" ( Mordecai Waxman Tradition and Change: The Development of Conservative Judaism )

* Mordecai Waxman

:( Mordecai Waxman Tradition and Change: The Development of Conservative Judaism )

* Mordecai Waxman, rabbi, Temple Israel of Great Neck

* Mordecai Waxman ( 1917 – 2002 ), prominent rabbi in the Conservative movement and of Temple Israel of Great Neck.

* Mordecai Waxman, 1969 – 1974

Rabbi Mordecai Atiyah was a leading advocate of this idea.

Bender had been-along with Mordecai Brown, an earlier figure who was more clearly now ineligible-one of only two pre-1920 candidates who received over 10 % of the 1946 vote without being selected later by the Old-Timers Committee.

* Audio and Video Resources for Mordecai Kaplan at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

The recent case of Rabbi Mordecai Tendler, the first rabbi to be expelled from the Rabbinical Council of America following allegations of sexual harassment, illustrated the importance of clarification of Orthodox halakha in this area.

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Mordecai in Esther and in Rabbinical literature

Jewish tradition regards it as a redaction by the Great Assembly of an original text written by Mordecai.

It is dated to the 4th century BCE and according to the Talmud was a redaction by the Great Assembly of an original text by Mordecai.

The first religious ceremony ordained for the celebration of Purim is the reading of the Book of Esther ( the " Megillah ") in the synagogue, a regulation ascribed in the Talmud ( Megillah 2a ) to the Sages of the Great Assembly, of which Mordecai is reported to have been a member.

Mordecai Kaplan's religious naturalism ( Reconstructionist Judaism ) used to have an influential place in the movement, but since Reconstructionism developed as an independent movement, this influence has waned.

Rav Mordecai said to him: Once he has stepped three steps backward, there he should remain.

He has translated works of many Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler.

In Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler, the title character's father Reuben Shapiro has a unique understanding of the bible based upon his days as a prize-fighter, when the only thing to do in the hotel room was read Gideon's Bible.

Benjamin Mordecai served as managing director from 1982 to 1993 ; Victoria Nolan has served in this capacity since his passing.

He has published six novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir of his travels in India, and a biography of Mordecai Richler.

Accepting these terms, the Stranger indulges in the town's goods and services, makes Mordecai both sheriff and mayor, has the entire town painted red, and paints the word " HELL " on the " LAGO " sign just outside of town.

* The school has been mentioned in Mordecai Richler's novel, Barney's Version.

Gottlieb has edited novels by John Cheever, Salman Rushdie, John Gardner, Len Deighton, John le Carré, Ray Bradbury, Elia Kazan, Margaret Drabble, Michael Crichton, Mordecai Richler and Toni Morrison, and non-fiction books by Barbara Tuchman, Jessica Mitford, Robert Caro, Antonia Fraser, Lauren Bacall, Liv Ullman, Sidney Poitier, John Lennon, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Bruno Bettelheim, Carl Schorske, and many others.

To secure victory in the game, Burns decides to hire major league stars and assembles a team that includes Honus Wagner, Cap Anson, Mordecai " Three Finger " Brown, and a right fielder who has been dead for 130 years.

* Highlander: Zealot by Donna Lettow-Duncan MacLeod was there when Avram Mordecai fought the enemies of his Jewish people in World War II, as he has for two thousand years.

Montchrétien's Aman has been compared not too unfavourably with Jean Racine's Esther, and the hatred of Haman for Mordecai is expressed with more vigour than in Racine's play.

His defenders asserted that Mordecai Richler may have been wrong on certain specific points, but was certainly not racist or anti-Québécois.

The king then appointed Mordecai as his prime minister, and gave the Jews the right to defend themselves against any enemy.

On his right flank he placed Mordecai Gist, Johann de Kalb's 2nd Maryland and a Delaware Regiment.

Mordecai Richler claimed that Auf der Maur once went bar-hopping with Conrad Black and when they accidentally wandered into a gay bar and were asked to leave, Black indignantly insisted it was his democratic right to stay, so they did.

Famous alumni include Arik Einstein, Tony Cliff, Ernest Mandel, Mordecai Anielewicz, Abraham Leon, Benny Morris, Eliane Karp, Leopold Trepper, Amnon Linn, Zahara Rubin, Abba Hushi, Sam Spiegel, Irv Weinstein, Manès Sperber, Leon Rosselson, José Gurvich, Milo Adler Gilles and even Isser Harel and Menachem Begin who were briefly members before joining Mapai and the right wing Betar respectively, as well as Kerem B ' Yavneh's Rabbi Avraham Rivlin.

Depending on the interpretation of Esther 2: 5 – 6, Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish was carried away from Jerusalem with Jeconiah by Nebuchadnezzar, in 597 BCE.

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who developed Reconstructionist Judaism and taught at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America, also rejected the idea of a personal God, Kaplan instead thought of God " as a force, like gravity, built into the very structure of the universe ," believing that " since the universe is constructed to enable us to gain personal happiness and communal solidarity when we act morally, it follows that there is a moral force in the universe ; this force is what the Constructionists mean by God ," although some Reconstructionists do believe in a personal God.

* King Xerxes I of Persia issues a decree, as dictated by Mordecai upon the king's secretaries, giving the Jews in every city the authority to unite to defend their lives against their opponents in all of the 127 provinces of the Persian Empire, stretching from India to Ethiopia.

Johnson's boyhood home, located at the Mordecai House | Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.

* The house where he was born was preserved and is within Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh.

After the death of her parents, she is being fostered by her cousin Mordecai.

For example, Coogan discusses an apparent inaccuracy regarding the age of Esther's cousin ( or, according to others, uncle ) Mordecai.

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

As for the identity of Mordecai, the similar names Marduka and Marduku have been found as the name of officials in the Persian court in over thirty texts from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might after all be Mordecai.

The view that it was Mordecai would be consistent with the identification of Ahasuerus with Cyaxares.

In both cases, the text used is not only taken from a Greek addition, the readings also are the prayer of Mordecai, and nothing of Esther's own words is ever used.

In 1992 a 30-minute, fully animated video, twelfth in Hanna-Barbera's The Greatest Adventure series, titled Queen Esther features the voices of Helen Slater as Queen Esther, Dean Jones as King Ahasuerus, Werner Klemperer as Haman, and Ron Rifkin as Mordecai.

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.

The first split in the Conservative coalition occurred in 1963, when followers of Mordecai Kaplan seceded from the movement to form a distinct Reconstructionist Judaism.

Mordecai " Three-Finger " Brown, Jack Taylor, Ed Reulbach, Jack Pfiester, and Orval Overall were several key pitchers for the Cubs during this time period.

The founder of the Reconstructionist Movement, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan defines Judaism as an evolving religious civilization.

For his wife and queen, King Xerxes chose Esther, an orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai, to replace the recalcitrant Queen Vashti.

" Esther 2: 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

When Cyrus gave permission for the exiles to return unto Jerusalem she stayed with Mordecai.