Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Rabbinical courts are part of the Israeli legal system, which operates religious courts in parallel to the civil court system. The system, inherited from the previous British mandate system, grants religious courts jurisdiction over personal status matters such as marriage and divorce. [ 1 ]
Born in Chicago, Landes studied in Chicago with Rabbi M.B. Sacks, the Menachem Tzion; in Israel with Reb Aryeh Levin, Zvi Yehuda Kook, and the chief rabbi, R. Avrum Shapiro; in New York with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; and in Los Angeles with Din R. Shmuel Katz (on whose rabbinical court he served).
There are twelve regional rabbinic courts, a special conversion court, and the Great Rabbinical Court which acts as an appellate court. The Great Rabbinical Court is chaired by one of two Chief Rabbis of Israel. Divorce of a Jewish couple can only be obtained at the Rabbinical Batei Din.
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
The proposal called for funding for pro-Israel security companies. A Los Angeles City Council proposal to give $1 million in security services to Jewish houses of worship, community centers and ...
Law enforcement sources said more than 150 people converged on the temple, and it took time for the Los Angeles Police Department to get enough personnel to the scene. Protest violence outside L.A ...
Following is a listing of rabbinical schools, organized by denomination.The emphasis of the training will differ correspondingly: Orthodox Semikha centers on the study of Talmud-based halacha (Jewish law), while in other programs, the emphasis may shift to "the other functions of a modern rabbi such as preaching, counselling, and pastoral work.” [1] [2] Conservative Yeshivot occupy a ...
Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, also called The Sephardic Temple, is an unaffiliated Jewish congregation and synagogue that adopts Sephardi nusach, located at 10500 Wilshire Boulevard, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, in the United States. Established on February 1, 1920 as the "Sephardic Community of Los Angeles", the congregation ...