Some of the statement's more notable supporters are Rabbi Marc Angel, co-founder of The Rabbinic Fellowship ; Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, founder of Lincoln Square Synagogue, Efrat, and Ohr Torah Stone Institutions ; and Rabbi Avi Weiss, head of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat, and co-founder of The Rabbinic Fellowship.

" Rabbi Marc D. Angel writes that " There has been a general reluctance in Jewish tradition to speculate on the metaphysical aspects of creation ," and that " the general Jewish attitude throughout the ages has been that God created the world ex nihilo and further notes:

" Rabbi Marc D. Angel replied that " we should be frightened by the possibility.

* Rabbi Marc D. Angel-former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, rabbi of Shearith Israel ( a Spanish-Portuguese synagogue in New York ), and a co-founder of the IRF ( International Rabbinic Fellowship ).

* Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer's Program of Torah u-Madda, Marc B. Shapiro

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

* Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer's Program of Torah u-Madda, Marc B. Shapiro

Bosnia's Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, WJC Vice-President Rabbi Marc Schneier, and British Imam Abdujalil Sajid in Brussels, December 2010The World Jewish Congress considers dialogue with representatives of moderate Islam as “ one of the most important and challenging issues at this time.

Together with Rabbi Marc Schneier he served as the official patron of the conference held July 2011 in Kiev, Ukraine.

Rabbi Marc Mandel, the former Associate Rabbi of Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills, CA, became the new Senior Rabbi in July 2012.

The organization would be a parent body for boards of rabbis in individual communities, with its first president being Orthodox Rabbi Marc Schneier, who was then serving as president of the New York Board of Rabbis.

These include writer, teacher and physician Deepak Chopra ; Trappist monk Father Thomas Keating ; Rabbi Marc Gopin ; Integral philosopher and author Steve McIntosh ; social critic, scientist, Muslim scholar and Noble Prize nominee Munawar Anees ; spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle ; spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ; author Howard Bloom, scientist Rupert Sheldrake ; evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris ; and others.

* Newsweek " Inhumanity to Jews " by Rabbi Marc Gellman

He has appeared in the television show Cheap Seats, on ESPN Classic, as " Gene Stapleton " and " Rabbi Marc Shalowitz ".

Marc D. Angel ( born 1945 ) is Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City.

" Reacting against the blurring of theological distinctions, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits wrote that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.

Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits writes that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.

Gordin's Ben Abuyah is clearly a surrogate for Gordin himself, and to some extent for Adler: an unbeliever, but one who thinks of himself, unalterably, as a Jew, and who rejects Christianity even more firmly than Judaism, a man who behaves ethically and who dies haunted by a vision of " terrible Jewish suffering ", condemned by the rabbis generally, but lauded as a great Jew by his disciple Rabbi Meir.

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.

In 2005, the Bobover Rebbe, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam died, and Bobov split between his son-in-law, Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger, and the former's brother, Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam.

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.

Notable contributors to the newspaper have included J. B. Salsberg, who was a featured columnist in the newspaper for several decades until shortly before his death in 1998, and Rabbi Gunther Plaut, who also contributed a weekly column for many years.

Rabbi Avi Shafran, a spokesman for Agudath Israel, writes a weekly column that is widely syndicated in the Jewish press.