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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?