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Category Archives: Rabbis
Rabbinic Corruption
Gadi Pickholz from the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council emails: "Luke: Just over 50% of all cases before Israel’s rabbinic courts are appealed, and just over 65% of those appeals are found valid. Yet in the US, both the RCC … Continue reading
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Tagged administrative offices, administrative procedures, advocacy council, civil courts, comptroller, computerized system, conflict of interest, counterparts, court administration, court rulings, divorce decree, fathers rights, infallability, judicial proceedings, petah tikva, pulpits, quot, rabbinate, RCA, RCC
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Where Are The Charedim On Newsweek’s Most Influential Rabbis List?
All the orthodox rabbis are Modern Orthodox. Tarfon writes on Jewcy: There seems to be a substantial LA-centric bias to the "influential" list. In what sense is R’ Hier influential? Does anyone outside of LA know or care about the … Continue reading
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Tagged AJU, artson, bias, incoming president, Jewcy, jewish university, national presence, national reputation, nbsp, newsweek, orthodox rabbis, ra, rabbinical school, skirball center, wexler, wohlberg
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Newsweek Ranks America’s Top 25 Pulpit Rabbis
From Newsweek.com: Based on the overwhelming response to the "influentials" list last year, Lynton, Ginsberg and Sanderson put together a list of the best pulpit rabbis in the country. The most powerful people, it turns out, are not always the … Continue reading
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Tagged agudas achim, central synagogue new york, community leadership, congregation beth israel, congregation beth israel houston, David Wolpe, kavana, nai jeshurun, nashville tn, newsweek, nussbaum, oratory, orthodox congregation, overwhelming response, Rabbis, reform congregation, rubinstein, seattle wa, sinai temple los angeles, tifereth israel
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Four Torah Sages Died This Month
Shlomo Greenwald writes for The Jewish Press: The Orthodox Jewish world mourns the loss of four prominent figures who passed away in recent days, Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, Mr. Bentzion Dunner, Rabbi Moshe Fuller, and Rabbi Yitzchok Chinn, each of whom … Continue reading
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Tagged bais medrash, brilliant song, chemed international, chinn, classroom storytelling, grave dangers, jewish press, laptop computers, living nightmare, mishnayos, music records, rabbi eli teitelbaum, rabbi eliezer, rabbi moshe, rabbi teitelbaum, rsquo, torah communications network, torah sages, traditional jewish music, yeshiva torah temimah
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