However, Frankel's use of modern methods of historical scholarship in analyzing Jewish texts and developing Jewish law set him apart from neo-Orthodox Judaism, which was concurrently developing under the leadership of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.

Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

While the Roman church was presumably founded by Jewish Christians, the exile of Jews from Rome in AD 49 by Claudius resulted in Gentile Christians taking leadership positions.

Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Judaism and to open up new opportunities for religious experience and leadership for Jewish women.

Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Judaism and to open up new opportunities for religious experience and leadership for Jewish women.

The Nazi leadership attempted to remove or subjugate the Jewish population of Nazi Germany and later in the occupied countries through forced deportation and, ultimately, genocide now known as the Holocaust.

The Jewish Agency soon operated as an arm of the Zionist leadership.

Both the Arab and Jewish leadership rejected the White Paper.

In June 1946, following instances of Jewish sabotage, the British launched Operation Agatha, arresting 2700 Jews, including the leadership of the Jewish Agency, whose headquarters were raided.

Jewish women were generally prohibited from holding formal leadership roles with authority over men.

He had a good instinct for what the " Arab street " demanded, following the decline in Egyptian leadership brought about by the trauma of Israel's six-day victory in the 1967 war, the death of the pan-Arabist hero, Gamal Abdul Nasser, in 1970, and the " traitorous " drive by his successor, Anwar Sadat, to sue for peace with the Jewish state.

The rapid German advances in the opening weeks of the invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, created a mood of euphoria among the Nazi leadership, which began to take a view of the " solution " of the " Jewish question " increasingly freed from moral or ethical restraints.

Following this event, the Jewish religious leadership moves from Jerusalem to Jamnia ( present day Yavne ), and this date is mourned annually as the Jewish fast of Tisha B ' Av.

Within the Hasidic world, the positions of spiritual leadership are dynastically transmitted within established families, usually from fathers to sons, while a small number of students obtain official ordination to become dayanim (" judges ") on religious courts, poskim (" decisors " of Jewish law ), as well as teachers in the Hasidic schools.

* Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis, on the premise that all the main movements are legitimate expressions of Judaism, will accept the legitimacy of other rabbis ' leadership, though will not accept their views on Jewish law, since Reform and Reconstructionism reject Halakha as binding.

Other women in Jewish leadership, like Rachel Kohl Finegold and Lynn Kaye, do not have official titles, but function as de facto assistant rabbis.

* Jeff Helmreich, Orthodox women moving toward religious leadership, Friday June 6, 1997, Long Island Jewish World

* The leader of the Jewish revolt against Syria rule, Mattathias, dies and his third son, Judas, assumes leadership of the revolt in accordance with the deathbed disposition of his father.

July: The Peel Commission proposes a partition plan, rejected by the Arab leadership as it included a Jewish state.

The Regional Churches of the Christian Church provide resources for leadership development and opportunities for Christian fellowship beyond the local congregation.

The Society was a religious congregation who submitted to submit to spiritual and material leadership under Rapp and his associates and worked together for the common good of all its members.

Ruling elders are usually laymen ( and laywomen in some denominations ) who are elected by the congregation and ordained to serve with the teaching elders, assuming responsibility for nurture and leadership of the congregation.

While Theodore was in exile, the leadership of the Studite congregation was assumed by the Abbot Leontios, who for a time adopted the iconoclast position and won over many individuals monks to his party.

Many of the first colonists in Newport quickly became Baptists, and in 1640 the second Baptist congregation in Rhode Island was formed under the leadership of John Clarke.

The congregation is mindful of the needs of Northern Dakota County ( especially South St. Paul ), and is committed to raise money and provide leadership within the community.

1971 saw the formation of the first Parish Council which assists the pastor and congregation in decision making and leadership.

*** The congregation prays together in silence asking for the Holy Spirit's leadership

In so doing, she achieved the distinction of becoming the first woman to assume religious leadership of a mainstream American Jewish congregation, although she was never ordained.

Being married is commonly welcomed, in which case the pastor's marriage is expected to serve as a model of a functioning Christian marriage, and the pastor's spouse often serves an unofficial leadership role in the congregation.

Under the leadership of Joel Osteen, Lakewood's congregation increased almost fivefold.

The Touro Synagogue was built from 1759 to 1763 for the Jeshuat Israel congregation in Newport under the leadership of Cantor ( Chazzan ) Isaac Touro.

Zion Church remained in active use from 1875 through 1933, when a new church ( now the Chapel ) was built to serve the growing congregation of 100 parishioners, under the leadership of the Rev.

It has been argued that some examples of Christian art reflect the leadership roles of deaconesses including, supposedly, administration of the Host, teaching, baptizing, caring for the physical needs of the congregation, and leading the congregation in prayers.

Lay leadership from within the congregation has maintained the church over its life.

The Taiwanese had been brought in, not as a distinct congregation, but as an additional ministry under the authority of Newtown ’ s leadership.

James Robertson, a minister from Oxford County, Ontario was first called ( 1873 ) to a congregation in Winnipeg, and in 1881 was appointed as missions superintendent, where he provided leadership and growth to new settlers, student ministers, ordained missionaries, and congregations.

Nigunim are largely improvisations, though they could be based on thematic passage and are stylized in form, reflecting the teachings and charisma of the spiritual leadership of the congregation or its religious movement.

In 2000, six marjas among Iran's Shia leadership declared that they too allowed women to lead a woman-only congregation, reversing a previous ban in that country.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Saskatoon was formed under his pastoral leadership, and remains the largest PCC congregation within the province.

The St. Andrew's congregation, under the leadership of Rev.

The congregation has taken leadership in ministry to the poor, with " Out of the Cold ", coordinated by famous author Stevie Cameron, and a Boarding Homes Ministry, as well as involvement with the Presbyterian Church in Canada's Evangel Hall.