Rabbis

Also in attendance were Rabbi Matthew Abelson, executive director of StandWithUs Rabbis United division, and dozens of rabbis from across the country who were in Los Angeles for a StandWithUs Rabbis United gathering.

From the goatees of pre-war German rabbis and post-war American rabbis, to the never-groomed beards of Chabadniks, to the thick mustaches of religious Zionists in the 1970s and 1980s, facial hair can signal group identity and ideological affiliation.

Though congregants turn to their rabbis for clarity on moral issues and guidance on how to process the politics of the modern world using Jewish values, rabbis are occupying a similar vulnerable space as their congregants.

All tankers need to be washed and sealed by rabbis before they can be reloaded, and any holding tanks must also be monitored by rabbis.

It is time for rabbis and their congregations engaging in this unOrthodox behavior by hiring female rabbis to show some integrity and resign from the RCA and OU.

It’s hard for women in the Conservative movement to become senior rabbis, even to become assistant rabbis in large congregations.

The agreement, first reported by Israel Hayom on Monday, was confirmed by the coalition of some 700 European Orthodox rabbis — which includes the chief rabbis of the UK and France — on Monday night.

The ultra-Orthodox-dominated Rabbinate has never recognized non-Orthodox rabbis or conversions, and in the past few years, it has questioned the credentials of a few of the leading liberal Orthodox rabbis.

Although they would rarely look to Reform or Reconstructionist rabbis for Halakhic decisions, they accept the legitimacy of these rabbis' religious leadership.

As a general rule within Orthodoxy and among some in the Conservative movement, rabbis are reluctant to accept the authority of other rabbis whose Halakhic standards are not as strict as their own.

In addition to training and ordaining women and openly LGBT people as rabbis and cantors, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has trained and ordained openly transgender people as rabbis (see Elliot Kukla and Reuben Zellman ).

Later commentaries were accepted by many rabbis as final; however, other rabbis may disagree.

Orthodox rabbis do not recognize conversions by non-Orthodox rabbis.

Since then many Orthodox rabbis have approved of his work, including Rabbis Shlomo Kluger, Yoseph Shaul Ha-Levi Natanzohn, Yaaqov Ettlinger, Isaac Elhanan Spektor and Shimon Sofer.

The Babylonian Talmud records the opinions of the rabbis of the Ma'arava (the West, meaning Israel/Palestine) as well as of those of Babylonia, while the Jerusalem Talmud only seldom cites the Babylonian rabbis.

The message of other rabbis rings a similar note; no rabbis profiled in the symposium believed that most non-Orthodox Jews would ever convert to Orthodoxy.

These seminaries are accepted by all non-Orthodox rabbis as valid rabbinical seminaries, and they all ordain women as well as men (and openly LGBT people) as rabbis and cantors.

When different rabbis forwarded conflicting interpretations, they sometimes appealed to hermeneutic principles to legitimize their arguments; some rabbis claim that these principles were themselves revealed by God to Moses at Sinai.

All practicing American rabbonim (Orthodox rabbis) know they secretly undertake lineage investigations before conducting weddings for anyone not engaged in their communitiesbecause odds are that one or both prospective spouses is not Jewish.

And the Israelite Board of Rabbis’ rejection of factions that preach disdain for Jews does not make it a recognized movement of worldwide mainstream Jewry, nor does it affect the halachic status of its members or the congregants under their guidance.