Sentences with phrase «group of rabbis»

Correction: January 10, 2006, Tuesday A front - page article on Friday about the Bloomberg administration's public health campaign regarding a circumcision rite practiced by some Orthodox Jews gave incorrect names in some copies for the group of rabbis opposing the campaign.

Before a group of rabbis he once gave learned arguments for the precedence of the Passover over the Sabbath when Passover fell on a Sabbath day.

(CNN)-- Video of GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry dancing with a group of rabbis during Hanukkah surfaces on YouTube.

Suppose a group of rabbis from Israel were to make a highly publicized visit to Rome for the purpose of furthering peace, harmony, and fraternal dialogue.

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Responding to these kinds of questions, a group of Jewish rabbis and scholars issued a statement, «Dabru Emet» («Speak Truth»), on the eve of Yom Kippur 2000.

We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.

At a recent gathering hosted by The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, which asked precisely that question, just about the only thing the group of leading Jewish scholars, writers, rabbis, and professors could agree on was that there is no longer one story, narrative, or idea that could hold the totality or even a majority of Jews together.

From CNN's Kelly Marshall: Hours before the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a measure Thursday that would repeal «don't ask, don't tell,» a group of pastors, priests and rabbis gathered in the Capitol to encourage lawmakers to retain the ban on gays in the military.

Beck's comments came after a group of 400 rabbis, many from the Reform movement, took out a full - page ad in The Wall Street Journal blasting him for comments he made about the Holocaust.

Messianic Jews say their relationships with other Jews, even other rabbis, are much better than the statements of Jewish spokespersons and watchdog groups would suggest.

Religion News Service: Orthodox rabbis laud conviction of Hasidic man on sexual abuse charges The world's largest group of Orthodox rabbis is lauding the process that led to the conviction of a Hasidic Jewish man on Monday (Dec. 10) on sexual abuse charges, and called on all segments of the Jewish community to cooperate with police in such cases.

Just days after criminal charges were filed against a rabbi in Germany for performing circumcisions comes major news from Yair Rosenberg in Tablet magazine: America's leading group of pediatricians is set to endorse the procedure.

The group of judges included food experts, TV personalities, a rabbi and the priest.

Such student groups are ecumenical; Catholic priests and Jewish rabbis as well as Protestants of all theological persuasions are accepted.

As a group their knowledge of Jewish law, text, and theology was as shaky as their consciousness of elevated status was keen, so that they regarded the German rabbis on whom they often depended as their social inferiors.

For those several people who asked, on air, whether the US had the advice of Muslim religious heads: there are Muslim chaplains aboard with all military groups just as there are Protestant and Catholic ministers, Jewish rabbis, etc..

The suit, filed by several Jewish groups and three rabbis on October 4, argues that «the government can not compel the transmission of messages that the speaker does not want to express - especially when the speaker is operating in an area of heightened First Amendment protection, such as a religious ritual.»

Besides the fact that most humor comes from some inappropriate pairing of themes («A priest, a rabbi and a prostitute walk into a bar...»), it's always ironic to me to see a group of right - wingers freaking out about some creative endeavor that doesn't bother to take Christianity or some other part of Traditional America seriously, when they also freaked out about Muslims freaking out over cartoons about the Prophet.

During a «Today» show interview this morning, GOP / Conservative gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino stood by the anti-gay remarks he delivered to a group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Williamsburg yesterday, but also rejected the part of the pre-prepared speech he didn't deliver, saying it would be «unacceptable» to call gays «dysfunctional.»

«Multiculturalism has had its day,» Britain's chief rabbi argued today, as he issued a warning that ethnic and religious groups risk «putting our people's interest [ahead] of the national interest.»

Since more and more religious groups are accepting of and even ordaining gays and lesbians as ministers or rabbis, it contradicts any notion that «god» hates queer folks and created them as something less than straight people.

A group of anti-gay Orthodox hasidim shoved openly lesbian rabbi Sharon Kleinbam out of a photo op with Senator Ruben Diaz in front of reporters in Albany yesterday.

Dovid has risen in the ranks of the Orthodoxy as a rabbi and Esti is now his wife, creating odd maneuverability around what their group has been and how it has changed.

László Nemes» Son of Saul focuses on a group of Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, (the Jewish prisoners forced to work on the Nazi death camps) and in particular, Saul who amid the chaos of his situation, tries to find a rabbi to bury a child who is among one of the many dead from a recent gassing.

When I discovered the Mayanot group I was so excited that I didn't realize it was affiliated with Chabad (a Hasidic movement in Orthodox Judaism) until midway through the trip when my rabbi tour guide changed out of his everyday garb and broke out his traditional black suit and fedora.

Scoles» decision has drawn criticism from rabbis and Jewish groups who believe that the judge improperly assumed that Rubashkin was more likely to be a flight risk because, as a Jew, he could take advantage of the Law of Return to flee the country before trial.

Members of our Tax Group advise clients regarding the federal, state and local income tax consequences of various types of compensation arrangements, ranging from nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, including rabbi trusts and secular trusts, to complex equity incentive arrangements for participants in partnerships and limited liability companies.

We were founded by a group of volunteer lawyers and rabbis who saw a need in the community there, around Fairfax and aging population, folks who were getting evicted from their homes as the area redeveloped, stories like that, and very quickly after opening their doors for their first Wednesday night walk - in clinic realized that the need for legal services extended far beyond the community there and quickly decided that there needed to be a legal services provider for Los Angeles, for all of the neighborhoods of LA, for all of the people in LA who could not afford a lawyer, but needed one to ensure access to the basic necessities of life.