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  2. Alexander M. Schindler - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Moshe Schindler (October 4, 1925 – November 15, 2000) was a rabbi and the leading figure of American Jewry and Reform Judaism during the 1970s and 1980s. [1] One of the last European-born leaders of American Reform Jewry, he served as president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) for 23 years.

  3. Bitburg controversy - Wikipedia

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    Equating Nazi soldiers with Holocaust victims, responded Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, was "a callous offence for the Jewish people". Some believed Communications Director Pat Buchanan had written the statement, which he denied in 1999. [ 4 ]

  4. Oyfn Pripetshik - Wikipedia

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    Schindler's List (1993) Brothers & Sisters , season 1, episode 10, "Light the Lights" (2006) Little House on the Prairie (1979) in season 5, episode 15, "The Craftsman", in multiple scenes with Isaac Singerman, a Jewish master woodworker who befriends Albert, and (1981) in season 7, episode 13, "Come Let us reason", in the scene where Percival ...

  5. Reform Judaism outreach - Wikipedia

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    Reform Outreach was first proposed by Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, then president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), the congregational arm of Reform Judaism in North America, at a meeting of the organization's Board of Trustees on December 2, 1978 in Houston, Texas. Deploring the rising rate of intermarriage, which he ...

  6. Jewish rock - Wikipedia

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    Jewish rock is a form of contemporary Jewish religious music that is influenced by various forms of secular rock music.Pioneered by contemporary folk artists like Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the Diaspora Yeshiva Band, the genre gained popularity in the 1990s and 2000s with bands like Soulfarm, Blue Fringe, and Moshav Band that appealed to teens and college students, while artists like Matisyahu ...

  7. Diaspora Yeshiva Band - Wikipedia

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    [12] [18] In 1977 they were invited to compete in the Chassidic Song Festival, an Israeli competition that ran from 1969 to 1984 and broadcast on national television. [11] Diaspora Yeshiva Band was the first yeshiva band to perform at the largely secular music event, and won first prize for its song "Hu Yiftach Libeinu" (He will open our hearts ...

  8. Yitzchak Meir Alter - Wikipedia

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    Yitzchak Meir Rotenberg-Alter (Yiddish: יצחק מאיר אלטער, Polish: Icchak Meir Rothenberg Alter, Hebrew: יצחק מאיר אלתר) ‎(1799 – 10 March 1866), was the first Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty, which he founded in the town of Góra Kalwaria (known as "Ger" in Yiddish), Poland.

  9. Zidichov (Hasidic dynasty) - Wikipedia

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    Rabbi Yehoshia Heshl Eichenstein of Khodorov, son of Rabbi Alexander Yom Tov Lipa of Ziditshov Rabbi Yisochor Berish Eichenstein of Khodorov (d. 1918), son of Rabbi Yehoshia Heshl of Khodorov Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Heshl Eichenstein of Ziditshov-Chicago (moved from Galitzia to Chicago in 1922) [ 2 ] (d. 1940), son of Rabbi Yisochor Berish of Khodorov