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The Internal Revenue Service issued a private ruling in 1980 regarding the legality of a trust that members of a synagogue created to compensate their rabbi. [1] Revenue Procedure 92-64 further clarified the acceptable rules for rabbi trusts along with a model trust document and the required features to avoid constructive receipt of income to the employee.
In practical terms, Jewish communities and individuals commonly proffer allegiance to the authority of the rabbi they have chosen. Such a rabbinic leader is sometimes called the "Master of the Locale" (mara d'atra). [12] Jewish individuals may acknowledge the authority of other rabbis but will defer legal decisions to the mara d'atra. [13]
The current American use of "Judeo-Christian" — to refer to a value system common to Jews and Christians — first appeared in print on 11 July 1939 in a book review by the English writer George Orwell, with the phrase "… incapable of acting meanly, a thing that carries no weight the Judaeo-Christian scheme of morals."
Robert E. Lee was the principal of Nathan Bishop Middle School in Providence, Rhode Island.He invited a rabbi to deliver a prayer at the 1989 graduation ceremony, but the day before the ceremony, the parents of student Deborah Weisman filed a motion in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island for a temporary restraining order to bar the rabbi from delivering the ...
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Rabbi Karen Levy speaks about what Oraynu stands for “Secular Humanistic Judaism is the smallest movement in the Jewish world today. Yet, our ethical principles -- secularism, equality, democracy, freedom, Jewish rationalism, creativity and social responsibility -- have had as great an impact in the Jewish world as any other set of Jewish ...
Lord Denning MR held the trust was valid, and the Chief Rabbi could resolve any uncertainty. The trust, however, would have been valid even if the Chief Rabbi had not been identified. Sir Adolph Tuck's family. Sir Adolph himself died on 3 July 1926, leaving two sons and three daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir William Tuck.
Tucker, in his writings about the Torah and the nature of divine revelation, is a leader within Conservative Judaism in articulating a position between the traditional view that the Torah is of divine origin, and a secular view, in which the Torah is seen entirely as a work of human creation. He writes, "It is the particular characteristic of ...