"The range is staggering," writes Rabbi Irving Greenberg in his modern classic, "The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays" (1988).
These questions range from the more profound, like, "Rabbi, what happens after we die?" to the very mundane, "Rabbi, is this yogurt kosher?" As I became older, I began to feel much less confident in my ability to know the answers to all of these questions.
The reaction to the rabbi's talk ranged from admiration at his courage to dismay at his timing to anger at his audacity.
Last week I was one of several rabbis from a range of religious denominations meeting with a senior Israeli diplomat at the Israeli Embassy to deliver a letter asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel plans to construct a new settlement in the E1 zone.
Jewish rabbis like Jesus, whose wide range of quotations from biblical and other sources clearly depict an educated man, would not have attracted gullible dreamers who were awaiting his immediate supernatural return.
June 9 , 1921Lubaczow, Poland April 17, 2006 Westwood, New Jersey Arthur Hertzberg, (born June 9 , 1921 Lubaczow, Pol. died April 17, 2006, Westwood, N.J.), American rabbi and intellectual who, advocated for a range of causes, including the creation of Israel and civil rights for minorities.
Rabbi Brickner's writings touched on a wide range of religious and philosophical questions.
Most were working-class, but the range of careers was broad: longshoreman, schoolteacher, miner, vaudeville acrobat, rabbi, and at least one New Yorker fact-checker.
"We're trying to be a voice of reason and calm," Rabbi Jim Bennett, who oversees the St . LouisRabbinical Association, which represents a range of Jewish denominations, said.
