In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

All complied except for Mordecai, a Jew, who would bow to no one but his God.

" In 1945 the Union of Orthodox Rabbis " formally assembled to excommunicate from Judaism what it deemed to be the community's most heretical voice: Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the man who eventually would become the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who developed Reconstructionist Judaism and taught at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America, also rejected the idea of a personal God, Kaplan instead thought of God " as a force, like gravity, built into the very structure of the universe ," believing that " since the universe is constructed to enable us to gain personal happiness and communal solidarity when we act morally, it follows that there is a moral force in the universe ; this force is what the Constructionists mean by God ," although some Reconstructionists do believe in a personal God.

The director " acted coldly " towards McLuhan, who had to return from Canada for reshooting, and Mordecai Lawner, who played Alvy's father, claimed that Allen never spoke to him.

Mordecai was referred to subsequently as one of those who " sat in the king's gate " to indicate his position of closeness to the king.

The Pentecostal minister Finis Dake interprets the Bible verses Esther 2: 5 – 6 (" Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah ") to mean that Mordecai himself was exiled by Nebuchadnezzar.

He is famous for his 25 pitching duels with Mordecai " Three Finger " Brown, who won 13 of the duels against Mathewson's 11, with one no-decision.

Also prominent were Mordecai Hord, a native of Louisa County and prominent early explorer, who lived on his plantation called Hordsville ; and Col. John Dillard, born in Amherst County, Virginia in 1751, wounded at the Battle of Princeton during the Revolution, and later a member of the Committee of Safety and a colonel in the Virginia forces.

The two were married by Mordecai Lincoln ( 1778 – 1851 ), who was Greene County's Justice of the Peace.

One of these is Esther, who was orphaned at a young age and was being fostered by her cousin Mordecai.

In addition to Billy Williams, the first Bee inducted into the Hall of Fame, former players who have enjoyed major league success include Sal Bando, Vida Blue ( who struck out a team-record 231 batters in 1968 ), Jim " Catfish " Hunter George Hendrick, Phil Garner, Chet Lemon, Claudell Washington, Hall of Famer Paul Molitor, Randy Ready, Larry Walker, Rubén Sierra, Kenny Rogers, José Vidro, Ugueth Urbina, Javy López, Mark Buehrle, Mike Mordecai, Shawn Estes, Ruben Gotay and Gus Zernial.

In 1825 Mordecai Manuel Noah, a Jew who wanted to found a national home for the Jews on Grand Island in New York as a way station on the way to the holy land, won widespread Christian backing for his project.

Groulx, who is one of the intellectual guides of two generations of Quebecers and one whose name some wanted to see removed from the Lionel-Groulx station a few years ago, to probably replace it by the " Mordecai Richler " station, the René Lévesque Boulevard by, no doubt, " Ariel Sharon " boulevard, the Jacques-Cartier Place by the " Galganov " place, and so on.

In the Canadian novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( 1959 ) by Mordecai Richler, the title character sells Tijuana bibles, some featuring Dick Tracy, to his high school classmates, after buying them in bulk from a newsstand vendor who assigns him a small part of the city as his sales territory.

* Mordecai Gist ( 1743 – 1792 ), member of a prominent Maryland family who became a general in command of the Maryland Line in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War

Famous alumni include Arik Einstein, Tony Cliff, Ernest Mandel, Mordecai Anielewicz, Abraham Leon, Benny Morris, Eliane Karp, Leopold Trepper, Amnon Linn, Zahara Rubin, Abba Hushi, Sam Spiegel, Irv Weinstein, Manès Sperber, Leon Rosselson, José Gurvich, Milo Adler Gilles and even Isser Harel and Menachem Begin who were briefly members before joining Mapai and the right wing Betar respectively, as well as Kerem B ' Yavneh's Rabbi Avraham Rivlin.

He finds his way to the 14th Street Legal Clinic, where he meets Mordecai Green, an advocate for the homeless, who asks him to help one night at a homeless shelter.

Bender had been-along with Mordecai Brown, an earlier figure who was more clearly now ineligible-one of only two pre-1920 candidates who received over 10 % of the 1946 vote without being selected later by the Old-Timers Committee.

Johnson's boyhood home, located at the Mordecai House | Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Shortly, when Mordecai was sitting at the king's gates, he overheard two of the king's officers guarding the gates plotting to assassinate the king.

* Audio and Video Resources for Mordecai Kaplan at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Robert E. Howard at about five years old ( circa 1911 ). Howard was born January 22, 1906 in Peaster, Texas, the only son of a traveling country physician, Dr. Isaac Mordecai Howard, and his wife, Hester Jane Ervin Howard.

In 1824, in a precursor to modern Zionism, journalist and Utopian Mordecai Manuel Noah tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called Ararat, after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark.

* Mordecai Noah – an American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian ; he tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island

Yad Vashem was first proposed in September 1942, at a board meeting of the Jewish National Fund, by Mordecai Shenhavi, a member of Kibbutz Mishmar Ha ' emek.

Amongst the best of Eeckhout's works are Christ in the Temple ( 1662 ), at Munich, and the Haman and Mordecai of 1665, at Luton House.

The book is told in the form of Sacchetti's diary, and includes literary references to the story of Faust ( at one point the prisoners stage Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Sacchetti's friendship with ringleader Mordecai Washington parallels Faust's with Mephistopheles ).

Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown ( October 19, 1876 – February 14, 1948 ), nicknamed " Three Finger " or " Miner ", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher at the turn of the 20th century.

At the same time, he started his artistic training at Bezalel Academy, where he studied with Jacob Steinhardt and Mordecai Ardon.

Mordecai Brown of the Chicago Cubs at the West Side Grounds in 1904.

Disfigured hand of Mordecai Brown of the Chicago Whales at Weeghman Park in 1915.

While at the University of Calgary, he established in the Rare Books and Special Collections of the library the Kenneth M. Glazier Collection of the papers of Canadian authors, including those of Hugh MacLennan and Mordecai Richler.

* Dr. Mordecai Sahmbi of MIT, won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his theoretical work in the teletransportation of particle mass in the same year that Darien is admitted to the Police Academy at West Point ( estimated about 2178 ).

The Damascus Affair of 1840 marks the real beginning of the diplomatic or international phase in the history of American Jews ( though a reference to the services which Mordecai M. Noah rendered his country as consul at Tunis ( 1813 – 16 ) should not be omitted ).

A considerable number of Jews have held diplomatic posts, among the more prominent being Mordecai M. Noah, consul to Tunis, 1813 – 16 ; Edwin de Leon, consul-general to Egypt, 1854 ; August Belmont, secretary of legation at The Hague, 1853 – 55, and minister resident, 1855 – 58 ; Oscar S. Straus, minister to Turkey, 1887 – 89, 1897 – 1900 ; Solomon Hirsch, minister to Turkey, 1889 – 92 ; B. F. Peixotto, consul to Bucharest, 1870 – 76 ; Simon Wolf, consul-general to Egypt, 1881 ; Max Judd, consul-general to Vienna, 1893 – 97 ; and Lewis Einstein, third secretary of embassy at Paris, 1903, and London, 1905.

The first translation of the 1625 Venice edition into English was that published by Mordecai Manuel Noah and A. S. Gould in 1840.

He translated it into English and, in 1839, sold it to Mordecai Manuel Noah.

( Interestingly, a nearly identical episode occurs in Mordecai Richler's Son of A Smaller Hero, another North American-Jewish author to whose work many comparisons with Roth's have been made — most notably, in the alienation experienced by the assimilated Jew, no longer a member of his original ethnic, religious community, yet also not accepted into the larger culture.

In a classic pitching duel, the Cubs ' Mordecai " Three Finger " Brown also carried a no-hitter into the ninth, losing it and the game, 1 – 0.

He has translated works of many Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler.

When the player's priceless Steltek Gun is stolen, he embarks on a quest that will bring him into conflict with the Luddite-like Church of Man and their shady leader, Mordecai Jones.

Mordecai Richler claimed that Auf der Maur once went bar-hopping with Conrad Black and when they accidentally wandered into a gay bar and were asked to leave, Black indignantly insisted it was his democratic right to stay, so they did.