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Tag Archives: Rabbis
Chabad Politics
Satmarer Chosid emails: There are three elected rabbiin the Chabad community in Crown Heights Brooklyn. Traditionally every year the three rabbis shared the "business" of selling the Chometz where the community members give money to the rabbi as a service … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, chometz, cli, community members, congregation lubavitch, court of appeals, Crown Heights, farbrengen, jealousy, merkos, money, nbsp, rabbi, Rabbis, reply, schwei
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Ohr HaTorah May Move To Mar Vista
Its rabbi, Mordecai Finley, was named one of the top pulpit rabbis in America by Newsweek magazine. He’s the only person who’s ever made sense of kabbalah and spirituality for me. I was a member for three years 1998-2001. Amy … Continue reading
Posted in Ohr Hatorah
Tagged adat shalom, added bonus, Amy Klein, beth torah, congregation worships, conservative congregation, faith tabernacle church, home congregation, Jewish Journal, jewish life, member families, mordecai, new blood, newsweek, newsweek magazine, nondenominational, Rabbis, Santa Monica, venice boulevard, vista area
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Thursday Will Rock On My Cam With Live Preparation For Passover
A day of cleaning will climax at 8 pm PST with Bedikat Hametz. Holding just one lighted candle, I will go from room to room live on my cam with a feather and a large spoon, scooping up the last … Continue reading
‘Sacred Secrets: The Sanctity of Sex in Jewish Law’ by Gershon Winkler
Nobody has ever translated Rabbi Jacob Emden‘s memoir into English because it is so raunchy. It’s time somebody breaks this boundary. A reader posts to Amazon.com: This mischevious little book gathers excerpts from all over the Jewish legal codes on … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Sex
Tagged 20b, amazon, dissenting opinion, emden, jewel in the crown, jewish law, maimonides, mikveh, nachmanides, par excellence, perogative, rabbi jacob, Rabbis, sacred secrets, sanctity of sex, sexual position, sifting through, stirring the pot, traditional interpretation, unmarried woman
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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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