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This is a list of prominent [[rabbi]]s |
This is a list of prominent [[rabbi]]s, [[Rabbinic Judaism]]'s spiritual and religious leaders. |
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''See also'': [[List of Jews]]. |
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==Rabbis: Pre-Mishnaic (''Tannaim'') (''Zugot'') (ca. 515 BCE – 70 CE)== |
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:''See: [[Mishnah]], [[Tannaim]], [[Zugot]]''. |
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==Mishnaic period (ca. 70–200 CE)== |
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===Zugot=== |
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*[[Avtalyon]], [[Av Beit Din]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the reign of [[Hyrcanus II]] and convert to Judaism |
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*[[Hillel the Elder]], [[Nasi (Hebrew title)|Nasi]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the reign of King [[Herod the Great]] |
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*[[Jose ben Joezer]], [[Nasi (Hebrew title)|Nasi]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the [[Maccabean]] wars of independence |
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*[[Jose ben Johanan]], [[Av Beit Din]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the [[Maccabean]] wars of independence |
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*[[Joshua ben Perachyah]], [[Nasi (Hebrew title)|Nasi]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the reign of [[John Hyrcanus]] |
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*[[Judah ben Tabbai]], [[Nasi (Hebrew title)|Nasi]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the reign of [[Alexander Jannæus]] and Queen [[Salome]] |
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*[[Nittai of Arbela]], [[Av Beit Din]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the reign of [[John Hyrcanus]] |
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*[[Shammai]], [[Av Beit Din]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the reign of King [[Herod the Great]] |
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*[[Shmaya (tanna)|Shemaya]], [[Nasi (Hebrew title)|Nasi]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the reign of [[Hyrcanus II]] |
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*[[Simeon ben Shetach]], [[Av Beit Din]] of the [[Sanhedrin]] during the reign of [[Alexander Jannæus]] and Queen [[Salome]] |
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===Other=== |
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*[[Antigonus of Sokho]] |
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*[[Gamaliel]] |
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*[[Nicodemus]] |
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*[[Simeon the Just|Shimon Hatzadik]] |
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==Rabbis: Mishnaic (''Tannaim'') (ca. 70–200 CE)== |
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[[File:Akiva.png|thumb|upright|[[Rabbi Akiva]]]] |
[[File:Akiva.png|thumb|upright|[[Rabbi Akiva]]]] |
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* [[Hillel the Elder|Hillel]] (?- c.10 CE) an early sage, known for his lenient rulings during hlalkhic disputes with Shammai and his students <ref>{{Cite web |title=BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI - JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3190-bet-hillel-and-bet-shammai |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> |
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*[[Rabbi Akiva|Akiva]], (c.40–c.137) 1st-century Judea, central scholar in [[Mishnah]] |
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* [[Shammai]] (c. 50 BCE–c. 30 CE) was influential in early [[rabbinic literature]] and is known for taking the stringent position in relation to Hillel |
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*[[Eliezer ben Jose]], the son of [[Jose the Galilean]] (?-c.160), famous for [[Baraita]] of thirty-two mitzvoth, and father of Rabbi [[Hananiah (son of Eliezer ben Jose)|Hananiah]] |
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* [[Yohanan ben Zakkai]] (1st century CE) 1st-century sage in Judea, key to the development of the [[Mishnah]], the first Jewish [[Sage (philosophy)|sage]] attributed the title of rabbi in the Mishnah<ref name="Hezser1997">{{cite book|last=Hezser|first=Catherine|title=The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman Palestine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bKMkEVSvCoUC&pg=PA64|year=1997|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|isbn=978-3-16-146797-4|pages=64–|quote=We suggest that the avoidance of the title "Rabbi" for pre-70 sages may have originated with the editors of the Mishnah. The editors attributed the title to some sages and not to others. The avoidance of the title for pre-70 sages may perhaps be seen as a deliberate program on the part of these editors who wanted to create the impression that the “rabbinic movement" began with R. Yochanan b. Zakkai and that the Yavnean "academy" was something new, a notion that is sometimes already implicitly or explicitly suggested by some of the traditions available to them. This notion is not diminished by the occasional claim to continuity with the past which was limited to individual teachers and institutions and served to legitimize rabbinic authority.}}</ref> |
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*[[Judah haNasi]], (?–c.217) 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the [[Mishnah]] |
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* [[Shimon ben Gamliel]], was a sage and served as the [[Nasi (Hebrew title)|nasi]] of the [[Sanhedrin|Great Sanhedrin]] in Jerusalem. (c. 10 BCE–70 CE) |
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*[[Rabbi Meir]], considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the third generation (139-163) |
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* [[Judah ben Bava|Judah Ben Bava]], was a 2nd-century tanna that was known as "the Ḥasid" |
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* [[Rabban Gamaliel II]], was the first person to lead the [[Sanhedrin]] as [[Nasi (Hebrew title)|nasi]] after the fall of the [[Second Temple]] (?–<abbr>c.</abbr> 118) |
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* [[Rabbi Akiva]] or Akiva ben Yosef ({{circa}} 50–28 September 135 CE) 1st-century Judea, central scholar in [[Mishnah]] |
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* [[Joshua ben Hananiah]], was a leading [[Tannaim|tanna]] of the first half-century following the [[Siege of Jerusalem (70)|destruction]] of the [[Second Temple]] (?–131 CE) |
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* [[Eliezer ben Hurcanus]] was one of the most prominent sages of the 1st and 2nd centuries |
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* [[Rabbi Yishmael|Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha]], was given the title "Ba'al HaBaraita" and was a [[rabbi]] of the 1st and 2nd centuries |
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* [[Eleazar ben Arach]] was a tana in the 2nd-century |
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* [[Eliezer ben Jose]] (2nd century CE), the son of [[Jose the Galilean]], famous for [[Baraita]] of thirty-two mitzvoth, and father of Rabbi Hananiah |
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* [[Yose HaKohen]], 2nd century student of Rabban [[Johanan ben Zakkai]] |
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* [[Rabbi Tarfon]], member of the third generation of the Mishnah sages, who lived in the period between the [[Siege of Jerusalem (70)|destruction of the Second Temple]] (70 AD) and the fall of [[Betar (fortress)|Betar]] (135 AD). |
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* [[Rabbi Meir]] (2nd century) considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the fourth generation (139–163) |
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* [[Shimon bar Yochai]] (2nd-century) [[Jewish mysticism|Jewish mystic]], traditional author of the [[Zohar#Authorship|Zohar]] |
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* [[Judah ha-Nasi]] ({{circa}} 135 to 217 CE) 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the [[Mishnah]] |
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* [[Samuel of Nehardea]], Amora in Babylonia, physician (c.165–254) |
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* [[Abba Arikha]], Amora in Babylonia (175–247) |
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* [[Johanan bar Nappaha]], primary author of the [[Jerusalem Talmud]] (180–279) |
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* [[Bar Kappara]] |
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* [[Shimon ben Lakish]], Amora in Judea (c.200–c.275) |
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* [[Joshua ben Levi]] (early 3rd century), headed the school of [[Lod]]. |
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* [[Samuel ben Nahman]] |
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* [[Shila of Kefar Tamarta]] |
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* [[Judah II]], sage, also called Judah Nesi'ah, in Judea, [[Nasi (Hebrew title)|Nasi]] (230–270) |
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* [[Rabbah bar Nahmani]], Talmudist in Babylonia (c.270–c.330) |
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* [[Hillel, son of Gamaliel III]], younger brother of Judah II, in Judea (before 280) |
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* [[Rabbi Ammi]] |
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* [[Rabbi Assi]] |
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* [[Hanina ben Pappa]] |
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* [[Rav Nachman]], Talmudist in Babylonia (?–320) |
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* [[Raba bar Rav Huna]] |
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* [[Rami bar Hama]] |
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* [[Rav Shmuel bar Yehudah]] |
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* [[Abbahu]], Talmudist in Palestine (c.279–320) |
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* [[Rava (amora)|Rava]], Amora in Babylonia (c.280–352) |
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* [[Judah III]], scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, Nasi (290–320) |
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* [[Abaye]], Talmudist in Babylonia (?–337) |
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* [[Rabbi Jonah]], Amora in Palestine (before 340) |
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* [[Hamnuna]] – Several rabbis in the Talmud had this name (3rd and 4th century) |
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* [[Rav Papa]], Amora in Babylon (c.300–375) |
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* [[Hillel II]], creator of the Hebrew calendar, son of Judah II, in Judea, Nasi (320–365) |
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* [[Rabbi Isaac the smith|Isaac Nappaha]] |
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* [[Anani ben Sason]] |
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* [[Ravina I]], primary aide to Rav Ashi in Babylonia (?–420) |
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* [[Rav Ashi]], sage, primary redactor of the [[Talmud|Talmud in Babylonia]] (352–427) |
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* [[Ravina II]], Amora in Babylonia (?–499) |
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==Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)== |
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*[[Abaye]], (?–339) 3rd-century Talmudist |
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*[[Abba Arika]], (175–247) known as ''Rav'', last ''Tanna'', first ''Amora'', and moved from Israel to Babylon, 3rd century |
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*[[Abbahu]], (c.279–320) 4th-century Talmudist |
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*[[Hamnuna]] – Several rabbis in the Talmud had this name |
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*[[Hillel, son of Gamaliel III]], 3rd century, in Judea, grandson of Judah ha-Nasi, and younger brother of Judah Nesiah |
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*[[Hillel II]], 4th-century creator of the Hebrew calendar, in Judea, son of Judah Nesiah, grandson of Gamaliel IV |
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*[[Judah II]], 3rd-century sage, sometimes called ''Judah Nesi'ah'' and ''Rebbi'' like his grandfather |
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*[[Judah III]], (?–c.320) 4th-century scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, and grandson of Judah II |
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*[[Rabbah bar Nahmani]] (c.270–c.330) |
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*[[Rav Ashi]], (352–427) 5th-century Babylonian Talmudic sage – primary redactor of the Babylonian Talmud |
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*[[Rav Jonah]] |
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*[[Rav Nachman]] (?–320) |
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*[[Rav Papa]] (c.300–375) |
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*[[Rava (amora)|Rava]], important ''Amora'' (c.280–352) |
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*[[Ravina I|Ravina]], (?–421) primary aide to Rav Ashi in the redaction of the Babylonian Talmud |
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*[[Ravina II]] (?–499) |
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*[[Resh Lakish]] |
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*[[Shmuel (Talmud)]], (c. 165–c.257) rabbi of Nehardea, physician |
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*[[Rabbi Yochanan|Yochanan]], (180–279) primary author of the [[Jerusalem Talmud]] |
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==Rabbis: Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)== |
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[[File:Rashi woodcut.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Rashi]]]] |
[[File:Rashi woodcut.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Rashi]]]] |
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* [[Abba Mari]], (''Minhat Kenaot''), 13th-century French Talmudist |
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* [[Abraham ibn Daud]], (c. 1110–c.1180), author of ''[[Sefer ha-Qabbalah]]'' |
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* [[Abraham ben David of Posquières]], (c. 1125–1198) 12th century, France |
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* [[Abraham ibn Ezra]], (''Even Ezra''), (1089–1164) 12th-century Spanish-North African biblical commentator |
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* [[Abdullah ibn Saba']], Rabbi convert to Islam, considered central figure in the configuration of [[Shia Islam]]. |
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* [[Abdullah ibn Salam]], (550–630) rabbi, converted to [[Islam]] and was a companion of Islam's founder, [[Muhammad]] |
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* [[David Abudirham]], 14th century rabbi in Seville. Authored the ''Sefer Abudarham'' on explanation of [[Sephardi Jews|Sefardi]] liturgy and customs. Completed c. 1339 |
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* [[Amram Gaon]], (?–875) 9th-century organizer of the ''siddur'' (prayer book) |
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* [[Asher ben Jehiel]], (''Rosh''), (c. 1259–1327) 13th-century German-Spanish Talmudist |
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* [[Simeon bar Isaac]], 11th century French rabbi |
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* [[Yom Tov of Falaise]] 11th-century French rabbi, grandson of [[Rashi]] |
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* [[Samson ben Joseph of Falaise]], 11th century French rabbi |
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* [[Judah ben Yom Tov]] 11th century French rabbi |
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* [[Moses ben Kalonymus]], 11th century Italian liturgical poet who moved to [[Mainz]] |
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* [[Bahya ibn Paquda]], (''Hovot ha-Levavot''), 11th-century Spanish philosopher and moralist |
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* [[Chananel Ben Chushiel]] (''Rabbeinu Chananel''), (990–1053) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist |
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* [[Meshullam ben Kalonymus]] (~950 – ~1010), Rabbi, posek, commentator on the Mishnah, and Paytan |
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* [[David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra]], (1479–1573) also called Radbaz, born in Spain, was a leading posek, rosh yeshiva and chief rabbi |
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* [[David Kimhi]], (''Radak''), (1160–1235), born in Narbonne, was a biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian |
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* [[Dunash ben Labrat]], (920–990) 10th-century grammarian and poet |
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* [[Eleazar Kalir]], (c.570–c.640) early Talmudic liturgist and poet |
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* [[Rabbi Abin ha-Gadol]], 10th century French rabbi |
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* [[Eleazar of Worms]], (''Sefer HaRokeach''), (1176–1238) 12th-century German rabbinic scholar |
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* [[Solomon ben Meir]], 12th century French rabbi |
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* [[Elijah of Paris]], 12th-century French rabbi |
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* [[Judah ben Nathan]], 12th century bible commentator, son-in-law of [[Rashi]], also known as Rivan |
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* [[Eliezer ben Nathan]], (1090–1170) 12th-century poet and pietist |
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* [[Haim ben Hananel HaCohen (Tosafist)]] |
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* [[Rabbenu Gershom]], (c.960–c.1040) 11th-century German Talmudist and legalist |
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* [[Gersonides]], Levi ben Gershom, (''Ralbag''), (1288–1344) 14th-century French Talmudist and philosopher |
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* [[Hasdai Crescas]], (''Or Hashem''), (c. 1370–c.1411) 14th-century Talmudist and philosopher |
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* [[Hillel ben Eliakim]], (''Rabbeinu Hillel''), 12th-century Talmudist and disciple of ''Rashi'' |
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* [[Ibn Tibbon]], a family of 12th and 13th-century Spanish and French scholars, translators, and leaders |
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* [[Don Isaac Abravanel]], (''Abarbanel''), (1437–1508) 15th-century philosopher, Talmudist and Torah commentator. Also a court advisor and in charge of Finance to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain. |
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* [[Isaac Alfasi]], (the ''Rif''), (1013–1103) 12th-century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot" |
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* [[Israel Isserlein]] (''Terumat Hadeshen''), (1390–1460) 15th-century, the most influential rabbi of the Empire in the second third of the 15th century and the last great rabbi of medieval [[Austria]] |
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* [[Jacob ben Asher]], (''Baal ha-Turim''; ''Arbaah Turim''), (c. 1269–c.1343) 14th-century German-Spanish Halakhist |
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* [[Jacob Berab]], (1474–1546) 15th–16th-century proponent of [[Semichah]] (Ordination) |
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* [[Joseph Albo]], (''Sefer Ikkarim''), (c. 1380–1444) 15th-century Spain |
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* [[Joseph ibn Migash]] (1077–1141) 12th-century Spanish Talmudist and rosh yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of [[Maimonides]] |
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* [[Judah ben Joseph ibn Bulat]] (c. 1500–1550), Spanish Talmudist and rabbi |
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* [[Ka'ab al-Ahbar]], Iṣḥaq Ka‘b ben Mati, (?–652/653) was a prominent rabbi from Yemen who was one of the earliest important Jewish converts to Islam. |
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[[File:Maimonides-2.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Maimonides]]]] |
[[File:Maimonides-2.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Maimonides]]]] |
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* [[Maimonides]], Moshe Ben Maimon, (''Rambam''), (1138–1204) 12th-century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier |
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[[File:Nahmanides painting.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Nahmanides]]]] |
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* [[Meir ben Samuel]] (c. 1060–1135) known by the Hebrew acronym (''RaM'') was a French rabbi and tosafist |
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*[[Abba Mari]], (''Minhat Kenaot''), 13th-century French Talmudist |
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* [[Menachem Meiri]] (''HaMeiri''), (1249–1315) famous [[Catalonia|Catalan]] [[rabbi]], [[Talmudist]] and [[Maimonides|Maimonidean]], author of the ''Beit HaBechirah'' |
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*[[Abraham ibn Daud]], (''Sefer HaKabbalah''), (c. 1110–c.1180) 12th-century Spanish philosopher |
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* [[Mordecai ben Hillel]], (''The Mordechai''), (c. 1250–1298) 13th-century German Halakhist |
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[[File:Nahmanides painting.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Nachmanides]]]] |
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*[[Abraham ibn Ezra]], (''Even Ezra''), (1089–1164) 12th-century Spanish-North African biblical commentator |
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* [[Moses de Leon]], Moshe ben Shem-tov, (1240–1305) 13th-century Spanish Kabbalist and potential author of The Zohar |
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*[[Abdullah ibn Saba']], Rabbi convert to Islam, considered central figure in the configuration of [[Shia Islam]]. |
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* [[Nachmanides]], Moshe ben Nahman, (''Ramban''), (1194–1270) 13th-century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist |
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*[[Abdullah ibn Salam]], (550 - 630) rabbi, converted to [[Islam]] and was a companion of Islam's founder, [[Muhammad]] |
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* [[Nissim Ben Jacob]] (''Rav Nissim Gaon''), (990–1062) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist |
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*[[Amram Gaon]], (?–875) 9th-century organizer of the ''siddur'' (prayer book) |
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* [[Nissim of Gerona]], (''RaN''), (1320–1376) 14th-century [[Halakha|Halakhist]], [[Talmud|Talmudist]] and [[physician]] |
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* [[Obadiah ben Abraham]] of Bertinoro, (''Bartenura''), (c. 1445–c.1515) 15th-century commentator on the [[Mishnah]] |
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* [[Ra'ah]] (1235–c. 1290), was a [[medieval]] rabbi, [[Talmud|Talmudic]] scholar and [[Halakha|Halakhist]], student of the [[Nachmanides|Ramban]] and colleague of the [[Rashba (rabbi)|Rashba]] |
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*[[Chananel Ben Chushiel]] (''Rabbeinu Chananel''), (990–1053) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist |
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* [[Rashbam]], (Samuel ben Meir), (1085–1158) French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi" |
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*[[David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra]], (1479–1573) also called Radbaz, born in Spain, was a leading posek, rosh yeshiva and chief rabbi |
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* [[Rashi]], (Solomon ben Yitzchak), (1040–1105) 11th-century Talmudist, primary commentator of the [[Talmud]] |
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* [[Saadia Gaon]], (''Emunoth ve-Deoth''; ''Siddur''), (c.882–942) 10th-century [[exilarch]] and leader of Babylonian Jewry |
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*[[Eleazar Kalir]], (c.570–c.640) early Talmudic liturgist and poet |
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* [[Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon]], (c. 1150–c.1230) 12th–13th-century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator |
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*[[Eleazar of Worms]], (''Sefer HaRokeach''), (1176–1238) 12th-century German rabbinic scholar |
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* [[Shlomo ibn Aderet|Shlomo ben Avraham ibn Aderet]] (1235–1310), [[medieval]] rabbi, [[Halakha|halakhist]], and [[Talmud|Talmudist]], known as the Rashba, student of the [[Nachmanides|Ramban]] and [[Yonah Gerondi|Rabbeinu Yonah]] |
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*[[Eliezer ben Nathan]], (1090–1170) 12th-century poet and pietist |
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* [[Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier|Solomon ben Abraham Min Hahar]], a [[Provençal rabbi]] and [[Talmudist]] of the first half of the 13th century, rabbi at [[Montpellier]], leader of the movement against [[Maimonides]], teacher of [[Yonah Gerondi]] |
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*[[Rabbenu Gershom]], (c.960–c.1040) 11th-century German Talmudist and legalist |
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* [[Tosafists]], (''Tosfot'') 11th, 12th and 13th-century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany |
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* [[Yehuda Halevi]], (''Kuzari''), (c. 1175–1241) 12th-century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to [[Zion]] |
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* [[Yom Tov Asevilli]] (c. 1260–c. 1314), known as the Ritva, medieval rabbi and [[rosh yeshiva]] of the Yeshiva of Seville, [[Talmud|Talmudist]], student of the [[Shlomo ibn Aderet|Rashba]] and the [[Ra'ah]] |
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*[[Hillel ben Eliakim]], (''Rabbeinu Hillel''), 12th-century Talmudist and disciple of ''Rashi'' |
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* [[Yonah Gerondi]] (d. 1264), [[Catalan people|Catalan]] rabbi and moralist, cousin of [[Nahmanides]], author of the ethical work, ''The Gates of Repentance'' (שערי תשובה) |
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*[[Ibn Tibbon]], a family of 12th and 13th-century Spanish and French scholars, translators, and leaders |
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*[[Don Isaac Abravanel]], (''Abarbanel''), (1437–1508) 15th-century philosopher and Torah commentator |
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*[[Isaac Alfasi]], (the ''Rif''), (1013–1103) 12th-century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot" |
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*[[Jacob ben Asher]], (''Baal ha-Turim'' ; ''Arbaah Turim''), (c. 1269–c.1343) 14th-century German-Spanish Halakhist |
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*[[Jacob Berab]], (1474–1546) 15th–16th-century proponent of [[Semichah]] (Ordination) |
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*[[Joseph Albo]], (''Sefer Ikkarim''), (c. 1380–1444) 15th-century Spain |
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*[[Joseph ibn Migash]] (1077–1141) 12th-century Spanish Talmudist and rosh yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of [[Maimonides]] |
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*[[Ka'ab al-Ahbar]], Iṣḥaq Ka‘b ben Mati, (?– 652/653) was a prominent rabbi from Yemen who was one of the earliest important Jewish converts to Islam. |
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*[[Maimonides]], Moshe Ben Maimon, (''Rambam''), (1138–1204) 12th-century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier |
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*[[Meir ben Samuel]] (c. 1060–1135) known by the Hebrew acronym (''RaM'') was a French rabbi and tosafist, |
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*[[Mordecai ben Hillel]], (''The Mordechai''), (c. 1250–1298) 13th-century German Halakhist |
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*[[Nahmanides]], Moshe ben Nahman, (''Ramban''), (1194–1270) 13th-century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist |
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*[[Nissim Ben Jacob]] (''Rav Nissim Gaon''), (990–1062) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist |
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*[[Nissim of Gerona]], (''RaN''), (1320–1376) 14th-century Halakhist and Talmudist |
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*[[Obadiah ben Abraham]] of Bertinoro, (''Bartenura''), (c. 1445–c.1515) 15th-century commentator on the [[Mishnah]] |
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*[[Rashbam]], (Samuel ben Meir), (1085–1158) French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi" |
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*[[Rashi]], (Solomon ben Yitzchak), (1040–1105) 11th-century Talmudist, primary commentator of the [[Talmud]] |
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*[[Saadia Gaon]], (''Emunoth ve-Deoth'' ; ''Siddur''), (c.882–942) 10th-century [[exilarch]] and leader of Babylonian Jewry |
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*[[Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon]], (c. 1150–c.1230) 12th–13th-century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator |
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*[[Tosafists]], (''Tosfot'') 11th, 12th and 13th-century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany |
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*[[Yehuda Halevi]], (''Kuzari''), (c. 1175–1241) 12th-century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to [[Zion]] |
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==Rabbis: 16th – 18th centuries== |
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==16th–17th centuries== |
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[[File:Rabbi-Caro.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Joseph ben Ephraim Karo]]]] |
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[[File:Moses Isserles.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Moses Isserles]]]] |
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[[File:Maharal.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Judah Loew ben Bezalel]]]] |
[[File:Maharal.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Judah Loew ben Bezalel]]]] |
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*[[Isaac Abendana]] (c. 1640–1699), 17th-century Sephardic scholar in England |
* [[Isaac Abendana]] (c. 1640–1699), 17th-century Sephardic scholar in England |
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*[[Jacob Abendana]] (c. 1630–1685), 17th-century Sephardic rabbi in England |
* [[Jacob Abendana]] (c. 1630–1685), 17th-century Sephardic rabbi in England |
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*[[Isaac Aboab da Fonseca]] (1605–1693), 17th-century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first |
* [[Isaac Aboab da Fonseca]] (1605–1693), 17th-century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first rabbi in the Americas |
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*[[Abraham Amigo]] (c. 1610–c. 1683), |
* [[Abraham Amigo]] (c. 1610–c. 1683), Judean rabbi |
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*[[Bezalel Ashkenazi]] (c. 1520–c.1592), (''Shittah Mekubetzet''), 16th-century Talmudist |
* [[Bezalel Ashkenazi]] (c. 1520–c.1592), (''Shittah Mekubetzet''), 16th-century Talmudist |
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*[[Tzvi Ashkenazi]] (1656–1718), author of ''Chacham Tzvi'' |
* [[Tzvi Ashkenazi]] (1656–1718), author of ''Chacham Tzvi'' |
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*[[Yair Bacharach]] (''Havvot Yair'' 1639–1702), 17th-century German Talmudist |
* [[Yair Bacharach]] (''Havvot Yair'' 1639–1702), 17th-century German Talmudist |
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* [[Menahem ben Moshe Bavli]] (''Ta'amei Ha-Misvot'', 1571), 16th-century rabbi |
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*[[Abraham ben Saul Broda]] (c. 1640–1717), Bohemian Talmudist |
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* [[Abraham ben Saul Broda]] (c. 1640–1717), Bohemian Talmudist |
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*[[Naphtali Cohen]] (1649–1718), Russo-German rabbi and Kabbalist |
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* [[Naphtali Cohen]] (1649–1718), Russo-German rabbi and Kabbalist |
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*[[Moses ben Jacob Cordovero]] (RaMaK, 1522–1570), 16th-century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar |
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* [[Moses ben Jacob Cordovero]] (RaMaK, 1522–1570), 16th-century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar |
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* [[Samuel Edels]] (''Mahrsha'', 1555–1631), 16th-century Talmudist |
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*[[David HaLevi Segal]], (''Taz'', 1586–1667, 16th-century Halakhist, major commentary on the [[Shulchan Aruch]] |
* [[Kalonymus Haberkasten]], 16th-century Polish rabbi |
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* [[David HaLevi Segal]], (''Taz'', 1586–1667, 16th-century Halakhist, major commentary on the [[Shulchan Aruch]] |
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*[[Abraham Cohen de Herrera]] (RabACH, c.1570–c.1635), 16th-century Kabbalist and philosopher [[Spanish and Portuguese Jews]] |
* [[Aaron Ezekiel Harif]], 17th-century Hungarian rabbi |
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* [[Abraham Cohen de Herrera]] (RabACH, c.1570–c.1635), 16th-century Kabbalist and philosopher [[Spanish and Portuguese Jews]] |
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*[[Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi]] (''Bet Hillel'', (1615–1690), 17th-century Lithuanian scholar |
* [[Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi]] (''Bet Hillel'', (1615–1690), 17th-century Lithuanian scholar |
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*[[Isaiah Horowitz]] (''Shlah'', c.1565–1632) 16th-century Kabbalist and Author, Eastern Europe and Israel |
* [[Isaiah Horowitz]] (''Shlah'', c.1565–1632) 16th-century Kabbalist and Author, Eastern Europe and Israel |
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*[[Moshe Isserles]] (''Rema'', 1520–1572), 16th-century Polish legal scholar, author of ''Ha-mappah'' (component of the [[Shulchan Aruch]]) |
* [[Moshe Isserles]] (''Rema'', 1520–1572), 16th-century Polish legal scholar, author of ''Ha-mappah'' (component of the [[Shulchan Aruch]]) |
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*[[Yosef Karo]] (''Mechaber'', 1488–1575), 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the [[Shulchan Aruch]] |
* [[Yosef Karo]] (''Mechaber'', 1488–1575), 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the [[Shulchan Aruch]] |
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*[[Meir Padua|Meir ben Isaac]] (1482–1565) and his son [[Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen]] (1521–1597) of [[Padua]] |
* [[Meir Padua|Meir ben Isaac]] (1482–1565) and his son [[Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen]] (1521–1597) of [[Padua]] |
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*[[Elijah Loans]] (1555–1636), 16th–17th-century German rabbi and Kabbalist |
* [[Elijah Loans]] (1555–1636), 16th–17th-century German rabbi and Kabbalist |
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*[[Judah Low ben Bezalel]] (''Maharal'', 1512–1609), 16th-century Prague mystic and Talmudist |
* [[Judah Low ben Bezalel]] (''Maharal'', 1512–1609), 16th-century Prague mystic and Talmudist |
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*[[Meir Lublin|Meir of Lublin]] (''Maharam'', 1558–1616), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist |
* [[Meir Lublin|Meir of Lublin]] (''Maharam'', 1558–1616), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist |
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*[[Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz]] (1550–1619), 16th–17th-century Torah commentator |
* [[Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz]] (1550–1619), 16th–17th-century Torah commentator |
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*[[Isaac Luria]] (1534–1572) (''Ari'', 1534–1572), 16th-century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah |
* [[Isaac Luria]] (1534–1572) (''Ari'', 1534–1572), 16th-century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah |
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*[[Solomon Luria]] (''Maharshal'', 1510–1573), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist |
* [[Solomon Luria]] (''Maharshal'', 1510–1573), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist |
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*[[Menasseh Ben Israel]] (1604–1657), 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England |
* [[Menasseh Ben Israel]] (1604–1657), 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England |
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*[[David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica)]] (1591–1657), Dutch rabbi, born in Salonica |
* [[David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica)]] (1591–1657), Dutch rabbi, born in Salonica |
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*[[David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born in Amsterdam)]], translator of Joseph Pardo's (his father) ''Shulchan Tahor'' into Spanish |
* [[David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born in Amsterdam)]], translator of Joseph Pardo's (his father) ''Shulchan Tahor'' into Spanish |
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*[[Joseph Pardo (rabbi)]] (c. 1561–1619), Italian rabbi and merchant |
* [[Joseph Pardo (rabbi)]] (c. 1561–1619), Italian rabbi and merchant |
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* [[Michael ben Moses Kohen]], 16th-century Palestinian rabbi and liturgist |
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* [[Moses ha-Levi ha-Nazir]], 16th-century rabbi |
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*[[Shalom Shachna]] (1495–1558), 16th-century Polish Talmudist, Rosh Yeshiva of several great [[Rishonim]] |
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* [[Samuel Schotten]] (1644–1719), 17th-century rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt |
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* [[Shalom Shachna]] (1495–1558), 16th-century Polish Talmudist, Rosh Yeshiva of several great [[Acharonim]] |
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* [[Sforno]], 15th, 16th, and 17th-century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers |
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*[[Hayyim ben Joseph Vital]] (1542–1620), 16th-century Kabbalist |
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* [[Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno]] (''Sforno'', 1475–1550), 16th-century Italian scholar and rationalist |
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* [[Hayyim ben Joseph Vital]] (1542–1620), 16th-century Kabbalist |
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* [[Mordecai Yoffe]] ("Levush", c.1530–1612), 16th–17th-century Polish rabbi, codifier of [[halakha]] |
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* [[Israel Ze'evi|Hayyim Abraham Israel ben Benjamin Ze’evi]] (c.1650–1731) Palestinian rabbi |
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* [[Ephraim Zalman Shor]], (c.1550–1633) Czech rabbi |
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* [[Simcha Rappaport]] (1650–1718), Ukrainian rabbi |
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* [[Daniel Da Pisa]], 16th century head of Rome's Jewish community |
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==18th century== |
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[[File:Vilna Gaon, Winograd picture.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Vilna Gaon]]]] |
[[File:Vilna Gaon, Winograd picture.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Vilna Gaon]]]] |
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[[File:Schneur Zalman of Liadi.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]]]] |
[[File:Schneur Zalman of Liadi.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]]]] |
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* [[David Nieto]] (1654–1728), English rabbi |
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[[File:Besht.jpg|thumb|upright|Samuel Jacob Falk, the [[Baal Shem of London]]]] |
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* [[Aaron Hart (rabbi)|Aaron Hart]] (1670–1756), [[Chief Rabbi]] of Great Britain |
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*[[Aharon of Karlin (I)]] (1736–1772), Hassidic leader |
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* [[Jacob Emden]] (1697–1776), German Talmudist and mystic |
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*[[Chaim Joseph David Azulai]] (''Hida'', 1724–1806), Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer |
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* [[Nachman of Horodenka]] (?–1765), Hasidic leader |
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*[[Raphael Berdugo]] (1747–1821), rabbi in [[Meknes]] |
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* [[Israel ben Eliezer]] (''Baal Shem Tov'', 1700–1760), mystic, founder of [[Hasidic Judaism]] |
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*[[Haim Isaac Carigal]] (1733–1777), rabbi in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend [[Ezra Stiles]], and therefore on [[Yale University]] |
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* [[Isaac Nieto]] (1702–1774), English rabbi |
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*[[Dovber of Mezritch]] (c. 1710–1772), (''Maggid''), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the ''Baal Shem Tov'' |
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* [[Moshe Chaim Luzzatto]] (''Ramchal'', 1707–1746), Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic |
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*[[Akiva Eiger]] (1761–1837), Talmudist, and communal leader |
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* [[Baal Shem of London|Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk]] (1708–1782) rabbi, Practical Kabbalist and [[alchemist]] |
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*Elijah ben Solomon (the [[Vilna Gaon]] or ''Gra'', 1720–1797), Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the ''Mitnagdim'', opponent of [[Hasidism]] |
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* [[Dovber of Mezritch]] (1710–1772), (''Maggid''), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the ''Baal Shem Tov'' |
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*[[Elimelech of Lizhensk]], (''Noam Elimelech'', 1717–1787), Polish mystic and Hasid |
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* [[Yechezkel Landau]] (''Noda Bihudah'', 1713–1793), Posek and Talmudist |
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*[[Jacob Emden]] (1697–1776), German Talmudist and mystic |
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* [[Elimelech of Lizhensk]], (''Noam Elimelech'', 1717–1787), Polish mystic and Hasid |
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*[[Baal Shem of London|Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk]] (1708 – 1782) rabbi, Practical Kabbalist and [[alchemist]] |
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* [[Elijah ben Solomon]] (the [[Vilna Gaon]] or ''Gra'', 1720–1797), Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the ''Mitnagdim'', opponent of [[Hasidism]] |
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*[[Rabbi Aaron Hart|Aaron Hart]] (1670–1756), [[Chief rabbi]] of Great Britain |
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* [[Shalom Sharabi]] (1720–1777), [[Yemenite Jews|Yemenite]] rabbi and [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]] |
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*[[David Hassine]] (1727–1792), Moroccan Jewish poet |
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* [[Hart Lyon]] (1721–1800), [[Chief Rabbi]] of Great Britain |
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*[[Israel ben Eliezer]] (''Baal Shem Tov'', c.1700–1760), mystic, founder of [[Hasidic Judaism]] |
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* [[Chaim Joseph David Azulai]] (''Hida'', 1724–1806), Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer |
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* [[David Hassine]] (1727–1792), Moroccan Jewish poet |
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*[[Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev]] (''Kedushas Leivi'', 1740–1809) Polish Hassidic Leader |
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* [[Haim Isaac Carigal]] (1733–1777), rabbi in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend [[Ezra Stiles]], and therefore on [[Yale University]] |
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*[[Moshe Chaim Luzzatto]] (''Ramchal'', 1707–1746), Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic |
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* [[Aharon of Karlin (I)]] (1736–1772), Hassidic leader |
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*[[Hart Lyon]] (1721–1800), [[Chief rabbi]] of Great Britain |
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* [[Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev]] (''Kedushas Leivi'', 1740–1809) Polish Hassidic Leader |
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*[[Nachman of Horodenka]] (?–1765), Hasidic leader |
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* [[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]] (1745–1812), (''Alter Rebbe of Chabad''), mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad ''Rebbe'' |
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*[[David Nieto]] (1654–1728), English rabbi |
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* [[Aryeh Leib Heller]] (<abbr></abbr> 1745–1812), "the Ketzos," [[Talmud|Talmudist]] and [[Halakha|Halachist]] in [[Galicia (Central Europe)|Galicia]], author of the ''Ketzos Hachoshen'' and the ''Avnei Miluim'' |
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*[[Isaac Nieto]] (1702–1774), English rabbi |
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* [[Raphael Berdugo]] (1747–1821), rabbi in [[Meknes]] |
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* [[Chaim of Volozhin|Chaim Ickovits]] (1749–1821), founder of the [[Volozhin Yeshiva]], author of the ''Nefesh Ha-Chaim'' |
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*[[Shalom Sharabi]] (1720–1777), [[Yemenite Jews|Yemenite]] rabbi and [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]] |
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* [[Jacob Pardo]], rabbi of Ragusa and Spalato |
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*[[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]] (1745–1812), (''Alter Rebbe of Chabad''), mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad ''Rebbe'' |
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* [[Joseph Ergas]] (c1685–1730), Italian kabbalist |
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* [[Chaim Ben Attar (the elder)]] d. 1720 |
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* [[Chaim ibn Attar]] (1696–1743), author of Or ha-Ḥayyim commentary on the Torah |
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==Orthodox rabbis |
==Orthodox rabbis== |
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[[File:Naftali Tzvi Iehuda Berlin (ha-Natziv) 1a.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Netziv]]]] |
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*[[Aaron of Pinsk]] (?–1841), rabbi and author of ''Tosafot Aharon'' |
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[[File:Benishchai.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Ben Ish Chai]]]] |
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*[[Barnett Abrahams]] (1831–1863), ''dayan'', Principal of [[Jews' College]], London |
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[[File:Tzemachtzedek2.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Tzemach Tzedek]]]] |
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*[[Shimon Agassi]] (1852–1914), Iraqi Hakham and Kabbalist |
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* [[Liebman Adler]] (1812–1892), noted abolitionist and rabbi at [[Temple Beth El (Detroit)]], the oldest Jewish congregation in Michigan, and [[KAM Isaiah Israel]] in Chicago, the oldest Jewish congregation in Illinois |
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*[[Nathan Marcus Adler]] (1803–1890), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire |
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* [[Aaron of Pinsk]] (?–1841), author of ''Tosafot Aharon'' |
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* [[Barnett Abrahams]] (1831–1863), ''dayan'', Principal of [[Jews' College]], London |
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*[[Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter]] (1847–1905), (''Sfas Emes'') Gerrer Rebbe |
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* [[Yaakov Koppel Altenkunshtadt]] (1765–1837), German and Hungarian rabbi |
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*[[Benjamin Artom]] (1835–1879), [[Haham]] of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews |
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* [[Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin]] (1764–1820), Rabbi of Breslau |
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* [[Shimon Agassi]] (1852–1914), Iraqi Hakham and Kabbalist |
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*[[Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin]] (1816–1893), (''Netziv'' ; ''Ha'emek Davar'') head of Volozhin yeshiva in [[Lithuania]] |
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* [[Nathan Marcus Adler]] (1803–1890), [[Chief Rabbi]] of the [[British Empire]] |
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*[[Avrohom Bornsztain]] (1838–1910), (''Avnei Nezer''), first Sochatchover Rebbe |
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* [[Aharon of Karlin (II)]] (1802–1872), Hassidic leader |
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*[[Zvi Hirsch Chajes]] (1805–1855), (''Maharatz Chayes''), Galician Talmudic scholar |
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* [[Judah Alkalai]] (1798–1878), [[Sephardic]] [[rabbi]], one of the influential precursors of modern [[Zionism]] |
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*Yosef Chayim, the [[Ben Ish Chai|Ben Ish Hai]] (1835–1909), Iraqi halakhist and preacher |
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* [[Avraham Eliezer Alperstein]] (1853–1917), [[rosh yeshiva]] of [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary|RIETS]], publisher, communal leader and Talmudic scholar, one of the founders of the [[Agudath Harabbonim]] |
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*[[Yehoshua Leib Diskin]] (1818–1898), Rabbi in Shklov, Brisk and Jerusalem |
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* [[Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter]] (1847–1905), (''Sfas Emes'') Gerrer Rebbe |
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*[[Yechiel Michel Epstein]] (1829–1908), (''Aruch ha-Shulchan'') 19th–20th-century halakhist and ''posek'' (decisor) |
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* [[Benjamin Artom]] (1835–1879), [[Haham]] of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews |
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*[[Jacob Ettlinger]] (1798–1871), German scholar and opponent of [[Reform Judaism|Reform]] |
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* [[Salomon Berdugo]] (1854–1906), rabbi in [[Meknes]] |
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*[[Yitzchok Friedman]] (1850–1917), first Rebbe of [[Boyan (Hasidic dynasty)|Boyan]] |
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* [[Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin]] (1816–1893), (''Netziv''; ''Ha'emek Davar'') rosh yeshiva of the [[Volozhin Yeshiva]], son-in-law of [[Yitzhak of Volozhin]] |
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*[[Moshe Shmuel Glasner]] (1856–1924), (''Dor Revi'i'') 19th–20th-century talmudist, chief rabbi of Klausenburg, a founder of Mizrahi |
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* [[Yehuda Bibas]] (1789–1852), [[Sephardic]] [[rabbi]], rabbi of [[Corfu]], the first of the precursors of modern [[Zionism]] |
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*[[Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov]] (1794–1867) also known as Stropkover Rov – Chief Rabbi and head of the bet din of Stropkov, Galicia |
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* [[Avrohom Bornsztain]] (1838–1910), (''Avnei Nezer''), founder and first [[rebbe]] of the [[Sochatchov (Hasidic dynasty)|Sochatchover Hasidic dynasty]] |
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* [[Lelio Cantoni]] (1802–1857), Italian writer |
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* [[Zvi Hirsch Chajes]] (1805–1855), (''Maharatz Chayes''), Galician Talmudic scholar |
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*[[Azriel Hildesheimer]] (1820–1899), German rabbi and philosopher |
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* [[Yosef Hayyim|Yosef Chayim]] (1835–1909), the ''Ben Ish Hai'', Iraqi halakhist and preacher |
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*[[Abraham Hillel]] (1820-1920), Chief Rabbi of Baghdad |
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* [[Yehoshua Leib Diskin]] (1818–1898), rabbi in Shklov, Brisk and Jerusalem |
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* [[Akiva Eiger]] (1761–1837), Talmudist and communal leader |
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*[[Abraham Lichtstein]], Av Beit Din of [[Przasnysz]], Poland |
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* [[Yechiel Michel Epstein]] (1829–1908), (''Aruch ha-Shulchan'') 19th–20th-century halakhist and ''[[posek]]'' (decisor) |
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*[[Jacob of Lissa]] (1760–1832), Galician Halakhist |
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* [[Jacob Ettlinger]] (1798–1871), German scholar, author of the ''Aruch La-Ner,'' fierce opponent of [[Reform Judaism]] |
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*[[Malbim]] (1809–1879), Meir Lob ben Jehiel Michael, (''The Malbim''), Russian preacher and scholar |
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* [[Yitzchok Friedman]] (1850–1917), first rebbe of [[Boyan (Hasidic dynasty)|Boyan]] |
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*[[Raphael Meldola (Sephardic Rabbi)|Raphael Meldola]] (1754–1828), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London |
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* [[Shlomo Ganzfried]] (''Kitzur Shulchan Aruch'', 1804–1886), posek |
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*[[Frederick de Sola Mendes]] (1850–1927), Sephardic rabbi in London and America |
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* [[Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov]] (1794–1867) also known as Stropkover Rov – Chief Rabbi and head of the bet din of Stropkov, Galicia |
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*[[Nachman of Breslov]] (1772–1810), (''Rebbe Nachman''), Ukrainian Hasidic ''Rebbe'' and mystic |
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* [[Moshe Greenwald]] (1853–1910), rabbi of [[Khust|Chust]], Hungary and founder of the [[Puppa (Hasidic dynasty)|Puppa]] Hasidic dynasty |
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*[[Nathan of Breslov]] (1780–1844), Known as Reb Noson was the chief disciple and scribe of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
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* [[Lazar Grünhut]] (1850–1913), Hungarian writer, educator and [[Zionist]] political activist, representative of the [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] movement in the [[Zionist Congress]] |
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*''Pele Yoetz'' (1785–1828), Rabbi [[Eliezer Papo]], Rabbi of the community of [[Selestria]], [[Bulgaria]] |
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* [[Shlomo HaKohen (Vilna)|Shlomo HaKohen]] (1828–1905), famed [[Beth din#Officers of a beth din|''Av Beis Din'']] and ''Posek'' of [[Vilna]], editor of the [[Vilna Edition Shas]], supporter of the [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] [[Religious Zionism]] movement |
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*[[Moses Pardo]] (?–1888), Jerusalem-born rabbi of [[Alexandria]] |
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* [[Solomon Herschell]] (1762–1842), British Chief Rabbi |
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*[[Zvi Yosef Resnick|Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick]], (1841–1912) ''rosh yeshiva'' and educator |
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* [[Azriel Hildesheimer]] (1820–1899), [[philosopher]], a founder of [[Modern Orthodox Judaism]] |
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*[[Mnachem Risikoff|Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff]] (1866–1910), 19th–20th-century scholar and author |
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* [[Abraham Hillel]] (1820–1920), Chief Rabbi of Baghdad |
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*[[Yisrael Lipkin Salanter]] (1810–1883), Lithuanian ethicist and moralist |
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* [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]] (1808–1888), German founder of the ''Torah im Derech Eretz'' movement |
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*[[Dovber Schneuri]] (1773–1827), second ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[David Zvi Hoffmann]] (1843–1921), [[Talmid Chacham|Torah Scholar]] who headed the [[Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary|Yeshiva in Berlin]], published research on the [[Torah|Chumash]] and [[Mishnah]], expert in [[Midrash halakha]] and a [[Posek|halakhic authority]] |
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*[[Menachem Mendel Schneersohn]] (1789–1866), (''Tzemach Tzedek''), third ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Márkus Horovitz]] (1844–1910), [[Hungary|Hungarian]] historian and writer, rabbi of [[Lębork|Lauenburg]], [[Gniezno|Gnesen]] and [[Frankfurt|Frankfurt am Main]] |
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*[[Shmuel Schneersohn]] (1834–1882), fourth ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Yitzhak of Volozhin|Yitzchak Ickovits]] (1780–1849), rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva, son of [[Chaim of Volozhin]] |
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*[[Moses Sofer]] (1762–1839), (''Chatam Sofer''), Hungarian rabbi |
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* [[Jacob Joseph]] (1840–1902), rabbi of [[Vilon]], [[Yurburg]], [[Zhagory]] and [[Kovno]], Chief Rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, helped found the [[Etz Chaim Yeshiva (Manhattan)|Etz Chaim Yeshiva]] on the [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|Lower East Side]] |
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*[[Yaakov Chaim Sofer]](1870–1939), Baghdadi rabbi, author of ''Kaf ha-Chaim'' |
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* [[Zvi Hirsch Kalischer]] (1795–1874), German author who expressed views, from a religious perspective, in favor of the Jewish re-settlement of the [[Land of Israel]], which predate [[Theodor Herzl]] and the Zionist movement |
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*[[Chaim Soloveitchik]] (1853–1918), (father of the "Brisker Rov"), Eastern European rabbi |
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* [[Nachum Kaplan]] (1811–1879), [[Lithuania|Lithuanian]] Talmudist, philanthropist and ''[[Talmid Chacham]]'' |
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*[[Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi)|Yosef Dov Soloveitchik]], (1820–1892) author of ''Beis Halevi'' (the title by which he is recognized among Talmudic scholars) |
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* [[Abraham Lichtstein]], Av Beit Din of [[Przasnysz]], Poland |
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*[[Hayyim Tyrer]] (1740–1817), Hasidic rabbi and kabbalist |
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*[[Israel Lipschitz]] (1782–1860), leading [[Ashkenazi]] first in [[Dessau]] and then in the [[Jewish Community of Danzig]], author of the commentary "Tiferes Yisrael" on the [[Mishnah]] |
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* [[Jacob of Lissa]] (1760–1832), Galician Halakhist |
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* [[Samuel David Luzzatto]] (1800–1865), (also known as ''Shadal'') Italian scholar, poet, and a member of the [[Wissenschaft des Judentums]] movement |
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* [[Chaim Hezekiah Medini]] (1834–1904), Chief Rabbi of [[Hebron]], author of ''Sdei Chemed,'' [[Posek]] and [[Talmudic]] scholar, composer of [[Piyutim]] |
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* [[Raphael Meldola (Sephardic Rabbi)|Raphael Meldola]] (1754–1828), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London |
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* [[Frederick de Sola Mendes]] (1850–1927), Sephardic rabbi in London and America |
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* [[Malbim|Meir Lob ben Yechiel Michael]] (1809–1879), (''The Malbim''), Russian-born [[Hebrew grammar]]ian, known for his novel [[Rabbinic literature|commentary]] on much of ''[[Tanach]]'' |
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* [[Samuel Mohilever]] (1824–1898), pioneer of [[Religious Zionism]] and one of the founders of the [[Hovevei Zion]] movement |
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* [[Nachman of Breslov]] (1772–1810), (''Rebbe Nachman''), Ukrainian Hasidic and mystic |
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* [[Nathan of Breslov]] (1780–1844), known as Reb Noson, was the chief disciple and scribe of Nachman of Breslov |
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* [[Avrohom Chaim Oppenheim]] (1796?–1824), rabbi at [[Pécs]], [[Hungary]]. |
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* [[Eliezer Papo]] (1785–1828), ''Pele Yoetz'', rabbi of the community of [[Selestria]], [[Bulgaria]] |
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* [[Moses Pardo]] (?–1888), Jerusalem-born rabbi of [[Alexandria]] |
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* [[Yechiel Michel Pines]] (1824–1913), [[Russian Empire|Russian]]-born [[Religious Zionism|religious Zionist]] writer, and community leader in the [[Old Yishuv]] |
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* [[Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz]] (1847–1914), Jewish historian, and founder of the [[World Agudath Israel|Agudath Israel]] organization |
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* [[Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport]] (1786–1867), rabbi of [[Tarnopol]] and [[Prague]], son-in-law of [[Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller|Aryeh Leib Heller]] |
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* [[Yitzchak Yaacov Reines]] (1839–1915), [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian]] founder of the [[Mizrachi (Religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] [[Religious Zionist Movement]], a correspondent of [[Theodor Herzl]] |
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* [[Zvi Yosef Resnick|Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick]] (1841–1912), educator, rosh yeshiva of ''Ohel Yitzhak'' in [[Suwałki]], Poland |
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* [[Yosef Altschul]](1839–1908), haazan, improviser of jewish songs |
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* [[Shmuel Salant]] (1816–1909), [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] [[Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem]] for almost 70 years, [[Talmud]]ist and [[Torah]] scholar |
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* [[Yisrael Lipkin Salanter]] (1810–1883), father of the [[Musar movement]] in [[Orthodox Judaism]], rosh yeshiva and Talmudist |
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* [[Zundel Salant]] (1786–1866), instrumental in founding the [[Etz Chaim Yeshiva]] in [[Jerusalem]], the [[Bikur Cholim Hospital]] and [[Chevra kadisha|Hevrah Kadisha]], rabbi of [[Yisrael Salanter]] |
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* [[Dovber Schneuri]] (1773–1827), second ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Menachem Mendel Schneersohn]] (1789–1866), (''Tzemach Tzedek''), third ''rebbe'' of [[Lubavitch]] |
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* [[Shmuel Schneersohn]] (1834–1882), fourth ''rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Moshe Schick]] (1807–1879), Hungarian ''[[posek]]'' known as ''Maharam Schick'', author of [[Halakha|Halachic]] [[responsa]] |
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* [[Refael Shapiro]] (1837–1921), [[rosh yeshiva]] of the [[Volozhin yeshiva|Yeshivat Volozhin]], author of ''Toras Refael'', son-in-law of the [[Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin|Netziv]], father-in-law of [[Chaim Soloveichik]] |
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* [[Moses Sofer]] (1762–1839), (''Chasam Sofer''), Hungarian rabbi |
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* [[Yaakov Chaim Sofer]] (1870–1939), Baghdadi author of ''Kaf ha-Chaim'' |
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* [[Chaim Soloveitchik]] (1853–1918), founder of the [[Brisker method]], son of ''[[Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi)]]'', son-in-law of Refael Shapiro |
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* [[Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi)|Yosef Dov Soloveitchik]], (1820–1892) author of ''Beis Halevi'' (the title by which he is known among Talmudic scholars) |
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* [[Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor]] (1817–1896), [[Jews of Russia|Russian]] posek and Talmudist, rabbi of [[Biaroza|Baresa]], [[Nishvez]], [[Novohrodok|Novohrodo]], Chief Rabbi of [[Kaunas|Kovno]] |
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* [[Hayyim Tyrer]] (1740–1817), Hasidic kabbalist |
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* [[Simcha Zissel Ziv]] (1824–1898), the Elder of Kelm, one of the early leaders of the [[Musar movement]], founder and director of the [[Kelm Talmud Torah]] |
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* [[Aharon Azriel]], 19th century kabbalist and head of Bet El Yeshiva |
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[[File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Abraham Isaac Kook]]]] |
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[[File:Rav yehuda amital portrait.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Yehuda Amital]]]] |
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*[[Yisrael Ariel]] (1939–), founder of the [[Temple Institute]] and one the liberators of the [[Western Wall]] in the [[Six-Day War]] |
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[[File:הרב שלמה גורן.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Shlomo Goren]]]] |
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*[[Shlomo Goren]] (1917–1994), Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the [[Israel Defense Forces]] |
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* [[Amram Aburbeh]] (1892–1966), Chief Rabbi of the [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardic]] [[Synagogue|congregation]] in [[Petah Tikva]], [[Israel]] and author of ''Netivei Am'' |
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* [[Yehuda Amital]] (1924–2010), founding [[rosh yeshiva]] of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], founder of the [[Meimad]] party, former member of the [[Cabinet of Israel|Israeli cabinet]], creator of the [[Hesder|Hesder Yeshiva]] concept |
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*[[Meir Kahane]] (1932–1990), founder of the [[Jewish Defense League]] and the [[Kach and Kahane Chai|Kach]] party, rosh yeshiva of ''Haraayon Hayehudi'' yeshiva, Jerusalem |
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* [[Yitzhak Arieli]] (1896–1974), of the founders of [[Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem|Kiryat Shmuel]] and [[Neve Sha'anan, Jerusalem|Neve Sha'anan]], spiritual leader of the [[Knesset Yisrael]] neighborhood, [[posek]] of [[Bikur Holim Hospital]], [[mashgiach ruchani]] of the [[Mercaz HaRav|Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva]] |
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*[[Abraham Isaac Kook]] (1865–1935), first Chief Rabbi of Palestine, philosopher and mystic |
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* [[Léon Ashkenazi]] (1922–1996), educator, [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]], [[philosopher]], spiritual leader of 20th century [[French Jewry]] |
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*[[Zvi Yehuda Kook]] (1891–1982), rosh yeshiva of [[Mercaz HaRav Kook|Mercaz Harav]] and son of [[Abraham Isaac Kook]] |
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* [[Meir Bar-Ilan]] (1880–1949), [[Religious Zionism|Religious Zionist]] activist, [[author]], leader of the [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] movement in the United States and [[Mandatory Palestine]] |
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*[[Aryeh Levin]] (1885–1969), known as Reb Aryeh, Orthodox rabbi and activist. |
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* [[Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen|Chaim Yitzchak Bloch]] (1864–1948), founder and rosh yeshiva of Plunge Yeshiva, rabbi of [[Palanga]], the [[History of the Jews in Bauska|Bauska Jewish community]] and [[Jersey City]], where he was also [[Av Beit Din]] |
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* [[Mordechai Breuer]] (1921–2007), Israeli expert on [[Hebrew Bible|Tanach]], descendant of [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]] |
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* [[Henrik Bródy]] (1868–1942), rabbi of the congregation of [[Náchod]], [[Bohemia]] and Chief Rabbi of [[Prague]], leader of the [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] movement in [[Czechoslovakia]], author and editor |
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* [[Yosef Burg|Shlomo Yosef Burg]] (1909–1999), [[Germany|German]]-born [[Israel|Israeli]] [[politician]], one of the founders of the [[National Religious Party]] |
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* [[Yaakov Moshe Charlap]] (1882–1951), [[Talmud|talmudist]], [[Kabbalah|kabbalist]], rosh yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav, rabbi of the [[Sha'arei Hesed]] neighborhood, author of the ''Mei Marom'' series of books on [[Jewish thought]] |
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* [[Zwi Perez Chajes]] (1876–1927), [[historian]], [[biblical scholar]], rabbi of [[Florence]], [[Trieste]] and [[Vienna]], Chairman of the [[Zionist General Council]] |
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* [[David Cohen (rabbi)|David Cohen]] (1887–1972), rabbi, talmudist, philosopher and kabbalist, Jewish ascetic who accepted a Nazirite vow at the outbreak of [[World War I|WWI]] |
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* [[Mordechai Eliyahu]] (1929–2010), former [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardic]] Chief Rabbi of [[Israel]] |
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* [[Menachem Froman]] (1945–2013), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker and negotiator with close ties to Palestinian religious leaders |
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* [[Aryeh Leib Frumkin]] (1845–1916), a founder and pioneer of [[Petah Tikva]], the first [[moshava]] created in by the [[Yishuv|Jewish community]], author of [[Halakha|halachic]] texts, teacher, operator of a wine shop, great-grandfather of [[Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks|Jonathan Sacks]] |
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* [[Moshe Shmuel Glasner]] (1856–1924), [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Talmud|Talmudic scholar]], [[author]] of the ''Dor Revi'i, C''hief Rabbi of [[Klausenburg]], a founder of [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]], great-grandson of the [[Moses Sofer|Chassam Sofer]] |
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* [[Shlomo Goren]] (1917–1994), Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the [[Israel Defense Forces]] |
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* [[Ovadia Hedaya]] (1889–1969), rosh yeshiva of [[Beit El Kabbalist yeshiva|Yeshivat HaMekubalim/Beit El Synagogue]], recipient of the [[Israel Prize]] in rabbinical literature |
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* [[Chaim Hirschensohn]] (1857–1935), prolific author, rabbi, thinker and early proponent of [[Religious Zionism]], Chief rabbi of [[Hoboken, New Jersey]] |
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* [[Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane]] (1966–2000), Israeli leader of the [[Kach and Kahane Chai|Kahane Chai]] party and son of rabbi [[Meir Kahane]] |
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* [[Meir Kahane]] (1932–1990), founder of the [[Jewish Defense League]] and the [[Kach and Kahane Chai|Kach]] party, rosh yeshiva of ''Haraayon Hayehudi'' yeshiva, Jerusalem |
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* [[Israel Isaac Kahanovitch]] (1872–1945), [[Polish Canadians|Polish Canadian]] Orthodox Chief Rabbi of [[Winnipeg]] and [[Western Canada]] for nearly 40 years, [[Talmud|Talmudist]] and [[Zionism|Zionist]] activist, founding member of the [[Canadian Jewish Congress]] |
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* [[Reuvein Margolies]] (1889–1971), Israeli author, [[Talmud|Talmudic]] scholar, head of the [[Rambam library]], recipient of the [[Israel Prize]] for his work on [[rabbinic literature]] |
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* [[Menachem Mendel Kasher]] (1895–1983), [[Poland|Polish-born]] Israeli, author of the ''Torah Sheleimah'', founder and rosh yeshiva of the [[Sfas Emes Yeshiva]], recipient of the [[Israel Prize]] in rabbinic literature |
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* [[Pinchas Kehati]] (1910–1976), Polish Israeli teacher and author, author of ''Mishnayot Mevoarot,'' ("Explained [[Mishnah|Mishnayot]]") |
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* [[Abraham Isaac Kook]] (1865–1935), first [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] [[Chief Rabbinate of Israel|Chief Rabbi of Palestine]], philosopher and [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]], founding rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva |
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* [[Zvi Yehuda Kook]] (1891–1982), rosh yeshiva of Mercaz Harav, son of [[Abraham Isaac Kook]] |
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* [[Aryeh Levin]] (1885–1969), [[Mashgiach ruchani|Mashgiach]] of the [[Etz Chaim Yeshiva]] in [[Jerusalem]], activist known as the "Father of Prisoners" and the "[[Tzadik]] of [[Jerusalem]]" |
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* [[Moshe Levinger]] (1935–2015), one of the principals of [[Gush Emunim]], led Jewish settlement in [[Hebron]], helped establish [[Kiryat Arba]] |
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* [[Pinchas HaKohen Lintup]] (1851–1924), [[Religious Zionism|Religious Zionist]] [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian rabbi]], teacher, [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]], spiritual leader of the [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] community of [[Biržai]] |
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* [[Yehuda Leib Maimon]] (1875–1962), Israeli politician, Israel's first [[Ministry of Religious Services|Minister of Religions]], leader of [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] in Israel, founder of [[Mossad Harav Kook|Mossad HaRav Kook]] |
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* [[Zvi Hirsch Masliansky]] (1856–1943), lecturer, writer and [[Zionism|Zionist]], charter member of the [[Orthodox Union|Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America]] |
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* [[Moshe-Zvi Neria|Moshe Tzvi Neria]] (1913–1995), head of the Bnei Akiva Yeshivot |
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* [[Menachem Porush]] (1916–2010), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael |
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* [[Yosef Qafih]] (1917–2000), [[Yemenite Jews|Yemenite]]-Israeli [[Posek|authority]] on Jewish religious law (''[[halakha]]''), a [[Dayan (rabbinic judge)|dayan]] of the [[Judiciary of Israel#Jewish courts|Supreme Rabbinical Court in Israel]] |
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* [[Avraham Shapira]] (1914–2007), [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] [[Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel]], Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz haRav [[yeshiva]] |
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* [[Gedaliah Silverstone]] (1871–1944), author in the [[United States]], rabbi of [[Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue|Ohev Sholom Congregation]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] and [[Kesher Israel (Washington, D.C.)|Kesher Israel Congregation]] in [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]], vice president of the [[Union of Orthodox Rabbis|Agudath Harabbonim]] |
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* [[Isser Yehuda Unterman]] (1886–1976), [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, third Chief Rabbi of [[Tel Aviv]], leader of the [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi Movement]] |
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* [[Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel]] (1880–1953), first [[Sephardi Jews|Sefardi]] [[List of Chief Rabbis of Israel|Chief Rabbi of Israel]] |
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* [[Yehuda Leib Don Yihye]] (1869–1941), [[Hasidic Judaism|Hassid]] and student of [[Volozhin Yeshiva]] affiliated with the [[Mizrahi Movement|Mizrachi Movement]] |
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* [[Shaul Yisraeli]] (1909–1995), rabbi of [[moshav]] [[Kfar Haroeh]], ''Dayan'' in the Supreme religious court of Israel, member of the [[Chief Rabbinate of Israel]], rosh yeshiva at Mercaz HaRav, recipient of the [[Israel Prize]] in [[Judaic Studies]] |
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====Haredi==== |
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[[File:Alter of Slabodka.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Alter of Slabodka]]]] |
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*[[Yehezkel Abramsky]] (1886–1976), author of ''Chazon Yehezkel'' |
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[[File:Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson2 crop.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]]]] |
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*[[Baba Sali|Yisrael Abuhatzeira]] (1889–1984), Kabbalist |
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[[File:Reb Moshe Feinstein.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Moshe Feinstein]]]] |
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*[[Amram Blau]] (1894–1974), Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of [[Jerusalem]] and one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Zionist [[Neturei Karta]] |
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[[File:Isser Zalman Meltzer.JPG|thumb|right|upright|[[Isser Zalman Meltzer]]]] |
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*[[Shmuel Bornsztain, second Sochatchover Rebbe|Shmuel Bornsztain]] (1855–1926), ''[[Shem Mishmuel]]'', Second Sochatchover Rebbe |
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* [[Yehezkel Abramsky]] (1886–1976), author of ''Chazon Yehezkel'' |
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*[[David Cohen (rabbi)|David Cohen]] (1887–1972), Rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, and kabbalist, noted Jewish ascetic who accepted a Nazirite vow |
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* [[Baba Sali|Yisrael Abuhatzeira]] (1889–1984), Kabbalist |
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*[[Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler]] (1892–1953), (''Michtav Me'Eliyahu'') religious philosopher and ethicist |
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* [[Nisson Alpert]] (1927–1986), [[rosh yeshiva]] of [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] and the first Rosh [[Kollel]] of its Kollel L’Horaah — Yadin-Yadin |
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*[[Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (first Dushinsky rebbe)|Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky]] (1867–1948), also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky |
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* [[Gedaliah Anemer]] (1933-2010), [[rosh yeshiva]] of [[Yeshiva of Greater Washington]] and [[posek]] |
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*[[Baruch Epstein]] (1860–1941), (''Torah Temimah''), Lithuanian Torah commentator |
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* [[Baruch Ashlag]] (1907–1991), [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] [[rebbe]], [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]], [[author]], firstborn and successor of [[Yehuda Ashlag]] |
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*[[Moshe Mordechai Epstein]] (1866–1933), ('' Levush Mordechai''), Talmudist and co-head of [[Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)|Slabodka yeshiva]] |
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* [[Yehuda Ashlag]] (1885–1954), Hasidic rebbe, [[Kabbalah|kabbalist]], [[author]] of the ''Baal Ha-Sulam'' on the [[Zohar]] and of ''Talmud Eser Sefirot'' |
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*[[Moshe Feinstein]] (1895–1986), (''Igrot Moshe''), Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist |
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* [[Shlomo Zalman Auerbach]] (1910–1995), [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] rabbi, [[posek]], and rosh yeshiva of the [[Kol Torah]] yeshiva in [[Jerusalem]] |
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*[[Tzvi Hirsch Ferber]] (1879–1966), (''Kerem HaTzvi''), author, leader and renowned scholar |
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* [[Zelig Reuven Bengis]] (1864–1953), Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for the [[Edah HaChareidis]], author of ''Leflagos Reuven'' |
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*[[Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)|Nosson Tzvi Finkel]] (1849–1927), (''Alter'' / ''Sabba''), early 20th-century founder of [[Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)|Slabodka yeshiva]], Lithuania |
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* [[Shmuel Berenbaum]] (1920–2008), rosh yeshiva of the [[Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn)|Mir yeshiva]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York |
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*[[Mordechai Shlomo Friedman]] (1891–1971), Boyaner Rebbe of New York |
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* [[Abba Berman]] (1919–2005), [[Talmud|Talmudist]] and rosh yeshiva, one of the founding members of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn |
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*[[Rogatchover Gaon]] (1858–1936), (Rav Yosef Rosen), Talmudist and Hasidic leader |
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* [[Amram Blau]] (1894–1974), Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem and one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Zionist [[Neturei Karta]] |
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*[[Boruch Greenfeld]] (1872–1956), (''Reb Boruch Hermenshtater''), Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of ''Ohel Boruch'' |
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* [[Shmuel Bornsztain, second Sochatchover Rebbe|Shmuel Bornsztain]] (1855–1926), ''[[Shem Mishmuel]]'', Second Sochatchover Rebbe |
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*[[Ben Zion Halberstam]] (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe, killed by the Nazis in 1941 |
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* [[Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler]] (1892–1953), (''Michtav Me'Eliyahu'') religious philosopher and ethicist |
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* [[Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (first Dushinsky rebbe)|Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky]] (1867–1948), also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky |
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*[[Yisrael Meir Kagan]] (1839–1933), (''Chofetz Chaim''), Polish legalist and moralist, compiler of classic works |
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* [[Baruch Epstein]] (1860–1941), (''Torah Temimah''), Lithuanian Torah commentator |
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*[[Yaakov Kamenetsky]] (1891–1986), rabbinical leader and educationalist |
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* [[Moshe Mordechai Epstein]] (1866–1933), (''Levush Mordechai''), Talmudist and co-head of [[Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)|Slabodka yeshiva]] |
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*[[Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky]] (1899–1985), ("Steipler Gaon"), Ukrainian-born scholar |
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*[[ |
* [[Moshe Feinstein]] (1895–1986), (''Igrot Moshe''), Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist |
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*[[ |
* [[Tzvi Hirsch Ferber]] (1879–1966), (''Kerem HaTzvi''), author, leader and scholar |
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* [[Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)|Nosson Tzvi Finkel]] (1849–1927), (''Alter'' / ''Sabba''), early 20th-century founder of Slabodka yeshiva, Lithuania |
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*[[Pinchas Kohn]] (1867–1941), last rabbi of Ansbach and a founder and an executive director of [[World Agudath Israel]] |
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* [[Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1879)|Eliezer Yehuda Finkel]] (1879–1965), rosh yeshiva of the [[Mir Yeshiva (Poland)|Mir Yeshiva]] in Poland, son of [[Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)|Nosson Tzvi Finkel]] |
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*[[Aharon Kotler]] (1891–1962), Lithuanian scholar, founder of [[Beth Medrash Govoha|Lakewood Yeshiva]] in the United States |
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* [[Mordechai Shlomo Friedman]] (1891–1971), Boyaner Rebbe of New York |
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*[[Chaim Kreiswirth]] (1918–2001), long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp (Belgium) |
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* [[Rogatchover Gaon]] (1858–1936), (Rav Yosef Rosen), Talmudist and Hasidic leader |
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*[[Gershon Liebman]] (1905–1997), leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement in [[France]] |
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* [[Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht]] (1924–1994), founding rosh yeshiva of the first [[Hesder]] [[yeshiva]], [[Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh]] |
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*[[Elyah Lopian]](1876–1970), known as Reb Elyah, among the most prominent rabbis of the Mussar Movement |
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* [[Boruch Greenfeld]] (1872–1956), (''Reb Boruch Hermenshtater''), Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of ''Ohel Boruch'' |
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*[[Isser Zalman Meltzer]] (1870–1953), renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva |
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* [[Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald]] (1882–1941), rabbi in [[Pápa]], Hungary, author of ''Vayageid Yaakov'' |
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*[[Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz]] (1886–1948), (''Mr. Mendlowitz'') European-born head of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in the United States |
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* [[Yosef Greenwald]] (1903–1984), (''[[Puppa (Hasidic dynasty)|Pupa]] [[Rav]]'') author of ''Vaychi Yosef'' |
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*[[Meir Simcha of Dvinsk]] (1843–1926), (''Ohr Somayach'' ; ''Meshech Chochmah'') Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader |
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* [[Yerucham Gorelick]] (19911–1983), rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for forty years (1943–1983) |
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*[[Shotzer Rebbe|Shulem Moshkovitz]] (?–1958), Hasidic rebbe in London |
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* [[Chaim Ozer Grodzinski]] (1863–1940), pre-eminent ''[[Beth din#Officers of a beth din|Av beis din]]'' (rabbinical chief justice), ''posek'' (halakhic authority) and [[Talmud|Talmudic]] scholar in [[Vilnius]], [[Lithuania]] |
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*[[Yisroel Ber Odesser]] (1888–1994), Breslover Hasid and Rabbi |
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* [[Ben Zion Halberstam]] (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe, killed by the Nazis in 1941 |
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*[[Chanoch Dov Padwa]] (1908–2000), (''Cheishev Ho'ephod''), rabbinical head of [[UOHC]], London |
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*Shalom Hedaya (1864–1944), head of the Beit Din for Sephardic Jews in Jerusalem, Rosh Yeshiva of [[Beit El Kabbalist yeshiva|Yeshivat HaMekubalim/Beit El Synagogue]] and was given the title Harav Hachasid |
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*[[Eliyahu Chaim Rosen]] (1899–1984), respected rabbi and leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Uman, Ukraine before World War II |
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* [[Yitzchok Hutner]] (1906–1980), (''Pachad Yitzchok''), European-born, American and Israeli rosh yeshiva |
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*[[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn]] (1860–1920), fifth ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Israel Meir Kagan|Yisrael Meir Kagan]] (1839–1933), (''[[Chofetz Chaim]]''), posek, and [[ethics|ethicist]], compiler of classic works. Born and lived in Poland. Wrote the [[Mishnah Berurah]], a work on Jewish Law. |
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*[[Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn]] (1880–1950), sixth ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Aharon ben Yosef ha-Kohen]], son-in-law of [[Israel Meir Kagan|Chofetz Chaim]] (1863 – 1936) |
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*[[Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick]] (1882–1937), British rabbi |
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* [[Yaakov Kamenetsky]] (1891–1986), rabbinical leader and educationalist |
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*[[Shimon Shkop]] (1860–1939), famed Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno |
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* [[Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky]] (1899–1985), ("Steipler Gaon"), Ukrainian-born scholar |
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*[[Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld]] (1848–1932), rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis community in Jerusalem during the years of the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]] of Palestine |
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* [[Aryeh Kaplan]] (1934–1983), (''Living Torah'') writer and mystic |
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*[[Abraham Sternhartz]] (1862–1955), rabbi in [[Ukraine]] and unsurpassed figure in the chain of transmission of [[Breslov (Hasidic group)|Breslover]] teachings |
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* [[Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz]] (1878–1953), (''Chazon Ish'') Haredi leader in Israel |
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*[[Joel Teitelbaum]] (1887–1979), (''Satmar Rebbe''), Hasidic Hungarian-American ''rebbe'' known for strong anti-Zionist positions |
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* [[Chaim Mordechai Katz]] (1894–1964), rosh yeshiva of the [[Telshe Yeshiva]] in [[Cleveland]] |
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*[[Elchonon Wasserman]] (1874 - 1941) Prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Europe. He was one of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a noted Torah scholar. |
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* [[Pinchas Kohn]] (1867–1941), last rabbi of [[Ansbach]], a founder and executive director of [[World Agudath Israel]] |
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*[[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]] (1902–1994), (''Lubavitcher Rebbe''), Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Chabad ''Rebbe'' |
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* [[Aharon Kotler]] (1891–1962), Lithuanian scholar, founder of [[Beth Medrash Govoha|Lakewood Yeshiva]] in the United States |
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*[[Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl]] (1903–1957), (''Min HaMeitzar'') European scholar involved in rescue efforts during the [[Holocaust]] |
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* [[Chaim Kreiswirth]] (1918–2001), long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp (Belgium) |
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*[[Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto]] (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York |
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* [[Yechezkel Levenstein]] (1885–1974), [[mashgiach ruchani]] of the [[Mir yeshiva (Poland)|Mir Yeshiva]] in Poland |
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*[[Ovadia Yosef]] (1920–2013), 21st-century Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry |
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* [[Boruch Ber Leibowitz]] (1862–1939), Rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak]] |
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* [[Gershon Liebman]] (1905–1997), leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement in [[France]] |
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* [[Dovid Lifshitz]] (1906–1993), rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for almost fifty years, President of the [[Ezras Torah Fund]] |
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* [[Elyah Lopian]] (1876–1970), known as Reb Elyah, prominent in the Mussar Movement |
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* [[Isser Zalman Meltzer]] (1870–1953), renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva |
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* [[Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz]] (1886–1948), European-born head of [[Yeshiva Torah Vodaas]], one of the founders of [[Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools|Torah U'Mesorah]] |
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* [[Meir Simcha of Dvinsk]] (1843–1926), (''Ohr Somayach''; ''Meshech Chochmah'') Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader |
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* [[Shotzer Rebbe|Shulem Moshkovitz]] (1877–1958), Hasidic rebbe in London |
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* [[Yisroel Ber Odesser]] (1888–1994), Breslover Hasid and rabbi |
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* [[Chanoch Dov Padwa]] (1908–2000), (''Cheishev Ho'ephod''), rabbinical head of [[UOHC]], London |
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* [[Nochum Partzovitz]] (?–1986), rosh yeshiva of [[Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)|Yeshivas Mir]], grandson of [[Shlomo HaKohen (Vilna)|Shlomo HaKohen]] |
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* [[Shlomo Polachek]] (1877–1928), Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and its [[Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)|Yeshiva College]], one of the earliest rosh yeshiva in America |
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* [[Eliezer Poupko]] (1886–1961), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in [[Velizh]], [[Russia]], honorary president and a member of the executive board of the [[Union of Orthodox Rabbis|Agudath Harabonim]], father of [[Baruch Poupko]] |
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* [[Chaim Dov Rabinowitz]] (1909–2001), author of Da'as Sofrim on Tanach and other commentaries |
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* [[Solomon "Shlomo" Nidam]] Moroccan rabbi from Meknes, Morocco |
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* [[Yaacov Choukroun]] Moroccan rabbi from Meknes, Morocco |
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* [[David Rappoport]] (1890–1941), rosh yeshiva of the [[Baranovich Yeshiva]] |
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* [[Mnachem Risikoff]] (1866–1960), rabbi of [[Kazan]], Kabbalist, rabbi and ''[[Av Beit Din]]'' of the Congregations of Brooklyn, author of numerous works on [[Halakha]], [[Aggadah]], Biblical commentaries, ''[[Torah study#D.27var Torah|Divrei Torah]]'' and [[responsa]] |
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* [[Eliyahu Chaim Rosen]] (1899–1984), rabbi and leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Uman, Ukraine before World War II |
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* [[Moshe Rosenstain]] (1881–1940), [[mashgiach ruchani]] of the [[Lomza Yeshiva]] in Poland |
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* [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]] (1902–1994), Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn]] (1860–1920), fifth ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn]] (1880–1950), sixth ''Rebbe'' of Lubavitch |
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* [[Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick]] (1882–1937), British rabbi |
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* [[Moshe Shatzkes]] (1881–1958), Av Beth Din of [[Łomża]], rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in America |
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* [[Simcha Sheps]] (1908–1998), rosh yeshiva of [[Torah Vodaath]] |
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* [[Shimon Shkop]] (1860–1939), Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno in Europe and in [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] in [[New York City|New York]] |
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* [[Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz]] (1902–1979), faculty member and rosh yeshiva of the [[Mir Yeshiva (Poland)|Mirrer Yeshiva]] |
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* [[Berel Soloveitchik]] (1925–1981), rosh yeshiva of the [[Brisk yeshivas|Brisk yeshiva]] in Jerusalem, son of [[Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik]] |
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* [[Moshe Soloveichik]] (1879–1941), rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, eldest son of [[Chaim Soloveitchik]], father of [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]] and [[Ahron Soloveichik]] |
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* [[Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik]] (1886–1959), the “Brisker Rov,” rosh yeshiva of the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem |
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* [[Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld]] (1848–1932), rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis community in Jerusalem during the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]] of Palestine |
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* [[Elya Svei]] (1924–2009), rosh yeshiva of the [[Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia]] |
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* [[Joel Teitelbaum]] (1887–1979), (''Satmar Rebbe''), Hasidic Hungarian-American ''rebbe'' known for strong anti-Zionist positions |
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* [[Pinchas Mordechai Teitz]] (1908–1995), prominent Orthodox rabbi, educator and radio broadcaster in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]] |
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* [[Eliezer Waldenberg]] (1915–2006), ''Posek'' and ''Dayan'' in Jerusalem, a leading authority on medicine and Jewish law, author of the ''Tzitz Eliezer'', recipient of the [[List of Israel Prize recipients|Israel Prize]] for Rabbinical studies |
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* [[Elchonon Wasserman]] (1874–1941) Prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Europe. One of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a Torah scholar. |
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* [[Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl]] (1903–1957), (''Min HaMeitzar'') European scholar involved in rescue efforts during the [[Holocaust]] |
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* [[Gershon Yankelewitz]] (1909–2014), rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for over 50 years, one of the last remaining original [[Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)|Mirrer]] students, "Alter Mirrers" |
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[[File:BernardRevel.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Bernard Revel]]]] |
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*[[Hermann Adler]] (1839–1911), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire |
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[[File:RALportrait2.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Aharon Lichtenstein]]]] |
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*[[Meir Berlin]] (1880–1949), (''Bar Ilan'') religious [[Zionist]] leader |
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[[File:Rabbi Norman Lamm.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Norman Lamm]]]] |
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*[[Eliezer Berkovits]] (1908–1992) Talmudic scholar and philosopher |
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* [[Hermann Adler]] (1839–1911), Chief Rabbi of the [[British Empire]] |
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* [[Michael Adler]] (1868–1944), English Orthodox rabbi, an [[History of the Jews in England|Anglo-Jewish historian]] and author who was the first Jewish [[Royal Army Chaplains' Department|military chaplain]] to the [[British Army]] to serve in time of war, serving with the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|British Expeditionary Force]] on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] during the [[First World War]] |
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*[[Eli Cashdan]] (1905-1998), British rabbi |
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* [[Samuel Belkin]] (1911–1976), second [[University President|President]] of [[Yeshiva University]], distinguished [[Torah]] scholar and author |
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*[[Isidore Epstein]] (1894–1962), Principal of [[Jews' College]], London |
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* [[Meir Berlin]] (1880–1949), (''Bar Ilan'') religious [[Zionist]] leader |
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*[[Harry Freedman (rabbi)|Harry Freedman]] (19081-1982), rabbi |
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* [[Eliezer Berkovits]] (1908–1992) Talmudic scholar and philosopher |
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*[[Moses Gaster]] (1856–1939), ''[[Haham]]'' of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Britain |
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* [[Herbert Bomzer]] (1927–2013), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]] and community leader |
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*Sir [[Hermann Gollancz]] (1852–1930), British rabbi and professor |
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* [[Israel Brodie]] (1895–1979), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth |
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* [[Eli Cashdan]] (1905–1998), [[British Empire|British]] Orthodox rabbi, chaplain in the [[Royal Air Force]] during [[World War II]], a senior lecturer at [[Jews' College]] and a prominent writer |
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*[[Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman]] (1868–1953), British rabbi and dayan |
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* [[Francis Lyon Cohen]] (1862–1934), [[English people|English]] Orthodox rabbi, author and expert on Hebrew music, music editor of ''[[The Jewish Encyclopedia]],'' invented the concept of the [[Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade|Jewish Lads' Brigade]], the first Jewish chaplain in the [[British Army]], Chief Minister of the [[Great Synagogue (Sydney)|Great Synagogue]] in [[Sydney]], Australia |
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*[[Moses Hyamson]] (1862–1949), British rabbi |
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* [[Isaac Cohen]] (1914–2007), [[Talmud|Talmudic]] scholar and Chief Rabbi of [[Ireland]] for 20 years |
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*[[Immanuel Jakobovits]] (1921–1999), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, medical ethicist |
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* [[Joseph Ehrenkranz]] (1926–2014), North American [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi involved in [[interfaith dialogue]], community leader |
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*[[Moses Mescheloff]] (1909–2008), Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist Rabbi, Miami Beach and Chicago |
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* [[Ephraim Epstein]] (1876–1960), congregational Orthodox rabbi and prominent member of the Jewish community in [[Chicago]], [[Talmud]] scholar |
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*[[Chalom Messas]] (1913–2003), Chief Rabbi of [[Morocco]] and [[Jerusalem]] |
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* [[Isidore Epstein]] (1894–1962), Principal of [[Jews' College]] in [[London]] |
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* [[Yakov Leybovich Fishman|Yaakov Fishman]] (1913–1983), Chief Rabbi of [[Moscow]] and the [[Moscow Choral Synagogue]] |
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*[[Solomon Mestel]] (1886–1966), British rabbi |
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* [[Mavro Frankfurter]] (1875–1942), [[Croatia|Croatian]] rabbi of the [[Vinkovci Synagogue]] who was murdered during the [[The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia|Holocaust]] by the [[Ustaše|Ustashas]] at the [[Jasenovac concentration camp]] |
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*[[Jonathan Sacks]] (1948–), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth |
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* [[Harry Freedman (rabbi)|Harry Freedman]] (1901–1982), [[author]], translator and teacher at [[Yeshiva University]] |
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*[[Simeon Singer]] (1846–1906), editor of the [[United Synagogue]] prayer book |
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* [[Miroslav Šalom Freiberger]] (1903–1943), Chief Rabbi of [[Zagreb]], [[Croatia]], rabbi of the [[Zagreb Synagogue]], [[Zionism|Zionist]], translator, writer, spiritual leader, educated as a [[lawyer]] and [[Doctor of Theology]], rescued many Jews out of [[Croatia]] during the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], murdered in [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz-Birkenau]] |
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*[[Joseph B. Soloveitchik|Joseph Ber Soloveitchik]] (1903–1993), Rosh Yeshiva of [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] at [[Yeshiva University]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik as Philosopher|url=http://www.spertus.edu/Feb16|website=Spertus, Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership|date=February 16, 2014|quote=This conference situated Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the great American Talmudist and Modern Orthodox leader, within the tradition of Western philosophy that includes ancient, medieval, and modern figures, ranging from Aristotle to Maimonides to Kant.}}</ref> |
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* [[Israel Friedlander]] (1876–1920), educator, translator, biblical scholar, a founding adviser to a lecture series that became the [[National Council of Young Israel|Young Israel]] movement of [[Modern Orthodox Judaism]] |
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*[[Selig Starr]] (1893–1989), Chicago rabbi |
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* [[Moses Gaster]] (1856–1939), a religious and secular scholar who was ''[[Haham]]'' of the [[Spanish and Portuguese Jews]] [[British Jews|of Britain]] as well as president of [[The Folklore Society]], Vice-President of the [[Royal Asiatic Society]], and pioneering activist for [[Zionism]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/gaster_moses | title=YIVO | Gaster, Moses }}</ref> |
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* [[Hermann Gollancz]] (1852–1930), British rabbi and professor |
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* [[David Hartman (rabbi)|David Hartman]] (1931–2013), philosopher, author, and founder of [[Shalom Hartman Institute]] in Jerusalem |
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* [[Joseph H. Hertz]] (1872–1946), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire |
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* [[Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman]] (1868–1953), British rabbi and dayan |
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* [[Jacob Hoffman (rabbi)|Jacob Hoffman]] (1881–1956), Chief Rabbi of [[Rădăuți|Radauti]], rabbi of [[Frankfurt|Frankfurt am Main]], helped found the [[Manhattan Day School]], Zionist activist involved in the [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] movement |
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* [[Moses Hyamson]] (1862–1949), head [[Dayan (rabbinic judge)|Dayan]] of the [[London Beth Din]], Chief Rabbi of the [[British Empire]], Hebrew scholar, author, translator, leader and erudite speaker |
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* [[Hosea Jacobi]] (1841–1925), Chief Rabbi of [[Zagreb]], [[Croatia]] and rabbi of the [[Zagreb Synagogue]] for 58 years, founded and headed a Jewish [[Primary school|Elementary School]], taught Hebrew and [[Jewish studies]] in high-schools, established Jewish-Women organizations, active in social welfare projects, wrote the first ever Jewish studies text-books in [[Croatian language|Croatian]] |
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* [[Immanuel Jakobovits]] (1921–1999), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, medical ethicist |
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* [[Leo Jung]] (1892–1987), one of the major architects of American [[Orthodox Judaism]], "Grandfather of [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodoxy]]," teacher of [[ethics]] and [[homiletics]] at [[Yeshiva University]] |
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* [[Joseph Kaminetsky]] (1911–1999), American [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]]/[[Haredi Judaism|Yeshivish]] rabbi, pioneering first director of [[Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools]] of [[North America]], directly responsible for the establishment of hundreds of [[Jewish day school|''yeshiva'' day schools]] across the [[United States]] |
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* [[Norman Lamm]] (1927–2020), scholar, academic administrator, author and Jewish community leader; President, [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] and [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of [[Yeshiva University]] |
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* [[Aharon Lichtenstein]] (1933–2015), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], and Rosh Kollel of [[Yeshiva University]]'s Gruss Kollel, son-in-law of [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]], father of [[Mosheh Lichtenstein]] |
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* [[Zvulun Lieberman]] (1930–2012), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary|RIETS]], communal spiritual leader, head of the Syrian Community Bet Din and the Vaad Harabonim of Flatbush |
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* [[Joseph Lookstein]] (1902–1979), rabbi of [[Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun]], President of the [[Rabbinical Council of America]], of the [[Synagogue Council of America]], of the [[New York Board of Rabbis]] of [[Bar-Ilan University]] and founder of the [[Ramaz School]] |
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* [[Mojsije Margel]] (1875–1939), rabbi of [[Zagreb]], [[Lexicography|lexicographer]], teacher and Hebrew scholar |
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* [[Moses Mescheloff]] (1909–2008), Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, Miami Beach and Chicago |
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* [[Chalom Messas]] (1913–2003), Chief Rabbi of [[Morocco]] and [[Jerusalem]] |
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* [[David Messas]] (1934–2011), Chief Rabbi of [[Paris]] |
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* [[Solomon Mestel]] (1886–1966), [[British Empire|British]]-[[Australians|Australian]] community rabbi, translator |
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* [[Jacob Itzhak Niemirower]] (1872–1939), first Chief Rabbi of [[Romanian Jews|Romanian Jewry]], member of the [[Romanian Senate]], supporter of [[Zionism]], fighter against [[antisemitism]], theologian, philosopher and historian |
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* [[Pinchas Hacohen Peli]] (1930–1989), Israeli Modern Orthodox rabbi, essayist, poet and scholar of Judaism and [[Jewish philosophy]], Professor of Jewish Thought and Literature at the [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]], a visiting professor at [[Yeshiva University]], [[Cornell University]], [[University of Notre Dame]], the ''[[Seminario Rabbinico]]'' in Argentina and the [[Makuya]] Bible Seminary in Japan |
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* [[Baruch Poupko]] (1917–2010), American multi-lingual scholar, author and lecturer, National Vice President of the [[Rabbinical Council of America]], National President of the [[Religious Zionists of America]], son of [[Eliezer Poupko]] |
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* [[Emanuel Rackman]] (1910–2008), American Modern Orthodox rabbi, held pulpits in major congregations, helped draw attention to the plight of ''[[Refusenik|Refuseniks]]'' in the then-[[Soviet Union]], attempted to resolve the dilemma of the ''[[Agunah]]'', President of [[Bar-Ilan University]] |
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* [[Max D. Raiskin]] (1919–1978), rabbi, Professor of Hebrew Literature at [[Brooklyn College]] and [[Hunter College]], licensed [[Certified Public Accountant]], educator, author of educational textbooks, principal and executive director of the [[East Side Hebrew Institute]] |
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* [[Bernard Revel]] (1885–1940), Orthodox rabbi and scholar, founding [[President (education)|President]] and [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)|Yeshiva College]] and [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary|RIETS]] |
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* [[Kopul Rosen]] (1913–1962), [[Anglo-Jewish]] rabbi and educationalist, rabbi of [[Glasgow]], Principal Rabbi of the [[Federation of Synagogues]] in London |
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* [[Michael Rosen (rabbi)|Michael Rosen]] (1945–2008), British-born Israeli rabbi and founder of Yakar, a Jewish learning community and [[synagogue]], son of [[Kopul Rosen]] |
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* [[Moses Rosen]] (1912–1994), Chief Rabbi of [[Romania|Romanian]] Jewry, President of the Council of the [[Beth Hatefutsoth|Jewish Diaspora Museum]] in [[Tel Aviv]] |
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* [[Alexandru Șafran]] (1910–2006), [[Romania|Romanian]]-[[Switzerland|Swiss]] rabbi, theologian, philosopher, historian, [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]], Chief Rabbi of [[Romania]], intervened with authorities in the [[Fascism|fascist]] government of [[Ion Antonescu]] in an unusually successful attempt to save [[History of the Jews in Romania|Jews]] during the [[Holocaust]] |
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* [[Herschel Schacter]] (1917–2013), American Orthodox rabbi and Chairman of the [[Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations]], chaplain in the [[Third United States Army|Third Army]]'s [[VIII Corps (United States)|VIII Corps]], the first US Army Chaplain to enter and participate in the liberation of the [[Buchenwald concentration camp]], rabbi of the [[Mosholu Jewish Center]] in the [[Bronx]] |
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* [[Melech Schachter]] (1913–2007), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Yeshiva University]] for over 50 years, father of [[Hershel Schachter]] |
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* [[Shlomo Shleifer]] (1889–1957), a government appointee, sustained the Choral Synagogue in [[Moscow]] during the worst years of [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] repression against Jews |
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* [[Simeon Singer]] (1846–1906), editor of the [[United Synagogue]] prayer book |
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* [[Ahron Soloveichik]] (1917–2001), Talmudist and rosh yeshiva of [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] |
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* [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik|Joseph Ber Soloveitchik]] (1903–1993), distinguished [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] and [[Maimonides School]], author, [[posek]], modern Jewish philosopher, a seminal figure in [[Modern Orthodox Judaism]] |
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* [[Isadore Twersky]] (1930–1997), Orthodox rabbi, [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] [[Rebbe]], university professor at [[Harvard University]], internationally recognized authority on rabbinic literature and [[Jewish philosophy]] |
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* [[Simon Ungar]] (1864–1942), [[Doctor of Medicine|Doctor]] of [[Oriental medicine]], Chief [[Rabbi]] of the [[Osijek]] [[Croatian Jews|Jewish Community]] in [[Croatia]] who was murdered in the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] |
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* [[Hinko Urbach]] (1872–1960), Chief Rabbi of [[Zagreb]], [[Croatia]], [[World War I]] [[veteran]] and [[Holocaust survivors|Holocaust survivor]] |
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* [[Stanley M. Wagner]] (1932–2013), American rabbi, academic and community leader, Vice President of the [[Religious Zionists of America]], led the [[Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph]] congregation, the only rabbi [[chaplain]] of the [[Colorado Senate]], Professor of Jewish history at the [[University of Denver]] |
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* [[Louis Werfel]] (1916–1943), a recipient of Semichah from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and a [[Harvard University]] alumnus, a Modern Orthodox and [[Religious Zionism|Religious Zionist]] rabbi, the only [[Orthodox Rabbi]] killed in action during [[World War II]] |
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* [[Ephraim Wolf]] (1921–2004), American Orthodox rabbi and spiritual leader, active in the founding and growth of many Jewish educational and communal institutions including the [[North Shore Hebrew Academy]] |
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* [[Walter Wurzburger]] (1920–2002), ''Adjunct Professor of Philosophy'' at [[Yeshiva University]], headed both the [[Rabbinical Council of America]] and the [[Synagogue Council of America]], author and communal rabbi in [[Toronto]], [[Canada]] and [[Lawrence, Nassau County, New York|Lawrence]], [[New York (state)|New York]] |
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[[File:הרב לאו.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Yisrael Meir Lau]]]] |
[[File:הרב לאו.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Yisrael Meir Lau]]]] |
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[[File:Shlomo Amar.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Shlomo Amar]]]] |
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*[[Shlomo Amar]] (1948–), Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel |
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[[File:הרב אביגדור נבנצל.png|thumb|upright|[[Avigdor Nebenzahl]]]] |
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*[[Mordechai Eliyahu]] (1929–2010), former Sephardic Chief Rabbi |
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* [[Shlomo Amar]] (1948–), Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel |
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*[[Yitzchak Ginsburgh]] (1944), American-born Israeli rabbi, currently president of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank |
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* [[Haim Amsalem]] (1959–), former member of [[Knesset]] who focused on making conversion to Judaism easier |
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*[[David Bar Hayim]] (1960–), founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael |
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* [[Yaakov Ariel]] (1937–), Chief Rabbi of [[Ramat Gan]], former [[rosh yeshiva]] of the [[yeshiva]] in the abandoned Israeli settlement of [[Yamit]], rabbi of [[Kfar Maimon]] |
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* [[Yisrael Ariel]] (1939–), founder of the [[Temple Institute]] and one of the liberators of the [[Western Wall]] in the [[Six-Day War]] |
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* [[Shlomo Aviner]] (1943–), rosh yeshiva of the [[Ateret Yerushalayim]] Yeshiva in [[Jerusalem]], rabbi of [[Bet El]] |
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* [[David Bar-Hayim]] (1960–), ''Av Beit Din'', ''dayan'', ''[[posek]]'', founder of the ''Shilo Institute'' |
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*[[Avigdor Nebenzahl]] (1935–), Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem |
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* [[Yoel Bin-Nun]] (1946–), one of the founders of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], [[Gush Emunim]], [[Alon Shevut]] and [[Ofra]], doctor of [[Jewish thought]] and a lecturer on [[Hebrew Bible|Tanach]] |
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*[[Meir Porush]] (1955-), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael, son of Menachem Porush |
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* [[Oury Amos Cherki|Uri Amos Cherki]] (1959–), chairman of Brit Olam – [[Noahidism|Noahide]] World Center, a senior lecturer at [[Machon Meir]], congregational leader, author and philosopher |
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*[[Menachem Porush]] (1916–2010), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael |
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* [[Yuval Cherlow]] (1957–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] and co-founder of [[Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva|Orot Shaul]] and one of the founders of [[Tzohar (organization)|Tzohar]] |
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*[[Avraham Shapira]] (1914–2007), former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, the head of [[Mercaz haRav]] [[yeshiva]] |
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* [[Zephaniah Drori]] (1937–), Chief Rabbi of [[Kiryat Shmona]], Israel and rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Shmona [[Hesder]] Yeshiva, helped establish [[Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh]] |
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*[[Ahron Soloveichik]] (1917–2001), Renowned scholar of Talmud, Halakha and a Rosh Yeshiva |
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* [[Haim Drukman]] (1932–2022), [[Israel|Israeli]] politician, rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Or Etzion|Ohr Etzion Yeshiva]], head of the Center for [[Bnei Akiva]] Yeshivot |
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*[[Adin Steinsaltz]] (1937–), 21st-century Israeli Talmud scholar and philosopher |
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* [[Shmuel Eliyahu]] (1956–), Chief Rabbi of [[Safed]], member of the [[Chief Rabbinate of Israel#Chief Rabbinate Council|Chief Rabbinate Council]] |
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*[[Moshe David Tendler]], son-in-law of [[Moshe Feinstein]], and noted bioethist |
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* [[Binyamin Elon]] (1954–2017), Israeli politician who served as a member of the [[Knesset]] for [[Moledet]] and the [[National Union (Israel)|National Union]] |
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* [[Mordechai Elon]] (1959–), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat HaKotel]] |
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* [[Baruch Gigi]] (1957–), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], communal rabbi of the [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi]] [[synagogue]] in [[Alon Shvut]] |
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* [[Yehuda Gilad (politician)|Yehuda Gilad]] (1955–), Rosh Yeshivat [[Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa|Maale Gilboa]], rabbi of [[Kibbutz Lavi]] |
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* [[Yitzchak Ginsburgh]] (1944–), American-born Israeli, currently president of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank |
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* [[Yehudah Glick]] (1965–), American-born Israeli activist, [[List of members of the twentieth Knesset|politician]], leader of [[HaLiba]], a coalition of groups dedicated to reaching complete and comprehensive [[Temple Mount entry restrictions|freedom and civil rights]] for Jews on the Temple Mount |
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* [[Tamir Granot]] (1970–), [[Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva|Yeshivat Orot Shaul]] |
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* [[Re'em Ha'Cohen|Re’em HaCohen]] (1957–), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Otniel]] and rabbi of the [[Otniel]] settlement |
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* [[Yeshayahu Hadari]] (1933–2018), Israeli religious scholar, first rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat HaKotel]] |
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* [[David Bar Hayim]] (1960–), founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael |
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* [[Daniel Hershkowitz]] (1953–), Israeli politician, [[mathematician]], professor, rabbi of the [[Haifa#Neighborhoods|Ahuza neighborhood]] in [[Haifa]], President of [[Bar-Ilan University]] |
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* [[Hillel Horowitz]] (1964–), Israeli politician |
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* [[Nachman Kahana]] (1937–), author and brother of [[Meir Kahane]] |
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* [[Binyamin Lau]] (1961–), head of [[929: Tanakh B'yachad|929: Tanach B'yachad]], rabbi of Kehillat Ramban in Jerusalem |
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* [[Israel Meir Lau]] (1937–), former [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] [[Chief Rabbinate of Israel|Chief Rabbi of Israel]] and current Chief Rabbi of [[Tel Aviv]] |
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* [[Yitzhak Levy]] (1947–), [[Mashgiach ruchani|Mashgiach]] at [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], politician, among the initiators of the establishment of the [[Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem)|Jewish quarter]] in Jerusalem, co-founder of [[Elon Moreh]] |
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* [[Mosheh Lichtenstein]] (1961–), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], son of [[Aharon Lichtenstein]] and grandson of [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]] |
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* [[Dov Lior]] (1933–), Chief Rabbi of [[Kiryat Arba]] and [[Hebron]] |
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* [[Yaakov Medan]] (1950–), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], partner in drafting the [[Gavison-Medan Covenant]] |
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* [[Eliezer Melamed]] (1961–), rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Har Bracha]], rabbi of the community [[Har Bracha]], and author ''[[Peninei Halakha]]'', son of [[Zalman Melamed|Zalman Baruch Melamed]] |
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* [[Zalman Melamed|Zalman Baruch Melamed]] (1937–), rabbi of [[Beit El]], father of [[Eliezer Melamed]] |
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* [[Michael Melchior]] (1954–), activist and Israeli politician, community rabbi in [[Talpiot|Talpiyot, Jerusalem]], Chief Rabbi of [[Norway]] |
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* [[Chaim Navon]] (1973–) |
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* [[Yakov Nagen]] (1967–), Israeli author, rabbi at Yeshivat Otniel, leader in interfaith peace initiatives between Judaism and Islam |
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* [[Avigdor Nebenzahl]] (1935–), Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem, senior rosh yeshiva at [[Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh]], rabbi of the [[Ramban Synagogue]] |
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* [[Rafi Peretz]] (1956–), Israeli politician, former [[Military Rabbinate|Chief Military Rabbi]] of the [[Israel Defense Forces]] |
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* [[Shai Piron]] (1965–), Israeli educator and politician |
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* [[Hanan Porat]] (1943–2011), Israeli educator, political activist and politician, one of the liberators of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, co-founder of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], [[Gush Emunim]], [[Kfar Etzion]], [[Alon Shvut|Alon Shevut]], [[Elon Moreh]] and [[Ofra]] |
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* [[Meir Porush]] (1955–), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael, son of Menachem Porush |
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* [[Nahum Rabinovitch|Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch]] (1928–2020), Canadian-Israeli ''posek'', rosh yeshiva of the [[London School of Jewish Studies]] and the ''Hesder Yeshiva'' [[Yeshivat Birkat Moshe|Birkat Moshe]] in [[Ma'ale Adumim]] |
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* [[Yosef Zvi Rimon]] (1968–) Rabbi of the [[Gush Etzion Regional Council]], Rosh Kollel at [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]] |
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* [[Haim Sabato]] (1952–), author, co-founder and rosh Yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Birkat Moshe|Yeshivat Birkat Moshe (Ma’aleh Adumim)]] |
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* [[David Samson (rabbi)|David Samson]] (1956–), Israeli [[Torah]] scholar, educational entrepreneur, author, congregational rabbi |
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* [[Sharon Shalom]] (1973–), [[Beta Israel|Ethiopian]]-[[Ethiopian Jews in Israel|Israeli]] community rabbi, lecturer and writer |
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* [[Yaakov Shapira]] (1950–), rosh yeshiva of [[Mercaz HaRav]], member of the [[Chief Rabbinate Council]] |
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* [[Yitzchak Sheilat]] (1946–), Israeli scholar of [[Jewish thought]], co-founder of [[Yeshivat Birkat Moshe]] |
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* [[David Stav]] (1960–), educator, Chief Rabbi of the city of [[Shoham]], chairman of the [[Tzohar (organization)|Tzohar organization]], co-founder of [[Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva]] |
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* [[Adin Steinsaltz]] (1937–2020), Israeli [[Chabad|Chabad Chasidic]] teacher, philosopher, [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]], social critic, translator, author of ''[[The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition|Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud]],'' recipient of the [[Israel Prize]] for Jewish Studies |
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* [[Aryeh Stern]] (1944–), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and student of [[Zvi Yehuda Kook]] |
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* [[Zvi Thau]] (1938–), co-founder and president of Yeshivat [[Har Hamor]] in Jerusalem |
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* [[Ron Yosef]] (1974–), founder of the Israeli organization [[Hod (organization)|Hod]], which represents Israeli [[gay]] and [[lesbian]] Orthodox Jews |
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* [[Yaakov Roja]] (1944–), chairman of the Rabbinical Council of ZAKA and interim president of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate |
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====Haredi==== |
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[[File:Ovadia Yosef.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Ovadia Yosef]]]] |
[[File:Ovadia Yosef.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Ovadia Yosef]]]] |
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[[File:RavElyashiv2.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Yosef Shalom Elyashiv]]]] |
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*[[Elazar Abuhatzeira]] (1948–2011), Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known among his followers as the "Baba Elazar |
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[[File:Rebchaim.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Chaim Kanievsky]]]] |
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*[[Yaakov Aryeh Alter]] (1939), eighth and current Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]] |
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[[File:Skverer Rebbe With Torah.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Dovid Twersky]], [[Grand Rabbi]] of [[Skver]]]] |
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*[[Shalom Arush]] (1952), Israeli [[Breslov (Hasidic group)|Breslov]] rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions |
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[[File:רבי יחזקאל ראטה.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Yechezkel Roth]] of Karlsburg]] |
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*[[Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi]] (1943–2015), Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement |
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[[File:Shlomomiller.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Shlomo Miller]]]] |
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*[[Yisroel Belsky]] (1938–2016), Dean, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Senior Rabbi of the Orthodox Union, and recognized world authority of Jewish law |
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*[[ |
* [[Elazar Abuhatzeira]] (1948–2011), Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known to followers as the "Baba Elazar" |
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* [[Asher Arieli]] (1957–), senior lecturer at [[Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)|Yeshivas Mir]] in [[Israel]], son-in-law of [[Nachum Partzovitz]] |
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*[[Eliezer Berland]] (1937), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Shuvu Bonim affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement. |
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* [[Yaakov Aryeh Alter]] (1939–), eighth and current{{when|date=June 2022}} rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]] |
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* [[Shalom Arush]] (1952–), Israeli [[Breslov (Hasidic group)|Breslov]] rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions |
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*[[Avrohom Blumenkrantz]] (1944–2007), [[posek]] and [[kashrut]] authority |
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* [[Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi]] (1943–2015), Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement |
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*[[Meir Brandsdorfer]] (1934–2009), member of the Badatz (rabbinical court) of the [[Edah HaChareidis]] |
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* [[Moshe Ber Beck]] (1934–2021), Orthodox rabbi and a chief rabbi of the [[Neturei Karta]] movement in the US. |
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*[[Nachum Dov Brayer]] (1959–), present Rebbe of the [[Boyan (Hasidic dynasty)|Boyan]] |
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* [[Yisroel Belsky]] (1938–2016), American Dean, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Senior Rabbi of the Orthodox Union |
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*[[Uriel Davidi]] (1922–2006), Hacham Uriel Davidi served as the chief rabbi of Iran from 1980 to 1994 |
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* [[Eliezer Berland]] (1937–), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Shuvu Bonim affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement. |
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*[[Michel Dorfman]] (1913–2006), de facto head of the Breslover Hasidim living in post-Stalinist Russia |
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* [[Yaakov Blau]] (1929–2013), rabbi and ''[[Dayan (rabbinic judge)|dayan]]'' on the [[Badatz]] of the [[Edah HaChareidis]] |
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*[[Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (third Dushinsky rebbe)|Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky]] Rebbe of the [[Dushinsky (Hasidic dynasty)|Dushinsky]] of Jerusalem |
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* [[Avrohom Blumenkrantz]] (1944–2007), American posek and [[kashrut]] authority |
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* [[Shmuley Boteach]] (1966–), American [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi, radio and television host, and author |
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* [[Meir Brandsdorfer]] (1934–2009), member of the ''Badatz'' (rabbinical court) of the [[Edah HaChareidis]] |
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* [[Nachum Dov Brayer]] (1959–), present Rebbe of the [[Boyan (Hasidic dynasty)|Boyan]] |
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* [[Avraham Bromberg]], American Rosh Yeshiva and posek |
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* [[Yosef Hamadani Cohen]] (1916–2014), Chief Rabbi of Iran and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran |
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* [[Uriel Davidi]] (1922–2006), Chief Rabbi of Iran from 1980 to 1994 |
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* [[Michel Dorfman]] (1913–2006), de facto head of the Breslover Hasidim living in post-Stalinist Russia |
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* [[Alfredo Goldschmidt (rabbi)]] (1945–) Great rabbi of [[Colombia]] and the Colegio Colombo Hebreo |
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* [[Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (third Dushinsky rebbe)|Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky]], Rebbe of the [[Dushinsky (Hasidic dynasty)|Dushinsky]] of Jerusalem |
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* [[Shlomo Elyashiv]] (1841–1926), [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian]] [[Talmud|talmudist]] and [[Kabbalah|Kabbalist]] known as the ''Leshem'' or ''Ba'al HaLeshem'', teacher of [[Abraham Isaac Kook]], grandfather of [[Yosef Sholom Eliashiv]] |
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*[[Yosef Sholom Eliashiv]] (1910–2012), Israeli rabbi and a rabbinical leader of the [[haredi]] world |
*[[Yosef Sholom Eliashiv]] (1910–2012), Israeli rabbi and a rabbinical leader of the [[haredi]] world |
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* [[Aharon Feldman]] (1932–), American Rosh Yeshiva |
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*[[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Gerrer Rebbes]], Polish Hasidic dynasty now in Israel, followers also in the United States and UK |
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* [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Gerrer Rebbes]], Polish Hasidic dynasty now in Israel, followers also in the United States and UK |
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*[[Shlomo Goldman]], Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi |
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* [[Shlomo Goldman]] (1947–2017), Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi |
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*[[Shmuel Dovid Halberstam]], Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park |
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*[[ |
* [[Shmuel Dovid Halberstam]], Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park |
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* [[Zvi Elimelech Halberstam]] (1952–), Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Netanya, Israel |
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*[[Yosef Hamadani Cohen]] (1916–2014), Chief Rabbi of Iran and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran |
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*[[ |
* [[Elchanan Heilprin]] (1921–2015), known as Av Beit Din of Radomishl |
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*[[Moshe Hirsch]] (1923 or 1924–2010), Leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem |
* [[Moshe Hirsch]] (1923 or 1924–2010), Leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem |
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*[[Chaim Avrohom Horowitz]], Grand Rabbi of the [[Boston (Hasidic dynasty)|Boston]] Jewish Hasidic dynasty |
* [[Chaim Avrohom Horowitz]] (1933–2016), Grand Rabbi of the [[Boston (Hasidic dynasty)|Boston]] Jewish Hasidic dynasty |
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*[[Mayer Alter Horowitz]], Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem |
* [[Mayer Alter Horowitz]], Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem |
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*[[Naftali Yehuda Horowitz]], Bostoner Rebbe |
* [[Naftali Yehuda Horowitz]], Bostoner Rebbe |
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*[[Yitzchak Kadouri]] (1898–2006), leading 20th-century Kabbalist (Mekubal) |
* [[Yitzchak Kadouri]] (1898–2006), leading 20th-century Kabbalist (Mekubal) |
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*[[ |
* [[Shmuel Kamenetsky]] (1924–), co-founder and [[rosh yeshiva]] (dean) of the [[Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia]] |
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*[[ |
* [[Chaim Kanievsky]] (1928–2022), Israeli rabbi and posek, lived in Bnei Brak, Israel |
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* [[Nissim Karelitz]] (1926–2019), Israeli haredi leader |
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*[[Meir Kessler]], rabbi of Modi'in Illit |
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* [[Meir Kessler]] (1961–), rabbi of Modi'in Illit |
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*[[Yitzhak Aharon Korff]], Rebbe of Zvhil – Mezhbizh. |
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* [[Zvi Kogan]] (1996-2024), Israeli-Moldovan rabbi killed in the United Arab Emirates |
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*[[Zundel Kroizer]] (1924–2014), author of ''Ohr Hachamah'' |
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* [[Yitzhak Aharon Korff]], Rebbe of Zvhil – Mezhbizh, Boston and Jerusalem, and Rabbi, Jerusalem Great Synagogue. |
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*[[Dov Landau]], Israeli ''rosh yeshiva'' |
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*[[ |
* [[Zundel Kroizer]] (1924–2014), Israeli author of ''Ohr Hachamah'' |
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* [[Dov Landau]], Israeli ''rosh yeshiva'' |
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*[[Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits]] Rebbe of [[Nikolsburg (Hasidic dynasty)|Nikolsburg]] |
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* [[Berel Lazar]] (1964–), Italian Chief Rabbi of Russia |
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*[[Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam]] (1955–), current leader of the Bobov |
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* Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits Rebbe of [[Nikolsburg (Hasidic dynasty)|Nikolsburg]] |
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* [[Yitzchok Lichtenstein]] (1962–), Rosh Yeshiva of [[Yeshiva Torah Vodaas]], son of [[Aharon Lichtenstein]], grandson of [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik|Joseph B. Soloveichik]] |
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*[[Yona Metzger]] (1953–), former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel |
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* [[Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam]] (1955–), current leader of the Bobov |
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*[[Avigdor Miller]] (1908–2001), author and renowned lecturer |
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* [[Meshulim Feish Lowy]] (1921–2015), Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty |
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*[[Shlomo Miller]], head of the Toronto Kollel and recognized authority of Jewish law |
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* [[Uri Mayerfeld]], rosh yeshiva in Canada |
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*[[Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz]], Rebbe of [[Ropshitz (Hasidic dynasty)|Ropshitz]] |
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* [[Moshe Meiselman]] (1942–), founder of [[Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles|Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA)]], founder and [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Yeshiva Toras Moshe]], grandson of [[Moshe Soloveichik]] |
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*[[Yaakov Perlow]], Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva living in Boro Park, Brooklyn |
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* [[Yona Metzger]] (1953–), Israeli former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel |
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*[[Yisroel Avrohom Portugal]], Rebbe of [[Skulen (Hasidic dynasty)|Skulen]] |
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* [[Avigdor Miller]] (1908–2001), American author and renowned lecturer |
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*[[Moshe Leib Rabinovich]] (1940–), current rebbe of [[Munkacs (Hasidic dynasty)|Munkacs]] |
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* [[Shlomo Miller]], head of the Toronto Kollel and recognized authority of Jewish law |
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*[[Chaim Dov Rabinowitz]] (1909-2001), author of Da'as Sofrim on Tanach and other commentaries |
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*[[ |
* [[Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz]], Rebbe of [[Ropshitz (Hasidic dynasty)|Ropshitz]] |
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* [[Yaakov Perlow]], American Hasidic rebbe of [[Novominsk]] and rosh yeshiva living in Borough Park, Brooklyn |
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*[[Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe)|Yissachar Dov Rokeach]] (1948–), Belzer Rebbe |
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* [[Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto]] (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York |
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*[[Yechezkel Roth]], Karlsburger Rav |
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* [[Yisroel Avrohom Portugal]], Rebbe of [[Skulen (Hasidic dynasty)|Skulen]] |
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*[[Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg]] (1910–2012), dean of Torah Ohr Yeshiva, Jerusalem |
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* [[Dovid Povarsky]] (1902–1999), [[Rosh Yeshiva]] of the [[Ponevezh Yeshiva]] |
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*[[Yitzchok Scheiner]], Israeli ''rosh yeshiva'' |
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* [[Moshe Leib Rabinovich]] (1940–), current rebbe of [[Munkacs (Hasidic dynasty)|Munkacs]] |
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*[[Eliezer Shlomo Schick]] (1940–2015), Hasidic rabbi and prolific author and publisher of Breslov teachings |
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* [[Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka]] (1949–), [[Machnovka (Hasidic dynasty)|Machnovka]] Rebbe of Bnei Brak |
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*[[Elyakim Schlesinger]], English rabbi |
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* [[Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe)|Yissachar Dov Rokeach]] (1948–), Belzer Rebbe |
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*[[Dovid Shmidel]], Chairman of Asra Kadisha |
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* [[Elyakim Rosenblatt]] (1933–2019), American ''rosh yeshiva'' of [[Yeshiva Kesser Torah]] in [[Queens, NY]] |
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*[[Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman]] (1912), prominent Haredi rabbi and [[posek]] (halakhic authority) |
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* [[Yechezkel Roth]], Karlsburger Rav |
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*[[Aaron Teitelbaum]] (1947–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the Ruv of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York |
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* [[Shmuel Rozovsky]] (1913–1979), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of the [[Ponevezh Yeshiva]] |
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*[[Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)|Moshe Teitelbaum]] (1914–2006), Satmar Rebbe |
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* [[Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg]] (1910–2012), dean of Torah Ohr Yeshiva, Jerusalem |
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*[[Zalman Teitelbaum]] (1951–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the third son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum |
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* [[Yitzchok Scheiner]] (1922–2021), Israeli ''rosh yeshiva'' |
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*[[David Twersky (Skverer Rebbe)|David Twersky]] (1940–), Grand Rabbi and spiritual leader of the village of New Square, New York |
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* [[Eliezer Shlomo Schick]] (1940–2015), Hasidic rabbi and prolific author and publisher of Breslov teachings |
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*[[Mordechai Dovid Unger]] (1954–), currently Bobover Rebbe |
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* [[Elyakim Schlesinger]], English rabbi |
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*[[Vizhnitz|Vizhnitzer Rebbes]], (''Vizhnitzer''), Romanian dynasty of Hasidic ''rebbes'' in Israel and the United States |
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* [[Elazar Menachem Shach]] (1899–2001), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of the [[Ponevezh Yeshiva]] in [[Bnei Brak]], founder of [[Degel HaTorah]] |
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*[[Yisroel Dovid Weiss]] (1956–), United States Haredi rabbi, is an activist and spokesman for Neturei Karta |
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*[[Shmuel |
* [[Moshe Shmuel Shapiro]] (1917–2006), [[Rosh Yeshiva]] and important [rabbinic figure in [[Israel]] |
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* [[Dovid Shmidel]] (1934–), Chairman of Asra Kadisha |
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*[[Amnon Yitzhak]] (1953–), Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel |
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* [[Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman]] (1912–2017), rabbi and posek (halakhic authority) |
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*[[Amram Zaks]] (1926–2012), ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak |
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* [[Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik]] (1946–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of Yeshivas Brisk, one of the [[Brisk tradition and Soloveitchik dynasty|Brisk yeshivas]] in [[Jerusalem]], son of [[Berel Soloveitchik]] |
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*[[Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto]] (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York |
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* [[Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik]] (1921–2021), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of one of the branches of the [[Brisk yeshivas]] in [[Jerusalem]], son of [[Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik]] |
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*[[Ovadia Yosef]] (1920–2013), 21st-century Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry |
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* [[Moshe Sternbuch]] (1926–), [[Gaon (Hebrew)|Gaon]] [[Beth Din#Officers of a beth din|Av Beis Din]] of the [[Edah HaChareidis]] |
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*[[Bezalel Rudinsky]] Rabbi in Monsey, Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Reuvein and Darchei Noam, author of Mishkan Bezalel and Hiluchai Hadaf |
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* [[Aaron Teitelbaum]] (1947–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the Ruv of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York |
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* [[Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)|Moshe Teitelbaum]] (1914–2006), Satmar Rebbe |
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* [[Zalman Teitelbaum]] (1951–), Grand Rebbe of Satmar, and the third son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum |
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* [[David Twersky (Skverer Rebbe)|David Twersky]] (1940–), Grand Rabbi and spiritual leader of the village of New Square, New York |
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* [[Mordechai Dovid Unger]] (1954–), currently Bobover Rebbe |
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* [[Vizhnitz|Vizhnitzer Rebbes]], (''Vizhnitzer''), Romanian dynasty of Hasidic ''rebbes'' in Israel and the United States |
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* [[Osher Weiss]] (1953–), Possek and An Av Beis Din |
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* [[Shmuel Wosner]] (1913–2015), Haredi rabbi and posek |
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* [[Dov Yaffe]] (1928–2017), Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi |
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* [[Amnon Yitzhak]] (1953–), Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel |
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* [[Ovadia Yosef]] (1920–2013), Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry |
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* [[Amram Zaks]] (1926–2012), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak |
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* [[Jonathan Markovitch]] (1967–), Chief Rabbi of [[Kyiv]] |
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*[[Raymond Apple (rabbi)|Raymond Apple]], Australian Jewish spokesman, writer and lecturer on Jewish, interfaith and freemasonic issues |
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[[File:Rabbi Rosensweig.jpg|thumb|[[Michael Rosensweig]]]] |
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*[[Benjamin Blech]], American modern Orthodox thinker, Professor of Talmud and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, noted author and speaker |
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[[File:Rabbi Mordechai Willig.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Mordechai Willig]]]] |
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*[[Levi Brackman]], British-born rabbi |
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[[File:Sirjonathansacks.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks|Jonathan Sacks]]]] |
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*[[Mordechai Breuer]], Israeli rabbi, descendant of [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]] |
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*[[Shlomo Carlebach (musician)|Shlomo Carlebach]] (1925–1994), Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, composer, singer and pioneer in Baal Teshuvah Movement |
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*[[Marc D. Angel]] (1945–), [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] rabbi and [[author]], rabbi ''emeritus'' of [[Congregation Shearith Israel]], the [[Spanish and Portuguese Jews|Spanish and Portuguese]] [[Synagogue]] in [[New York City]] |
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*[[Mark Dratch]], Instructor of Jewish Studies at [[Yeshiva University]] and founder of [[JSafe]] |
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*[[Raymond Apple (rabbi)|Raymond Apple]] (1935–), Australian Jewish spokesman, writer and lecturer on Jewish, interfaith and freemasonic issues |
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*[[Barry Freundel]], former rabbi of [[Kesher Israel (Washington, D.C.)|Kesher Israel]] Congregation in [[Washington, D.C.]], convicted of [[voyeurism]] |
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*[[Assaf Bednarsh]] (1971–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]], [[Kollel|Rosh Kollel]] for the [http://www.yu.edu/riets/kollellim/gruss/ Gruss Kollel] in [[Jerusalem]] |
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*[[Manis Friedman]], a noted biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker |
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*[[Harvey Belovski]] (1968–), British [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi, educator and organisational advisor, rabbi of [[Golders Green]] [[United Synagogue]] |
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*[[Ari Berman]] (1970–), Fifth President of [[Yeshiva University]] |
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*[[Menachem Genack]], [[Orthodox Union|OU]] |
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*[[Joshua Berman]] (1964–), Orthodox Rabbi and [[Professor]] of [[Hebrew Bible|Bible]] at [[Bar-Ilan University]] |
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*[[Moshe Gottesman]], rabbi, educator and community leader. |
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*[[Saul Berman]] (1939–), communal rabbi, Chairman of the Department of Judaic Studies of [[Stern College for Women]] of [[Yeshiva University]], Director of [[Edah]], Professor at [[Yeshiva University]] and [[Columbia University]] |
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*[[Irving Greenberg]], American rabbi and writer on the relationship between [[Christianity and Judaism]] |
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*[[Ezra Bick]] (1946–), author, Ram at [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], scion of the [[Rapoport-Bick (rabbinic dynasty)|Rapoport-Bick rabbinic dynasty]] |
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*[[David Hartman (rabbi)|David Hartman]], philosopher, author, and founder of [[Shalom Hartman Institute]] in Jerusalem |
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*[[David Bigman]] (1954–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa]], helped found the [[Ein HaNetziv|Ein Hanatziv]] Midrasha for girls, previous [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of the [[Ein Tzurim]] Yeshiva |
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*[[David Bar Hayim]], founder of [[Machon Shilo]], proponent of [[Nusach]] Eretz Yisrael [http://www.torahlight.com] |
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*[[Yosef Blau]] – [[Mashgiach ruchani]] at [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary|RIETS]] for over 40 years, president of the [[Religious Zionists of America]] |
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*[[Norman Lamm]], American modern Orthodox thinker, head of Yeshiva University |
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*[[Benjamin Blech]] (1933–), American modern Orthodox thinker, Professor of Talmud and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, author and speaker |
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*[[J. David Bleich]] (1936–), [[Posek]] and [[ethicist]], including [[Jewish medical ethics]], [[Rosh yeshiva]] and professor at [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary|RIETS]] and [[Yeshiva University]] |
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*[[Kenneth Brander]] (1962–), American rabbi, president and [[Rosh hayeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Ohr Torah Stone|the Ohr Torah Stone]] network of institutions |
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*[[Reuven Bulka|Reuven Pinchas Bulka]] (1944–2021), Canadian rabbi, writer, broadcaster and activist, spiritual leader of Congregation [[Machzikei Hadas (synagogue)|Machzikei Hadas]] in [[Ottawa]], co-president of the [[Canadian Jewish Congress]] |
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*[[Shalom Carmy]] (1949–), American [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] rabbi, [[Professor]] at [[Yeshiva University]], [[writer]] and [[editor]] |
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*[[Eliyahu Ben Haim|Eliyahu Ben Chaim]] (1940–), Chief Rabbi of Sha'are Shalom ([[Mashhadi Jews|United Mashadi Community of America]]) in [[Great Neck, New York|Great Neck]], [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]], Av Beit Din of Badatz Mekor Haim, prominent leader of New York's [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi]] community |
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*[[Albert Chait]], (1986–), Rabbi to the United Hebrew Congregation in Leeds, United Kingdom |
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*[[Kotel Da-Don|Kotel Dadon]] (1967–), [[Israel|Israeli]] Orthodox rabbi, Chief Rabbi of [[Croatia]], |
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*[[Ahron Daum]] (1951–2018), Israeli-born [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern-Orthodox]] rabbi, educator, author and Chief Rabbi of [[Frankfurt am Main]] |
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*[[Chuck Davidson]] (1961–), founder of organizations [[Giyur Kehalacha]] and [[Ahavat Hager]] which aims to undermine the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and their monopoly with conversions and marriages |
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*[[Mark Dratch]] (1958–), Instructor of Jewish Studies at [[Yeshiva University]] and founder of [[JSafe]] |
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*[[Seth Farber]] (1967–), American-Israeli [[Modern Orthodox]] rabbi, [[historian]], [[author]], and founder and director of the Jewish life advocacy organization, [[ITIM: Resources and Advocacy for Jewish Life|ITIM]] |
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*[[Barry Freundel]] (1951–), former rabbi of [[Kesher Israel (Washington, D.C.)|Kesher Israel]] Congregation in [[Washington, D.C.]], convicted of [[voyeurism]] |
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*[[Manis Friedman]] (1946–), a biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker |
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*[[Aryeh Frimer]] (1946–), American-[[Israel|Israeli]] Active Oxygen [[Chemist]], teacher at [[Bar-Ilan University|Bar Ilan University]], specialist on [[Women in Judaism|Women and Jewish law]] |
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*[[Menachem Genack]] (1949–), [[CEO]] of the [[Orthodox Union]] [[Kosher]] Division, [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]], founding chairman of [[NORPAC]] |
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*[[Meir Goldwicht]] — [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]] |
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*[[Moshe Gottesman]] (1932–2018), rabbi, educator and community leader |
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*[[Irving Greenberg]] (1933–), American rabbi and writer on the relationship between [[Christianity and Judaism]] |
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*[[Steven Greenberg (rabbi)|Steven Greenberg]] (1956–), first openly homosexual [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi |
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*[[David Bar Hayim]] (1960–), founder of [[Machon Shilo]], proponent of [[Nusach (Jewish custom)|Nusach]] Eretz Yisrael |
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*[[Nathaniel Helfgot]] (1963–), President of the [[International Rabbinic Fellowship]] |
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*[[Yehuda Henkin]] (1945–2020), author of the [[responsa]] Benei Vanim, [[modern orthodox]] [[posek]] |
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*[[Shmuel Herzfeld]] (1974–), Senior rabbi of [[Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], Vice President of the [[AMCHA Initiative]], teacher, lecturer, activist, author |
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*[[David Hirsch (rabbi)|David Hirsch]] (1968–), [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]] for over 20 years |
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*[[Howard Jachter]] – American [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi, [[Beth din#Officers of a beth din|Dayan]], educator, author and communal leader, expert on the laws of [[Get (divorce document)|Jewish divorce]] |
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*[[Ephraim Kanarfogel]] (1955–), rabbi and [[Torah]] scholar, [[professor]] and dean at [[Yeshiva University]], one of the foremost experts in the fields of medieval [[Jewish history]] and rabbinic literature |
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*[[Moshe Kletenik]] (1954–), congregational rabbi, ''Av Beit Din'' and ''Mesader Gittin,'' President of the [[Rabbinical Council of America]] |
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*[[Eugene Korn]] (1947–), Academic Director of the [[Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation]] (CJCUC) in Jerusalem, Director of Interfaith Affairs for the [[Anti-Defamation League]], writer |
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*[[Joel Landau (rabbi)|Joel Landau]], New York rabbi associated with [[Yad Ezra V'Shulamit|Yad Ezra V’Shulamit]] |
*[[Joel Landau (rabbi)|Joel Landau]], New York rabbi associated with [[Yad Ezra V'Shulamit|Yad Ezra V’Shulamit]] |
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*[[Baruch Lanner]] (1949–), American former [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi who was convicted of [[child sexual abuse]] |
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*[[Aharon Lichtenstein]], Rosh Yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], and Rosh Kollel of [[Yeshiva University]]'s Gruss Kollel |
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*[[Aryeh Lebowitz]] (1977–), American [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] rabbi and ''[[posek]]'', Director of [[Semikhah]] at [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] |
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*[[Abraham Nissan]], Jewish spokesman, writer, lecturer and teacher of Jewish matters. University and College President of the Jewish community of Mexico. |
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*[[Isaiah Rothstein]], American Rabbi and civil rights activist |
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*[[Haskel Lookstein]] (1932–), American [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] rabbi, rabbi [[emeritus]] of [[Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun]] on the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]], principal of the [[Ramaz School]], son of [[Joseph Lookstein]] |
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*[[Shlomo Riskin]], Chief Rabbi of [[Efrat]] |
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*[[Ephraim Mirvis]] (1956–), Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth |
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*[[Hershel Schachter]], leading [[posek]] for the [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox Jewish]] community. |
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*[[Leonard Matanky]] (1958–), [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] rabbi, co-president of the [[Religious Zionists of America]], pulpit rabbi, Dean of [[Ida Crown Jewish Academy]], past president of the [[Rabbinical Council of America]] |
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*[[Arthur Schneier]], prominent rabbi in the secular world and rabbi at [[Park East Synagogue]], which hosted [[Pope Benedict XVI|Pope Benedict]]. |
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*[[Yaakov Neuburger]] (1955–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]] |
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*[[Sacha Pecaric]] (1965–), [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslavian]]/[[Croatia|Croatian]]-[[Italy|Italian]]-American rabbi, author of the first translation of the [[Torah]] from [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] to [[Polish language|Polish]] to be done by a Jew since the [[Second World War]] |
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*[[Steven Weil]], Executive-Vice President of the Orthodox Union |
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*[[Menachem Penner]] (1971–), [[Dean (education)|Dean]] of the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]], Rabbi [[Emeritus]] of the [[Young Israel]] of [[Hollis, Queens|Holliswood]] |
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*[[Avi Weiss]], Founder, [[Yeshivat Chovevei Torah]], and rabbi of the [[Hebrew Institute of Riverdale]] |
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*[[Dale Polakoff]] (1957–), American rabbi, teacher and spiritual leader, Senior rabbi of the Great Neck Synagogue for over 30 years, past President of the [[Rabbinical Council of America]] |
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*[[Mordechai Willig]], Rosh Yeshiva at [[Yeshiva University]], prominent posek for the Modern Orthodox community. |
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*[[Yona Reiss]] (1966–), American rabbi, noted Torah scholar, attorney, lecturer and jurist, current Av Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council |
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*[[Benjamin Yudin]], rabbi of Shomrei Torah in [[Fair Lawn, New Jersey|Fair Lawn]], [[New Jersey]] |
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*[[Hershel Reichman]] (1944–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]] |
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See also article [[Modern Orthodox]] for a list of rabbis. |
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*[[Shlomo Riskin]] (1940–), founding Chief Rabbi of [[Efrat (Israeli settlement)|Efrat]], founding rabbi of [[Lincoln Square Synagogue]] on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[New York City]], dean of [[Manhattan Day School]], founder and Chancellor of the [[Ohr Torah Stone|Ohr Torah Stone Institutions]] |
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*[[David Rosen (rabbi)|David Rosen]] (1951–), [[South Africa|South African]]-[[British Empire|British]]-[[Israel|Israeli]] rabbi, Chief Rabbi of [[Ireland]], [[American Jewish Committee]]'s International Director of Interreligious Affairs, son of [[Kopul Rosen]] |
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*[[Jeremy Rosen]] (1942–), Orthodox Rabbi, [[author]] and lecturer, son of [[Kopul Rosen]] |
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*[[Jonathan Rosenblatt]] (1956–), American [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] rabbi, teacher, lecturer, and counselor |
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*[[Itamar Rosensweig]] (1989–), [[Maggid shiur|Maggid Shiur]] at [[Yeshiva University]], [[dayan (rabbinic judge)]] at the [[Beth Din of America]], resident scholar at [[Congregation Ahavath Torah]], son of rabbi [[Michael Rosensweig]] |
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*[[Michael Rosensweig]] (1956–), [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] of [[Yeshiva University]] and the [[Rosh Kollel]] of the Beren Kollel Elyon |
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*[[Jonathan Sacks]] (1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, philosopher, theologian, author, peer and public figure, great-grandson of [[Aryeh Leib Frumkin]] |
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*[[Yonason Sacks]] – [[Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Lander College]] for Men, spiritual leader of the Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov |
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*[[Yehuda Sarna]] (1977–), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of the [[United Arab Emirates]] |
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*[[Hershel Schachter]] (1941–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Yeshiva University]], ''[[posek]],'' son of [[Melech Schachter]] |
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*[[Jacob J. Schacter]] (1950–), American [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi, historian, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the [[Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future|Center for the Jewish Future]] at [[Yeshiva University]], son of [[Herschel Schacter]] |
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*[[Hanan Schlesinger]] – American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, co-founder of [[Arab–Israeli peace projects#Roots.2FJudur.2FShorashim: The Palestinian Israeli Initiative for Understanding.2C Nonviolence.2C and Reconciliation|Roots]], a joint Palestinian-Israeli grassroots peacemaking initiative |
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*[[Arthur Schneier]] (1930–), prominent rabbi in the secular world and rabbi at [[Park East Synagogue]], which hosted [[Pope Benedict XVI|Pope Benedict]] |
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*[[Elliot Schrier]] (1989–), community leader and teacher, current ''[[Mara d'atra|Mara d'asra]]'' of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in [[Teaneck, New Jersey|Teaneck]], [[New Jersey]] |
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*[[Gedalia Dov Schwartz]] (1925–2020), Orthodox rabbi, scholar and [[posek]], the ''[[Beth din#Officers of a beth din|av beis din]]'' of both the [[Beth Din of America]] and the [[Chicago Rabbinical Council]] (cRc), ''rosh beth din'' of the National Beth Din of the [[Rabbinical Council of America]], President of the [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] of [[Rhode Island]] and the [[Rabbinical Council of America|RCA]] [[Philadelphia]] Region |
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*[[Adolf Shayevich]] (1937–), rabbi of the [[Moscow Choral Synagogue]], Chief Rabbi of [[Russia]] |
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*[[Eli Baruch Shulman]] (1959–), [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]], Rabbi Henry H. Guterman chair in Talmud, author and editor |
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*[[Zvi Sobolofsky]] – Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University and rabbi of Ohr Hatorah in [[Bergenfield]], [[New Jersey]] |
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*[[Haym Soloveitchik]] (1937–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary|RIETS]], [[professor]] at [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University]] and [[Yeshiva University]], leading contemporary [[historian]] of [[Halakha|Jewish law]] |
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*[[Meir Soloveichik]] (1977–), American Orthodox rabbi and writer, rabbi of [[Congregation Shearith Israel]] in [[New York City]], grandson of [[Ahron Soloveichik]] |
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*[[Shubert Spero]] (1923–), [[Irving Stone]] Professor of Jewish Thought at [[Bar Ilan University]], Rabbi Emeritus of [[Young Israel]] of [[Cleveland, Ohio]], author on the subjects of [[halakha]], ethics, the Holocaust, [[Jewish philosophy]] and the thought of [[Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik|Joseph B. Soloveitchik]] |
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*[[Ben-Tzion Spitz]] (1969–), Chief Rabbi of [[Uruguay]], [[writer]] and [[Nuclear Engineer]] |
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*[[Daniel Stein (rabbi)|Daniel Stein]], (1976–), [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]], rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Chesed on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[Manhattan]], founding rabbi of Kehillas Beis Sholom in [[Clifton, New Jersey]] |
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*[[Moshe David Tendler]] (1926–2021), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary|RIETS]], [[professor]] of [[biology]] at [[Yeshiva University]], expert in medical ethics, son-in-law of [[Moshe Feinstein]] |
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*[[Kalman Topp]] (1972–), American rabbi, educator, author, Senior Rabbi of the [[Beth Jacob Congregation (Beverly Hills, California)|Beth Jacob Congregation]] of [[Beverly Hills, California]] |
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*[[Mayer Twersky]] (1960–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]], Grand Rabbi of the [[Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty)#Talne|Talne Chasidim]], grandson of rabbi [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]] |
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*[[Berel Wein]] (1934–), American-born [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi, lecturer and writer, [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of [[Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland]], senior faculty member of [[Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem|Yeshiva Ohr Somayach]] |
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*[[Moshe Weinberger]] (1957–), founding spiritual leader of [[Congregation Aish Kodesh]], [[Mashpia]]/[[mashgiach ruchani]] at [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary|RIETS]], the "senior spokesman" of the [[Neo-Hasidism|Neo-Hasidic movement]] in [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodoxy]] |
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*[[Tzvi Hersh Weinreb]] (1940–), rabbi, psychotherapist, Executive Vice President Emeritus of the [[Orthodox Union]], Editor-in-Chief of the [[Koren Publishers Jerusalem|Koren]] [[Talmud Bavli]] |
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*[[Jeremy Wieder]] (1971–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]], one of the first Americans to win the [[International Bible Contest|International Bible Contest (Chidon Hatanach)]] |
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*[[Mordechai Willig]] (1947–), [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] at [[Yeshiva University]], prominent posek for the Modern Orthodox community. |
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*[[Pesach Wolicki]] (1970–), [[Teacher|educator]], [[writer]], [[columnist]], [[lecturer]], [[public speaker]] and pro-Israel activist, [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah, Associate Director of the [[Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation]] (CJCUC) |
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*[[Benjamin Yudin]] (1944–), rabbi of Shomrei Torah in [[Fair Lawn, New Jersey|Fair Lawn]], [[New Jersey]] |
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*[[Isaac Sacca]] (1964–), [[Sephardi]] [[Chief Rabbi]] of [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], founder and president of Menora, World Organization for Youth. |
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==Conservative== |
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{{See|Conservative Judaism|Rabbinical Assembly}} |
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*[[Dov Linzer]] (1966–), President and [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]] of the [[Open Orthodoxy|Open-Orthodox]] [[Yeshivat Chovevei Torah]] [[Yeshiva|Rabbinical School]] in [[Riverdale, Bronx|Riverdale]], [[New York (state)|New York]] |
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*[[Avi Weiss]] (1944–), Founder, [[Yeshivat Chovevei Torah]], and rabbi of the [[Hebrew Institute of Riverdale]] |
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==Conservative rabbis, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries== |
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*[[Zecharias Frankel]], critical historian, founder of the "Positive Historical" school, progenitor of [[Conservative Judaism]] |
*[[Zecharias Frankel]] (1801–1875), critical historian, founder of the "Positive Historical" school, progenitor of [[Conservative Judaism]] |
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*[[Levi Herzfeld]], German rabbi, proponent of moderate reform |
*[[Levi Herzfeld]] (1810–1884), German rabbi, proponent of moderate reform |
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*[[Nachman Krochmal]], Austrian philosopher and historian |
*[[Nachman Krochmal]] (1785–1840), Austrian philosopher and historian |
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*[[Jacob B. Agus]], rabbi and theologian |
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*[[Philip R. Alstat]], Conservative rabbi |
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*[[Ben-Zion Bokser]], Conservative rabbi |
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*[[Boaz Cohen]], Talmud scholar and [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] professor |
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*[[Gerson D. Cohen]], historian and [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] chancellor |
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*[[Moshe Davis]], historian at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] and [[Hebrew University]] |
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*[[Louis Finkelstein]], Talmud scholar and [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] professor |
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*[[Louis Ginzberg]] (1873–1953), American Conservative Talmud scholar |
*[[Louis Ginzberg]] (1873–1953), American Conservative Talmud scholar |
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*[[Robert Gordis]], leader in [[Conservative Judaism]] |
*[[Robert Gordis]], leader in [[Conservative Judaism]] |
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*[[Sidney Greenberg]], rabbi and author |
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*[[Jules Harlow]], Conservative Judaism liturgist |
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*[[Simon Greenberg]], professor and vice-chancellor at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] |
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*[[Abraham Joshua Heschel]] (1907–1972), Conservative Judaism philosopher and scholar of Hasidism |
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*[[Morris Gutstein]], congregational rabbi and historian |
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*[[Jules Harlow]], liturgist |
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*[[Arthur Hertzberg]], rabbi, scholar, and activist |
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*[[Abraham Joshua Heschel]] (1907–1972), philosopher, scholar of Hasidism, and [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] professor |
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*[[Max Kadushin]], philosopher and [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] professor |
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*[[Wolfe Kelman]], [[Rabbinical Assembly]] leader |
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*[[Isaac Klein]], American rabbi and scholar of [[halakhah]] |
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*[[Albert L. Lewis]], Conservative rabbi |
*[[Albert L. Lewis]], Conservative rabbi |
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*[[Saul Lieberman]], rabbi and scholar |
*[[Saul Lieberman]], rabbi and scholar |
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*[[Marshall Meyer]], rabbi and human rights activist, founded a rabbinical school and synagogue in [[Argentina]] |
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*[[Chaim Potok]], American rabbi and author |
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*[[Samuel Schafler]], American rabbi and historian |
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*[[Solomon Schechter]], scholar and a founder of [[Conservative Judaism]] |
*[[Solomon Schechter]], scholar and a founder of [[Conservative Judaism]] |
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*[[Morris Silverman]], American |
*[[Morris Silverman]], American rabbi and liturgist |
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*[[Chana Timoner]], first female rabbi to hold an active duty assignment as a chaplain in the U.S. Army |
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===Contemporary (ca. 21st century)=== |
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*[[Leslie Alexander (rabbi)]], first female rabbi of a major Conservative Jewish synagogue in the United States |
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*[[East Meadow Jewish Center#Rabbi|Ronald Androphy]], Conservative rabbi of [[East Meadow Jewish Center]], President of the [[Long Island Board of Rabbis]] and the East Meadow Clergy Association, member of the Board of Governors of the [[New York Board of Rabbis]], past Chairman of the Rabbinic Advisory Committee of the [[UJA Federation]] of Long Island, and past President of the Rabbinical Assembly of Nassau-Suffolk.<ref name="nytimes2001">{{cite news|last=Ain |first=Stewart |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/nyregion/nassau-plans-to-tax-parsonages.html |title=Nassau Plans to Tax Parsonages |location=Rockville Centre (NY); Nassau County (NY) |publisher=The New York Times |date=January 14, 2001 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> |
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*[[Lia Bass]], second Latin American female rabbi in the world. |
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*[[Bradley Shavit Artson]], Conservative rabbi, Dean of the [[Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies]] at the [[American Jewish University]], |
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*[[Sharon Brous]], Founder of Ikar and prominent voice for justice |
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*[[Geoffrey Claussen]], Conservative rabbi and [[Elon University]] professor |
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*[[Aryeh Cohen]], Conservative rabbi and [[American Jewish University]] professor |
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*[[Martin Samuel Cohen]], Conservative rabbi and author |
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*[[Shaye J. D. Cohen]], Conservative rabbi and [[Harvard University]] professor |
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*[[Moshe Cotel]], pianist, composer, and rabbi |
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*[[Menachem Creditor]], Conservative rabbi, activist, and founder of the Shefa Network |
*[[Menachem Creditor]], Conservative rabbi, activist, and founder of the Shefa Network |
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*[[Cynthia Culpeper]], first full-time female rabbi in Alabama |
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*[[Jerome Cutler]], director of the Creative Arts Temple in West Los Angeles, California. |
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*[[David G. Dalin]], rabbi and historian |
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*[[Zvi Dershowitz]] (1928–2023), rabbi of [[Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, California)|Sinai Temple]], Los Angeles, California |
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*[[Elliot N. Dorff]], Conservative rabbi, bioethicist, and professor of Jewish Theology at the [[American Jewish University]] |
*[[Elliot N. Dorff]], Conservative rabbi, bioethicist, and professor of Jewish Theology at the [[American Jewish University]] |
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*[[Amy Eilberg]], Conservative rabbi, author and co-founded the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco |
*[[Amy Eilberg]], Conservative rabbi, author and co-founded the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco |
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*[[Edward Feld]], Conservative rabbi and [[siddur]] editor |
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*[[Everett Gendler]], rabbi and progressive activist |
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*[[Neil Gillman]], philosopher, theologian, and [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] professor |
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*[[David Golinkin]], Masorti rabbi and halakhist |
*[[David Golinkin]], Masorti rabbi and halakhist |
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*[[Michael Greenbaum]], professor and vice-chancellor at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] |
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*[[Reuven Hammer]], Masorti rabbi, author, and siddur commentator |
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*[[Reuven Hammer]], Masorti rabbi, author, and [[siddur]] commentator |
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*[[Sherre Hirsch]], rabbi and author |
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*[[Judith Hauptman]], [[feminist]] Talmudic scholar at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] |
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*[[Rachel Isaacs]], first openly lesbian rabbi ordained by the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] |
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*[[Jill Jacobs (rabbi)]], Executive Director of [[T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights]] |
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*[[Louis Jacobs]], founder of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, theologian |
*[[Louis Jacobs]], founder of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, theologian |
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*[[William E. Kaufman]], advocate of [[process theology]] |
*[[William E. Kaufman]], advocate of [[process theology]] |
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*[[Daniella Kolodny]], first female rabbi enlisted in the [[United States Naval Academy]] |
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*[[Myer S. Kripke]], rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist based in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] |
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*[[Joshua Kulp]], Conservative scholar and rabbi and founder of the [[Conservative Yeshiva]] in [[Jerusalem]] |
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*[[Harold Kushner]], American Conservative rabbi, theologian, and popular writer |
*[[Harold Kushner]], American Conservative rabbi, theologian, and popular writer |
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*[[Aaron Landes]] (1929–2014), rabbi of Beth Sholom in [[Elkins Park, Pennsylvania]] |
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*[[Amichai Lau-Lavie]] – Israeli-American [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative]] rabbi, social entrepreneur, human rights activist, founder of [[Storahtelling]] |
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*[[William H. Lebeau]], Conservative rabbi and Dean of Rabbinical School at [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] |
*[[William H. Lebeau]], Conservative rabbi and Dean of Rabbinical School at [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] |
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*[[Naomi Levy]], American rabbi, author and speaker |
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*[[Alan Lew]], teacher of [[Jewish meditation]] |
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*[[Aaron L. Mackler]], Conservative rabbi and bioethicist |
*[[Aaron L. Mackler]], Conservative rabbi and bioethicist |
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*[[Jason Miller (rabbi)]], Conservative rabbi, entrepreneur and technology blogger |
*[[Jason Miller (rabbi)]], Conservative rabbi, entrepreneur and technology blogger |
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*[[Alan Mittleman]], professor of [[Jewish philosophy]] at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] |
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*[[Jacob Neusner]] (1932–), Conservative trained scholar and writer |
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*[[Jack Moline]], Executive Director of [[Interfaith Alliance]] |
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*[[Jacob Neusner]] (1932–2016), Conservative trained scholar and writer |
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*[[Daniel Nevins]], Dean of JTS Rabbinical School and author of inclusive teshuvah on homosexuality in Judaism |
*[[Daniel Nevins]], Dean of JTS Rabbinical School and author of inclusive teshuvah on homosexuality in Judaism |
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*[[Einat Ramon]], first Israeli-born woman rabbi |
*[[Einat Ramon]], first Israeli-born woman rabbi |
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*[[Paula Reimers]], one of the first women to be ordained by the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] |
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*[[Paula Reimers]] |
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*[[Arnold Resnicoff]], Navy Chaplain, AJC National Director of Interreligious Affairs, Special Assistant (Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force |
*[[Arnold Resnicoff]], Navy Chaplain, AJC National Director of Interreligious Affairs, Special Assistant (Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force |
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*[[Joel Roth]], Conservative scholar and rabbi |
*[[Joel Roth]], Conservative scholar and rabbi |
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*[[Simchah Roth]]. Israeli rabbi and ''[[Siddur]] Va'ani Tefillati'' editor |
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*[[Danya Ruttenberg]], Award-winning author, editor and social justice activist |
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*[[Julie Schonfeld]], first female rabbi to serve in the chief executive position of an American rabbinical association |
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*[[Ismar Schorsch]], Conservative educator and leader |
*[[Ismar Schorsch]], Conservative educator and leader |
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*[[Harold M. Schulweis]], |
*[[Harold M. Schulweis]], rabbi of [[Valley Beth Shalom]], Encino, California and founder of the [[Jewish World Watch]] |
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*[[Rona Shapiro]], first female rabbi to head a Conservative synagogue in [[Cleveland]] |
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*[[Alan Silverstein]], Conservative rabbi of Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, and former President of the [[Rabbinical Assembly]] |
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*[[Alan Silverstein]], rabbi of Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, and former President of the [[Rabbinical Assembly]] |
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*[[Mychal Springer]], rabbi and [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] leader |
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*[[Valerie Stessin]], first woman to be ordained as a Conservative rabbi in [[Israel]] |
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*[[Ira F. Stone]], a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the [[Musar movement]] |
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*[[Susan Tendler]], first female rabbi in [[Chattanooga]] |
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*[[Gordon Tucker]], Conservative rabbi |
*[[Gordon Tucker]], Conservative rabbi |
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*[[Zvi Dershowitz]] (1928–), Conservative rabbi of [[Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, California)|Sinai Temple]], Los Angeles, California |
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*[[Stuart Weinblatt]], Conservative rabbi and founder of Congregation B'nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland; President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the [[Jewish Federations of North America]] |
*[[Stuart Weinblatt]], Conservative rabbi and founder of Congregation B'nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland; President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the [[Jewish Federations of North America]] |
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*[[Bea Wyler]], first female rabbi in Germany to officiate at a congregation |
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*[[David Wolpe]] (1958–), Conservative rabbi of [[Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, California)|Sinai Temple]], Los Angeles, California |
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Neo-Conservative rabbas: Contemporary (ca. 21st century) |
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*Yaffa Epstein, rabba, teaches Talmud at Yeshivat Maharat and serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. |
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*[[Mimi Feigelsohn]], rabba and lecturer in the rabbinic school at [[American Jewish University]] in [[Los Angeles]]. |
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*[[Sara Hurwitz]], rabba and assistant rabbi of [[Hebrew Institute of Riverdale]] and dean of [[Yeshivat Maharat]]. |
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====Conservative rabbinical organizations==== |
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*[[Rabbinical Assembly]] |
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*[[United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism]] |
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*[[Committee on Jewish Law and Standards]] |
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==Union for Traditional Judaism== |
==Union for Traditional Judaism== |
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{{See|Union for Traditional Judaism}} |
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*[[David Weiss Halivni]] (1927–2022) |
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==Reform |
==Reform== |
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{{See|Reform Judaism}} |
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===19th century=== |
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*[[Samuel Adler (rabbi)|Samuel Adler]], German-American rabbi of [[Congregation Emanu-El of New York|Temple Emanu-El]] |
*[[Samuel Adler (rabbi)|Samuel Adler]] (1809–1891), German-American rabbi of [[Congregation Emanu-El of New York|Temple Emanu-El]] |
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*[[Moses Berlin]], British Reform rabbi |
*[[Moses Berlin]] (1852–1927), British Reform rabbi |
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*[[Emil Hirsch]], American Reform rabbi and scholar |
*[[Emil Hirsch]] (1851–1923), American Reform rabbi and scholar |
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*[[David Einhorn (rabbi)|David Einhorn]], American Reform rabbi |
*[[David Einhorn (rabbi)|David Einhorn]] (1809–1879), American Reform rabbi |
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*[[Samuel Hirsch]], German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement |
*[[Samuel Hirsch]] (1815–1889), German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement |
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*[[Abraham Geiger]], German Reform ideologist |
*[[Abraham Geiger]] (1810–1874), German Reform ideologist |
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*[[Samuel Holdheim]], German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism |
*[[Samuel Holdheim]] (1806–1860), German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism |
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*[[Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy]], Hungarian-English Reform rabbi in Eperies and Manchester, first Jewish professor in Cambridge |
*[[Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy]] (1820–1890), Hungarian-English Reform rabbi in Eperies and Manchester, first Jewish professor in Cambridge |
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*[[Leopold Zunz]], German scholar, founded ''Science of Judaism'' school |
*[[Leopold Zunz]] (1794–1886), German scholar, founded ''Science of Judaism'' school |
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*[[Isaac Mayer Wise]] (1819–1900), American Reform rabbi |
*[[Isaac Mayer Wise]] (1819–1900), American Reform rabbi |
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===20th century=== |
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* [[Paula Ackerman]], first female to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, not ordained |
* [[Paula Ackerman]] (1893–1989), first female to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, not ordained |
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* [[Joseph Asher]] (1921–1990), advocate of reconciliation between the Jews and the Germans in the post-Holocaust era |
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* [[Leo Baeck]] (1873–1956), Reform rabbi |
* [[Leo Baeck]] (1873–1956), Reform rabbi |
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* [[Laszlo Berkowitz]] (1928–2020), Reform rabbi, Temple Rodef Shalom |
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* [[ |
* [[Lionel Blue]] (1930–2016), British rabbi, writer and broadcaster |
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* [[ |
* [[Abraham Cronbach]] (1882–1965), Reform rabbi & educator |
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* [[Maurice Davis (Rabbi)|Maurice Davis]] (1921–1993), Reform rabbi, past Chairman, [[President's Commission on Equal Opportunity]] |
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* [[Abraham Cronbach]], Reform rabbi & educator |
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* [[David Max Eichhorn]] (1906–1986), Reform Jewish rabbi, author, founder of Merritt Island's Temple Israel,<ref>''New York Times'' obituary, July 23, 1986.</ref> and Army chaplain among the troops that [[Dachau concentration camp#Liberation|liberated Dachau]] |
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* [[Maurice Davis (Rabbi)|Maurice Davis]], Reform rabbi, past Chairman, [[President's Commission on Equal Opportunity]] |
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* [[Regina Jonas]] (1902–1944), first female rabbi in the world |
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* [[David Max Eichhorn]] (Jan. 6, 1906–July 16, 1986), Reform Jewish rabbi, author, founder of Merritt Island's Temple Israel,<ref>''New York Times'' obituary, July 23, 1986.</ref> and Army chaplain among the troops that [[Dachau concentration camp#Liberation|liberated Dachau]] |
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* [[Elyse Goldstein]], first female Rabbi in Canada, educator and writer |
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* [[Regina Jonas]], first female rabbi in the world |
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* [[Julia Neuberger]], British Reform rabbi |
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* [[Gunther Plaut]] (1912–2012), Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple |
* [[Gunther Plaut]] (1912–2012), Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple |
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* [[Sally Priesand]], Reform rabbi, first female rabbi in the United States |
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* [[Abba Hillel Silver]], Reform rabbi and Zionist leader |
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* [[Stephen S. Wise]] (1874–1949), Reform rabbi and Zionist activist |
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* [[Murray Saltzman]] (1929–2010), Reform rabbi |
* [[Murray Saltzman]] (1929–2010), Reform rabbi |
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* [[Abba Hillel Silver]] (1893–1963), Reform rabbi and Zionist leader |
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* [[Stephen S. Wise]] (1874–1949), Reform rabbi and Zionist activist |
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===Contemporary (ca. 21st century)=== |
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[[File:Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl (8575188810) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Rabbi [[Angela Warnick Buchdahl]]]] |
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*[[Arik Ascherman]], American-born Reform rabbi and Palestinian human rights activist in Israel |
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* [[Pauline Bebe]], first female rabbi in France |
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*[[Denise Eger]], former rabbi of Beth Chayim Chadashim (world's first LGBT Synagogue) and founder of Temple Kol Ami in West Hollywood, first female and openl lesbian to serve as president of Southern California Board of Rabbis, officiated at the first legal same-sex wedding of two women in [[California]] |
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* [[Jackie Tabick]], first female rabbi in Britain |
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* [[Sally Priesand]], Reform rabbi, first female rabbi in the United States |
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* [[Julia Neuberger]], British Reform rabbi |
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* [[Elyse Goldstein]], first female Rabbi in Canada, educator and writer |
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*[[Rachel Adler]], theologian and [[Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion|Hebrew Union College]] professor |
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*[[Arik Ascherman]], American-born Reform rabbi and human rights activist for both Jews and non-Jews in Israel-best known for advocating for Palestinian human rights. |
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* [[Angela Warnick Buchdahl]], American rabbi |
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*[[Rebecca Dubowe]], first deaf woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the United States |
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*[[Denise Eger]], former rabbi of Beth Chayim Chadashim (world's first LGBT synagogue) and founder of Temple Kol Ami in West Hollywood, first female and open lesbian to serve as president of Southern California Board of Rabbis, officiated at the first legal same-sex wedding of two women in [[California]] |
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*[[David Ellenson]], former president of the [[Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion]], and chancellor emeritus |
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*[[Lisa Goldstein (rabbi)|Lisa Goldstein]], Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality |
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*[[Dana Evan Kaplan]], rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom in Sun City, Arizona; author of ''The New Reform Judaism: Challenges and Reflections'', the most current modern scholarly analysis of contemporary Reform Judaism |
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*[[Alysa Stanton]], first ordained Black female rabbi (Reform) in America |
*[[Alysa Stanton]], first ordained Black female rabbi (Reform) in America |
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*[[Margaret Wenig]], rabbi known for advocating for [[LGBT rights]] |
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== Reconstructionists == |
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==Reconstructionist rabbis, 20th and 21st centuries == |
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{{See|Reconstructionist Judaism}} |
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===20th century=== |
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*[[Mordecai Kaplan]] (1881–1983), founder of the [[Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist movement]] in America |
*[[Mordecai Kaplan]] (1881–1983), founder of the [[Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist movement]] in America |
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*[[Ira Eisenstein]] ( |
*[[Ira Eisenstein]] (1906–2001), founding president of the [[Reconstructionist Rabbinical College]] |
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*[[Deborah Brin]], one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis |
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===Reconstructionist rabbis: Contemporary (ca. 21st century) === |
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=== Contemporary (ca. 21st century) === |
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*[[Deborah Brin]], one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis |
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*[[Susan Schnur]], editor of ''[[Lilith (magazine)|Lilith Magazine]]'' |
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*[[Rebecca Alpert]], rabbi, historian and professor |
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*[[Dan Ehrenkrantz]], president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College |
*[[Dan Ehrenkrantz]], president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College |
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*[[Sandy Eisenberg Sasso]], children's book author |
*[[Sandy Eisenberg Sasso]], children's book author |
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*[[Tina Grimberg]], leader in the inter-religious dialog |
*[[Tina Grimberg]], leader in the inter-religious dialog |
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*[[Carol Harris-Shapiro]], modern author |
*[[Carol Harris-Shapiro]], modern author |
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*[[Sandra Lawson]], first openly gay, female, black rabbi |
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*[[Joy Levitt]], first female president of the [[Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association]]. |
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==Karaite rabbis== |
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*[[Toba Spitzer]], first openly gay head of a [[Rabbi|rabbinical association]] |
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:''See: [[Karaite Judaism]]''. |
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*[[Shlomo Baksht]], [[Misnagdim|litvish]] rabbi in [[Odesa]] |
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:''See: [[list of Karaite Jews|Karaite Hakhamim]]''. |
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==Other rabbis== |
==Other rabbis== |
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{{See|Jewish Renewal|Humanistic Judaism}} |
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*[[Steven Blane]], American [[Universalism#Judaism|Jewish Universalist]] |
* [[Steven Blane]], American [[Universalism#Judaism|Jewish Universalist]] rabbi |
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* [[Shlomo Carlebach (musician)|Shlomo Carlebach]] (1925–1994), composer, singer and pioneer in the [[Baal Teshuvah]] movement |
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*[[Capers Funnye|Capers C. Funnye Jr.]], first [[African-American]] member of the [[Chicago Board of Rabbis]]<ref>"[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/us/16rabbi.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=funnye&st=nyt&oref=slogin Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith]", Nikko Kopel, ''New York Times'', March 16, 2008</ref> |
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* [[Capers Funnye|Capers C. Funnye Jr.]] (1952–), first [[African-American]] member of the [[Chicago Board of Rabbis]]<ref>"[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/us/16rabbi.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=funnye&st=nyt&oref=slogin Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith]", Nikko Kopel, ''New York Times'', March 16, 2008</ref> |
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*[[Michael Lerner (rabbi)|Michael Lerner]] (1943–), founder/editor of [[Tikkun magazine]] |
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*[[Shlomo Helbrans]] (1962–2017), rebbe of the [[Lev Tahor]] community |
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*[[Jackie Mason]] (born 1931), comedian and actor, received ''smicha'' from Rabbi [[Moshe Feinstein]]<ref>[http://www.jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13680:jackie-mason-bloomberg-a-hypocrite&catid=108:jewcy-news&Itemid=291&lang=en]</ref> |
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*[[Tamara Kolton]] (1970–), first rabbi in Humanistic Judaism |
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*[[Zalman Schachter-Shalomi]] (1924–), leader of the ''Jewish Renewal'' movement |
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*[[Michael Lerner (rabbi)|Michael Lerner]] (1943–), founder/editor of ''[[Tikkun magazine]]'' |
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*[[Jackie Mason]] (1931–2021), comedian and actor, received ''smicha'' from Rabbi [[Moshe Feinstein]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13680:jackie-mason-bloomberg-a-hypocrite&catid=108:jewcy-news&Itemid=291&lang=en|title=Home}}</ref> |
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*[[Zalman Schachter-Shalomi]] (1924–2014), leader of the ''Jewish Renewal'' movement |
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*[[Joseph Telushkin]] (1948–), American rabbi, screenwriter, [[lecturer]] and bestselling [[author]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sftpa.com/aboutus.html|title=About Us|website=www.sftpa.com|access-date=Mar 9, 2022}}</ref> (non-denominational) |
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*[[Arthur Waskow]] (1933–), leader of the ''Jewish Renewal'' movement |
*[[Arthur Waskow]] (1933–), leader of the ''Jewish Renewal'' movement |
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*[[Sherwin Wine]], U.S. founder of ''Society for Humanistic Judaism'' |
*[[Sherwin Wine]] (1928–2007), U.S. founder of ''Society for Humanistic Judaism'' |
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*[[Tamara Kolton]], first rabbi in Humanistic Judaism |
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Rabbi Stern.jpg|Rabbi Aryeh Stern, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Known for his efforts to integrate modern values with traditional Jewish law. |
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Rabbiavrahambromberg.jpg|Rabbi Avraham Bromberg, a prominent rabbinic leader and posek. He was the Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College, and later Rosh Yeshiva of Sha'ar Hatalmud. |
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Rav gigi.jpg|Rabbi Baruch Gigi, a prominent rabbinic leader and Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He is known for his inspiring lectures and deep knowledge of Jewish law and philosophy. |
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Rabbi Baruch Myers.jpg|Rabbi Baruch Myers, a prominent rabbinic leader. He serves as the Chief Rabbi of Bratislava, Slovakia. |
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Baruch Poupko.jpg|Rabbi Baruch Poupko, a prominent American Orthodox rabbi and leader. He was a rabbi in Pittsburgh and a prolific author. His career largely focused on advocating for Soviet Jews. |
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Baruch Steinberg 1.jpg|Rabbi Baruch Steinberg, Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army. He was killed in the Katyn massacre during World War II. |
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Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam.jpg|Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, a prominent Hasidic leader. He was the Bobover Rebbe and a descendant of the Divrei Chaim. |
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Binyamin Elon (cropped).jpg|Rabbi Binyamin Elon, a former Israeli politician and rabbi. He was a member of the Knesset and Minister of Tourism. |
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Binyamin Lau (cropped).jpg|Rabbi Binyamin Lau, a prominent Israeli rabbi, author, and public speaker. He is known for his work in Jewish education and his efforts to bridge gaps within Israeli society. |
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הגר"ח קנייבסקי בשמחת פורים.jpg|Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a prominent Haredi rabbi and posek. Known as the "Prince of Torah", he was a leading authority on Jewish law and tradition. |
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Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz.jpg|Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz, a renowned Talmudic scholar and Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva. He is remembered for his profound teachings and leadership. |
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Chaim Soloveitchik.JPG|Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, a renowned Talmudist and Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva. He is known for developing the Brisker method of Talmudic study. |
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DalePolakoffBMRP.jpg|Rabbi Dale Polakoff, a prominent rabbi in the United States. He is the rabbi of the Great Neck Synagogue and a past president of the Rabbinical Council of America. |
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Rabbi David Bigman on Rav Shagar.png|Rabbi David Bigman, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa. He is known for his innovative approach to Torah study and modern Jewish thought. |
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RabbiGliksberg.jpg|Rabbi Gliksberg, a prominent rabbinic leader known for being one of the founding members of the Mizrachi Zionist movement. |
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HirschDavid-PHO-4852 (2).jpg|Rabbi David Hirsch, a prominent rabbinic figure. He is a rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York City. |
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Dawid Kahane.jpg|Rabbi David Kahane, Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army during World War II. He survived the Holocaust and was a prominent Jewish chaplain. |
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David Stav.PNG|Rabbi David Stav, founder of the Tzohar rabbinic organization. He is known for his efforts to make Judaism more accessible in Israel. |
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Halivni.jpg|Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, a prominent Talmudic scholar. He was a Holocaust survivor and an influential figure in Jewish academic circles. |
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*[http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/default.htm List of leaders], Orthodox Union |
*[http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/default.htm List of leaders], Orthodox Union |
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*[http://www.famousrabbis.com Famous Rabbis], famousrabbis.com |
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*[http://www.chabad.org/library/archive/LibraryArchive.asp?AID=111828 Gallery of Our Great], chabad.org |
*[http://www.chabad.org/library/archive/LibraryArchive.asp?AID=111828 Gallery of Our Great], chabad.org |
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*[http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/index._alphabetical.html Biographies of Gedolim], tzemachdovid.org |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041110063951/http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/index._alphabetical.html Biographies of Gedolim], tzemachdovid.org |
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*[http://chaburas.org/ Mini-Biographies of Gedolim ], chaburas.org |
*[http://chaburas.org/ Mini-Biographies of Gedolim ], chaburas.org |
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*[http://www.lookstein.org/resources/bionotes.pdf Cross-referenced Notes on Rishonim and Acharonim] ([[PDF]]) |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140502035808/http://www.lookstein.org/resources/bionotes.pdf Cross-referenced Notes on Rishonim and Acharonim] ([[PDF]]) |
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===Conservative=== |
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*[https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org Rabbinical Assembly] |
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*[http://www.e-bski.org/history.html Benson Skoff, 20th century Conservative rabbi] |
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*[https://www.ccarnet.org Central Conference of American Rabbis] |
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*[https://therra.org Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association] |
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*[http://www.kolel.org/pages/parasha/commentator.html#CommentatorBios Torah Commentator Biographies], kolel.org |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051118163830/http://www.kolel.org/pages/parasha/commentator.html#CommentatorBios Torah Commentator Biographies], kolel.org |
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*[http://www.torahproductions.com/commentators.jsp List of Commentators], torahproductions.com |
*[http://www.torahproductions.com/commentators.jsp List of Commentators], torahproductions.com |
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*[http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/cjt/files/electures/gloss.htm E-Lectures Glossary] |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051126224709/http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/cjt/files/electures/gloss.htm E-Lectures Glossary] |
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*[http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic RavSIG (Genealogy of Rabbinic families)] |
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic RavSIG (Genealogy of Rabbinic families)] |
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Mishnaic period (ca. 70–200 CE)
[edit]- Hillel (?- c.10 CE) an early sage, known for his lenient rulings during hlalkhic disputes with Shammai and his students [1]
- Shammai (c. 50 BCE–c. 30 CE) was influential in early rabbinic literature and is known for taking the stringent position in relation to Hillel
- Yohanan ben Zakkai (1st century CE) 1st-century sage in Judea, key to the development of the Mishnah, the first Jewish sage attributed the title of rabbi in the Mishnah[2]
- Shimon ben Gamliel, was a sage and served as the nasi of the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. (c. 10 BCE–70 CE)
- Judah Ben Bava, was a 2nd-century tanna that was known as "the Ḥasid"
- Rabban Gamaliel II, was the first person to lead the Sanhedrin as nasi after the fall of the Second Temple (?–c. 118)
- Rabbi Akiva or Akiva ben Yosef (c. 50–28 September 135 CE) 1st-century Judea, central scholar in Mishnah
- Joshua ben Hananiah, was a leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Second Temple (?–131 CE)
- Eliezer ben Hurcanus was one of the most prominent sages of the 1st and 2nd centuries
- Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha, was given the title "Ba'al HaBaraita" and was a rabbi of the 1st and 2nd centuries
- Eleazar ben Arach was a tana in the 2nd-century
- Eliezer ben Jose (2nd century CE), the son of Jose the Galilean, famous for Baraita of thirty-two mitzvoth, and father of Rabbi Hananiah
- Yose HaKohen, 2nd century student of Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai
- Rabbi Tarfon, member of the third generation of the Mishnah sages, who lived in the period between the destruction of the Second Temple (70 AD) and the fall of Betar (135 AD).
- Rabbi Meir (2nd century) considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the fourth generation (139–163)
- Shimon bar Yochai (2nd-century) Jewish mystic, traditional author of the Zohar
- Judah ha-Nasi (c. 135 to 217 CE) 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the Mishnah
Talmudic period (ca. 200–500 CE)
[edit]- Samuel of Nehardea, Amora in Babylonia, physician (c.165–254)
- Abba Arikha, Amora in Babylonia (175–247)
- Johanan bar Nappaha, primary author of the Jerusalem Talmud (180–279)
- Bar Kappara
- Shimon ben Lakish, Amora in Judea (c.200–c.275)
- Joshua ben Levi (early 3rd century), headed the school of Lod.
- Samuel ben Nahman
- Shila of Kefar Tamarta
- Judah II, sage, also called Judah Nesi'ah, in Judea, Nasi (230–270)
- Rabbah bar Nahmani, Talmudist in Babylonia (c.270–c.330)
- Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, younger brother of Judah II, in Judea (before 280)
- Rabbi Ammi
- Rabbi Assi
- Hanina ben Pappa
- Rav Nachman, Talmudist in Babylonia (?–320)
- Raba bar Rav Huna
- Rami bar Hama
- Rav Shmuel bar Yehudah
- Abbahu, Talmudist in Palestine (c.279–320)
- Rava, Amora in Babylonia (c.280–352)
- Judah III, scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, Nasi (290–320)
- Abaye, Talmudist in Babylonia (?–337)
- Rabbi Jonah, Amora in Palestine (before 340)
- Hamnuna – Several rabbis in the Talmud had this name (3rd and 4th century)
- Rav Papa, Amora in Babylon (c.300–375)
- Hillel II, creator of the Hebrew calendar, son of Judah II, in Judea, Nasi (320–365)
- Isaac Nappaha
- Anani ben Sason
- Ravina I, primary aide to Rav Ashi in Babylonia (?–420)
- Rav Ashi, sage, primary redactor of the Talmud in Babylonia (352–427)
- Ravina II, Amora in Babylonia (?–499)
Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)
[edit]- Abba Mari, (Minhat Kenaot), 13th-century French Talmudist
- Abraham ibn Daud, (c. 1110–c.1180), author of Sefer ha-Qabbalah
- Abraham ben David of Posquières, (c. 1125–1198) 12th century, France
- Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra), (1089–1164) 12th-century Spanish-North African biblical commentator
- Abdullah ibn Saba', Rabbi convert to Islam, considered central figure in the configuration of Shia Islam.
- Abdullah ibn Salam, (550–630) rabbi, converted to Islam and was a companion of Islam's founder, Muhammad
- David Abudirham, 14th century rabbi in Seville. Authored the Sefer Abudarham on explanation of Sefardi liturgy and customs. Completed c. 1339
- Amram Gaon, (?–875) 9th-century organizer of the siddur (prayer book)
- Asher ben Jehiel, (Rosh), (c. 1259–1327) 13th-century German-Spanish Talmudist
- Simeon bar Isaac, 11th century French rabbi
- Yom Tov of Falaise 11th-century French rabbi, grandson of Rashi
- Samson ben Joseph of Falaise, 11th century French rabbi
- Judah ben Yom Tov 11th century French rabbi
- Moses ben Kalonymus, 11th century Italian liturgical poet who moved to Mainz
- Bahya ibn Paquda, (Hovot ha-Levavot), 11th-century Spanish philosopher and moralist
- Chananel Ben Chushiel (Rabbeinu Chananel), (990–1053) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist
- Meshullam ben Kalonymus (~950 – ~1010), Rabbi, posek, commentator on the Mishnah, and Paytan
- David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, (1479–1573) also called Radbaz, born in Spain, was a leading posek, rosh yeshiva and chief rabbi
- David Kimhi, (Radak), (1160–1235), born in Narbonne, was a biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian
- Dunash ben Labrat, (920–990) 10th-century grammarian and poet
- Eleazar Kalir, (c.570–c.640) early Talmudic liturgist and poet
- Rabbi Abin ha-Gadol, 10th century French rabbi
- Eleazar of Worms, (Sefer HaRokeach), (1176–1238) 12th-century German rabbinic scholar
- Solomon ben Meir, 12th century French rabbi
- Elijah of Paris, 12th-century French rabbi
- Judah ben Nathan, 12th century bible commentator, son-in-law of Rashi, also known as Rivan
- Eliezer ben Nathan, (1090–1170) 12th-century poet and pietist
- Haim ben Hananel HaCohen (Tosafist)
- Rabbenu Gershom, (c.960–c.1040) 11th-century German Talmudist and legalist
- Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag), (1288–1344) 14th-century French Talmudist and philosopher
- Hasdai Crescas, (Or Hashem), (c. 1370–c.1411) 14th-century Talmudist and philosopher
- Hillel ben Eliakim, (Rabbeinu Hillel), 12th-century Talmudist and disciple of Rashi
- Ibn Tibbon, a family of 12th and 13th-century Spanish and French scholars, translators, and leaders
- Don Isaac Abravanel, (Abarbanel), (1437–1508) 15th-century philosopher, Talmudist and Torah commentator. Also a court advisor and in charge of Finance to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain.
- Isaac Alfasi, (the Rif), (1013–1103) 12th-century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot"
- Israel Isserlein (Terumat Hadeshen), (1390–1460) 15th-century, the most influential rabbi of the Empire in the second third of the 15th century and the last great rabbi of medieval Austria
- Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim; Arbaah Turim), (c. 1269–c.1343) 14th-century German-Spanish Halakhist
- Jacob Berab, (1474–1546) 15th–16th-century proponent of Semichah (Ordination)
- Joseph Albo, (Sefer Ikkarim), (c. 1380–1444) 15th-century Spain
- Joseph ibn Migash (1077–1141) 12th-century Spanish Talmudist and rosh yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of Maimonides
- Judah ben Joseph ibn Bulat (c. 1500–1550), Spanish Talmudist and rabbi
- Ka'ab al-Ahbar, Iṣḥaq Ka‘b ben Mati, (?–652/653) was a prominent rabbi from Yemen who was one of the earliest important Jewish converts to Islam.
- Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam), (1138–1204) 12th-century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier
- Meir ben Samuel (c. 1060–1135) known by the Hebrew acronym (RaM) was a French rabbi and tosafist
- Menachem Meiri (HaMeiri), (1249–1315) famous Catalan rabbi, Talmudist and Maimonidean, author of the Beit HaBechirah
- Mordecai ben Hillel, (The Mordechai), (c. 1250–1298) 13th-century German Halakhist
- Moses de Leon, Moshe ben Shem-tov, (1240–1305) 13th-century Spanish Kabbalist and potential author of The Zohar
- Nachmanides, Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban), (1194–1270) 13th-century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist
- Nissim Ben Jacob (Rav Nissim Gaon), (990–1062) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist
- Nissim of Gerona, (RaN), (1320–1376) 14th-century Halakhist, Talmudist and physician
- Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, (Bartenura), (c. 1445–c.1515) 15th-century commentator on the Mishnah
- Ra'ah (1235–c. 1290), was a medieval rabbi, Talmudic scholar and Halakhist, student of the Ramban and colleague of the Rashba
- Rashbam, (Samuel ben Meir), (1085–1158) French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi"
- Rashi, (Solomon ben Yitzchak), (1040–1105) 11th-century Talmudist, primary commentator of the Talmud
- Saadia Gaon, (Emunoth ve-Deoth; Siddur), (c.882–942) 10th-century exilarch and leader of Babylonian Jewry
- Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, (c. 1150–c.1230) 12th–13th-century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator
- Shlomo ben Avraham ibn Aderet (1235–1310), medieval rabbi, halakhist, and Talmudist, known as the Rashba, student of the Ramban and Rabbeinu Yonah
- Solomon ben Abraham Min Hahar, a Provençal rabbi and Talmudist of the first half of the 13th century, rabbi at Montpellier, leader of the movement against Maimonides, teacher of Yonah Gerondi
- Tosafists, (Tosfot) 11th, 12th and 13th-century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany
- Yehuda Halevi, (Kuzari), (c. 1175–1241) 12th-century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to Zion
- Yom Tov Asevilli (c. 1260–c. 1314), known as the Ritva, medieval rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Seville, Talmudist, student of the Rashba and the Ra'ah
- Yonah Gerondi (d. 1264), Catalan rabbi and moralist, cousin of Nahmanides, author of the ethical work, The Gates of Repentance (שערי תשובה)
16th–17th centuries
[edit]- Isaac Abendana (c. 1640–1699), 17th-century Sephardic scholar in England
- Jacob Abendana (c. 1630–1685), 17th-century Sephardic rabbi in England
- Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605–1693), 17th-century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first rabbi in the Americas
- Abraham Amigo (c. 1610–c. 1683), Judean rabbi
- Bezalel Ashkenazi (c. 1520–c.1592), (Shittah Mekubetzet), 16th-century Talmudist
- Tzvi Ashkenazi (1656–1718), author of Chacham Tzvi
- Yair Bacharach (Havvot Yair 1639–1702), 17th-century German Talmudist
- Menahem ben Moshe Bavli (Ta'amei Ha-Misvot, 1571), 16th-century rabbi
- Abraham ben Saul Broda (c. 1640–1717), Bohemian Talmudist
- Naphtali Cohen (1649–1718), Russo-German rabbi and Kabbalist
- Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (RaMaK, 1522–1570), 16th-century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar
- Samuel Edels (Mahrsha, 1555–1631), 16th-century Talmudist
- Kalonymus Haberkasten, 16th-century Polish rabbi
- David HaLevi Segal, (Taz, 1586–1667, 16th-century Halakhist, major commentary on the Shulchan Aruch
- Aaron Ezekiel Harif, 17th-century Hungarian rabbi
- Abraham Cohen de Herrera (RabACH, c.1570–c.1635), 16th-century Kabbalist and philosopher Spanish and Portuguese Jews
- Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (Bet Hillel, (1615–1690), 17th-century Lithuanian scholar
- Isaiah Horowitz (Shlah, c.1565–1632) 16th-century Kabbalist and Author, Eastern Europe and Israel
- Moshe Isserles (Rema, 1520–1572), 16th-century Polish legal scholar, author of Ha-mappah (component of the Shulchan Aruch)
- Yosef Karo (Mechaber, 1488–1575), 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulchan Aruch
- Meir ben Isaac (1482–1565) and his son Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen (1521–1597) of Padua
- Elijah Loans (1555–1636), 16th–17th-century German rabbi and Kabbalist
- Judah Low ben Bezalel (Maharal, 1512–1609), 16th-century Prague mystic and Talmudist
- Meir of Lublin (Maharam, 1558–1616), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
- Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (1550–1619), 16th–17th-century Torah commentator
- Isaac Luria (1534–1572) (Ari, 1534–1572), 16th-century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
- Solomon Luria (Maharshal, 1510–1573), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
- Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England
- David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica) (1591–1657), Dutch rabbi, born in Salonica
- David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born in Amsterdam), translator of Joseph Pardo's (his father) Shulchan Tahor into Spanish
- Joseph Pardo (rabbi) (c. 1561–1619), Italian rabbi and merchant
- Michael ben Moses Kohen, 16th-century Palestinian rabbi and liturgist
- Moses ha-Levi ha-Nazir, 16th-century rabbi
- Samuel Schotten (1644–1719), 17th-century rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Shalom Shachna (1495–1558), 16th-century Polish Talmudist, Rosh Yeshiva of several great Acharonim
- Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th-century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
- Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (Sforno, 1475–1550), 16th-century Italian scholar and rationalist
- Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), 16th-century Kabbalist
- Mordecai Yoffe ("Levush", c.1530–1612), 16th–17th-century Polish rabbi, codifier of halakha
- Hayyim Abraham Israel ben Benjamin Ze’evi (c.1650–1731) Palestinian rabbi
- Ephraim Zalman Shor, (c.1550–1633) Czech rabbi
- Simcha Rappaport (1650–1718), Ukrainian rabbi
- Daniel Da Pisa, 16th century head of Rome's Jewish community
18th century
[edit]- David Nieto (1654–1728), English rabbi
- Aaron Hart (1670–1756), Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
- Jacob Emden (1697–1776), German Talmudist and mystic
- Nachman of Horodenka (?–1765), Hasidic leader
- Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov, 1700–1760), mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism
- Isaac Nieto (1702–1774), English rabbi
- Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal, 1707–1746), Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic
- Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk (1708–1782) rabbi, Practical Kabbalist and alchemist
- Dovber of Mezritch (1710–1772), (Maggid), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov
- Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah, 1713–1793), Posek and Talmudist
- Elimelech of Lizhensk, (Noam Elimelech, 1717–1787), Polish mystic and Hasid
- Elijah ben Solomon (the Vilna Gaon or Gra, 1720–1797), Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the Mitnagdim, opponent of Hasidism
- Shalom Sharabi (1720–1777), Yemenite rabbi and Kabbalist
- Hart Lyon (1721–1800), Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
- Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Hida, 1724–1806), Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer
- David Hassine (1727–1792), Moroccan Jewish poet
- Haim Isaac Carigal (1733–1777), rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend Ezra Stiles, and therefore on Yale University
- Aharon of Karlin (I) (1736–1772), Hassidic leader
- Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushas Leivi, 1740–1809) Polish Hassidic Leader
- Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), (Alter Rebbe of Chabad), mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad Rebbe
- Aryeh Leib Heller ( 1745–1812), "the Ketzos," Talmudist and Halachist in Galicia, author of the Ketzos Hachoshen and the Avnei Miluim
- Raphael Berdugo (1747–1821), rabbi in Meknes
- Chaim Ickovits (1749–1821), founder of the Volozhin Yeshiva, author of the Nefesh Ha-Chaim
- Jacob Pardo, rabbi of Ragusa and Spalato
- Joseph Ergas (c1685–1730), Italian kabbalist
- Chaim Ben Attar (the elder) d. 1720
- Chaim ibn Attar (1696–1743), author of Or ha-Ḥayyim commentary on the Torah
Orthodox rabbis
[edit]19th century
[edit]- Liebman Adler (1812–1892), noted abolitionist and rabbi at Temple Beth El (Detroit), the oldest Jewish congregation in Michigan, and KAM Isaiah Israel in Chicago, the oldest Jewish congregation in Illinois
- Aaron of Pinsk (?–1841), author of Tosafot Aharon
- Barnett Abrahams (1831–1863), dayan, Principal of Jews' College, London
- Yaakov Koppel Altenkunshtadt (1765–1837), German and Hungarian rabbi
- Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin (1764–1820), Rabbi of Breslau
- Shimon Agassi (1852–1914), Iraqi Hakham and Kabbalist
- Nathan Marcus Adler (1803–1890), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
- Aharon of Karlin (II) (1802–1872), Hassidic leader
- Judah Alkalai (1798–1878), Sephardic rabbi, one of the influential precursors of modern Zionism
- Avraham Eliezer Alperstein (1853–1917), rosh yeshiva of RIETS, publisher, communal leader and Talmudic scholar, one of the founders of the Agudath Harabbonim
- Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), (Sfas Emes) Gerrer Rebbe
- Benjamin Artom (1835–1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
- Salomon Berdugo (1854–1906), rabbi in Meknes
- Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1816–1893), (Netziv; Ha'emek Davar) rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva, son-in-law of Yitzhak of Volozhin
- Yehuda Bibas (1789–1852), Sephardic rabbi, rabbi of Corfu, the first of the precursors of modern Zionism
- Avrohom Bornsztain (1838–1910), (Avnei Nezer), founder and first rebbe of the Sochatchover Hasidic dynasty
- Lelio Cantoni (1802–1857), Italian writer
- Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805–1855), (Maharatz Chayes), Galician Talmudic scholar
- Yosef Chayim (1835–1909), the Ben Ish Hai, Iraqi halakhist and preacher
- Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898), rabbi in Shklov, Brisk and Jerusalem
- Akiva Eiger (1761–1837), Talmudist and communal leader
- Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), (Aruch ha-Shulchan) 19th–20th-century halakhist and posek (decisor)
- Jacob Ettlinger (1798–1871), German scholar, author of the Aruch La-Ner, fierce opponent of Reform Judaism
- Yitzchok Friedman (1850–1917), first rebbe of Boyan
- Shlomo Ganzfried (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, 1804–1886), posek
- Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (1794–1867) also known as Stropkover Rov – Chief Rabbi and head of the bet din of Stropkov, Galicia
- Moshe Greenwald (1853–1910), rabbi of Chust, Hungary and founder of the Puppa Hasidic dynasty
- Lazar Grünhut (1850–1913), Hungarian writer, educator and Zionist political activist, representative of the Mizrachi movement in the Zionist Congress
- Shlomo HaKohen (1828–1905), famed Av Beis Din and Posek of Vilna, editor of the Vilna Edition Shas, supporter of the Mizrachi Religious Zionism movement
- Solomon Herschell (1762–1842), British Chief Rabbi
- Azriel Hildesheimer (1820–1899), philosopher, a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism
- Abraham Hillel (1820–1920), Chief Rabbi of Baghdad
- Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), German founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz movement
- David Zvi Hoffmann (1843–1921), Torah Scholar who headed the Yeshiva in Berlin, published research on the Chumash and Mishnah, expert in Midrash halakha and a halakhic authority
- Márkus Horovitz (1844–1910), Hungarian historian and writer, rabbi of Lauenburg, Gnesen and Frankfurt am Main
- Yitzchak Ickovits (1780–1849), rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva, son of Chaim of Volozhin
- Jacob Joseph (1840–1902), rabbi of Vilon, Yurburg, Zhagory and Kovno, Chief Rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, helped found the Etz Chaim Yeshiva on the Lower East Side
- Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1795–1874), German author who expressed views, from a religious perspective, in favor of the Jewish re-settlement of the Land of Israel, which predate Theodor Herzl and the Zionist movement
- Nachum Kaplan (1811–1879), Lithuanian Talmudist, philanthropist and Talmid Chacham
- Abraham Lichtstein, Av Beit Din of Przasnysz, Poland
- Israel Lipschitz (1782–1860), leading Ashkenazi first in Dessau and then in the Jewish Community of Danzig, author of the commentary "Tiferes Yisrael" on the Mishnah
- Jacob of Lissa (1760–1832), Galician Halakhist
- Samuel David Luzzatto (1800–1865), (also known as Shadal) Italian scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement
- Chaim Hezekiah Medini (1834–1904), Chief Rabbi of Hebron, author of Sdei Chemed, Posek and Talmudic scholar, composer of Piyutim
- Raphael Meldola (1754–1828), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London
- Frederick de Sola Mendes (1850–1927), Sephardic rabbi in London and America
- Meir Lob ben Yechiel Michael (1809–1879), (The Malbim), Russian-born Hebrew grammarian, known for his novel commentary on much of Tanach
- Samuel Mohilever (1824–1898), pioneer of Religious Zionism and one of the founders of the Hovevei Zion movement
- Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), (Rebbe Nachman), Ukrainian Hasidic and mystic
- Nathan of Breslov (1780–1844), known as Reb Noson, was the chief disciple and scribe of Nachman of Breslov
- Avrohom Chaim Oppenheim (1796?–1824), rabbi at Pécs, Hungary.
- Eliezer Papo (1785–1828), Pele Yoetz, rabbi of the community of Selestria, Bulgaria
- Moses Pardo (?–1888), Jerusalem-born rabbi of Alexandria
- Yechiel Michel Pines (1824–1913), Russian-born religious Zionist writer, and community leader in the Old Yishuv
- Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz (1847–1914), Jewish historian, and founder of the Agudath Israel organization
- Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (1786–1867), rabbi of Tarnopol and Prague, son-in-law of Aryeh Leib Heller
- Yitzchak Yaacov Reines (1839–1915), Lithuanian founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement, a correspondent of Theodor Herzl
- Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick (1841–1912), educator, rosh yeshiva of Ohel Yitzhak in Suwałki, Poland
- Yosef Altschul(1839–1908), haazan, improviser of jewish songs
- Shmuel Salant (1816–1909), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for almost 70 years, Talmudist and Torah scholar
- Yisrael Lipkin Salanter (1810–1883), father of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism, rosh yeshiva and Talmudist
- Zundel Salant (1786–1866), instrumental in founding the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, the Bikur Cholim Hospital and Hevrah Kadisha, rabbi of Yisrael Salanter
- Dovber Schneuri (1773–1827), second Rebbe of Lubavitch
- Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789–1866), (Tzemach Tzedek), third rebbe of Lubavitch
- Shmuel Schneersohn (1834–1882), fourth rebbe of Lubavitch
- Moshe Schick (1807–1879), Hungarian posek known as Maharam Schick, author of Halachic responsa
- Refael Shapiro (1837–1921), rosh yeshiva of the Yeshivat Volozhin, author of Toras Refael, son-in-law of the Netziv, father-in-law of Chaim Soloveichik
- Moses Sofer (1762–1839), (Chasam Sofer), Hungarian rabbi
- Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870–1939), Baghdadi author of Kaf ha-Chaim
- Chaim Soloveitchik (1853–1918), founder of the Brisker method, son of Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi), son-in-law of Refael Shapiro
- Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, (1820–1892) author of Beis Halevi (the title by which he is known among Talmudic scholars)
- Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (1817–1896), Russian posek and Talmudist, rabbi of Baresa, Nishvez, Novohrodo, Chief Rabbi of Kovno
- Hayyim Tyrer (1740–1817), Hasidic kabbalist
- Simcha Zissel Ziv (1824–1898), the Elder of Kelm, one of the early leaders of the Musar movement, founder and director of the Kelm Talmud Torah
- Aharon Azriel, 19th century kabbalist and head of Bet El Yeshiva
20th century
[edit]Religious-Zionist
[edit]- Amram Aburbeh (1892–1966), Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic congregation in Petah Tikva, Israel and author of Netivei Am
- Yehuda Amital (1924–2010), founding rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, founder of the Meimad party, former member of the Israeli cabinet, creator of the Hesder Yeshiva concept
- Yitzhak Arieli (1896–1974), of the founders of Kiryat Shmuel and Neve Sha'anan, spiritual leader of the Knesset Yisrael neighborhood, posek of Bikur Holim Hospital, mashgiach ruchani of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva
- Léon Ashkenazi (1922–1996), educator, Kabbalist, philosopher, spiritual leader of 20th century French Jewry
- Meir Bar-Ilan (1880–1949), Religious Zionist activist, author, leader of the Mizrachi movement in the United States and Mandatory Palestine
- Chaim Yitzchak Bloch (1864–1948), founder and rosh yeshiva of Plunge Yeshiva, rabbi of Palanga, the Bauska Jewish community and Jersey City, where he was also Av Beit Din
- Mordechai Breuer (1921–2007), Israeli expert on Tanach, descendant of Samson Raphael Hirsch
- Henrik Bródy (1868–1942), rabbi of the congregation of Náchod, Bohemia and Chief Rabbi of Prague, leader of the Mizrachi movement in Czechoslovakia, author and editor
- Shlomo Yosef Burg (1909–1999), German-born Israeli politician, one of the founders of the National Religious Party
- Yaakov Moshe Charlap (1882–1951), talmudist, kabbalist, rosh yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav, rabbi of the Sha'arei Hesed neighborhood, author of the Mei Marom series of books on Jewish thought
- Zwi Perez Chajes (1876–1927), historian, biblical scholar, rabbi of Florence, Trieste and Vienna, Chairman of the Zionist General Council
- David Cohen (1887–1972), rabbi, talmudist, philosopher and kabbalist, Jewish ascetic who accepted a Nazirite vow at the outbreak of WWI
- Mordechai Eliyahu (1929–2010), former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Menachem Froman (1945–2013), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker and negotiator with close ties to Palestinian religious leaders
- Aryeh Leib Frumkin (1845–1916), a founder and pioneer of Petah Tikva, the first moshava created in by the Jewish community, author of halachic texts, teacher, operator of a wine shop, great-grandfather of Jonathan Sacks
- Moshe Shmuel Glasner (1856–1924), Hungarian Talmudic scholar, author of the Dor Revi'i, Chief Rabbi of Klausenburg, a founder of Mizrachi, great-grandson of the Chassam Sofer
- Shlomo Goren (1917–1994), Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces
- Ovadia Hedaya (1889–1969), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat HaMekubalim/Beit El Synagogue, recipient of the Israel Prize in rabbinical literature
- Chaim Hirschensohn (1857–1935), prolific author, rabbi, thinker and early proponent of Religious Zionism, Chief rabbi of Hoboken, New Jersey
- Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane (1966–2000), Israeli leader of the Kahane Chai party and son of rabbi Meir Kahane
- Meir Kahane (1932–1990), founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party, rosh yeshiva of Haraayon Hayehudi yeshiva, Jerusalem
- Israel Isaac Kahanovitch (1872–1945), Polish Canadian Orthodox Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg and Western Canada for nearly 40 years, Talmudist and Zionist activist, founding member of the Canadian Jewish Congress
- Reuvein Margolies (1889–1971), Israeli author, Talmudic scholar, head of the Rambam library, recipient of the Israel Prize for his work on rabbinic literature
- Menachem Mendel Kasher (1895–1983), Polish-born Israeli, author of the Torah Sheleimah, founder and rosh yeshiva of the Sfas Emes Yeshiva, recipient of the Israel Prize in rabbinic literature
- Pinchas Kehati (1910–1976), Polish Israeli teacher and author, author of Mishnayot Mevoarot, ("Explained Mishnayot")
- Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine, philosopher and Kabbalist, founding rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva
- Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982), rosh yeshiva of Mercaz Harav, son of Abraham Isaac Kook
- Aryeh Levin (1885–1969), Mashgiach of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, activist known as the "Father of Prisoners" and the "Tzadik of Jerusalem"
- Moshe Levinger (1935–2015), one of the principals of Gush Emunim, led Jewish settlement in Hebron, helped establish Kiryat Arba
- Pinchas HaKohen Lintup (1851–1924), Religious Zionist Lithuanian rabbi, teacher, Kabbalist, spiritual leader of the Hasidic community of Biržai
- Yehuda Leib Maimon (1875–1962), Israeli politician, Israel's first Minister of Religions, leader of Mizrachi in Israel, founder of Mossad HaRav Kook
- Zvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856–1943), lecturer, writer and Zionist, charter member of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
- Moshe Tzvi Neria (1913–1995), head of the Bnei Akiva Yeshivot
- Menachem Porush (1916–2010), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael
- Yosef Qafih (1917–2000), Yemenite-Israeli authority on Jewish religious law (halakha), a dayan of the Supreme Rabbinical Court in Israel
- Avraham Shapira (1914–2007), Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz haRav yeshiva
- Gedaliah Silverstone (1871–1944), author in the United States, rabbi of Ohev Sholom Congregation in Washington, D.C. and Kesher Israel Congregation in Georgetown, vice president of the Agudath Harabbonim
- Isser Yehuda Unterman (1886–1976), Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, third Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, leader of the Mizrachi Movement
- Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1880–1953), first Sefardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Yehuda Leib Don Yihye (1869–1941), Hassid and student of Volozhin Yeshiva affiliated with the Mizrachi Movement
- Shaul Yisraeli (1909–1995), rabbi of moshav Kfar Haroeh, Dayan in the Supreme religious court of Israel, member of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, rosh yeshiva at Mercaz HaRav, recipient of the Israel Prize in Judaic Studies
Haredi
[edit]- Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976), author of Chazon Yehezkel
- Yisrael Abuhatzeira (1889–1984), Kabbalist
- Nisson Alpert (1927–1986), rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and the first Rosh Kollel of its Kollel L’Horaah — Yadin-Yadin
- Gedaliah Anemer (1933-2010), rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva of Greater Washington and posek
- Baruch Ashlag (1907–1991), Hasidic rebbe, Kabbalist, author, firstborn and successor of Yehuda Ashlag
- Yehuda Ashlag (1885–1954), Hasidic rebbe, kabbalist, author of the Baal Ha-Sulam on the Zohar and of Talmud Eser Sefirot
- Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem
- Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864–1953), Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis, author of Leflagos Reuven
- Shmuel Berenbaum (1920–2008), rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York
- Abba Berman (1919–2005), Talmudist and rosh yeshiva, one of the founding members of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn
- Amram Blau (1894–1974), Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem and one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Zionist Neturei Karta
- Shmuel Bornsztain (1855–1926), Shem Mishmuel, Second Sochatchover Rebbe
- Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), (Michtav Me'Eliyahu) religious philosopher and ethicist
- Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948), also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky
- Baruch Epstein (1860–1941), (Torah Temimah), Lithuanian Torah commentator
- Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933), (Levush Mordechai), Talmudist and co-head of Slabodka yeshiva
- Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), (Igrot Moshe), Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist
- Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879–1966), (Kerem HaTzvi), author, leader and scholar
- Nosson Tzvi Finkel (1849–1927), (Alter / Sabba), early 20th-century founder of Slabodka yeshiva, Lithuania
- Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (1879–1965), rosh yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in Poland, son of Nosson Tzvi Finkel
- Mordechai Shlomo Friedman (1891–1971), Boyaner Rebbe of New York
- Rogatchover Gaon (1858–1936), (Rav Yosef Rosen), Talmudist and Hasidic leader
- Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht (1924–1994), founding rosh yeshiva of the first Hesder yeshiva, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh
- Boruch Greenfeld (1872–1956), (Reb Boruch Hermenshtater), Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of Ohel Boruch
- Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald (1882–1941), rabbi in Pápa, Hungary, author of Vayageid Yaakov
- Yosef Greenwald (1903–1984), (Pupa Rav) author of Vaychi Yosef
- Yerucham Gorelick (19911–1983), rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for forty years (1943–1983)
- Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (1863–1940), pre-eminent Av beis din (rabbinical chief justice), posek (halakhic authority) and Talmudic scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania
- Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe, killed by the Nazis in 1941
- Shalom Hedaya (1864–1944), head of the Beit Din for Sephardic Jews in Jerusalem, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat HaMekubalim/Beit El Synagogue and was given the title Harav Hachasid
- Yitzchok Hutner (1906–1980), (Pachad Yitzchok), European-born, American and Israeli rosh yeshiva
- Yisrael Meir Kagan (1839–1933), (Chofetz Chaim), posek, and ethicist, compiler of classic works. Born and lived in Poland. Wrote the Mishnah Berurah, a work on Jewish Law.
- Aharon ben Yosef ha-Kohen, son-in-law of Chofetz Chaim (1863 – 1936)
- Yaakov Kamenetsky (1891–1986), rabbinical leader and educationalist
- Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899–1985), ("Steipler Gaon"), Ukrainian-born scholar
- Aryeh Kaplan (1934–1983), (Living Torah) writer and mystic
- Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1878–1953), (Chazon Ish) Haredi leader in Israel
- Chaim Mordechai Katz (1894–1964), rosh yeshiva of the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland
- Pinchas Kohn (1867–1941), last rabbi of Ansbach, a founder and executive director of World Agudath Israel
- Aharon Kotler (1891–1962), Lithuanian scholar, founder of Lakewood Yeshiva in the United States
- Chaim Kreiswirth (1918–2001), long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp (Belgium)
- Yechezkel Levenstein (1885–1974), mashgiach ruchani of the Mir Yeshiva in Poland
- Boruch Ber Leibowitz (1862–1939), Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak
- Gershon Liebman (1905–1997), leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement in France
- Dovid Lifshitz (1906–1993), rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for almost fifty years, President of the Ezras Torah Fund
- Elyah Lopian (1876–1970), known as Reb Elyah, prominent in the Mussar Movement
- Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870–1953), renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
- Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), European-born head of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, one of the founders of Torah U'Mesorah
- Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926), (Ohr Somayach; Meshech Chochmah) Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader
- Shulem Moshkovitz (1877–1958), Hasidic rebbe in London
- Yisroel Ber Odesser (1888–1994), Breslover Hasid and rabbi
- Chanoch Dov Padwa (1908–2000), (Cheishev Ho'ephod), rabbinical head of UOHC, London
- Nochum Partzovitz (?–1986), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Mir, grandson of Shlomo HaKohen
- Shlomo Polachek (1877–1928), Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and its Yeshiva College, one of the earliest rosh yeshiva in America
- Eliezer Poupko (1886–1961), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Velizh, Russia, honorary president and a member of the executive board of the Agudath Harabonim, father of Baruch Poupko
- Chaim Dov Rabinowitz (1909–2001), author of Da'as Sofrim on Tanach and other commentaries
- Solomon "Shlomo" Nidam Moroccan rabbi from Meknes, Morocco
- Yaacov Choukroun Moroccan rabbi from Meknes, Morocco
- David Rappoport (1890–1941), rosh yeshiva of the Baranovich Yeshiva
- Mnachem Risikoff (1866–1960), rabbi of Kazan, Kabbalist, rabbi and Av Beit Din of the Congregations of Brooklyn, author of numerous works on Halakha, Aggadah, Biblical commentaries, Divrei Torah and responsa
- Eliyahu Chaim Rosen (1899–1984), rabbi and leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Uman, Ukraine before World War II
- Moshe Rosenstain (1881–1940), mashgiach ruchani of the Lomza Yeshiva in Poland
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Rebbe of Lubavitch
- Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860–1920), fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch
- Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn (1880–1950), sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch
- Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick (1882–1937), British rabbi
- Moshe Shatzkes (1881–1958), Av Beth Din of Łomża, rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in America
- Simcha Sheps (1908–1998), rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaath
- Shimon Shkop (1860–1939), Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno in Europe and in Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York
- Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz (1902–1979), faculty member and rosh yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva
- Berel Soloveitchik (1925–1981), rosh yeshiva of the Brisk yeshiva in Jerusalem, son of Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
- Moshe Soloveichik (1879–1941), rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, eldest son of Chaim Soloveitchik, father of Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Ahron Soloveichik
- Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik (1886–1959), the “Brisker Rov,” rosh yeshiva of the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem
- Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848–1932), rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis community in Jerusalem during the British Mandate of Palestine
- Elya Svei (1924–2009), rosh yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
- Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979), (Satmar Rebbe), Hasidic Hungarian-American rebbe known for strong anti-Zionist positions
- Pinchas Mordechai Teitz (1908–1995), prominent Orthodox rabbi, educator and radio broadcaster in Elizabeth, New Jersey
- Eliezer Waldenberg (1915–2006), Posek and Dayan in Jerusalem, a leading authority on medicine and Jewish law, author of the Tzitz Eliezer, recipient of the Israel Prize for Rabbinical studies
- Elchonon Wasserman (1874–1941) Prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Europe. One of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a Torah scholar.
- Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957), (Min HaMeitzar) European scholar involved in rescue efforts during the Holocaust
- Gershon Yankelewitz (1909–2014), rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for over 50 years, one of the last remaining original Mirrer students, "Alter Mirrers"
Modern Orthodox
[edit]- Hermann Adler (1839–1911), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
- Michael Adler (1868–1944), English Orthodox rabbi, an Anglo-Jewish historian and author who was the first Jewish military chaplain to the British Army to serve in time of war, serving with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front during the First World War
- Samuel Belkin (1911–1976), second President of Yeshiva University, distinguished Torah scholar and author
- Meir Berlin (1880–1949), (Bar Ilan) religious Zionist leader
- Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992) Talmudic scholar and philosopher
- Herbert Bomzer (1927–2013), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University and community leader
- Israel Brodie (1895–1979), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
- Eli Cashdan (1905–1998), British Orthodox rabbi, chaplain in the Royal Air Force during World War II, a senior lecturer at Jews' College and a prominent writer
- Francis Lyon Cohen (1862–1934), English Orthodox rabbi, author and expert on Hebrew music, music editor of The Jewish Encyclopedia, invented the concept of the Jewish Lads' Brigade, the first Jewish chaplain in the British Army, Chief Minister of the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia
- Isaac Cohen (1914–2007), Talmudic scholar and Chief Rabbi of Ireland for 20 years
- Joseph Ehrenkranz (1926–2014), North American Orthodox rabbi involved in interfaith dialogue, community leader
- Ephraim Epstein (1876–1960), congregational Orthodox rabbi and prominent member of the Jewish community in Chicago, Talmud scholar
- Isidore Epstein (1894–1962), Principal of Jews' College in London
- Yaakov Fishman (1913–1983), Chief Rabbi of Moscow and the Moscow Choral Synagogue
- Mavro Frankfurter (1875–1942), Croatian rabbi of the Vinkovci Synagogue who was murdered during the Holocaust by the Ustashas at the Jasenovac concentration camp
- Harry Freedman (1901–1982), author, translator and teacher at Yeshiva University
- Miroslav Šalom Freiberger (1903–1943), Chief Rabbi of Zagreb, Croatia, rabbi of the Zagreb Synagogue, Zionist, translator, writer, spiritual leader, educated as a lawyer and Doctor of Theology, rescued many Jews out of Croatia during the Holocaust, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Israel Friedlander (1876–1920), educator, translator, biblical scholar, a founding adviser to a lecture series that became the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism
- Moses Gaster (1856–1939), a religious and secular scholar who was Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Britain as well as president of The Folklore Society, Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society, and pioneering activist for Zionism[3]
- Hermann Gollancz (1852–1930), British rabbi and professor
- David Hartman (1931–2013), philosopher, author, and founder of Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
- Joseph H. Hertz (1872–1946), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
- Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman (1868–1953), British rabbi and dayan
- Jacob Hoffman (1881–1956), Chief Rabbi of Radauti, rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, helped found the Manhattan Day School, Zionist activist involved in the Mizrachi movement
- Moses Hyamson (1862–1949), head Dayan of the London Beth Din, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Hebrew scholar, author, translator, leader and erudite speaker
- Hosea Jacobi (1841–1925), Chief Rabbi of Zagreb, Croatia and rabbi of the Zagreb Synagogue for 58 years, founded and headed a Jewish Elementary School, taught Hebrew and Jewish studies in high-schools, established Jewish-Women organizations, active in social welfare projects, wrote the first ever Jewish studies text-books in Croatian
- Immanuel Jakobovits (1921–1999), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, medical ethicist
- Leo Jung (1892–1987), one of the major architects of American Orthodox Judaism, "Grandfather of Modern Orthodoxy," teacher of ethics and homiletics at Yeshiva University
- Joseph Kaminetsky (1911–1999), American Modern Orthodox/Yeshivish rabbi, pioneering first director of Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools of North America, directly responsible for the establishment of hundreds of yeshiva day schools across the United States
- Norman Lamm (1927–2020), scholar, academic administrator, author and Jewish community leader; President, Rosh Yeshiva and Chancellor of Yeshiva University
- Aharon Lichtenstein (1933–2015), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, and Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel, son-in-law of Joseph B. Soloveitchik, father of Mosheh Lichtenstein
- Zvulun Lieberman (1930–2012), Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, communal spiritual leader, head of the Syrian Community Bet Din and the Vaad Harabonim of Flatbush
- Joseph Lookstein (1902–1979), rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, President of the Rabbinical Council of America, of the Synagogue Council of America, of the New York Board of Rabbis of Bar-Ilan University and founder of the Ramaz School
- Mojsije Margel (1875–1939), rabbi of Zagreb, lexicographer, teacher and Hebrew scholar
- Moses Mescheloff (1909–2008), Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, Miami Beach and Chicago
- Chalom Messas (1913–2003), Chief Rabbi of Morocco and Jerusalem
- David Messas (1934–2011), Chief Rabbi of Paris
- Solomon Mestel (1886–1966), British-Australian community rabbi, translator
- Jacob Itzhak Niemirower (1872–1939), first Chief Rabbi of Romanian Jewry, member of the Romanian Senate, supporter of Zionism, fighter against antisemitism, theologian, philosopher and historian
- Pinchas Hacohen Peli (1930–1989), Israeli Modern Orthodox rabbi, essayist, poet and scholar of Judaism and Jewish philosophy, Professor of Jewish Thought and Literature at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, a visiting professor at Yeshiva University, Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, the Seminario Rabbinico in Argentina and the Makuya Bible Seminary in Japan
- Baruch Poupko (1917–2010), American multi-lingual scholar, author and lecturer, National Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America, National President of the Religious Zionists of America, son of Eliezer Poupko
- Emanuel Rackman (1910–2008), American Modern Orthodox rabbi, held pulpits in major congregations, helped draw attention to the plight of Refuseniks in the then-Soviet Union, attempted to resolve the dilemma of the Agunah, President of Bar-Ilan University
- Max D. Raiskin (1919–1978), rabbi, Professor of Hebrew Literature at Brooklyn College and Hunter College, licensed Certified Public Accountant, educator, author of educational textbooks, principal and executive director of the East Side Hebrew Institute
- Bernard Revel (1885–1940), Orthodox rabbi and scholar, founding President and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva College and RIETS
- Kopul Rosen (1913–1962), Anglo-Jewish rabbi and educationalist, rabbi of Glasgow, Principal Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues in London
- Michael Rosen (1945–2008), British-born Israeli rabbi and founder of Yakar, a Jewish learning community and synagogue, son of Kopul Rosen
- Moses Rosen (1912–1994), Chief Rabbi of Romanian Jewry, President of the Council of the Jewish Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv
- Alexandru Șafran (1910–2006), Romanian-Swiss rabbi, theologian, philosopher, historian, Kabbalist, Chief Rabbi of Romania, intervened with authorities in the fascist government of Ion Antonescu in an unusually successful attempt to save Jews during the Holocaust
- Herschel Schacter (1917–2013), American Orthodox rabbi and Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, chaplain in the Third Army's VIII Corps, the first US Army Chaplain to enter and participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, rabbi of the Mosholu Jewish Center in the Bronx
- Melech Schachter (1913–2007), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University for over 50 years, father of Hershel Schachter
- Shlomo Shleifer (1889–1957), a government appointee, sustained the Choral Synagogue in Moscow during the worst years of Stalinist repression against Jews
- Simeon Singer (1846–1906), editor of the United Synagogue prayer book
- Ahron Soloveichik (1917–2001), Talmudist and rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
- Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903–1993), distinguished Rosh Yeshiva of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Maimonides School, author, posek, modern Jewish philosopher, a seminal figure in Modern Orthodox Judaism
- Isadore Twersky (1930–1997), Orthodox rabbi, Hasidic Rebbe, university professor at Harvard University, internationally recognized authority on rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy
- Simon Ungar (1864–1942), Doctor of Oriental medicine, Chief Rabbi of the Osijek Jewish Community in Croatia who was murdered in the Holocaust
- Hinko Urbach (1872–1960), Chief Rabbi of Zagreb, Croatia, World War I veteran and Holocaust survivor
- Stanley M. Wagner (1932–2013), American rabbi, academic and community leader, Vice President of the Religious Zionists of America, led the Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph congregation, the only rabbi chaplain of the Colorado Senate, Professor of Jewish history at the University of Denver
- Louis Werfel (1916–1943), a recipient of Semichah from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and a Harvard University alumnus, a Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist rabbi, the only Orthodox Rabbi killed in action during World War II
- Ephraim Wolf (1921–2004), American Orthodox rabbi and spiritual leader, active in the founding and growth of many Jewish educational and communal institutions including the North Shore Hebrew Academy
- Walter Wurzburger (1920–2002), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, headed both the Rabbinical Council of America and the Synagogue Council of America, author and communal rabbi in Toronto, Canada and Lawrence, New York
Contemporary (ca. 21st century)
[edit]Religious-Zionist
[edit]- Shlomo Amar (1948–), Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Haim Amsalem (1959–), former member of Knesset who focused on making conversion to Judaism easier
- Yaakov Ariel (1937–), Chief Rabbi of Ramat Gan, former rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva in the abandoned Israeli settlement of Yamit, rabbi of Kfar Maimon
- Yisrael Ariel (1939–), founder of the Temple Institute and one of the liberators of the Western Wall in the Six-Day War
- Shlomo Aviner (1943–), rosh yeshiva of the Ateret Yerushalayim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, rabbi of Bet El
- David Bar-Hayim (1960–), Av Beit Din, dayan, posek, founder of the Shilo Institute
- Yoel Bin-Nun (1946–), one of the founders of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Gush Emunim, Alon Shevut and Ofra, doctor of Jewish thought and a lecturer on Tanach
- Uri Amos Cherki (1959–), chairman of Brit Olam – Noahide World Center, a senior lecturer at Machon Meir, congregational leader, author and philosopher
- Yuval Cherlow (1957–), Rosh Yeshiva and co-founder of Orot Shaul and one of the founders of Tzohar
- Zephaniah Drori (1937–), Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Shmona, Israel and rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva, helped establish Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh
- Haim Drukman (1932–2022), Israeli politician, rosh yeshiva of Ohr Etzion Yeshiva, head of the Center for Bnei Akiva Yeshivot
- Shmuel Eliyahu (1956–), Chief Rabbi of Safed, member of the Chief Rabbinate Council
- Binyamin Elon (1954–2017), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union
- Mordechai Elon (1959–), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat HaKotel
- Baruch Gigi (1957–), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, communal rabbi of the Sephardi synagogue in Alon Shvut
- Yehuda Gilad (1955–), Rosh Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, rabbi of Kibbutz Lavi
- Yitzchak Ginsburgh (1944–), American-born Israeli, currently president of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank
- Yehudah Glick (1965–), American-born Israeli activist, politician, leader of HaLiba, a coalition of groups dedicated to reaching complete and comprehensive freedom and civil rights for Jews on the Temple Mount
- Tamir Granot (1970–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Orot Shaul
- Re’em HaCohen (1957–), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Otniel and rabbi of the Otniel settlement
- Yeshayahu Hadari (1933–2018), Israeli religious scholar, first rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat HaKotel
- David Bar Hayim (1960–), founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael
- Daniel Hershkowitz (1953–), Israeli politician, mathematician, professor, rabbi of the Ahuza neighborhood in Haifa, President of Bar-Ilan University
- Hillel Horowitz (1964–), Israeli politician
- Nachman Kahana (1937–), author and brother of Meir Kahane
- Binyamin Lau (1961–), head of 929: Tanach B'yachad, rabbi of Kehillat Ramban in Jerusalem
- Israel Meir Lau (1937–), former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
- Yitzhak Levy (1947–), Mashgiach at Yeshivat Har Etzion, politician, among the initiators of the establishment of the Jewish quarter in Jerusalem, co-founder of Elon Moreh
- Mosheh Lichtenstein (1961–), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, son of Aharon Lichtenstein and grandson of Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- Dov Lior (1933–), Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Hebron
- Yaakov Medan (1950–), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, partner in drafting the Gavison-Medan Covenant
- Eliezer Melamed (1961–), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Bracha, rabbi of the community Har Bracha, and author Peninei Halakha, son of Zalman Baruch Melamed
- Zalman Baruch Melamed (1937–), rabbi of Beit El, father of Eliezer Melamed
- Michael Melchior (1954–), activist and Israeli politician, community rabbi in Talpiyot, Jerusalem, Chief Rabbi of Norway
- Chaim Navon (1973–)
- Yakov Nagen (1967–), Israeli author, rabbi at Yeshivat Otniel, leader in interfaith peace initiatives between Judaism and Islam
- Avigdor Nebenzahl (1935–), Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem, senior rosh yeshiva at Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh, rabbi of the Ramban Synagogue
- Rafi Peretz (1956–), Israeli politician, former Chief Military Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces
- Shai Piron (1965–), Israeli educator and politician
- Hanan Porat (1943–2011), Israeli educator, political activist and politician, one of the liberators of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, co-founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Gush Emunim, Kfar Etzion, Alon Shevut, Elon Moreh and Ofra
- Meir Porush (1955–), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael, son of Menachem Porush
- Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch (1928–2020), Canadian-Israeli posek, rosh yeshiva of the London School of Jewish Studies and the Hesder Yeshiva Birkat Moshe in Ma'ale Adumim
- Yosef Zvi Rimon (1968–) Rabbi of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, Rosh Kollel at Yeshivat Har Etzion
- Haim Sabato (1952–), author, co-founder and rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe (Ma’aleh Adumim)
- David Samson (1956–), Israeli Torah scholar, educational entrepreneur, author, congregational rabbi
- Sharon Shalom (1973–), Ethiopian-Israeli community rabbi, lecturer and writer
- Yaakov Shapira (1950–), rosh yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav, member of the Chief Rabbinate Council
- Yitzchak Sheilat (1946–), Israeli scholar of Jewish thought, co-founder of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe
- David Stav (1960–), educator, Chief Rabbi of the city of Shoham, chairman of the Tzohar organization, co-founder of Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva
- Adin Steinsaltz (1937–2020), Israeli Chabad Chasidic teacher, philosopher, Kabbalist, social critic, translator, author of Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud, recipient of the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies
- Aryeh Stern (1944–), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and student of Zvi Yehuda Kook
- Zvi Thau (1938–), co-founder and president of Yeshivat Har Hamor in Jerusalem
- Ron Yosef (1974–), founder of the Israeli organization Hod, which represents Israeli gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews
- Yaakov Roja (1944–), chairman of the Rabbinical Council of ZAKA and interim president of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate
Haredi
[edit]- Elazar Abuhatzeira (1948–2011), Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known to followers as the "Baba Elazar"
- Asher Arieli (1957–), senior lecturer at Yeshivas Mir in Israel, son-in-law of Nachum Partzovitz
- Yaakov Aryeh Alter (1939–), eighth and current[when?] rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger
- Shalom Arush (1952–), Israeli Breslov rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions
- Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi (1943–2015), Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement
- Moshe Ber Beck (1934–2021), Orthodox rabbi and a chief rabbi of the Neturei Karta movement in the US.
- Yisroel Belsky (1938–2016), American Dean, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Senior Rabbi of the Orthodox Union
- Eliezer Berland (1937–), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Shuvu Bonim affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement.
- Yaakov Blau (1929–2013), rabbi and dayan on the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis
- Avrohom Blumenkrantz (1944–2007), American posek and kashrut authority
- Shmuley Boteach (1966–), American Orthodox rabbi, radio and television host, and author
- Meir Brandsdorfer (1934–2009), member of the Badatz (rabbinical court) of the Edah HaChareidis
- Nachum Dov Brayer (1959–), present Rebbe of the Boyan
- Avraham Bromberg, American Rosh Yeshiva and posek
- Yosef Hamadani Cohen (1916–2014), Chief Rabbi of Iran and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran
- Uriel Davidi (1922–2006), Chief Rabbi of Iran from 1980 to 1994
- Michel Dorfman (1913–2006), de facto head of the Breslover Hasidim living in post-Stalinist Russia
- Alfredo Goldschmidt (rabbi) (1945–) Great rabbi of Colombia and the Colegio Colombo Hebreo
- Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, Rebbe of the Dushinsky of Jerusalem
- Shlomo Elyashiv (1841–1926), Lithuanian talmudist and Kabbalist known as the Leshem or Ba'al HaLeshem, teacher of Abraham Isaac Kook, grandfather of Yosef Sholom Eliashiv
- Yosef Sholom Eliashiv (1910–2012), Israeli rabbi and a rabbinical leader of the haredi world
- Aharon Feldman (1932–), American Rosh Yeshiva
- Gerrer Rebbes, Polish Hasidic dynasty now in Israel, followers also in the United States and UK
- Shlomo Goldman (1947–2017), Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi
- Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park
- Zvi Elimelech Halberstam (1952–), Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Netanya, Israel
- Elchanan Heilprin (1921–2015), known as Av Beit Din of Radomishl
- Moshe Hirsch (1923 or 1924–2010), Leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem
- Chaim Avrohom Horowitz (1933–2016), Grand Rabbi of the Boston Jewish Hasidic dynasty
- Mayer Alter Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem
- Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe
- Yitzchak Kadouri (1898–2006), leading 20th-century Kabbalist (Mekubal)
- Shmuel Kamenetsky (1924–), co-founder and rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
- Chaim Kanievsky (1928–2022), Israeli rabbi and posek, lived in Bnei Brak, Israel
- Nissim Karelitz (1926–2019), Israeli haredi leader
- Meir Kessler (1961–), rabbi of Modi'in Illit
- Zvi Kogan (1996-2024), Israeli-Moldovan rabbi killed in the United Arab Emirates
- Yitzhak Aharon Korff, Rebbe of Zvhil – Mezhbizh, Boston and Jerusalem, and Rabbi, Jerusalem Great Synagogue.
- Zundel Kroizer (1924–2014), Israeli author of Ohr Hachamah
- Dov Landau, Israeli rosh yeshiva
- Berel Lazar (1964–), Italian Chief Rabbi of Russia
- Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits Rebbe of Nikolsburg
- Yitzchok Lichtenstein (1962–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, son of Aharon Lichtenstein, grandson of Joseph B. Soloveichik
- Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (1955–), current leader of the Bobov
- Meshulim Feish Lowy (1921–2015), Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty
- Uri Mayerfeld, rosh yeshiva in Canada
- Moshe Meiselman (1942–), founder of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA), founder and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Moshe, grandson of Moshe Soloveichik
- Yona Metzger (1953–), Israeli former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Avigdor Miller (1908–2001), American author and renowned lecturer
- Shlomo Miller, head of the Toronto Kollel and recognized authority of Jewish law
- Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz, Rebbe of Ropshitz
- Yaakov Perlow, American Hasidic rebbe of Novominsk and rosh yeshiva living in Borough Park, Brooklyn
- Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York
- Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, Rebbe of Skulen
- Dovid Povarsky (1902–1999), Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva
- Moshe Leib Rabinovich (1940–), current rebbe of Munkacs
- Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka (1949–), Machnovka Rebbe of Bnei Brak
- Yissachar Dov Rokeach (1948–), Belzer Rebbe
- Elyakim Rosenblatt (1933–2019), American rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Kesser Torah in Queens, NY
- Yechezkel Roth, Karlsburger Rav
- Shmuel Rozovsky (1913–1979), Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva
- Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (1910–2012), dean of Torah Ohr Yeshiva, Jerusalem
- Yitzchok Scheiner (1922–2021), Israeli rosh yeshiva
- Eliezer Shlomo Schick (1940–2015), Hasidic rabbi and prolific author and publisher of Breslov teachings
- Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi
- Elazar Menachem Shach (1899–2001), Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, founder of Degel HaTorah
- Moshe Shmuel Shapiro (1917–2006), Rosh Yeshiva and important [rabbinic figure in Israel
- Dovid Shmidel (1934–), Chairman of Asra Kadisha
- Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (1912–2017), rabbi and posek (halakhic authority)
- Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik (1946–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Brisk, one of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, son of Berel Soloveitchik
- Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik (1921–2021), Rosh Yeshiva of one of the branches of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, son of Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
- Moshe Sternbuch (1926–), Gaon Av Beis Din of the Edah HaChareidis
- Aaron Teitelbaum (1947–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the Ruv of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York
- Moshe Teitelbaum (1914–2006), Satmar Rebbe
- Zalman Teitelbaum (1951–), Grand Rebbe of Satmar, and the third son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum
- David Twersky (1940–), Grand Rabbi and spiritual leader of the village of New Square, New York
- Mordechai Dovid Unger (1954–), currently Bobover Rebbe
- Vizhnitzer Rebbes, (Vizhnitzer), Romanian dynasty of Hasidic rebbes in Israel and the United States
- Osher Weiss (1953–), Possek and An Av Beis Din
- Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015), Haredi rabbi and posek
- Dov Yaffe (1928–2017), Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi
- Amnon Yitzhak (1953–), Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel
- Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry
- Amram Zaks (1926–2012), Rosh Yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak
- Jonathan Markovitch (1967–), Chief Rabbi of Kyiv
Modern Orthodox
[edit]- Marc D. Angel (1945–), Modern Orthodox rabbi and author, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City
- Raymond Apple (1935–), Australian Jewish spokesman, writer and lecturer on Jewish, interfaith and freemasonic issues
- Assaf Bednarsh (1971–), Rosh Yeshiva of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Rosh Kollel for the Gruss Kollel in Jerusalem
- Harvey Belovski (1968–), British Orthodox rabbi, educator and organisational advisor, rabbi of Golders Green United Synagogue
- Ari Berman (1970–), Fifth President of Yeshiva University
- Joshua Berman (1964–), Orthodox Rabbi and Professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University
- Saul Berman (1939–), communal rabbi, Chairman of the Department of Judaic Studies of Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, Director of Edah, Professor at Yeshiva University and Columbia University
- Ezra Bick (1946–), author, Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion, scion of the Rapoport-Bick rabbinic dynasty
- David Bigman (1954–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa, helped found the Ein Hanatziv Midrasha for girls, previous Rosh Yeshiva of the Ein Tzurim Yeshiva
- Yosef Blau – Mashgiach ruchani at RIETS for over 40 years, president of the Religious Zionists of America
- Benjamin Blech (1933–), American modern Orthodox thinker, Professor of Talmud and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, author and speaker
- J. David Bleich (1936–), Posek and ethicist, including Jewish medical ethics, Rosh yeshiva and professor at RIETS and Yeshiva University
- Kenneth Brander (1962–), American rabbi, president and Rosh Yeshiva of the Ohr Torah Stone network of institutions
- Reuven Pinchas Bulka (1944–2021), Canadian rabbi, writer, broadcaster and activist, spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, co-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress
- Shalom Carmy (1949–), American Modern Orthodox rabbi, Professor at Yeshiva University, writer and editor
- Eliyahu Ben Chaim (1940–), Chief Rabbi of Sha'are Shalom (United Mashadi Community of America) in Great Neck, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, Av Beit Din of Badatz Mekor Haim, prominent leader of New York's Sephardi community
- Albert Chait, (1986–), Rabbi to the United Hebrew Congregation in Leeds, United Kingdom
- Kotel Dadon (1967–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Croatia,
- Ahron Daum (1951–2018), Israeli-born Modern-Orthodox rabbi, educator, author and Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main
- Chuck Davidson (1961–), founder of organizations Giyur Kehalacha and Ahavat Hager which aims to undermine the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and their monopoly with conversions and marriages
- Mark Dratch (1958–), Instructor of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University and founder of JSafe
- Seth Farber (1967–), American-Israeli Modern Orthodox rabbi, historian, author, and founder and director of the Jewish life advocacy organization, ITIM
- Barry Freundel (1951–), former rabbi of Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., convicted of voyeurism
- Manis Friedman (1946–), a biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker
- Aryeh Frimer (1946–), American-Israeli Active Oxygen Chemist, teacher at Bar Ilan University, specialist on Women and Jewish law
- Menachem Genack (1949–), CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, founding chairman of NORPAC
- Meir Goldwicht — Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
- Moshe Gottesman (1932–2018), rabbi, educator and community leader
- Irving Greenberg (1933–), American rabbi and writer on the relationship between Christianity and Judaism
- Steven Greenberg (1956–), first openly homosexual Orthodox rabbi
- David Bar Hayim (1960–), founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael
- Nathaniel Helfgot (1963–), President of the International Rabbinic Fellowship
- Yehuda Henkin (1945–2020), author of the responsa Benei Vanim, modern orthodox posek
- Shmuel Herzfeld (1974–), Senior rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C., Vice President of the AMCHA Initiative, teacher, lecturer, activist, author
- David Hirsch (1968–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University for over 20 years
- Howard Jachter – American Orthodox rabbi, Dayan, educator, author and communal leader, expert on the laws of Jewish divorce
- Ephraim Kanarfogel (1955–), rabbi and Torah scholar, professor and dean at Yeshiva University, one of the foremost experts in the fields of medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature
- Moshe Kletenik (1954–), congregational rabbi, Av Beit Din and Mesader Gittin, President of the Rabbinical Council of America
- Eugene Korn (1947–), Academic Director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Jerusalem, Director of Interfaith Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, writer
- Joel Landau, New York rabbi associated with Yad Ezra V’Shulamit
- Baruch Lanner (1949–), American former Orthodox rabbi who was convicted of child sexual abuse
- Aryeh Lebowitz (1977–), American Modern Orthodox rabbi and posek, Director of Semikhah at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
- Haskel Lookstein (1932–), American Modern Orthodox rabbi, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, principal of the Ramaz School, son of Joseph Lookstein
- Ephraim Mirvis (1956–), Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth
- Leonard Matanky (1958–), Modern Orthodox rabbi, co-president of the Religious Zionists of America, pulpit rabbi, Dean of Ida Crown Jewish Academy, past president of the Rabbinical Council of America
- Yaakov Neuburger (1955–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
- Sacha Pecaric (1965–), Yugoslavian/Croatian-Italian-American rabbi, author of the first translation of the Torah from Hebrew to Polish to be done by a Jew since the Second World War
- Menachem Penner (1971–), Dean of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Rabbi Emeritus of the Young Israel of Holliswood
- Dale Polakoff (1957–), American rabbi, teacher and spiritual leader, Senior rabbi of the Great Neck Synagogue for over 30 years, past President of the Rabbinical Council of America
- Yona Reiss (1966–), American rabbi, noted Torah scholar, attorney, lecturer and jurist, current Av Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council
- Hershel Reichman (1944–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
- Shlomo Riskin (1940–), founding Chief Rabbi of Efrat, founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York City, dean of Manhattan Day School, founder and Chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone Institutions
- David Rosen (1951–), South African-British-Israeli rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Ireland, American Jewish Committee's International Director of Interreligious Affairs, son of Kopul Rosen
- Jeremy Rosen (1942–), Orthodox Rabbi, author and lecturer, son of Kopul Rosen
- Jonathan Rosenblatt (1956–), American Modern Orthodox rabbi, teacher, lecturer, and counselor
- Itamar Rosensweig (1989–), Maggid Shiur at Yeshiva University, dayan (rabbinic judge) at the Beth Din of America, resident scholar at Congregation Ahavath Torah, son of rabbi Michael Rosensweig
- Michael Rosensweig (1956–), Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and the Rosh Kollel of the Beren Kollel Elyon
- Jonathan Sacks (1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, philosopher, theologian, author, peer and public figure, great-grandson of Aryeh Leib Frumkin
- Yonason Sacks – Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College for Men, spiritual leader of the Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov
- Yehuda Sarna (1977–), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of the United Arab Emirates
- Hershel Schachter (1941–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University, posek, son of Melech Schachter
- Jacob J. Schacter (1950–), American Orthodox rabbi, historian, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University, son of Herschel Schacter
- Hanan Schlesinger – American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, co-founder of Roots, a joint Palestinian-Israeli grassroots peacemaking initiative
- Arthur Schneier (1930–), prominent rabbi in the secular world and rabbi at Park East Synagogue, which hosted Pope Benedict
- Elliot Schrier (1989–), community leader and teacher, current Mara d'asra of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey
- Gedalia Dov Schwartz (1925–2020), Orthodox rabbi, scholar and posek, the av beis din of both the Beth Din of America and the Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc), rosh beth din of the National Beth Din of the Rabbinical Council of America, President of the Mizrachi of Rhode Island and the RCA Philadelphia Region
- Adolf Shayevich (1937–), rabbi of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, Chief Rabbi of Russia
- Eli Baruch Shulman (1959–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, Rabbi Henry H. Guterman chair in Talmud, author and editor
- Zvi Sobolofsky – Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University and rabbi of Ohr Hatorah in Bergenfield, New Jersey
- Haym Soloveitchik (1937–), Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, professor at Hebrew University and Yeshiva University, leading contemporary historian of Jewish law
- Meir Soloveichik (1977–), American Orthodox rabbi and writer, rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City, grandson of Ahron Soloveichik
- Shubert Spero (1923–), Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University, Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio, author on the subjects of halakha, ethics, the Holocaust, Jewish philosophy and the thought of Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- Ben-Tzion Spitz (1969–), Chief Rabbi of Uruguay, writer and Nuclear Engineer
- Daniel Stein, (1976–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Chesed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, founding rabbi of Kehillas Beis Sholom in Clifton, New Jersey
- Moshe David Tendler (1926–2021), Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, professor of biology at Yeshiva University, expert in medical ethics, son-in-law of Moshe Feinstein
- Kalman Topp (1972–), American rabbi, educator, author, Senior Rabbi of the Beth Jacob Congregation of Beverly Hills, California
- Mayer Twersky (1960–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, Grand Rabbi of the Talne Chasidim, grandson of rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- Berel Wein (1934–), American-born Orthodox rabbi, lecturer and writer, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland, senior faculty member of Yeshiva Ohr Somayach
- Moshe Weinberger (1957–), founding spiritual leader of Congregation Aish Kodesh, Mashpia/mashgiach ruchani at RIETS, the "senior spokesman" of the Neo-Hasidic movement in Modern Orthodoxy
- Tzvi Hersh Weinreb (1940–), rabbi, psychotherapist, Executive Vice President Emeritus of the Orthodox Union, Editor-in-Chief of the Koren Talmud Bavli
- Jeremy Wieder (1971–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, one of the first Americans to win the International Bible Contest (Chidon Hatanach)
- Mordechai Willig (1947–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, prominent posek for the Modern Orthodox community.
- Pesach Wolicki (1970–), educator, writer, columnist, lecturer, public speaker and pro-Israel activist, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah, Associate Director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC)
- Benjamin Yudin (1944–), rabbi of Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, New Jersey
- Isaac Sacca (1964–), Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Buenos Aires, Argentina, founder and president of Menora, World Organization for Youth.
Conservative
[edit]Open Orthodox
- Dov Linzer (1966–), President and Rosh Yeshiva of the Open-Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in Riverdale, New York
- Avi Weiss (1944–), Founder, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
19th century
[edit]- Zecharias Frankel (1801–1875), critical historian, founder of the "Positive Historical" school, progenitor of Conservative Judaism
- Levi Herzfeld (1810–1884), German rabbi, proponent of moderate reform
- Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840), Austrian philosopher and historian
20th century
[edit]- Jacob B. Agus, rabbi and theologian
- Philip R. Alstat, Conservative rabbi
- Ben-Zion Bokser, Conservative rabbi
- Boaz Cohen, Talmud scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
- Gerson D. Cohen, historian and Jewish Theological Seminary of America chancellor
- Moshe Davis, historian at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Hebrew University
- Louis Finkelstein, Talmud scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
- Louis Ginzberg (1873–1953), American Conservative Talmud scholar
- Robert Gordis, leader in Conservative Judaism
- Sidney Greenberg, rabbi and author
- Simon Greenberg, professor and vice-chancellor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Morris Gutstein, congregational rabbi and historian
- Jules Harlow, liturgist
- Arthur Hertzberg, rabbi, scholar, and activist
- Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972), philosopher, scholar of Hasidism, and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
- Max Kadushin, philosopher and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
- Wolfe Kelman, Rabbinical Assembly leader
- Isaac Klein, American rabbi and scholar of halakhah
- Albert L. Lewis, Conservative rabbi
- Saul Lieberman, rabbi and scholar
- Marshall Meyer, rabbi and human rights activist, founded a rabbinical school and synagogue in Argentina
- Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author
- Samuel Schafler, American rabbi and historian
- Solomon Schechter, scholar and a founder of Conservative Judaism
- Morris Silverman, American rabbi and liturgist
- Chana Timoner, first female rabbi to hold an active duty assignment as a chaplain in the U.S. Army
Contemporary (ca. 21st century)
[edit]- Leslie Alexander (rabbi), first female rabbi of a major Conservative Jewish synagogue in the United States
- Lia Bass, second Latin American female rabbi in the world.
- Sharon Brous, Founder of Ikar and prominent voice for justice
- Geoffrey Claussen, Conservative rabbi and Elon University professor
- Aryeh Cohen, Conservative rabbi and American Jewish University professor
- Martin Samuel Cohen, Conservative rabbi and author
- Shaye J. D. Cohen, Conservative rabbi and Harvard University professor
- Moshe Cotel, pianist, composer, and rabbi
- Menachem Creditor, Conservative rabbi, activist, and founder of the Shefa Network
- Cynthia Culpeper, first full-time female rabbi in Alabama
- Jerome Cutler, director of the Creative Arts Temple in West Los Angeles, California.
- David G. Dalin, rabbi and historian
- Zvi Dershowitz (1928–2023), rabbi of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, California
- Elliot N. Dorff, Conservative rabbi, bioethicist, and professor of Jewish Theology at the American Jewish University
- Amy Eilberg, Conservative rabbi, author and co-founded the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco
- Edward Feld, Conservative rabbi and siddur editor
- Everett Gendler, rabbi and progressive activist
- Neil Gillman, philosopher, theologian, and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
- David Golinkin, Masorti rabbi and halakhist
- Michael Greenbaum, professor and vice-chancellor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Reuven Hammer, Masorti rabbi, author, and siddur commentator
- Sherre Hirsch, rabbi and author
- Judith Hauptman, feminist Talmudic scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Rachel Isaacs, first openly lesbian rabbi ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Jill Jacobs (rabbi), Executive Director of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
- Louis Jacobs, founder of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, theologian
- William E. Kaufman, advocate of process theology
- Daniella Kolodny, first female rabbi enlisted in the United States Naval Academy
- Myer S. Kripke, rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist based in Omaha, Nebraska
- Joshua Kulp, Conservative scholar and rabbi and founder of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem
- Harold Kushner, American Conservative rabbi, theologian, and popular writer
- Aaron Landes (1929–2014), rabbi of Beth Sholom in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
- Amichai Lau-Lavie – Israeli-American Conservative rabbi, social entrepreneur, human rights activist, founder of Storahtelling
- William H. Lebeau, Conservative rabbi and Dean of Rabbinical School at Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Naomi Levy, American rabbi, author and speaker
- Alan Lew, teacher of Jewish meditation
- Aaron L. Mackler, Conservative rabbi and bioethicist
- Jason Miller (rabbi), Conservative rabbi, entrepreneur and technology blogger
- Alan Mittleman, professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Jack Moline, Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance
- Jacob Neusner (1932–2016), Conservative trained scholar and writer
- Daniel Nevins, Dean of JTS Rabbinical School and author of inclusive teshuvah on homosexuality in Judaism
- Einat Ramon, first Israeli-born woman rabbi
- Paula Reimers, one of the first women to be ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Arnold Resnicoff, Navy Chaplain, AJC National Director of Interreligious Affairs, Special Assistant (Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
- Joel Roth, Conservative scholar and rabbi
- Simchah Roth. Israeli rabbi and Siddur Va'ani Tefillati editor
- Danya Ruttenberg, Award-winning author, editor and social justice activist
- Julie Schonfeld, first female rabbi to serve in the chief executive position of an American rabbinical association
- Ismar Schorsch, Conservative educator and leader
- Harold M. Schulweis, rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California and founder of the Jewish World Watch
- Rona Shapiro, first female rabbi to head a Conservative synagogue in Cleveland
- Alan Silverstein, rabbi of Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, and former President of the Rabbinical Assembly
- Mychal Springer, rabbi and Jewish Theological Seminary of America leader
- Valerie Stessin, first woman to be ordained as a Conservative rabbi in Israel
- Ira F. Stone, a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement
- Susan Tendler, first female rabbi in Chattanooga
- Gordon Tucker, Conservative rabbi
- Stuart Weinblatt, Conservative rabbi and founder of Congregation B'nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland; President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Federations of North America
- Bea Wyler, first female rabbi in Germany to officiate at a congregation
Union for Traditional Judaism
[edit]- David Weiss Halivni (1927–2022)
Reform
[edit]19th century
[edit]- Samuel Adler (1809–1891), German-American rabbi of Temple Emanu-El
- Moses Berlin (1852–1927), British Reform rabbi
- Emil Hirsch (1851–1923), American Reform rabbi and scholar
- David Einhorn (1809–1879), American Reform rabbi
- Samuel Hirsch (1815–1889), German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement
- Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), German Reform ideologist
- Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860), German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism
- Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy (1820–1890), Hungarian-English Reform rabbi in Eperies and Manchester, first Jewish professor in Cambridge
- Leopold Zunz (1794–1886), German scholar, founded Science of Judaism school
- Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), American Reform rabbi
20th century
[edit]- Paula Ackerman (1893–1989), first female to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, not ordained
- Joseph Asher (1921–1990), advocate of reconciliation between the Jews and the Germans in the post-Holocaust era
- Leo Baeck (1873–1956), Reform rabbi
- Laszlo Berkowitz (1928–2020), Reform rabbi, Temple Rodef Shalom
- Lionel Blue (1930–2016), British rabbi, writer and broadcaster
- Abraham Cronbach (1882–1965), Reform rabbi & educator
- Maurice Davis (1921–1993), Reform rabbi, past Chairman, President's Commission on Equal Opportunity
- David Max Eichhorn (1906–1986), Reform Jewish rabbi, author, founder of Merritt Island's Temple Israel,[4] and Army chaplain among the troops that liberated Dachau
- Regina Jonas (1902–1944), first female rabbi in the world
- Gunther Plaut (1912–2012), Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple
- Murray Saltzman (1929–2010), Reform rabbi
- Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), Reform rabbi and Zionist leader
- Stephen S. Wise (1874–1949), Reform rabbi and Zionist activist
Contemporary (ca. 21st century)
[edit]- Pauline Bebe, first female rabbi in France
- Jackie Tabick, first female rabbi in Britain
- Sally Priesand, Reform rabbi, first female rabbi in the United States
- Julia Neuberger, British Reform rabbi
- Elyse Goldstein, first female Rabbi in Canada, educator and writer
- Rachel Adler, theologian and Hebrew Union College professor
- Arik Ascherman, American-born Reform rabbi and human rights activist for both Jews and non-Jews in Israel-best known for advocating for Palestinian human rights.
- Angela Warnick Buchdahl, American rabbi
- Rebecca Dubowe, first deaf woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the United States
- Denise Eger, former rabbi of Beth Chayim Chadashim (world's first LGBT synagogue) and founder of Temple Kol Ami in West Hollywood, first female and open lesbian to serve as president of Southern California Board of Rabbis, officiated at the first legal same-sex wedding of two women in California
- David Ellenson, former president of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, and chancellor emeritus
- Lisa Goldstein, Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality
- Dana Evan Kaplan, rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom in Sun City, Arizona; author of The New Reform Judaism: Challenges and Reflections, the most current modern scholarly analysis of contemporary Reform Judaism
- Alysa Stanton, first ordained Black female rabbi (Reform) in America
- Margaret Wenig, rabbi known for advocating for LGBT rights
Reconstructionists
[edit]20th century
[edit]- Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983), founder of the Reconstructionist movement in America
- Ira Eisenstein (1906–2001), founding president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Contemporary (ca. 21st century)
[edit]- Deborah Brin, one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis
- Susan Schnur, editor of Lilith Magazine
- Rebecca Alpert, rabbi, historian and professor
- Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
- Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, children's book author
- Tina Grimberg, leader in the inter-religious dialog
- Carol Harris-Shapiro, modern author
- Sandra Lawson, first openly gay, female, black rabbi
- Joy Levitt, first female president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
- Toba Spitzer, first openly gay head of a rabbinical association
- Shlomo Baksht, litvish rabbi in Odesa
Other rabbis
[edit]- Steven Blane, American Jewish Universalist rabbi
- Shlomo Carlebach (1925–1994), composer, singer and pioneer in the Baal Teshuvah movement
- Capers C. Funnye Jr. (1952–), first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis[5]
- Shlomo Helbrans (1962–2017), rebbe of the Lev Tahor community
- Tamara Kolton (1970–), first rabbi in Humanistic Judaism
- Michael Lerner (1943–), founder/editor of Tikkun magazine
- Jackie Mason (1931–2021), comedian and actor, received smicha from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein[6]
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
- Joseph Telushkin (1948–), American rabbi, screenwriter, lecturer and bestselling author[7] (non-denominational)
- Arthur Waskow (1933–), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
- Sherwin Wine (1928–2007), U.S. founder of Society for Humanistic Judaism
Gallery
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Rabbi Aaron Hart, a prominent 18th-century rabbi. He was the first Chief Rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London.
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Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine. He was a founder of Religious Zionism and a profound Jewish thinker.
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Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, a renowned rabbinic scholar, philosopher, and author. He is best known for his monumental translation and commentary on the Talmud.
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Rabbi Aharon ben Yosef ha-Kohen, a notable Talmudic scholar and author of 'Keter Torah'.
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Rabbi Aharon Feldman, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore. He is a prominent rabbinic leader and author.
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Rabbi Aharon Kotler, founder of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. He was a leading figure in the world of Torah study and Jewish education.
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Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, the fourth Belzer Rebbe. He led the Belz Hasidic dynasty through the Holocaust and was known for his piety and leadership.
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Rabbi Aharon Roth, founder of the Shomer Emunim Hasidic dynasty. He was known for his ascetic lifestyle and emphasis on spiritual purity.
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Rabbi Alexandru Şafran, a prominent Romanian rabbi and Holocaust survivor. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Romania and later of Geneva.
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Rabbi Amram Aburbeh, founder of the Zion Synagogue in Jerusalem. He was known for his leadership in the Sephardic community and his contributions to Jewish education and religious life.
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Rabbi Amnon Yitzchak, a well-known Jewish lecturer and leader. He is famous for his efforts in Jewish outreach and bringing secular Jews back to religious observance.
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Rabbi Arik was a renowned Galician Torah scholar. He was the author of Sefer Chidushei HaRaMal.
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Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, a noted American Orthodox rabbi and author. He was known for his accessible writings on Jewish mysticism and theology.
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Rabbi Aryeh Leib Frumkin, an early pioneer of the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem. He was a rabbi, author, and one of the founders of Petah Tikva.
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Rabbi Aryeh Levin, known as the "Tzaddik of Jerusalem" for his acts of kindness. He was a beloved figure who ministered to prisoners and the poor.
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Rabbi Aryeh Stern, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Known for his efforts to integrate modern values with traditional Jewish law.
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Rabbi Avigdor Miller, a prominent American Orthodox rabbi and author. He was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Beis Yisrael, known for his lectures and writings on Jewish thought and ethics.
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Rabbi Avraham Bromberg, a prominent rabbinic leader and posek. He was the Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College, and later Rosh Yeshiva of Sha'ar Hatalmud.
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Rabbi Avraham Moshe Hillel, a prominent figure in Jewish history known for his rabbinic leadership and scholarship. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Baghdad.
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Rabbi Avraham Shapira, former Chief Rabbi of Israel. He was a leader in the Religious Zionist movement and a prominent halachic authority.
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Rabbi Avraham Tiktin, a prominent rabbinic leader and scholar. He was known for his halachic works and leadership as Chief Rabbi of Breslau.
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Rabbi Baruch Ashlag, a prominent kabbalist and the son of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag. He continued his father's work in spreading the teachings of Kabbalah.
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Rabbi Baruch Gigi, a prominent rabbinic leader and Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He is known for his inspiring lectures and deep knowledge of Jewish law and philosophy.
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Rabbi Baruch Myers, a prominent rabbinic leader. He serves as the Chief Rabbi of Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Rabbi Baruch Poupko, a prominent American Orthodox rabbi and leader. He was a rabbi in Pittsburgh and a prolific author. His career largely focused on advocating for Soviet Jews.
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Rabbi Baruch Steinberg, Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army. He was killed in the Katyn massacre during World War II.
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Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, a prominent Hasidic leader. He was the Bobover Rebbe and a descendant of the Divrei Chaim.
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Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel. He was a leading figure in Sephardic Jewry and an advocate for Jewish unity.
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Rabbi Binyamin Elon, a former Israeli politician and rabbi. He was a member of the Knesset and Minister of Tourism.
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Rabbi Binyamin Lau, a prominent Israeli rabbi, author, and public speaker. He is known for his work in Jewish education and his efforts to bridge gaps within Israeli society.
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Rabbi Boruch Rabinowicz, a prominent rabbi and leader. He was a Rosh Yeshiva and a respected figure in the Jewish community.
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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a prominent Haredi rabbi and posek. Known as the "Prince of Torah", he was a leading authority on Jewish law and tradition.
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Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz, a renowned Talmudic scholar and Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva. He is remembered for his profound teachings and leadership.
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Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, a renowned Talmudist and Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva. He is known for developing the Brisker method of Talmudic study.
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Rabbi Dale Polakoff, a prominent rabbi in the United States. He is the rabbi of the Great Neck Synagogue and a past president of the Rabbinical Council of America.
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Rabbi David Bigman, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa. He is known for his innovative approach to Torah study and modern Jewish thought.
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Rabbi Gliksberg, a prominent rabbinic leader known for being one of the founding members of the Mizrachi Zionist movement.
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Rabbi David Hirsch, a prominent rabbinic figure. He is a rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York City.
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Rabbi David Kahane, Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army during World War II. He survived the Holocaust and was a prominent Jewish chaplain.
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Rabbi David Stav, founder of the Tzohar rabbinic organization. He is known for his efforts to make Judaism more accessible in Israel.
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Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, a prominent Talmudic scholar. He was a Holocaust survivor and an influential figure in Jewish academic circles.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
- ^ Hezser, Catherine (1997). The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman Palestine. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-3-16-146797-4.
We suggest that the avoidance of the title "Rabbi" for pre-70 sages may have originated with the editors of the Mishnah. The editors attributed the title to some sages and not to others. The avoidance of the title for pre-70 sages may perhaps be seen as a deliberate program on the part of these editors who wanted to create the impression that the "rabbinic movement" began with R. Yochanan b. Zakkai and that the Yavnean "academy" was something new, a notion that is sometimes already implicitly or explicitly suggested by some of the traditions available to them. This notion is not diminished by the occasional claim to continuity with the past which was limited to individual teachers and institutions and served to legitimize rabbinic authority.
- ^ "YIVO | Gaster, Moses".
- ^ New York Times obituary, July 23, 1986.
- ^ "Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith", Nikko Kopel, New York Times, March 16, 2008
- ^ "Home".
- ^ "About Us". www.sftpa.com. Retrieved Mar 9, 2022.
External links
[edit]Orthodox
[edit]- List of leaders, Orthodox Union
- Gallery of Our Great, chabad.org
- Biographies of Gedolim, tzemachdovid.org
- Mini-Biographies of Gedolim , chaburas.org
- Cross-referenced Notes on Rishonim and Acharonim (PDF)
Conservative
[edit]Reform
[edit]Reconstructionist
[edit]Pan-denominational
[edit]- Torah Commentator Biographies, kolel.org
- List of Commentators, torahproductions.com
- E-Lectures Glossary
- RavSIG (Genealogy of Rabbinic families)