The article discusses the role of rabbis in the modern U.S. Gershon Winkler of Walking Stick Foundation says that rabbis should re-introduce the richness of the country's tradition to congregants. Peter Schweitzer The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism emphasizes that many rabbis are taking ...
Faith leaders praise rabbi dubbed a 'real role model' While much of the research on the ultra-orthodox parties, the Ashkenazi United Torah Judaism Party and Sephardi party--Shas (for example, that of the late Rabbi Eliezer Schach or of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef) details the dominant roles played ...
the chief religious official of a synagogue, trained usually in a theological seminary and duly ordained, who delivers the sermon at a religious service and performs ritualistic, pastoral, educational, and other functions in and related to the role of a spiritual leader of Judaism and the Jewish...
In the Fall Term,Jewish Holidays & Lifecycle, we learn about the Jewish year and Jewish time as we explore the important days in the Jewish year, as well as the life ceremonies of Judaism.Normally offered in the term following the High Holy Days, in the Autumn. ...
In the Talmudic period, rabbis were primarily teachers and interpreters of the Torah. They developed the liturgy, calendar, and other aspects of post-Temple Judaism. During the Middle Ages, the post of rabbi became a professional one, with the incumbent taking on the additional role of ...
Alfred Gottschalk (March 7, 1930 – September 12, 2009) was a German-born American Rabbi who was a leader in the Reform Judaism movement, serving as head of the movement's Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC) for 30 years, as president from 1971 to 1996, and then as...
The congregation that Eger heads was the first of five Jewish outreach temples to the homosexual community that are now affiliated with Reform Judaism. Besides the Los Angeles and San Francisco synagogues, which have ordained rabbis as spiritual leaders, affiliated synagogues are also in Chicago, ...
Rabbi Paul Steinberg, who leads Congregation Kol Shofar in the Bay Area and is the author of “Recovery, the 12 Steps, and Jewish Spirituality: Reclaiming Hope, Courage and Wholeness,” said a rabbi speaking openly about addiction could play a key role in reducing the stigma and shame ...
Even today, Jews in San Francisco have a curious mix of firm Jewish identity with a low rate of synagogue and other Jewish institutional affiliation. While some outsiders look at the demographics and say, “Wow, Judaism is in trouble in San Francisco,” in fact the Jewish community there is...
But the Israeli government has played its own role in discouraging a peaceful solution. Among other things, it has empowered Israeli hyper-nationalists to persecute Arab farmers and take over their land on the West Bank. The current Israeli coalition, in particular, includes religious extremists ...