Rabbi Harold Samuel Kushner is a prominent American rabbi aligned with the progressive wing of Conservative Judaism, and a popular author.

Among the founders of the Tosafist school were Rabbi Jacob b. Meir ( known as Rabbeinu Tam ), who was a grandson of Rashi, and, Rabbenu Tam's nephew, Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel.

** Samuel Eidels, Rabbi and Talmudist ( d. 1631 )

“ Scholars and Friends: Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg and Professor Samuel Atlas ,” in The Torah u-Madda Journal v. 7 ( 1997 ): 105-21.

The university's past leaders include Dr. Bernard Revel, Dr. Samuel Belkin, and " The Rav ," Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

* Machatzit HaShekel (" Half a Shekel ") by Rabbi Samuel Neta HaLevi.

In the eleventh century Rabbi Meir ben Samuel ( Rashi's son-in-law ) changed the original wording of Kol Nidre so as to make the Nusach Ashkenaz version apply to the future instead of the past ; that is, to vows that one might not be able to fulfill during the next year.

An important alteration in the wording of the Kol Nidre was made by Rashi's son-in-law, Rabbi Meir ben Samuel ( early 12th century ), who changed the original phrase " from the last Day of Atonement until this one " to " from this Day of Atonement until the next.

The Talmud indicates that when Rabbi Gamaliel II undertook to fix definitely the public service and to regulate private devotion, he directed Samuel ha-Katan to write another paragraph inveighing against informers and heretics, which was inserted as the twelfth prayer in modern sequence, making the number of blessings nineteen.

In 1822 the first class of boys and girls was confirmed at the Hamburg Temple, and in 1831 Rabbi Samuel Egers, a prominent traditional rabbi of his time, began to confirm boys and girls at the synagogue of Brunswick.

The Talmud deduces two possible explanations, one attributed to Rab and one to Rabbi Samuel, for what Ham did to Noah to warrant the curse.

The former chief rabbi of France, Rabbi René Samuel Sirat, says he personally witnessed Lustiger entering the synagogue to recite kaddish — the Jewish mourners ' prayer — for his mother.

Long, Lasker explained their exact relationship: The genealogy, incidentally, indicates that the common forbear of Emanuel and myself was the son Samuel Lasker of the Rabbi of the Polish village Lask, whose name was originally Meier Hindels.

Samuel and Rabbi Eliezer Hakappar, focusing on the sin-offering of the nazirite, regarded nazirites, as well as anyone who fasted when not obligated to or took any vow whatsoever, as a sinner.

Nahmanides, in his commentary on the Torah, sides with Samuel and Rabbi Eliezer.

Directors of NFTY include Rabbi Samuel Cook ( 1945 – 1967 ), Rabbi Henry Skirball ( 1963 – 1971 ), Rabbi Allan Smith ( 1971 – 2002 ) Rabbi Michael Mellen ( 2005 – 2011 ).

Other Baalei Shem include Rabbi Eliyahu of Worms ( the founder of the movement variously known as " Macheneh Yisrael ", the " Nistarim ", and the " Holy Brotherhood "), Rabbi Joel of Ropshitz ( a student of Rabbi Yoel Sirkis ), Rabbi Adam Baal Shem, and Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk ( known as the Baal Shem of London ).

* Faith & Family: Favorite Sermons of Rabbi Harold S. Kushner published in October 2007

Despite the difficulties facing a congregational Rabbi raising a family, Klein volunteered for the U. S. Army during World War II as a chaplain, motivated by a cause he saw as clearly right with important implications for the Jewish People.

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In 1929, Einstein was asked in a telegram by Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein whether he believed in God.

Harding appointed prominent Jewish leader, Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfeld, and Catholic leader, Father Joseph M. Dennig, to foreign diplomatic positions.

Saul Kripke is the oldest of three children born to Dorothy K. Kripke and Rabbi Myer S. Kripke.

They evoked criticism as minimizing acceptance of the entire Torah ( Rabbi S. of Montpelier, Yad Rama, Y. Alfacher, Rosh Amanah ).

The largest U. S. kollel is at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey, with over 1500 kollel scholars attached to the yeshiva which is 4700 strong in total, large kollels also exist in Ner Israel Rabbinical College numbering 180 scholars and in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin of over 100 scholars.

* Goodman, Mordechai S. ( Translator ), The Sabbath Epistle of Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra ,(' iggeret hashabbat ).

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.

* Mashiach Rabbi Jacob Immanuel Schochet, published by S. I. E., Brooklyn, NY, 1992 ISBN 1-8814-000-X ; LCCC 92-90728 available in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Persian language | Persian, Hebrew, and Braille translations

Rabbi Myer S. Levy was chaplain to the state legislature in 1885.

* Rabbi Azrael is a main character in the play The Dybbuk, by S. Anksy

Billy Graham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Steve Forbes, Leonard Davidson, former US Senator Jesse Helms, Sam Donaldson, John R. Rice, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, CEO William S. Simon, Elisabeth Elliot ( wife of the late missionary Jim Elliot ), Skip Erickson, Freddie Gage, Adrian Rogers, governor Tim Kaine, Sean Hannity, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Pastors ; Mel White, Mark Driscoll, Josh Mcdowell, Miles McPherson, Rick Warren, Steven Furtick and Francis Chan, Entertainers / Athletes in pro-wrestler Lex Luger, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Carrie Prejean, Allan Houston, and Candace Cameron Bure, Douglas Gresham, Gianna Jessen, Clint Hubbard and 2008 Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

* 1986: Rabbi Julie Schwartz became the first female Naval chaplain in the U. S.

* 1992: Rabbi Karen Soria became the first female rabbi to serve in the U. S. Marines, which she did from 1992 until 1996.

* Bodenheimer, Ernst Rabbi Joseph Breuer: The Rav of Frankfurt, U. S. A., Jewish Observer

" The founders included Alexander Graham Bell, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, and Edward Filene on behalf of the recently founded U. S. Chamber of Commerce.

However, in an issue of the United Synagogue Review that focused on issues of mikvah and niddah ( published in conjunction with the passing of the responsa mentioned above, in Fall / Winter 2006 ), Rabbi Myron S. Geller, a member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, wrote about an upswing in the observance of the laws of family purity within the Conservative Jewish community:

( The existence of this Bible was known to twentieth-century scholars from the book ‘ Ammudé Shesh by Rabbi S. S. Boyarski, and then the actual Bible itself was discovered by Yosef Ofer in 1989.

Kelly married U. S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Tucson, Arizona, on November 10, 2007, in a ceremony presided over by Rabbi Stephanie Aaron, and attended by his STS-124 shuttle crew and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.

* Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben and Jennifer S. Hanin ( foreword by Bob Saget ) Becoming Jewish: The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011, 272 pp. -Jointly written by a rabbi and a convert to Judaism, this book provides a modern, comprehensive overview of the reasons, practices, and results of Jewish conversion.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

and she recited `` Hector's Farewell To Andromache '' most movingly, to the special delight of Rabbi Jastrow at his home in Germantown near Philadelphia, where the Szold girls took turns visiting between the visits of the Jastrow boys at the Szolds' in Baltimore.

He was told to ask for Rabbi Melzi at the synagogue on Saturday afternoon.

Rabbi Melzi smiled at him with infinitely old but merry eyes.

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

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.

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

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 Trugman states that in the last five centuries the concept of reincarnation, which until then had been a much hidden tradition within Judaism, was given open exposure.

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.

" The Zohar, written by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai close to two thousand years ago, makes frequent and lengthy references to reincarnation.

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.