" However, some Orthodox leaders, such as the Rabbinical Council of America, opposed this move and said it was not in keeping with Orthodoxy ; in any case, Hurwitz was not given the title " rabbi.

" A rabbi today has his work cut out for him, but he should not despair if people do not do as much as they should ," he said.

:" They have to know Bible and Talmud, of course, but we have made spiritual direction the core ," said Rabbi Victor Gross, a former Conservative rabbi who is now on Aleph's central teaching committee.

As one of the crusaders explained to a rabbi: " You are the children of those who killed the object of our veneration, hanging him on a tree ; and he himself had said: ' There will yet come a day when my children will come and avenge my blood.

Shas chairman Eli Yishai said criticism of the rabbi is unjustified, explaining, " Rabbi Ovadia weeps for every Jew who is killed ... but nobody, not even a saint, has not sinned.

Christian sources interpret the event as a martyrdom at Jewish hands-the site for his execution, Najran, being said to have been chosen on the advice of a rabbi, but indigenous sources do not mention persecutions on the grounds of faith, and it may have been merely to deter the extension of Byzntine influence.

His rabbi said it wasn't a problem, but recommended that he wash the table afterwards.

Helmut Koester, Professor of Divinity and of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard University, is doubtful that Paul studied under this famous rabbi, arguing that there is a marked contrast in the tolerance that Gamaliel is said to have expressed about Christianity with the " murderous rage " against Christians that Paul is described as having prior to his conversion.

With the Curse of the Bambino still hanging over Red Sox fans ' heads, the rabbi reportedly said: " Do it!

Despite opposition – many said she was at HUC-JIR to marry a rabbi and become a rebbetzin rather than to officiate as a rabbi – she became the first woman at Hebrew Union College to make it to ordination, an accomplishment she credits to her parents and to Rabbi Nelson Glueck, the college's president who died a few months before her ordination.

His father, Israel ( known as Isserl ), was a prominent talmudist, said to have been independently wealthy, and probably headed the community ; his grandfather, Jehiel Luria, was the first rabbi of Brisk.

They searched long and hard for a rabbi who was willing to perform the wedding ... and in the car on the way to the hotel, the rabbi was talking to the groom about his imminent marriage and said to him: ' You are completing Hitler ’ s work.

The famous rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( 1525 – 1609 ), who is said to have created the golem of Prague, officiated here for twenty years as the second regional rabbi between 1553 and 1573.

In recounting a purported conversation in which the rabbi Judah the Prince, who said the soul ( neshama ) comes into the body when the embryo is already formed, was convinced by Antoninus Pius that it must enter the body at conception, and considered the emperor's view to be supported by, the tractate Sanhedrin of the Talmud mentions two views on the question.

Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, a leading British orthodox rabbi, said Boteach's attempts to reach out to Messianic Jews were " self-delusional.

Moment magazine quoted an anonymous rabbi who said: “ The Slifkin ban is a huge break.

A rebuttal to this argument is that it's narrated in the Quran that Yusuf said ' innahu rabbi ', in verse 23 of surah 12, meaning ' he is my lord ' to refer to Aziz who was a protector for him.

Judah the Prince, (, Yehudah HaNasi ) or Judah I, also known as Rabbi or Rabbenu HaQadosh (, " our Master, the holy one "), was a 2nd-century CE rabbi and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah.

* 1263 – Nahmanides, chief rabbi of Catalonia, defends the Talmud in an important disputation against Pablo Christiani before King James I of Aragon.

* Nahmanides, chief rabbi of Catalonia, defends the Talmud in an important disputation against Pablo Christiani before King James I of Aragon.

* Ravina I, rabbi ( teacher ) and Jewish Talmudist

After he returned from serving in the army in World War I, Amateau was ordained in 1920 at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and he became the first rabbi of a congregation of the deaf.

In 1263, Nahmanides, rabbi of Girona and later chief rabbi of Catalonia, was ordered by King James I of Aragon to take part in a public disputation with Pablo Christiani, a Jewish convert to Catholicism.

The consul offered a visa to his friend the rabbi, who responded, " I can't accept a visa for us and leave my people behind.

I guess we would not know for sure but we would strongly suspect it, not only from their manner but from the occasional mention of a rabbi or bar mitzvah or synagogue.

:"... my father's family came from Pinsk and I knew of a famous rabbi related to him.

Mason later returned to voice the rabbi in " Today I Am a Clown " in the fifteenth season and " Once Upon a Time in Springfield " in the twenty-first season.

She explained her retirement, saying: “ I ’ m retiring by choice, because I believe that rabbis should know when to leave and when it ’ s time to inject ‘ newness ’ into synagogue life .” She intends to remain “ a part of the temple family ” as rabbi emerita, adding “ being here has been the fulfillment of my dream to be a congregational rabbi, which is why I went to rabbinic school in the first place .”

Arthur Ocean Waskow ( born Arthur I. Waskow ; 1933 ) is an American author, political activist, and rabbi associated with the Jewish Renewal movement.

Cardinal asked the rabbi " Now, Dr. Adler, when may I have the pleasure of helping you to some ham?

One Kansas City rabbi told reporters that Jacobson should become President of Israel, and Truman wrote him that while Israel " couldn't nominate a better man, I sincerely hope you won't take it ".

For example, on October 11, 1942, he wrote the following entry in his diary: On Simhat Torah eve at the invitation of the rabbi, I went for services in a house that had formerly been a synagogue and was now a music school ...

Arnaz consulted a priest, a rabbi, and a minister, all of whom told him that there would be nothing wrong with showing a pregnant Lucy or with using the word pregnant.

Proponents of a companionship with Jesus argue that it would have been unthinkable for an unmarried, adult male Jew to travel about teaching as a rabbi.

Clarifying his position, he laughs, " If a man passed such a test Halakha we would call him a rabbi – but who cares what you call it?

In this sense Frankel declared himself when the president of the Teplice congregation expressed the hope that the new rabbi would introduce reforms and do away with the " Missbräuche " ( abuses ).

In 1938, with the outbreak of violence that would come to be known as Kristallnacht, American Orthodox rabbi Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff wrote about the central role he saw for Priests and Levites in terms of Jewish and world responses, in worship, liturgy, and teshuva, repentance.

In an interesting turn of events, the United States government recognized cantors as the first Jewish clergy, even before rabbis were recognized-as a congregation could be organized and led by a committee of Jewish " laymen ," who would not have the expertise in liturgy a hazzan would have, newly forming congregations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries sometimes hired a hazzan for a synagogue ( and made sure that a kosher butcher was established in the neighborhood ) for some time before setting about hiring a rabbi, seeing the hazzan ( and the butcher ) as a more immediate need.

He was a black rabbi, who would go to upper Pennsylvania and purchase chicken, turkeys and ducks .” Solomon Burke had six younger siblings – a sister, Laurena Burke-Corbin ( born 23 June 1946 ), and five brothers: Elec Edward " Alec " ( born 16 February 1948 ), Vladimir H. " Laddie " ( born 31 July 1949 ), Mario " Chuck " ( born 13 September 1953 ), Daniel S. " Danny " ( born 10 March 1955 ), and Jolester R. M. Burke ( born 24 September 1958 ).

* In " The Postponement ", Elaine confides in a rabbi that she is jealous of George's engagement to Susan Ross because George would be getting married before she did and she considers George to be a loser.

When Malbim passed through Vilna in 1879 the community there would have appointed him rabbi in place of Isaac Elijah Landau, but the governor of Vilna opposed the election on the ground that he could not sanction the appointment of a rabbi who had been expelled from Moghilef as a political criminal.

His parents hoped he would become a rabbi, and sent him to a yeshiva.

Indeed, rabbi Simeon ben Lakish of Tiberias ( 230 – 270 ), asserted that all the specific names for the angels were brought back by the Jews from Babylon, and some modern commentators would tend to agree.

It was hoped that Sidney would follow in the Hillman family tradition by becoming a rabbi.

Nine years after accepting his position in Novozybkov, in 1863, Epstein was appointed as the rabbi of Navahrudak, where he would serve for 34 years, until his death.

He married Amélie Munk of Paris, the daughter of a prominent rabbi, who would support his community work throughout his life.

Even if the only sanction for ignoring the instructions were that the rabbi would not be invited back, we think no religious representative who valued his or her continued reputation and effectiveness in the community would incur the State's displeasure in this regard.

She was offered a position at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, where she served for seven years under Rabbi Edward Klein, first as Assistant Rabbi and then as Associate Rabbi, leaving the congregation in 1979, when she realised that she would not succeed Klein as senior rabbi.

In 1874, after it had become clear that he would not become a rabbi, members of his father's congregation helped Adler gain a teaching position at Cornell University as a nonresident Professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature.

During this period in South Africa, Abramoff first met South African – born rabbi David Lapin, who would become his religious advisor, and Lapin's brother and fellow rabbi Daniel Lapin, who allegedly introduced Abramoff to Congressman Tom DeLay ( R-TX ) at a Washington, DC dinner shortly after the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994.