Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok

male, deceased (2002) (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
Polish-American, Camp Ramah, Poconos, Anti-semitism, polish, Jewish person…Conservative rabbi, rabbi, author & rabbi
Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish...
Michael Melchior

Michael Melchior

male, 55 years old
Member of the Knesset, immigrant, Yeshivat HaKotel, Copenhagen, Denmark, rabbinical ordination, Meimad…rabbi, Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbi, Chief rabbi
Rabbi Michael Melchior (born 31 January 1954) is a Danish-Norwegian rabbi, an Israeli politician and leader of the left-wing religious party...
Ben Ish Chai

Ben Ish Chai

male, deceased (1909)
kabbalah, From baghdad, rabbi, Sephardic Judaism, posek, Jewish texts…Sephardic Orthodox rabbi
Yosef Chaim (Hebrew: יוסף חיים מבגדאד) was a leading "Hakham" (Sephardic Rabbi), authority on Jewish law (Halakha) and Kabbalist. He is best known...
Arthur Schneier

Arthur Schneier

male, 79 years old
Founder of non-governmental organizations, council of europe, rabbi, Presidential Citizens Medal, President Bill Clinton, Park East Synagogue…Senior Rabbi
Arthur Schneier (b. 1930 in Vienna) is an American rabbi. Arthur Schneier fled in November of 1938 from Vienna to Budapest, where he survived the...
Shneur Zalman Of Liadi

Shneur Zalman Of Liadi

male, deceased (1812)
Alter Rebbe, Nusach Ari, Old Style and New Style dates, kabbalist, graz, Imperial Russia…rabbi
Shneur Zalman of Liadi (September 4, 1745 – December 15, 1812 O.S.), was an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of...
Chaim Richman

Chaim Richman

male (Israel)
red heifer, Holy Temple in Jerusalem, effort to revive the Sanhedrin, Temple Institute, Modern attempts to revive the Sanhedrin, Jewish Temple in Jerusalem…Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbi, rabbi
Chaim Richman is a rabbi in Israel, the International Director of the Temple Institute, which is dedicated to the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in...
Mordechai Eliyahu

Mordechai Eliyahu

male
Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbi, Chief rabbi of Israel, rabbi, Israeli, Sephardi Jew, Chief rabbi…Sephardic Orthodox rabbi
Mordechai Eliyahu (born: 1929, Jerusalem) is a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel.
Norman Lamm

Norman Lamm

male, 82 years old
Modern Orthodox Judaism, From Brooklyn, Modern Orthodox, Rosh yeshivas, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy…Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Modern Orthodox rabbi, rabbi, Rabbi Dr. Norman (Nachum) Lamm
Rabbi Dr. Norman ("Nachum") Lamm, (born 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is a major American Modern Orthodox Jewish communal leader. He...

Semicha

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

Malbim

male, deceased (1879)
Later Acharonim, acronym, Russian, Bible commentator, Orthodox rabbi, Meforshim…rabbi
<u>M</u>eïr <u>L</u>eibush <u>b</u>en <u>J</u>ehiel <u>M</u>ichel Weiser, better known by the acronym Malbim, was a Russian rabbi, preacher, and B...