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Penitents Compete is a Turkish reality television series in which a Jewish rabbi , a Buddhist monk , a Greek Orthodox priest , and a Muslim imam try to convert atheists ?
although it was founded in 1924, Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, California , did not hire its first rabbi until 1963?
Paula Ackerman was the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the United States ?
Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is named for the famous Jewish philosopher , rabbi and physician Maimonides (pictured) ?
Haskel Lookstein , who succeeded his father Joseph Lookstein as Rabbi of New York City 's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in 1979, was Newsweek magazine's second-ranked U.S. pulpit rabbi in 2008?
an illustration for Hans Christian Andersen 's "The Most Incredible Thing " was published during the Nazi occupation of Denmark that depicted a rabbi striking a semi-naked Aryan ?
pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism ?
the former Rabbi of New York City 's Fifth Avenue Synagogue , Emanuel Rackman , came under fire for helping agunot women obtain marriage annulments ?
the Mount Zion Temple organized the first synagogue and was led by the first rabbi in Minnesota ?
the Soviet atheist magazine Bezbozhnik (cover pictured) accused some rabbis of having organized anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire ?
the Silesian -born scholar Heimann Hariton Tiktin , one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics was initially destined to become a rabbi ?
Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa ?
Baruch Steinberg was the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and died a year later as a Soviet prisoner of war in the Katyn massacre ?
Rabbi Judith Hauptman has written extensively on the treatment of women in her scholarly articles on the Jewish Talmud ?
Rabbi Leon Klenicki called the We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah significant in establishing that "the deniers of the Holocaust in Europe now have to deal with the Vatican "?
Rabbi Joshua L. Liebman ’s self-help book Peace of Mind spent more than a year at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list ?
Rabbi David Wolpe proposed that the name of Conservative Judaism be changed to Covenantal Judaism to better encompass the view that rabbinic law is both binding and evolving?
Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz ' s The Laws of Pesach —considered an authoritative text on the observance of Passover by many North American Jews —started as a privately distributed newsletter?
Rabbi Tobias Geffen convinced the makers of Coca-Cola to change its secret formula in 1935 so he could certify that the beverage was kosher ?
rabbi Dow Ber Meisels of Kraków and Warsaw was a prominent supporter of Polish independence, including both the November (artist's impression pictured) and January Uprisings ?
Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue in Glen Wild, New York , is so small it has never had its own rabbi ?
Alysa Stanton is the first African American female rabbi ?
Abraham Klausner was the first rabbi at the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated?
American Chabad Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin has been convicted of fraud twice?
Chabad rabbi Milton Balkany misappropriated more than $700,000 of federal grant money from a charitable organisation that cared for disabled children?
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Question 2 : Modern Orthodox rabbinical students, such as those at ________ , study some elements of modern theology or philosophy, as well as the classical rabbinic works on such subjects.
Question 3 : Consequently, within the world of ________ , the English word and title of "Rabbi" for anyone is often scorned and derided, because in their view the once-lofty title of "Rabbi" has been debased in modern times.
Question 5 : The word rabbi derives from the ________ root word רַב , rav , which in biblical Hebrew means ‘great’ in many senses, including "revered".
Question 7 : Other variants are rəvī and, in ________ , rebbə .
Question 8 : This idea was traditionally considered outside the bounds of ________ .
Question 9 : This is illustrated by an two-thousand-year-old teaching in the Mishnah , ________ (Pirkei Avot ), which observed about King David ,
Question 10 : ________ Rabbinical School also requires an undergraduate degree before entering the program.