He was followed by Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman ( 1946 – 1964 ) and Rabbi Simon G. Kramer ( 1964 – 1970 ), and then by Rabbi Irving J. Rosenbaum.

In 1947, with the participation of Rabbi Simon Greenberg his efforts toward that end culminated in the establishment of the American Jewish University, then known as the University of Judaism.

Rabbi Shalom Greenberg from Chabad-Lubavitch in New York arrived in Shanghai to serve this community in August 1998.

His father, Rabbi Simon Greenberg, was the rabbi of Har Zion Temple and one of the most important leaders of the Conservative movement.

* Rabbi Ben Greenberg, Rabbi of the Hillel at Harvard University

This tradition was developed in the 1980s with guidance from Rabbi Yitz Greenberg.

The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook stated that love is the most important attribute in humanity.

Thus, a Rabbi, a Catholic priest, and an agnostic might agree that, in this particular case, the best approach is to withhold extraordinary medical care, while disagreeing on the reasons that support their individual positions.

Although there is no reference to reincarnation in the Talmud or any prior writings, according to rabbis such as Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, reincarnation is recognized as being part and parcel of Jewish tradition.

Rabbi Trugman explains that it is through oral tradition that the meanings of the Torah, its commandments and stories, are known and understood.

Rabbi Shraga Simmons commented that within the Bible itself, the idea reincarnation is intimated in Deut.

Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman wrote that reincarnation is an " ancient, mainstream belief in Judaism.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

In the traditional literature he is referred to almost exclusively as Rav, " the Master ", ( both his contemporaries and posterity recognizing in him a master ), just as his teacher, Judah I, was known simply as Rabbi.

He is called Rabbi Abba only in the tannaitic literature ( for instance, Tosefta, Beitzah 1: 7 ), where a number of his sayings are preserved.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ( Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ ) or Adin Even Yisrael ( Hebrew: עדין אבן ישראל ) ( born 1937 ) is a teacher, philosopher, social critic, and spiritual mentor, who has been hailed by Time magazine as a " once-in-a-millennium scholar ".

Deeply involved in the future of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, Steinsaltz serves as the region's Duchovny Ravin ( Spiritual Rabbi ), a historic Russian title which indicates that he is the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry.

His son, Rabbi Menachem Even-Israel, is the Director of Educational Programs at the Steinsaltz Center in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Rabbi Milton Steinberg wrote that " By its nature Judaism is averse to formal creeds which of necessity limit and restrain thought " and asserted in his book Basic Judaism ( 1947 ) that " Judaism has never arrived at a creed.

Rabbi Simcha Weinstein's book Up, Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero says that Superman is both a pillar of society and one whose cape conceals a " nebbish ," saying, " He's a bumbling, nebbish Jewish stereotype.

Rabbi Akiva used to say, " Beloved is man, for he was created in God's image ; and the fact that God made it known that man was created in His image is indicative of an even greater love.

Talmudic sages Hillel and Rabbi Akiva commented that this is a major element of the Jewish religion.

The matter is not so: For Rabbi Akiba was a great scholar of the sages of the Mishnah, and he was the assistant-warrior of the king Ben Coziba Simon bar Kokhba ...

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

As far as we know, the Vilna Gaon is the only Rabbi who has actually claimed that he tried to create a Golem ; all such stories about other rabbis were told after their time.

The Jewish calendar's epoch ( reference date ), 1 Tishrei 1 AM, is equivalent to Monday, 7 October 3761 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar, the equivalent tabular date ( same daylight period ) and is about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul AM 1, based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century CE sage.

The Mishnah has many sayings about the World to Come, for example, " Rabbi Yaakov said: This world is like a lobby before the World to Come ; prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall.

The dissenters, who included Rabbi Joel Roth as well as a partial concurrence by Rabbi Daniel Nevins, argued for reaffirming the classical halakhic framework in which human decrees inform and often limit but never wholly abrogate law believed to be of Divine origin, stating that " we should acknowledge that God's law is beyond our authority to eliminate ", but should continue the traditional approach of applying strict evidentiary rules and presumptions that tend to render enforcement unlikely.

Modern Kabbalah developed by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, in his writings about the future generation, focuses on how society could achieve an altruistic social framework.

Rabbi Norman Lamm ( the Chancellor, Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva ", and former president of Yeshiva University, a major Modern Orthodox Jewish institution ) advocated that some ( although not all ) homosexuals should be viewed as diseased and in need of compassion and treatment, rather than willful rebels who should be ostracized.

These four are all roshei yeshiva ( i. e., rabbinic leaders ) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University, the largest and most influential Modern Orthodox rabbinic program in America.

Rabbi Weiss is also notable for his ordination of Sara Hurwitz, which was strongly condemned by the Haredi Agudath Yisrael ( which called it non-Orthodox ), and also firmly rejected by the Modern Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America.

* The commentary by Rabbi Pinhas Kehati, which is written in Modern Israeli Hebrew and based on classical and contemporary works, has become popular in the late Twentieth Century.

In 1912, he helped to create the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism with Rabbi Israel Friedlander.

Rabbi Norman Lamm, one of the leaders of Modern Orthodoxy and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, opposes giving semicha to women.

In his 1954 responsum on relations with non-Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik developed the intellectual foundations for the way Modern Orthodox Judaism was to approach the issue in subsequent decades.

* The Handbook to Jewish Spiritual Renewal: A Path of Mussar Transformation for the Modern Jew, Rabbi Arthur Segal, Amazon Books, 2009

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, a Modern Orthodox rabbi who serves as a Rosh Yeshiva in Har Etzion

* Rabbi Dr. Shalom Carmy-professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Yeshiva University ; a prominent Modern Orthodox theologian and student of The Rav

* Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik-Known as " The Rav ", he was effectively the spiritual and intellectual guide of Modern Orthodoxy in America for the mid-20th century.

* The Ideology of Modern Orthodoxy Rabbi Saul J. Berman

* What is Modern Orthodoxy ?, Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig of Yeshivat Hamivtar

* What is Modern Orthodoxy ?, Rabbi Chanoch Waxman of Yeshivat Hamivtar

*" Open Orthodoxy: A Modern Orthodox Rabbi's Creed " Rabbi Avraham ( Avi ) Weiss ( pdf )

* Is Modern Orthodoxy Synonymous with Laxity in Halacha ?, Rabbi Chanoch Waxman

* Modern Orthodoxy and Its Future, Rabbi Norman Lamm

* Modern Orthodoxy Is Always At The Crossroads, Rabbi Michael Broyde

* Rabbi Marc Angel's Project reflecting a fusion of Modern Orthodoxy and Sephardic Judaism

In practice, the predominant position of Modern Orthodoxy on this issue is based on the position of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik in an essay entitled Confrontation.

* Avi Weiss ( born 1944 ), activist Modern Orthodox Rabbi.

See further in the article on Rabbi Hirsch and additionally under Modern Orthodoxy.