Eleazar

male
High Priest of Israel, Levite, Kohen, Ithamar, Abiathar, Old Testament saint…Kohen Gadol
Eleazar (or Elazar), was a son of Aaron, a Levite priest and High Priest. His wife, a daughter of Putiel, bore him Phinehas. After the death of...
Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook

male, deceased (1935)
Chief rabbi of Israel, buried at the Mount of Olives, Latvian, Jewish person, Mandate for Palestine, Jews buried in the Mount of Olives…Kohen
Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva...

Mattathias

male
seleucid, 1 Maccabees, Kohen, Antiochus IV, 2 Maccabees, Amidah
Mattathias was a Jewish priest depicted in the Books of the Maccabees, and the father of Judah Maccabee, the leader of the Maccabees. Mattathias...
Aaronic Priesthood

Aaronic Priesthood

male
mormonism, Latter Day Saint hierarchy, Melchizedek Priesthood, Latter Day Saint doctrines, beliefs, and practices, Kohen, Descendents
The Aaronic priesthood (also called the Levitical priesthood) is the lesser of the two (or sometimes three) orders of priesthood recognized in...

Hannah

female
Jewish, Major figure of the Hebrew Bible, Prophet of the Hebrew Bible, Old Testament saint, prophet, Kohen Gadol…Kohen
Hannah (also occasionally transliterated as Chana) was a wife of Elkanah mentioned in the Books of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was...
Meir Simcha Of Dvinsk

Meir Simcha Of Dvinsk

male, deceased (1926)
Later Acharonim, Haredi rabbi in Europe, lithuanian, Orthodox Judaism, ohr somayach, Eastern Europe…Kohen
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843-1926) was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. He was a...
Yehuda ben Meir

Yehuda ben Meir

male
Jewish, Kohen, Radhanite, Sefer ha-Dinim, Przemyśl, Medieval rabbi
Yehuda ben Meir (also known as Yehuda ha-Kohen or Judah of Mainz was a German-Jewish rabbi, Talmudic scholar and traveler of the late tenth and...

Nachman Kahane

male
kohanim, jdl, Kohen, Kohan, Young Israel, Muslim Quarter
Rabbi Nachman Kahane, a graduate of the Novardok yeshiva, is a rabbinic scholar and the rabbi of the 'Young Israel' congregation of the Jewish...
Porcius Festus

Porcius Festus

male
paul of tarsus, Jewish, Antonius Felix, civic privileges, Jewish War of 66 AD, Kohen
Porcius Festus was procurator of Judea from about 58 to 62 AD, succeeding Antonius Felix. His exact time in office is not known. He inherited all...
Chaim Gutnick

Chaim Gutnick

male, deceased (2003)
rabbi, hebrew, Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, tel aviv, second world war, Sholom Gutnick…Kohen
Shneur Chaim (HaKohen) Gutnick (Heb.: שניאור-חיים הכהן גוטניק), was a prominent Orthodox Jewish Chabad Rabbi in Australia. Gutnick was born in...