Bevis Marks Synagogue

Bevis Marks Synagogue

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The Bevis Marks Synagogue, or Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue is the oldest synagogue still in use in the United Kingdom.
Shlomo Carlebach

Shlomo Carlebach

male, deceased (1994)
Shlomo Carlebach (January 14 1925 - October 20, 1994) was a Jewish religious teacher, composer, and singer who was known as "The Singing Rabbi"...
Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Sacks

male, 61 years old
Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks (born 1948, London) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom's main body of Orthodox synagogues. His official title...
Mordecai Kaplan

Mordecai Kaplan

male, deceased (1983)
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881-November 8, 1983) was a rabbi and the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Kaplan was born in Lithuania and...
Salomon Sulzer

Salomon Sulzer

male, deceased (1890)
Salomon Sulzer was an Austrian hazzan (cantor) and composer. His family, which prior to 1813 bore the name of "Loewy", removed to Hohenems from...
Samuel Adler

Samuel Adler

male, 81 years old
Samuel (Sam) Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American (German-born) composer and conductor. Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim,...

Samuel Naumbourg

male, deceased (1880)
Samuel Naumbourg, French composer. After having held the office of chazzan and reader at Besançon and directed the choir of the synagogue at S...
Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

male, 67 years old
Howard Jacobson (born 24 August, 1942 in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich), is a British author who has written comic novels involving Jewish...

Semicha

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Semicha ("leaning [of the hands]"), also "semichut" ("ordination"), or "semicha lerabbanut" ("rabbinical ordination") is derived from a Hebrew word...
Israel Jacobson

Israel Jacobson

male, deceased (1828)
Israel Jacobson was a German philanthropist and reformer. Originally his father's name was Jacob. His parents were in humble circumstances. Owing...