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6 unusual facts about The Rabbi


Joann Sfar

The Rabbi's Cat (2011), released June 2011 (French title: Le Chat du Rabbin)

The Rabbi

Brian Horwitz, nicknamed "The Rabbi", American major league baseball player

The Rabbi, an episode in the long running TV series In the Heat of the Night

The Rabbi's Cat

Pierre Vavasseur of Le Parisien gave the film the top rating of three stars and compared the impression it left to that of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.

The Rabbi's Wife

The Rabbi's Wife is a 1977 novel by David Benedictus.

At the time of its release, the book was reviewed in such publications as The Spectator, British Book News, and The Library Journal Book Review.



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Abraham Weiss

In 1916 he was given ordination from David Horowitz, the Rabbi of Stanislaw, and the following year Weiss entered the University of Vienna.

Adrienne Cooper

Cooper won the Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk Taker Award from the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in 2010, as well as KlezKanada's Lifetime Achievement Award in Yiddish Arts and Culture.

Ahron Soloveichik

The youngest of five children, Soloveichik was born to Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik in Khislavichi, Russia, at which time his father was the rabbi of that town.

Baal Shem of London

The Baal Shem of London was received very equivocally by the Jews themselves, however, although he seems to have been friendly with Chief Rabbi David Tevele Schiff, whom Falk referred to as the "rabbi of London and the entire country".

Bernard Revel

Around this time, one of America's senior rabbis and president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, Rabbi Bernard Levinthal of Philadelphia, visited the yeshiva and, after discussing Talmudic topics with the new student, invited him to come to Philadelphia as the rabbi's secretary and assistant.

Bezalel Rudinsky

Rabbi Rudinsky is the rabbi of Congregation Ahavas Yitzchok (Agudath Yisroel of Wesley Hills) in Monsey, N.Y., and founder and Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ohr Reuven and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Darchei Noam, both located in Wesley Hills, New York.

Daniel Block

Bush then appealed for funds from the entire country by publishing in the Rabbi Isaac Leeser paper in Philadelphia an open letter asking for money for a building.

David Werdyger

Later, Werdyger moved to the Rabbi Meir Simcha Hakohein Shul in East Flatbush, headed by Chabad Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht.

Eliezer Poupko

Rabbi Poupko married Pesha Chaya, a daughter of the Rabbi of Kenna near Vilna and subsequently of Saratov.

Expository preaching

The practice originated from the Jewish tradition of the rabbi giving a "Dvar Torah", explaining a passage from the Torah, during the prayer services.

Goodman Lipkind

He is today mainly remembered for having been the factual base for the picture of Joseph Strelitski, the rabbi who emigrated to America in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto.

Harry van Bommel

The incident was reason for the Rabbi Raphael Evers of the "Dutch Israelite Religious Community" (Nederlands Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap - NIK) to require that van Bommel would not be present at the Auschwitz Memorial in Amsterdam on January 25.

Hermann Kohlmeyer

Dr. Hermann Kohlmeyer (1814 – 1883) was the rabbi of Congregation Shangarai Chasset in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Isaac Cardoso

This work, which was celebrated by the rabbi J. Brieli of Mantua in a Hebrew sonnet ("Otzar Nechmad," iii. 167), was sent by Cardoso soon after its appearance, July 23, 1679, to the rabbi Samuel Aboab in Venice, asking for an opinion.

Ismar Schorsch

Dr. Ismar Schorsch became the sixth Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and is the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history.

Lanigan's Rabbi

After a successful pilot film based on Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, the first novel in the Rabbi David Small series, aired in 1976, Lanigan's Rabbi was produced as a series of 90-minute telefilms beginning in January 1977.

Leah Horowitz

Her husband at this time was Aryeh Leib, son of the rabbi of Dobromyl, Ukraine; later she was married to Shabbetai ben Benjamin ha-Cohen Rappoport, rabbi of Krasny, Russia.

Lee Spetner

Spetner was inspired by the rabbi David Luria (1798 - 1855), who calculated that according to Talmudic sources that there was 365 originally created species of beasts and 365 of birds.

Louis Isaac Rabinowitz

A brother-in-law, Rabbi Dr. Julius Newman was the Rabbi of the Notting Hill community in London, and another brother-in-law was the noted synagogue stain glass window designer, David Hillman, the son of Dayan Shmuel Hillman of Glasgow, and the brother-in-law of Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, the first Chief Rabbi of Israel.

Meir Eisenstaedter

Eisenstaedter was married to the daughter of David Deutsch, the rabbi ofNove Mesto (Vágújhely in Slovakia), where he was head of the yeshiva at the time.

Mordecai Benet

There Gabriel Markbreiter provided for the tuition of the gifted child for a period of 6 years, and then sent him to Ettingen, Alsace, the rabbi of which place was Markbreiter's brother-in-law.

Mose Solomon

Mose Hirsch Solomon, nicknamed the Rabbi of Swat (December 8, 1900, on the Lower East Side in Manhattan – June 25, 1966, Miami, Florida) was an American left-handed baseball player who briefly played for the New York Giants in 1923.

Moses Capsali

The sultan thought so much of the rabbi that he assigned to him a seat in the divan beside the mufti, the religious head of the Muslims, and above the patriarch of the Christians.

Moshe David Tendler

He is a senior Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University's RIETS and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and Professor of Biology at Yeshiva College.

Price tag policy

The rabbi of Har Brakha, Eliezer Melamed, who according to Chaim Levinson of Haaretz, is considered one of the more extreme settler rabbis, used his weekly column in the newspaper "Basheva" to denounce the price tag policy.

Simcha Zissel Ziv

At Rabbi Ziv’s funeral, his friend and colleague Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, the Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Telz, said that aside from Rabbi Ziv’s greatness in Torah, he had never heard a single word from him that was not related to Torah and to fear of Heaven.

Among these are Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch, the Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Telz, Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz the Mashgiach of Mir, Rabbi Yosef Yoizel Horowitz of Novhardok, Rabbi Elya Lopian of the Knesses Chizkiyahu Yeshiva in Israel, and Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Hacohen Bloch the chief rabbi of Bausk and Plunge.

Simhah Pinsker

He then went to Odessa, and, owing to his calligraphic skill, became secretary to the rabbi.

The Rabbi Is Dead

Just a year after giving Lieberman's 17th cd, Diktator 17 1/2 star review, another writer from Muzikreviews describes The Rabbi Is Dead as "unprofessional" and "garbage" as a play on words for the "garage" genre it falls into.

Thomas J. J. Altizer

In the mid-1960s Altizer was drawn into discussions about his views with other radical Christian theologians such as Gabriel Vahanian, William Hamilton, and Paul Van Buren, and also with the rabbi Richard Rubenstein.

Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman

He was born in Daŭhinava, Russia (now in Belarus), where his father, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ruderman, was the rabbi.

Yehuda Levin

Yehuda Levin (born 1954) is the Rabbi and founder of Congregation Mevakshei Hashem (Those Who Seek the Lord) Synagogue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Yom-Tov Lipmann-Muhlhausen

The Nizzahon was long inaccessible to Christian Hebraists, and a copy was only obtained in 1644 by a deceitful ruse, involving outright theft, by the professor of Hebrew aat the University of Altdorf, Theodor Hackspan who learning that a rabbi in Schnattach possessed a copy, obtained an interview with him for a debate, and when the rabbi took down his copy to consult, had it snatched from his hands, to be then copied and printed.

Zvi Yehuda Kook

In 1896 his father with his entire family moved to Bauska, Latvia to be the rabbi there.