Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel

male, deceased (1972)
Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati, Pacifist, From Warsaw, APT, Jewish Theological Seminary Of America, panentheist…Jewishlaw, Jewish person
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. Heschel was a...
J. David Bleich

J. David Bleich

male
Rosh Yeshiva, jewish history, halakha, Jewishlaw, Yeshiva University rosh yeshivas, Yeshiva Torah Vodaas…Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Task Force on Life and the Law
Rabbi Dr. J. (Judah) David Bleich (born 1936) is an authority on Jewish law and ethics and bioethics. He is a professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at...
David Golinkin

David Golinkin

male
rabbi, Center for Women in Jewish Law, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Conservative responsa, Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, Masorti…Jewishlaw
David Golinkin is a rabbi, author and President and Rector of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel. He is a major halachic authority...
Louis Finkelstein

Louis Finkelstein

male, deceased (1991)
Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati, The Jews Their History, Their Role in Civilization, Their Religion and Culture, Akiba Scholar, Saint and Martyr, Jewishlaw…Jewish Theological Seminary Of America
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein was a Talmud scholar and expert in Jewish law. He taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the first American...

Isaac Klein

male, deceased (1979)
rabbi, Jewishlaw, World War II chaplain, halakha, responsa, Jewish Theological Seminary…Jewish person
Isaac Klein (1905-1979).Rabbi Isaac Klein was born in Hungary in 1905, and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1921. After earning a...
Elliot N. Dorff

Elliot N. Dorff

male, 66 years old
University of Judaism, Conservative Judaism, rabbinical assembly, responsa, halakha, Jewishlaw…Board of Jewish Family Service, Jewish law and custom, American Jewish University
Elliot N. Dorff (born 24 June 1943) is a Conservative rabbi, a professor of Jewish theology at the American Jewish University (formerly the...

Semicha

male
rabbi, semichut, Hillel II, Jewish law and rituals, Hebrew words and phrases, Jewish courts and civil law…Jewishlaw
Semicha ("leaning [of the hands]"), also "semichut" ("ordination"), or "semicha lerabbanut" ("rabbinical ordination") is derived from a Hebrew word...
Shlomo Goren

Shlomo Goren

male, deceased (1994)
British administered, Chief rabbi of Israel, buried at the Mount of Olives, British Mandate of Palestine, polish, Orthodox Jew…Jewishlaw
Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), was a former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Goren, born "Gorenchik", was born in Zambrow, Poland and...

Chaim Kanievsky

male
Derech Emunoh, Shoneh Halachos, Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, Derech Emuna, Ishei Yisroel, Mishnah Berurah…Jewishlaw
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is a Haredi rabbi and posek ("decisor of Jewish law") living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He is the author of several works of...
Samuel Belkin

Samuel Belkin

male
Rabbi Samuel Belkin, university president, Slonim, halakha, Mir yeshiva, Hellenistic civilization…Jewishlaw, Jewish Studies
Rabbi Samuel Belkin (1911-1976) is best known as the second University President of Yeshiva University. He was born in Swislocz, Poland and studied...