* Letter to a homosexual baal teshuva, by Rabbi Aharon Feldman

* Rabbi Aharon Kotler ( founder of the Lakewood yeshivas in America )

* Rabbi Aharon Kotler ( 1891 – 1962 ), founder of the Beth Medrash Govoha yeshiva and a pre-eminent authority on Torah in the 20th Century among Haredi Jews.

* Mishnat R ' Aharon Mussar Lectures on many topics by Rabbi Aharon Kotler.

Two people can be considered to have spearheaded the kollel philosophy and outgrowth in today's world-Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the founder of Beth Medrash Govoha, America's largest yeshiva located in Lakewood, New Jersey, and Rabbi Elazar Shach, one of the most prominent leaders of the Jewish community in Israel until his death in 2001.

1125 – 1186 ), Rambam ( 1135 – 1204 ), Rabbi Eliezer ben Yoel Halevi ( ca 1140 – ca 1225 ), Rashba ( 1235 – 1310 ), Aharon Halevi of Barcelona ( b. ca 1235?

* Torah Study for Women, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein

However, this plan was abandoned upon the insistence of Rabbi Aharon Kotler then head of the Lakewood yeshiva.

The list also includes Rabbis Shlomo Teichman ( mathematics ) founder and dean of Bais Yaakov Academy, Shlomo Braunstein ( statistics ) rosh yeshiva and principal, Shlomo Ribner ( psychology ) psychologist and rosh yeshiva, Moshe Homnick ( psychology ), Ahron Soloveichik ( law ) rosh yeshiva, Zecharia Dor-Shav ( Dershowitz ) ( psychology ) educator, Aharon Lichtenstein ( literature ) rosh yeshiva, Dr Abraham J. Tannenbaum ( education ), Joseph Thurm ( information technology ), Naftoli Meir Langsam ( education ), Yedidyah Langsam ( chemistry & computer science ), Chaim Feuerman ( education ), Zvhil-Mezbuz Rebbe Grand Rabbi Yitzhak Aharon Korff ( law, international law and diplomacy ).

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

There have been rabbinical attempts to renew Semicha and re-establish a Sanhedrin by Rabbi Jacob Berab in 1538, Rabbi Yisroel Shklover in 1830, Rabbi Aharon Mendel haCohen in 1901, Rabbi Zvi Kovsker in 1940 and Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon in 1949.

As the Chabad movement grew and more demands were placed on Rabbi Schneerson's time, he limited his practice of meeting followers individually in his office.

" Moshe D. Sherman, an associate professor at Touro College wrote that " as Schneerson's empire grew, a personality cult developed around him ... portraits of Rabbi Schneerson were placed in all Lubavitch homes, shops, and synagogues, and devoted followers routinely requested a blessing from him prior to their marriage, following an illness, or at other times of need.

Under Hutner's charismatic leadership, Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin grew from relative obscurity to prominence, and with it grew his reputation in the world of Torah scholarship.

Born in Vilna, he grew up poor and first worked braiding lace in Kovno, where he was first associated with the devout, moralistic Musar movement of Rabbi Israel Salanter, but later drawn to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, and adopted a more modern Orthodox Judaism that renounced superstition.

Rabbi Lichtenstein was born in Paris, France, but grew up in the United States, studied in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin under Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner.

Belzer Hasidism grew in size during Rebbe Yehoshua's tenure and the tenure of his son and successor, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach ( I ) ( 1894 – 1926 ).

Rabbi Isaac grew to be a great Rebbe and was known as " the Sweet Singer of Israel ".

When Rabbi Dovid grew older he took over the leadership of the shul of his late father, and devoted his life to help a fellow Jew.

His younger cousin, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, also grew up in Dolhinov.

Skeeter Rabbi grew up in Los Angeles, and originally was only a locker until his cousins, Boogaloo Sam and Poppin ’ Pete introduced him to popping.

Rabbi Chaim Noach Levin also wrote in his notes on Megillas Yuchsin that he heard directly from Rabbi Yosef Shaul Halevi, the head of the Rabbinical court of Lemberg, that when he wanted to go see the remains of the Golem, the sexton of the Alt-Neu Shul said that Rabbi Yechezkel Landau had advised against going up to the attic after he himself had gone up.

To correct this, Rabbi Yehuda haNasi took up the redaction of the Mishnah.

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

After many years of effort by a great number of tannaim, the oral tradition was written down around 200 CE by Rabbi Judah haNasi who took up the compilation of a nominally written version of the Oral Law, the Mishnah ( Hebrew: משנה ).

A teacher of the 3rd century, Rabbi Simlai, traces the development of Jewish religious principles from Moses with his 613 mitzvot of prohibition and injunction, through David, who, according to this rabbi, enumerates eleven ; through Isaiah, with six ; Micah, with three ; to Habakkuk who simply but impressively sums up all religious faith in the single phrase, " The pious lives in his faith " ( Talmud, Mak., toward end ).

Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz explained the apparent paradox of his position by citing the old question, " Can God create a rock so heavy that He cannot pick it up?

In 1481, an Italian Jewish pilgrim, Rabbi Meshulam Da Volterra, wrote: " And all the community of Jews, every year, goes up to Mount Zion on the day of Tisha B ' Av to fast and mourn, and from there they move down along Yoshafat Valley and up to Mount of Olives.

Stiles struck up a close friendship with Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal during Carigal's six month residence in Newport in 1773, the two meeting 28 times ( according to Stiles ' records ) to discuss a wide variety of topics, ranging from Kabbalah to the politics of the Holy Land.

The Tzemach Tzedek cites a question asked by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk: At first glance, this appears to have been mainly a test of Isaac, for he was the one to be giving up his life al kiddush Hashem ( in order to sanctify God ’ s Name ).

Rabbi Menachem Mendel answers that although it is a very great Mitzvah to give up one ’ s life, it is unremarkable in the annals of Jewish history.

The belief that he was the messiah ( moshiach ), first openly professed by Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo in a 1984 book, became commonplace the movement in the years leading up to Schneerson's passing.

Together with the dean of the Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, a charter to set up a combined yeshiva and college was obtained from the New York State Board of Regents.

The Masorti movement did not establish a presence in the United Kingdom until much later and came about largely because of a series of incidents known colletively as the " Jacobs affair ": Rabbi Louis Jacobs, a leading scholar of Anglo Jewry, joined the faculty of the Jews College, leaving his post as Rabbi of the New West End Synagogue, under the impression that he would eventually be made principal.

However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.

Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, for the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

" Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth ( United Kingdom )

* 1948 – Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

In 1889, he emigrated to the United States with his mother and sisters to join his father in New York City who was working with the Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, a leader of profound influence in modern Orthodoxy in the United States, forbade women from serving as presidents of synagogues or any other official positions of leadership, and from performing other mitzvot ( commandments ) traditionally performed by males exclusively, such as wearing a tallit or tefillin.

Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, distinguishes between tolerance and multiculturalism, and says that the Netherlands is a tolerant, rather than multicultural, society.

Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, former Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue of Great Britain, describes the mainstream Jewish view on this issue: " Yes, I do believe that the chosen people concept as affirmed by Judaism in its holy writ, its prayers, and its millennial tradition.

Through the efforts of Rabbi Henry Cohen and Congregation B ' nai Israel, Galveston became the focus of an immigration plan called the Galveston Movement that, between 1907 and 1914, diverted roughly 10, 000 Eastern European, Jewish immigrants from the crowded cities of the Northeastern United States.

The Conservative movement, however, has clashed with Orthodoxy over its refusal to recognize the Conservative and Reform movements as legitimate, and in February 1997 Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, claimed that Orthodox organizations in Israel politically discriminate against non-Orthodox Jews, and called on Reform and Conservative Jews, as well as the Jewish Federations throughout the United States, to stop funding Orthodox organizations and institutions that disagree with the Conservative view of pluralism.

* Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, London

Leon Kieres, the President of IPN, also met in New York with Rabbi Jacob Baker ( formerly Yaakov Eliezer Piekarz ) who had emigrated in 1938 from Jedwabne to the United States.

The United Synagogue was founded in 1913 by Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter on the principle that through cooperation they could both develop and perpetuate Conservative Judaism.

In 1966, Immanuel Jakobovits, who later became Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth, disputed the veracity of Shahak's story, and alleged that when challenged to substantiate his claim, Shahak eventually had been forced to admit that the Orthodox Jew he claimed to have witnessed " simply did not exist.

For many years to come, he would speak about America's special place in the world, and would argue that the bedrock of the United States ' power and uniqueness came from its foundational values, which were, according to Rabbi Schneerson, '" E pluribus unum '— from many one ", and " In God we trust.

On March 25, 1983, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, the United States Congress proclaimed Rabbi Schneerson's birthday as " Education Day, USA ," and awarded him the National Scroll of Honor.

Starting with President Carter in 1978, the U. S. Congress and President have issued proclamations each year, declaring that Rabbi Schneerson's birthday — usually a day in March or April that coincides with his recognized Hebrew calendar birthdate of 11 Nissan — be observed as Education and Sharing Day in the United States.

In 1940, under the leadership of the previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement moved its headquarters to Brooklyn, New York in the United States.

Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, former Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue of Great Britain, describes a commonly held Jewish view on this issue: " Yes, I do believe in the Chosen people concept as affirmed by Judaism in its holy writ, its prayers, and its millennial tradition.