1925 when he worked as a ball boy, died at the age of 89.

Smalley died of leukemia on October 28, 2005, at M. D.

He died at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina on August 21, 2005.

His mother, Jean Bono, also survived him, and died on January 15, 2005 at the age of 90.

Their original lead singer, Steve Hill, died in October 2005, aged 52, of liver cancer.

* Steve Hill – lead vocals ( 1973 – 1974, died in 2005 )

The Secretary was J. Richard Greenwell ( died 2005 ), of the University of Arizona.

Donald Miller died in December, 1998, Gerard Piel in September 2004 and Dennis Flanagan in January 2005.

President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who ruled Togo under a one-party system, died of a heart attack on 5 February 2005.

On February 5, 2005, Eyadéma died of a heart attack.

Sometimes a great length of time passes between nominations such as the eleven years between Stephen Breyer's nomination in 1994 and the nomination of John Roberts in 2005 to fill the seat of Sandra Day O ' Connor ( though Roberts ' nomination was withdrawn and resubmitted for the role of Chief Justice after Rehnquist died ).

An estimated 10 million-plus children under five died in 2005 ; most of their deaths were from preventable causes.

** K. R. Narayanan, President of India ( died 2005 )

* February 22 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic ( died 2005 )

* March 11 – Frank Harary, American mathematician ( died 2005 )

* July 11 – Ilse Werner, German actress ( died 2005 )

* July 13 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician ( died 2005 )

* July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist ( died 2005 )