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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"rabbis"”.
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“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement
… supportive but scared. The focus on two rabbis known for their outspokenness regarding racial equality, Charles Mantinband of Hattiesburg and Perry Nussbaum of Jackson, is central to most southern Jewish studies. However, it neglects aspects of their background. Neither rabbi was a native …
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An analytical survey and study of counseling attitudes and practices of reform rabbis of northeastern United States
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Marriage in the Talmud : its concepts, laws and customs
… constituted the main consideration of the Rabbis in formulating their Marriage laws. Conditions prevailing in Palestine and in Babylon during the first century B.C.E. and the four following centuries, compelled the Rabbis to stress the paramount importance of marriage as a religious duty. …
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Two far South: the responses of South African and Southern Jews to Apartheid and Segregation in the 1950s and 1960s
… of the two communities with reform rabbis and international Jewish organizations. The dissertation argues that the nature of individual and institutional responses was significantly shaped by exposure to a set of factors common to the South and South Africa. The dissertation is …
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Two far south : the responses of South African and Southern Jews to apartheid and segregation in the 1950s and 1960s
… of the two communities with reform rabbis and international Jewish organizations. The dissertation argues that the nature of individual and institutional responses was significantly shaped by exposure to a set of factors common to the South and South Africa. The dissertation is …
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שאלת ההזרעה המלאכותית בספרות השו"ת
… and conservative society. Our analysis shows how rabbis are facing the conflict between medical and social necessity to access advanced medical treatments and fear of social transitions and religious implications, caused by such technologies. In addition to analysis of the Orthodox Responsa, this …
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Unequal Hours: The Jewish Reception Of Timekeeping Technology From The Bible To The Twentieth Century
… of Greco-Roman timekeeping systems by the rabbis of Late Antiquity, the study reassesses what the rabbis did and did not expect from the public with regards to timekeeping precision and what they themselves understood about timekeeping on a theoretical level. The study introduces the …
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Tradition, accommodation, revolution and counterrevolution: a history of a century of struggle for the soul of orthodoxy in Johannesburgs Jewish community, 1915-2015
… Education were led by academically trained rabbis with an inclusive interpretation of Orthodoxy, the religious Zionist Mizrachi movement and its affiliates sought to reintroduce East European traditions and advocated strict levels of observance that were unpopular with the majority of the …
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'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence
… in Padua, condemned as a deviant threat by rabbis in Venice and central and eastern Europe, and accepted by the Portuguese Jewish community after relocating to Amsterdam. Using unpublished archival documents and manuscripts, as well as rare printed books, I seek to reconcile the seemingly …
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איסור נישואי "מעוברת חברו ומנקת חברו" במשפט העברי
… or, perhaps, even in the saboraic period, the rabbis decided to adopt the more stringent positions pertaining to the marital prohibition. They ruled that there were to be no exceptions to the law, except if the child died. Likewise, the rabbis ruled that the duration of the waiting period would …
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David Lefkowitz of Dallas: A Rabbi for all Seasons
… minutes of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, minutes of the Board of Directors' Meetings of the Dallas Jewish Welfare Federation, the Temple Emanu-El Bulletins, and selected sermons, speeches and letters of David Lefkowitz. David Lefkowitz was an important figure in the history of …
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Religious-Nationalism in Israel/Palestine
… on the one hand, and the religious authority of rabbis, on the other. Another phenomenon described in the dissertation is the rise of American conservative movement in the religious-Zionist community and its attempts to establish a new religious-Zionist hegemony in Israel.
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Language in Roman Caesarea Maritima
… from Caesarea, various quotations of Caesarean rabbis in works of rabbinic literature such as the Jerusalem Talmud, and the Greek writings of Eusebius and Procopius, native Caesareans, and Origen, an adopted Caesarean. I argue that Greek served as a unifying language at Caesarea across the …
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Astrology in the Torah: a comparative study of astrological themes in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmund.
… various categories, assessing whether or not the rabbis’ theological stance vis-à-vis astrology differs substantially from that of the Bible.
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Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
… purposes. Through in-depth-interviews with rabbis and converts, experiences of social inclusion and exclusion, and the meaning of conversions is understood. This study finds that regardless of the path to conversion, belonging and identity are key reasons for con-version, and that it is an …
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“Jewish, Gay and Proud”
… to understand the arguments and positions of rabbis and psychologists regarding homosexuality and communities for homosexual Jews in the early 1970s. Ultimately, the commitment and dedication of the congregation and its heterosexual supporters convinced the decision-makers in Reform Judaism. …
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Sacred ceremony and magical praxis in Jewish texts of early and late antiquity
… The absence of priestly authority allowed Rabbis to take control of everyday religious laws and customs. Concepts such as the sacred and mundane, and ritual purity and impurity, are integral to the scriptural texts. Later texts retained paradoxical notions relating to these older traditions …
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Cultural Factors and Concepts of Pollution: Colorectal Cancer and Health Behaviors among Ashkenazi Jewish Women
… participants included seven key informants (rabbis) and forty-two Ashkenazi Jewish women ages 50 and up. Methods included in-depth, qualitative interviews and focus groups. The study also utilized a demographic survey which included questions about baseline knowledge of colorectal cancer in …
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The Literary Role of Jews in Qur'anic Exegesis
… knowledge. Al-Ṭabarī, however, focuses on the rabbis of the Medinan Jews as a distinct group that led others to disbelief. Ibn Kathīr tends to generalise, portraying Jews as a collective anti-exemplar. Overall, the exegetes apply similar anti-exemplary characteristics to Jews in analogous ways …
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Találkozás a szent igazzal : A magyar nyelvű orthodox zsidó sajtó cádik-képe (1891-1944)
… Budapest, 2012. The Hassidic rebbes, Orthodox rabbis and their wives became the filters of modernity. Behind this was the need for families to meet the challenges created by the urbanisation of Budapest, the housing culture, food supply, modern work and the changing leisure time, fashion and …
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