Rabbis
Holding out for a Hall-of-Famer.
The book of Malachi, read on the Sabbath before Passover, marks the moment in Jewish history when priestly authority gave way to rabbinic judgment.
An outstanding theologian of Reform Judaism.
Two in Aramaic, one in Greek.
Yes—even those who normally eschew politics.
A congregational rabbi must lead by personal example.
Probably, but the rabbis didn’t want anyone to know.
From the 1930s to the ’50s, Jewish boxers were common.
Shlomo Goren, who was the first chief rabbi of the IDF and later served as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, did much to shape the. . .
The chief rabbinate of the United Kingdom dates back to the early 18th century, and has weathered major changes in the makeup of British Jewry.. . .
In 1621, the famed talmudist and mystic Isaiah Horowitz left his native Prague, where he had served as rabbi to what was then the world’s. . .
The Yiddish phrase talmid hokhem denotes someone learned in Talmud. But, despite a common misconception, it does not contain the word Talmud. Rather, it comes. . .
An Orthodox rabbi and a non-Jewish Yale professor discuss their personal paths, and their respective approaches, to the Talmud. (Video, about 2 hours)
It may seem unfair to criticize rabbis and other communal leaders for ethical lapses we excuse in ourselves, but preachers must not violate what they preach.