• Agudas Harabonim ("union of rabbis"), was established in 1901 in the United States and is the oldest organization of Orthodox rabbis in the United States...
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  • university-trained American rabbis for the pulpits of OU synagogues. Some Orthodox rabbis viewed the nascent OU and the rabbis of its synagogues as too "modern" in outlook...
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    others). In Orthodox Judaism, the matter of ordination is more complex. Although a significant number of Orthodox women have been ordained as rabbis, many major...
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    president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, Chairman of the Council of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of the Agudath Israel of America, and head of Mesivtha...
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    Strictly traditionalist Eastern European immigrants formed the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (UOR) in 1902, in direct opposition to the Americanized OU and...
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  • from the Holocaust, which was founded in November 1939 by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (Agudath Harabbanim). The organization...
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  • This is a list of prominent rabbis, Rabbinic Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders. See also: List of Jews. Hillel (?- c.10 CE) an early sage, known...
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    Orthodox, but a letter from eleven Rosh Yeshivas was circulated declaring that Orthodox rabbis were forbidden to cooperate with Conservative rabbis (Proceedings...
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  • of the chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine and head of the Bergson Group, and involved more than 400 rabbis, mostly members of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis...
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  • Council of American Rabbis for Reform rabbis, the Rabbinical Council of America for Orthodox rabbis, and the Rabbinical Assembly for Conservative rabbis. rabbi...
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    Orthodox Union Kosher, known as OU Kosher or OUK, is a kosher certification agency based in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by Abraham Goldstein...
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    here include the Orthodox Union (Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America), the Rabbinical Council of America, and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological...
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  • of America (RCA) is one of the world's largest organizations of Orthodox rabbis; it is affiliated with The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America...
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  • This is a timeline of women rabbis: 1930s 1935: In Germany, Regina Jonas became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. 1970s: 1972: Sally Priesand...
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    lambasting Kaplan's prayer book and his entire career as a rabbi." In 1945 the Union of Orthodox Rabbis "formally assembled to excommunicate from Judaism what...
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  • annual gathering of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. Communist books were burned by the revolutionaries during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when 122 communities...
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    formally excommunicated by the Haredi Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudath HaRabonim). In 2004, the High Court of South Africa upheld a herem against a Johannesburg...
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    Bernard Revel (category Lithuanian Orthodox rabbis)
    Master of Arts degree from New York University in 1909. Around this time, one of America's senior rabbis and president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, Rabbi...
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  • regulation of kosher supervision in the Atlanta area under his central authority. He was the leader of the Southern division of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. Geffen...
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  • Orthodox Jews, including many rabbis, dispute his being an Orthodox rabbi. Orthodox Israeli rabbi Ron Yosef became in 2009 the first Israeli Orthodox...
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  • Excommunicated by Union of Orthodox Rabbis following the publication of his Sabbath Prayer Book Louis Jacobs: Prevented from becoming British Chief Rabbi and removed...
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  • Central Conference of American Rabbis. The current president of the URJ is Rabbi Rick Jacobs. The URJ has an estimated constituency of some 880,000 registered...
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  • causing an uproar culminating in an edict of condemnation against him by the Agudath Harabonim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis). Boteach had an encounter with a Christian...
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  • Refinery, a planned oil refinery in Hoima District, Western Uganda Union of Orthodox Rabbis Universal Orlando Resort Urgent Operational Requirement Uchilishche...
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    Greenberg (born June 19, 1956) is an American rabbi with a rabbinic ordination from the Orthodox rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (RIETS). He is described...
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  • Central Asia and Kazakhstan) Edah HaChareidis Union of Orthodox Rabbis World Agudath Israel Agudath Israel of America Chabad Agudas Chasidei Chabad North...
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    Eliezer Silver (category American Orthodox rabbis)
    President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders. He helped save many thousands of Jews...
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    predecessor Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits. The current chief rabbi is Ephraim Mirvis. Chief Rabbi British Jews List of Chief Rabbis of the United Hebrew...
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    Rayatz (an acronym for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak). After many years of fighting to keep Orthodox Judaism alive from within the Soviet Union, he was forced to leave;...
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  • Herbert Bomzer (category Orthodox rabbis from New York City)
    the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (Agudath Harabonim), and the Iggud HaRabbonim and Poale Agudat Yisroel. The recipient of multiple...
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