Sentences with phrase «served as the rabbi»

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The book of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic rabbis and Church Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.

Among his many activities, Juster serves on the board of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America, holds extensive discussions with rabbis in the Washington, D.C., area, and was invited as a participant in the 1980 dialogue between evangelicals and Jews.

Within this continuing community were particular individuals who served as exemplars in subsequent recollection: Abraham, Moses, David, the great prophets, priests and rabbis.

A 2012 Rabbis Without Borders Fellow, she participated in a 2009 retreat for Emerging Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders in 2009, and in 2014 will serve as faculty for that retreat.

My neighbor the rabbi served a faith community that never had any illusions about its stance in the world: if its children were to grow up Jews, they would do so as strangers in a strange land.

Simcha Goldman, an Orthodox Jew and ordained rabbi serving as a clinical psychologist in an Air Force hospital, wore a yarmulke at all times and contended that an Air Force dress code regulation which forbade the wearing of «headgear» (such as a yarmulke) while indoors infringed upon his First Amendment right to free exercise of his religious belief.

Women were also forbidden to be rabbis because the Bible seemed to preclude their serving as judges and acting as a judge is an important element in a rabbi's job description.

As a respected rabbi in a Hasidic Judaic community, the backwards stares and cloistered whispers of everyone around as she enters rooms and walks down the street serve as a recurring cultural lifestyle contrast that won't allow anyone happinesAs a respected rabbi in a Hasidic Judaic community, the backwards stares and cloistered whispers of everyone around as she enters rooms and walks down the street serve as a recurring cultural lifestyle contrast that won't allow anyone happinesas she enters rooms and walks down the street serve as a recurring cultural lifestyle contrast that won't allow anyone happinesas a recurring cultural lifestyle contrast that won't allow anyone happiness.

A therapist, rabbi, clergy member, mediator or lawyer might serve as this third party, says Susan Pease Gadoua, a licensed clinical social worker and author of «Contemplating Divorce.»