Other well-known rabbis who are reincarnationists include Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Talmud scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Rabbi DovBer Pinson, Rabbi David M. Wexelman, Rabbi Zalman Schachter, and many others.

The head of the Israeli Masorti movement's Vaad Halakha ( equivalent to the CJLS ), Rabbi David Golinkin, wrote the CJLS protesting its reconsideration of the traditional ban on homosexual conduct.

Today ’ s leading Conservative posek in Israel, Rabbi David Golinkin, has written profusely on Louis Ginzberg.

David Zvi Hoffman suggests that Mishnah Rishonah actually refers to texts from earlier Sages upon which Rabbi based his Mishnah.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner ( Masorti UK ), the first rabbi to provide long-distance communal supervision, was succeeded in 2009 by rabbi David Soetendorp.

* Video: Rabbi Prof. David Hartman lectures about Mordecai Kaplan

Rabbi David Dalin's The Myth of Hitler's Pope argues that critics of Pius XII are liberal Catholics and ex-Catholics who " exploit the tragedy of the Jewish people during the Holocaust to foster their own political agenda of forcing changes on the Catholic Church today " and that Pius XII was responsible for saving the lives of many thousands of Jews.

In 2002, the CJLS adapted a responsum by Rabbi David Fine, Women and the Minyan, which provides an official religious-law foundation for these actions and explains the current Conservative approach to the role of women in prayer.

* Rabbi Aqiba und Bar-Kokhba ( 1910 ), a Yiddish novel by David Pinsky

" Rabbi David Wolpe believes that the Second Coming was " grown out of genuine disappointment " and invented by Christians to theologically compensate for Jesus ' death.

This was discouraged by Rabbi David HaLevi Segal in his commentary to the Shulchan Aruch.

For example, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of the Makhon Shilo institute has issued a siddur reflecting Eretz Yisrael practice as found in the Jerusalem Talmud and other sources.

However, he personally refrained from eating meat except on the Sabbath and Festivals, and one of his leading disciples, Rabbi David Cohen, known as the " Nazirite " of Jerusalem, was a devout vegetarian.

* Rabbi David Kimhi, biblical commentator ( d. 1235 )

* Rabbi David Kimhi, Biblical commentator ( b. 1160 )

In Israel, the Shalom Hartman Institute, founded by Orthodox Rabbi David Hartman, opened a program in 2009 that will grant semicha to women and men of all Jewish denominations, including Orthodox Judaism, although the students are meant to " assume the role of ' rabbi-educators ' – not pulpit rabbis-in North American community day schools.

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 David Berger replied " I confess that I would not look forward to such a disappearance ....

Rabbi David Golinkin in the Responsa of the Masorati ( Conservative ) Movement cites Rabbenu Manoah ( Provence, ca.

Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of Machon Shilo offers a unique Orthodox approach: he has published a responsum outlining his opinion that there is no binding custom on Ashkenazim in the Land of Israel as historically this was not the local practice ( which, he explains, is the essence of custom ); in March 2007 he released a ruling that all Jews in the Land of Israel are permitted to eat kitniyot ( see English Article and Hebrew Legal Ruling ).

He received separate rabbinical ordinations from both the Rogatchover Gaon, Yosef Rosen, and from Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg ( also known as the Sridei Aish ).

The Breslov Yeshiva and Synagogue in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, established by Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Rosen in 1953.

The original Jerusalem community, founded by emigrees from Ukraine before World War II and built around the Breslov Yeshiva in Mea Shearim founded by Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Rosen in 1953, still exists.

Rabbi David Rosen of the Anti-Defamation League noted at the time: " To some extent the WJC did determine the tune.

* Moses Rosen, Chief Rabbi of Romania from 1948 to 1994

* Rabbi Rosen is a Rabbi aboard Providence.

In Dvinsk, his counterpart was the Hasidic Rabbi Yosef Rosen, known as the Rogatchover Gaon or by his work Tzofnath Paneach.

The Museum also contains a large collection of Jewish ritual objects from Romania, collected by Rabbi Moses Rosen ( 1912 – 1994 ), the late Chief Rabbi of the Romanian Jewry.

Moses Rosen ( known in Hebrew as David Moshe Rozen דוד משה רוזן ) ( July 23, 1912-May 6, 1994 ) was Chief Rabbi ( Rav Kolel ) of Romanian

Under the supervision of the Jewish Democratic Committee, the rabbis and the communities representatives from all around Romania met in Bucharest on June 16, 1948 and elected by secret vote Dr Moses Rosen as the new Chief Rabbi instead of Alexandru Şafran who was accused as a traitor who " abandoned " his " sheep and goats ".

In 1956, the same year when many of the Zionist activists were freed from the Romanian prisons, the authorities allowed to Rabbi Rosen to took part again to Jewish meetings and conferences abroad.

In 1964 the Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen added to his functions that of the chairman of the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Romania and kept it until his death.

The position of Rabbi Rosen got strengthened following the change in the Romanian foreign policy after 1964.

The activity of Rabbi Rosen in those years, with the silent approval of the regime, in the direction of encouraging the emigration to Israel, the study of the Hebrew language, diffusion of the Jewish traditions and values, in managing of the social works among the needy and old Jewish population, his leadership and diplomatic abilities, and also his Jewish and general culture, won esteem among the Jewish leaders in the world.

Rabbi Rosen, who felt always a proud Jew and had a good acquaintance with the Romanian culture, found a place in the frame of the new Romanian diplomacy and became one of Romania's important non official " ambassadors " on the international scene.

In March 1979, Rabbi Rosen and Patriarch Justinian, head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, jointly sponsored a Jewish and Orthodox Christian Dialogue in Lucerne, Switzerland.

A public square in Jerusalem is named after Rabbi Rosen and his wife Amalia.

In this connection Rabbi Rosen, in his short 1987 piece " The Recipe ", quoted Charles de Gaulle: " I have no enemies, I have no friends, I have interests ," and added " I succeeded in convincing the Romanian Government that, by doing good to the Jews, by meting out justice to them, it could obtain advantages in matters of favourable public opinion, trade relations, political sympathies ...

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Rabbi Rosen was a harsh critic of the efforts to rehabilitate the image of Ion Antonescu, Romania's leader during the period when it had been allied with the Axis Powers during World War II, and continued to advocate emigration to Israel: " Demagogy is very strong here ... Neofascist propaganda ... plays on xenophobia.

Rabbi Rosen was married since 1949 to Amalia, born Ruckenstein, from Burdujeni-Suceava.

Dangers, tests and miracles: the remarkable life story of Chief Rabbi Rosen of Romania as told to Joseph Finkelstone ( c1990 ).

* Moses Rosen ( 1912 – 1994 ), Chief Rabbi of Romanian Jewry