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The organization T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights said Israel’s priority should be getting back those taken hostage.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2024
“Antisemitism, like all forms of bigotry and hate, must be actively resisted by us all,” said Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University in Los Angeles.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, the dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, a seminary in Los Angeles, objected to the letter in a concerned opinion column in The Forward six days later.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
Raphael's father, Herbert, was a renowned scholar who edited, with Claude Montefiore, the Rabbinic Anthology first published in 1938 and still much in use today.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2011
Pirkei Avot is a collection of Rabbinic maxims, and a chapter of it is studied by many Jews every Shabbat between Passover and the Jewish New Year.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Roth, in Mr. Zipperstein’s telling, probed Jewish life—and its collision with American ambition—with more fidelity than any rabbinic sermon could offer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
“They are little babies so they need special treatment,” said Teichman, 77, the rabbinic administrator of Kehilla Kosher, a nonprofit that provides kosher supervision services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
The prospect of studying Talmud for a week seemed intimidating to Noah Rubin-Blose, who grew up culturally Jewish and wasn’t too familiar with the Hebrew letters, much less the central texts of rabbinic Judaism.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
In his stump speeches and his election-night victory speech, Shapiro regularly quoted an ancient rabbinic maxim: “No one is required to complete the task, but neither are we free to refrain from it.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2022
A rabbinic ordination from its Talmud faculty was looked upon as the highest of Orthodox Jewish honors.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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