Spektor, YitsḤaq ElḤanan
SPEKTOR, YITSḤAQ ELḤANAN (1817–1896) was an Orthodox rabbi and foremost traditional Jewish legal authority during the last half of the ninet...
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Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie urged the largest assembly of U.S. Muslims on Friday to help "fight the fanatics" in their two religions, marking the first time a major Jewish leader has addressed the gro...
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Dark beards blowing, black felt fedoras flying off their heads, the four Hasidic rabbis clapped their chests with open palms and cheered as the firefighting helicopter dipped its bucket into their ...
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Rabbi Barry Tuchman has no congregation, no ties to a recognized Jewish movement and an ordination that was far outside the norm for American Jewish clergy.But the interfaith couples who contact hi...
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Members of the Reform Jewish movement filed a complaint with police Wednesday against a former Israeli chief rabbi who blamed the liberal Jewish movement for the Holocaust.The complaint accused Rab...
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A rabbi who has overseen South America's largest Jewish congregation for more than three decades has temporarily resigned after being arrested on shoplifting charges, police and his congregation sa...
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Rabbi Avraham Shapira, an Israeli spiritual leader most famous for urging soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate the Gaza Strip, has died at the age of 94.Shapira, a chief rabbi in Israel for 10 ye...
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An influential and outspoken Israeli rabbi has said Israeli soldiers died in battle because they were not ritually observant Jews, sparking outrage in Israel.Ovadia Yosef, a highly respected religi...
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Israeli rabbinic authorities have abruptly called on Jews to shun a major Christian tourism event, baffling and upsetting evangelical groups that traditionally have been big supporters of the Jewis...
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Abraham Klausner, a leading advocate for Holocaust survivors, has died. He was 92.Klausner, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, died Thursday at his Santa Fe home, said his wife, Judit...
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Spektor, Yitsḥaq Elḥanan
Rabbi seeks Muslim cooperation
