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Shaye J. D. Cohen (626 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shaye J. D. Cohen (born October 21, 1948) is an American Hebraist, historian, and rabbi. He is a modern scholar of Hebrew Bible. Currently, he is the Littauer

Daniel Stein (rabbi) (349 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Daniel Stein (born July 1976) is a Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York City where

Yonason Sacks (292 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yonason Sacks is an Orthodox rabbi and the Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College for Men, a division of Touro University, as well as the spiritual leader of the

Aharon Lichtenstein (926 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aharon Lichtenstein (May 23, 1933 – April 20, 2015) was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva who was an authority in Jewish law (Halakha). Aharon Lichtenstein

Ira F. Stone (370 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Ira F. Stone (born 1949) is a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement. Stone was ordained as

Joseph Telushkin (968 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Telushkin (born 1948) is an American rabbi. He has authored more than 15 books, including volumes about Jewish ethics, Jewish literacy, as well

David G. Dalin (525 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David G. Dalin (born 28 June 1949) is an American rabbi and historian, and the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books on American Jewish history

Mayer Twersky (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mayer E. Twersky (born October 17, 1960) is an Orthodox rabbi and one of the roshei yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) of

Jacob Neusner (1,715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacob Neusner (July 28, 1932 – October 8, 2016) was an American academic scholar of Judaism. He was named as one of the most published authors in history

Nachman Bulman (546 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nachman Bulman (1925-July 6, 2002) was an American rabbi associated with Orthodox Judaism. He was born to Rabbi Meir and Etil Bulman after a blessing from

Chaim Potok (1,798 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Of the more than dozen novels he authored

Ephraim Buchwald (542 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald is one of the leaders in the movement of Orthodox Jewish outreach in America today. Buchwald studied at Yeshiva University, where

Joel Roth (839 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joel Roth is a prominent American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism. He is a former member and chair

Neil Gillman (324 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Neil Gillman (September 11, 1933 – November 24, 2017) was a Canadian-American rabbi and philosopher affiliated with Conservative Judaism. Gillman was born

Jonathan Rosenblatt (1,193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jonathan I. Rosenblatt (born August 31, 1956) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, teacher, lecturer, and counselor. A native of Baltimore, Rosenblatt

Jason Miller (rabbi) (569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Jason Miller (born July 24, 1976 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American rabbi and entrepreneur. Miller is the president of Access Technology, in West Bloomfield

Milton Steinberg (364 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Milton Steinberg (November 25, 1903 – March 20, 1950) was an American rabbi, philosopher, theologian and author. Born in Rochester, New York, he was raised

Meir Soloveichik (847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meir Yaakov Soloveichik (born July 29, 1977) is an American Orthodox rabbi and writer. He is the son of Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveichik, grandson of Rabbi Ahron

Arthur Green (1,322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Green (Hebrew: אברהם יצחק גרין, born March 21, 1941) is an American scholar of Jewish mysticism and Neo-Hasidic theologian. He was a founding dean

Alfred J. Kolatch (673 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alfred Jacob Kolatch (January 2, 1916 – February 7, 2007) was an American rabbi known for his more than 50 published books, notably The Jewish Book of

Arthur Hertzberg (1,764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Hertzberg (June 9, 1921 – April 17, 2006) was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist. Avraham Hertzberg was born

Fred Sommers (381 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frederic Tamler Sommers (January 1, 1923 – October 2, 2014), better known as Fred Sommers, was an American philosopher who, after an initial focus on ontology

Joseph Hertz (2,345 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Herman Hertz CH (25 September 1872 – 14 January 1946) was a British Rabbi and biblical scholar. He held the position of Chief Rabbi of the United

Mendel Shapiro (306 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mendel Shapiro is a Jerusalem lawyer and Modern Orthodox Rabbi. He is the author of a halakhic analysis arguing that women could be called to read from

Chaim Zimmerman (659 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aharon Chaim Zimmerman (1914 – March 9, 1995) (7th Adar II 5755) was a Ukrainian-born American Orthodox rabbi. Aharon Chaim Zimmerman was born in Konotop

Mordecai Waxman (854 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mordecai Waxman, KCSG (February 25, 1917, in Albany – August 10, 2002, in Great Neck, New York), was a prominent rabbi in the Conservative Jewish movement

Asher Lopatin (1,107 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Asher Lopatin (born September 1, 1964) is the Director of Community Relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor. . He is an American Open Orthodox

Saul Berman (408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saul J. Berman (born April 30, 1939) is an American scholar and Modern Orthodox rabbi. Berman was ordained at Yeshiva University, from which he also received

Aaron L. Mackler (274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aaron L. Mackler is Associate Professor of Theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and an ordained Conservative Rabbi. He is an author

David Hartman (rabbi) (1,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David Hartman (Hebrew: דוד הרטמן; September 11, 1931 – February 10, 2013) was an American-Israeli leader and philosopher of contemporary Judaism, founder

Paula Reimers (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paula Reimers (1947–2023) was an American rabbi. In 2008 she was the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel (Lebanon, Pennsylvania). However by January 2017

Byron Sherwin (454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Byron Lee Sherwin (February 18, 1946 – May 22, 2015) was a Jewish scholar and author with expertise in theology, inter-religious dialogue, mysticism

William H. Lebeau (444 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Harry Lebeau (born 1938) is an American rabbi, former Dean of The Rabbinical School, Vice Chancellor and Chairman of the Department of Professional

Daniel S. Nevins (1,418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Daniel S. ("Danny") Nevins (born March 18, 1966) is an American rabbi and a leader in the Conservative Movement who is head of school at Golda Och Academy

Samuel Schafler (823 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel Schafler (February 20, 1929 – April 3, 1991) was a New York-born rabbi, historian, editor and Jewish educator. He was Superintendent of the Board

Harold M. Schulweis (907 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harold M. Schulweis (April 14, 1925 – December 18, 2014) was an American rabbi and author. He was the longtime spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in

Elliot N. Dorff (2,593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Elliot N. Dorff (born 24 June 1943) is an American Conservative rabbi. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Distinguished Professor

Emanuel Rackman (1,200 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi (Menachem) Emanuel Rackman (Hebrew: מנחם עמנואל רקמן Menachem 'immanuel Raqman; June 24, 1910 in Albany – December 1, 2008) was an American Modern

Shlomo Eitan (226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Shlomo Eitan is a Hebrew language linguist who developed teaching methods for Hebrew. Eitan largely rejects the immersion method for the learning

Benjamin Scolnic (331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Benjamin Edidin Scolnic (born October 28, 1953), is an American author who has been the spiritual leader at Temple Beth Sholom in Hamden, Connecticut

Sidney Greenberg (526 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sidney Greenberg (September 27, 1917 – March 31, 2003) was an American rabbi and author. Greenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 27, 1917

Gordon Tucker (1,808 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gordon Tucker is a prominent rabbi, with a reputation as both a political and a theological liberal in Conservative Judaism. He is the former senior rabbi

Seth Farber (619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Seth Farber (Hebrew: שאול פרבר, born 1967) is an American-Israeli Modern Orthodox rabbi, historian, and founder and director of the Jewish life advocacy

David Wolpe (2,206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David J. Wolpe (born September 19, 1958) is an American rabbi. He is Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School and the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai

Martin Samuel Cohen (306 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Martin Samuel Cohen is rabbi of the Shelter Rock Jewish Center in Roslyn, New York. Cohen was educated at the City University of New York and at Jewish

Richard L. Rubenstein (1,501 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Richard Lowell Rubenstein (January 8, 1924 – May 16, 2021) was a theologian, educator, and writer, noted particularly for his path-breaking contributions

Louis Werfel (111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chaplain Louis (Eliezer) Werfel (1916–1943) was a Jewish chaplain who was one of only six Jewish Chaplains and the only Orthodox Rabbi killed in action

Boaz Cohen (212 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Boaz Cohen (1899–1968) was a leading American scholar of Talmud, a legal decisor (posek), and a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Stanley M. Wagner (464 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stanley M. Wagner (January 4, 1932 – February 23, 2013) was an American rabbi, academic, and community leader. Stanley M. Wagner was born in on January

Jacob Agus (859 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacob Bernard Agus (November 8, 1911 – September 26, 1986) was a Polish-born American liberal Conservative rabbi and theologian who played a key role in

Mychal Springer (295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mychal Springer is a rabbi and the manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Springer earned her BA at Yale University

Menachem Creditor (2,032 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Menachem Creditor is an American rabbi, author and musician. He is the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar-in-Residence at UJA-Federation New York and the founder

Baruch Poupko (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baruch Aaron "Bernard" Poupko (February 5, 1917 – April 14, 2010) was a Russian-born American scholar, author, and lecturer. A refugee who escaped persecution

Mayer Rabinowitz (197 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mayer Rabinowitz is a Conservative rabbi and a professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Rabinowitz is a recognized authority

Martin Peled-Flax (145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Martin Peled-Flax (born July 18, 1958, New York) is an Israeli diplomat who has been Ambassador to Belarus (1998 - 2002), first as Charge d'Affaires a

Avishai David (231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Avishai Chaim David (born 1949) is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Torat Shraga (YTS) in Bayit VeGan, Jerusalem, Israel, and is the founding rabbi of

Arnold Resnicoff (4,189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arnold E. Resnicoff (born 1946) is an American Conservative rabbi who served as a military officer and military chaplain. He served in Vietnam and Europe

Max Kadushin (793 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Max Kadushin (Belarusian: Макс Кадушын; December 6, 1895 – July 23, 1980) was a Conservative rabbi best known for his organic philosophy of rabbinics.

Sherre Hirsch (338 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sherre Hirsch received her Rabbinic ordination and Master's degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. She also received a Master's

Jill Jacobs (rabbi) (2,023 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Jill Jacobs (born 1975) is an American Conservative rabbi who serves as the executive director of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, formerly

Eugene Kohn (224 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eugene Kohn (January 26, 1887 – April 1, 1977) was an American Reconstructionist rabbi, writer and editor. Born in Newark, New Jersey he attended the Jewish

Hayyim Angel (702 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Hayyim Angel is an American rabbi, academic, author and editor who is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals (which was

Samuel Margoshes (897 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel Margoshes (October 21, 1887 – August 23, 1968) was a Galician-born Jewish-American Yiddish journalist, newspaper editor, and Zionist. Margoshes

Jack Cohen (rabbi) (734 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Jack Cohen (March 21, 1919– April 16, 2012) was an Israeli-American Reconstructionist rabbi, educator, philosopher and author. Cohen held a PhD from Columbia

Raysh Weiss (1,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raysh Weiss (born 1984) is a Co-Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel of Natick, MA. Previously, Weiss served as Senior Rabbi of Beth El of Bucks County in Yardley

Albert L. Lewis (3,508 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Albert L. Lewis (July 6, 1917 – February 10, 2008) (Hebrew: הרב אברהם אריה בן חיים יוסף ושרה בילא) was a leading American Conservative rabbi, scholar

Ute Steyer (396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ute Steyer (born 1967) is a rabbi in Sweden, the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the country. She is the rabbi of the Jewish Community of Stockholm

Harry Halpern (3,406 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harry Halpern (February 4, 1899 – June 10, 1981) was a Conservative Jewish educator and rabbi who for almost 49 years was the rabbi of the East Midwood

Aryeh Klapper (2,600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aryeh (Robert David) Klapper is a leading American rabbi and Jewish thinker who serves as dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership. He is senior

Ahron Daum (1,618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahron Daum (Hebrew: אהרן דאום; January 6, 1951 – June 27, 2018) was an Israeli-born Modern-Orthodox rabbi, educator, author, and former chief rabbi of

Abraham A. Neuman (834 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abraham Aaron Neuman (September 23, 1890 – November 20, 1970) was an Austrian-born American rabbi, historian, and college president from Philadelphia.

Israel H. Levinthal (815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Israel Herbert Levinthal (February 12, 1888 – October 31, 1982) was a Lithuanian-born American rabbi from Brooklyn. Levinthal was born on February 12,

Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh (570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(RIETS), Rav of Agudas Yisroel of Passaic Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz, Director of Semikhah at RIETS and Mara D'asra of Beis Haknesses of North Woodmere, formerly

Ḥakirah (journal) (846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

late Shlomo Sprecher, and Heshey Zelcer. Two of the board members have semikhah but none are rabbis by profession. R. Asher Benzion Buchman is the Editor-in-Chief

Sanhedrin (3,507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proposed a rationalist solution for achieving the goal of re-establishing semikhah and the Sanhedrin. There have been several attempts to implement Maimonides'

Leo Jung (2,762 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Zvi Hoffmann of Berlin. He regarded his semikhah from Hoffman as, "his last and most cherished semikhah". Jung's first American pulpit was in Cleveland

Holy anointing oil (4,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

early Jewish rabbis stressed the importance of the succession of classical semikhah and one Jewish tradition teaches that the ashes of the last red heifer

Houses of Hillel and Shammai (3,678 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brings down a dispute concerning whether or not the laying on of hands (semikhah) upon one's sacrificial animal with applied force is permitted to do on

Sally Priesand (4,109 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Judaism." Levitats, Isaac; Rothkoff, Aaron; Nadell, Pamela S. (2007). "Semikhah". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol