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	Israel set on tragic path, says chief rabbi \| UK news \| The Guardian
		Britain's chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, today delivers an unprecedentedly strong warning to Israel, arguing that the country is adopting a stance "incompatible" with the deepest ideals of Judaism, and that the current conflict with the Palestinians is "corrupting" Israeli culture.
		The chief rabbi is bound to cause further controversy by calling for dialogue with the most extremist representatives of radical Islam.
		The chief rabbi's new book is subtitled "How to avoid the clash of civilisations", and aims to offer the world a roadmap away from disaster.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,781113,00.html (713 words)

	Chief rabbi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chief rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognised religious leader of that country's Jewish community.
		The chief rabbi of Transylvania was generally the rabbi of the city of Gyulafehérvár (also known as Alba Iulia and Karlsburg).
		Rabbi Hayyim Hirschensohn was Chief Rabbi of Hoboken from 1904 until his death, a post which included "The West, that is Jersey City, Union Hill and the Environs" (from title page of Malki Ba-Kodesh, vol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chief_Rabbi (405 words)

	Ovadia Yosef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Knesset (Israel's parliament).
		Rabbi Yosef was born in Baghdad, Iraq, part of the ancient community of Iraqi Jews, but moved to Jerusalem with his family when he was four years old.
		Rabbi Yosef is considered by Haredi Jews to be an Illui ("genius scholar") with an encyclopedic memory, and an authoritative arbiter of Halakha (posek halakhot).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ovadia_Yosef (2124 words)

	Why Did the Chief Rabbi of Rome Convert To Catholicism? -- Rabbi Tovia Singer Answers Your Questions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I understand that the chief Rabbi of Rome, Rabbi Israel Zolli was a devout and serious Orthodox Jew as well as a learned scholar of the Talmud and of Semitic literature.
		Rabbi Israel Zolli was the Chief Rabbi of Trieste for many years (35, I think) before coming to Rome.
		He was chief rabbi of Trieste after World War I, professor of Hebrew at the University of Padua from 1927 to 1938, and, from 1939, chief rabbi of Rome.
	www.outreachjudaism.org /rome.html (840 words)

	Chief Rabbi Accused Of Sexually Harassing 4 Males
		Metzger's permit to serve as a chief rabbi of a major city was taken away a few months before, in the wake of suspicions that he had violated Jewish and Israeli law on various occasions.
		Rabbi Metzger has presented a decisive position that attempts to justify his behavior, which contradicts the opinions of the greatest halakhic rulers and the Chief Rabbinate, and is unbecoming of a rabbi," the report said.
		Rabbi Metzger's opponents are unwilling to accept the electors' decision, so they have chosen to use the media to try and get at the rabbi.
	www.rense.com /general37/prSS.htm (1285 words)

	The Israeli Chief Rabbinate and the Temple Mount Question
		Rabbi Zolti, who was invited to attend the meeting as a member of the Religious Court, argued that "we are obligated to issue a formal warning" because of the penalty of kareth.
		Rabbi Halevi - who later, while Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, became a public advocate of Jewish ascent to the Mount - disagreed with the council and argued that the matter should be left to the local rabbi to inform his followers.
		Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was Chief Rabbi of Palestine 1921- 1937.
	www.jcpa.org /jpsr/s99-yc.htm (9712 words)

	CER - Conference of European Rabbis
		The Conference of European Rabbis federates Jewish religious leaders in over 40 European countries and includes all the continent's chief rabbis and senior rabbinical judges.
		Unwarranted attacks by foreign organisations condemned The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) strongly supports the Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, in his work preserving and renovating the Jewish cemetery in Slubice, western Poland.
		Rabbi Schudrich's work over many years has guaranteed that previously abandoned sites throughout Poland which were subject to neglect and deprivation have now been preserved.
	www.cer-online.org /en (426 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Israeli police to question Chief Rabbi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, one of the most powerful men in the country, will be quizzed on his return from a visit to Thailand after police were given the green light from Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, the sources said.
		The rabbi's 31-year-old son Meir Amar was arrested last Thursday for allegedly masterminding the kidnap and beating of the 17-year-old boyfriend - whom his sister Ayala first met through the internet - in a bid to save the family's honour.
		Rabbis have in the past issued edicts against the use of the internet but attempts for a blanket ban were defeated by popular pressure.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/ADB34F98-E5FB-4347-BE0D-09141511676A.htm (429 words)

	U.K. Chief Rabbi Hits Israeli Occupation
		Rabbi Sacks said, "There are things that are happening on a daily basis which make me feel very uncomfortable as a Jew." He said that he was "profoundly shocked" by reports of smiling soldiers posing for a photograph with the corpse of a slain Palestinian.
		Rabbi Sacks was also attacked by Rabbi David Rosen, a former Chief Rabbi of Ireland and now international director for inter-religious affairs of the American Jewish Committee, and by Eric Moonman, president of the Zionist Foundation.
		Rabbi Yehoshua Engelman cast Sacks in the mold of the Prophet Ezekiel, who warned, that "one who sees an injustice and does not protest against it, is a collaborator with that misdeed, and, if he is able to raise his voice and keeps silent, he is doubly culpable.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2002/2936_rabbi_vs_israel.html (1611 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a former IDF Rabbi of the Northern Command, is aghast.
		Rabbi Ariel recounted that during his tenure as Northern District Rabbi, he forbade soldiers to travel in a car to their guard posts on the Sabbath.
		Rabbi Shapira said that Rabbi Aviner of Beit El, another leading rabbi of the same sector, was wrong in stating that there is a difference between desecrating the Sabbath and uprooting communities, and that the latter "sin" is not an individual issue but rather a "sin by the State."
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=73386 (681 words)

	israelinsider: Culture: Is Chief Rabbi Amar an accomplice in the attack on his daughter's boyfriend?
		Rabbi Amar has issued an official statement denying his involvement in the abduction and beating of the ultra-Orthodox youth, who had a relationship with Amar's 18-year-old daughter Ayala.
		The chief rabbi has expressed his regret for the incident and said he would cooperate with the police investigation of the case.
		Rabbi Amar said in response to the allegations he had no involvement in the kidnapping and was sorry for the harm caused to the suitor.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Culture/5504.htm (1221 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Before the Dawn: the Mysterious Conversion of Rome's Chief Rabbi
		As Chief Rabbi of Rome during the Nazi occupation and persecution of Jews, Zolli, a keen observer of Roman life and a respected scholar, was uniquely positioned to know what both the Holy Father and the Nazis were saying and, most importantly, doing.
		Rabbi Zolli, like others who became Christians, was condemned by the Jewish elders because in their judgment he had violated God's Name by believing that the man Jesus was God.
		This is why the former Rabbi was able to say that he had not given up the Synagogue for the Church, that the one could not exist without the other.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1065 (2879 words)

	NCSJ - Ukraine's Second Chief Rabbi? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		No mention of a new “chief” rabbi was made, and the ceremony focused instead on Haikin’s leadership of the country’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement and the Chabad-affiliated Federation of Jewish Communities, the largest Jewish communal group in the former Soviet Union.
		In these countries, the post of chief rabbi is significant not only to Jews, but also to the nations’ governments, who often look to the chief rabbi as the representative and chief liaison of their country’s Jewish community.
		Rabbi Alexander Dukhovny, who said he is the elected chief Reform rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine, said that, as before, he will not recognize the authority of any Orthodox chief rabbi of Ukraine who attempts to speak for the Reform movement.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/091503JTA_Ukraine.shtml (984 words)

	NCSJ - New Lithuanian Chief Rabbi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rabbi Sholom Krinsky, the Chabad emissary who has served in Vilnius for a decade, said he was being ignored by the Association of Jewish Religious Communities of Lithuania because it now wants to be the heir of Holocaust-era property.
		Rabbi Chaim Burshtein, 38, who has served as one of the chief rabbis of St. Petersburg for the past two years, was picked at a meeting last week of Lithuania's Jewish association.
		"Rabbi Metzger expressed regrets that he caused such a furor, and that it was not his intention to create any kind of rift between the Jewish community in Vilnius and the Chief Rabbinate in Israel.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/032604Forward_Burshtein.shtml (654 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And while Rabbi Metzger, according to a recent analysis in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “was undoubtedly the most moderate and most Zionist candidate” of the prospective chief rabbis, one who said he wants to present a friendlier face of Orthodox Judaism, he makes clear where his theological loyalty lies.
		Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, who has helped spearhead his movement’s effort for recognition and government funding in Israel, said he is not impressed by Rabbi Metzger’s remarks.
		Rabbi Metzger, who studied at the Kerem BeYavneh hesder yeshiva and served as an army chaplain, became chief rabbi amid a flurry of accusations.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=8694 (966 words)

	CNS STORY: Jews, Christians called to work together, pope tells chief rabbi
		Rabbi Di Segni told Pope Benedict that a fresco in a Rome chapel shows a pope and a rabbi standing before the emperor, engaged in a contest to demonstrate who had greater power.
		Rabbi Di Segni said Catholic-Jewish relations around the world and in Rome improved tremendously under Pope John Paul II and he was sure progress would continue with Pope Benedict, whose theological counsel supported the decisions of his predecessor.
		The rabbi told Pope Benedict that the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul's visit to the Rome synagogue would be marked in April.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0600252.htm (524 words)

	Jewish Post - News - Brussels's Chief Rabbi Attacked by Arabs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Center's European office reported that the Chief Rabbi of Brussels was assaulted at the Clemenceau Metro Station by five Arab thugs.
		The letter of protest to the Ambassador, written by Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal read in part: "This is an outrage against the Jewish community, which comes at a particularly sensitive time and should be dealt with severely by the authorities.
		Rabbi Hier also asked for a full investigation into the matter and urged that the perpetrators be brought to justice.
	www.jewishpost.com /jp0801/jpn0801n.htm (181 words)

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		Chief Rabbi Jacob Meir then rose and in a learned and interesting address, dwelt on the Biblical verses "Honor the Lord out of your wealth" and "Read not thy sons but thy builders." "Hitherto," said Rabbi Meir, "Rabbi Kook had to move from place to place and house to house, involving many difficulties and inconveniences.
		Rabbi Duber Abramowitz of St. Louis, spoke on behalf of the Administration of the Vaud Hakloli (Central Committee).
		Rabbi Goldstein in the course of his remarks said that it was customary in America.
	www.math.psu.edu /glasner/Dor4/fischel_rav_kook.html (2721 words)

	FJC \| News \| Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Visits Donetsk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While at the synagogue, the Chief Rabbi of the Donbass Region, Pinchas Vyshedsky, told Rabbi Chaikin about the history of the synagogue, which is nearly a century old, and its first Rabbi, Shmuel Kodkin, who was later repressed by Communist authorities in the 1920s.
		A key point of the Chief Rabbi's visit to Donetsk was his meeting with the Chairman of the Donetsk Regional Administration, Anatoly Blizniuk.
		Rabbi Azriel Chaikin marked how happy he was to witness the warm and constructive relations between the regional authorities and the local Jewish community.
	www.fjc.ru /news/newsArticle.asp?AID=113901 (312 words)

	EJP \| News \| France \| Chief rabbi on French stamp
		Mobilized in 1939, as chaplain, he joined the chief rabbi of France in Vichy in 1940, despite having 5 children.
		In 1944 he stood in as chief rabbi of France for an interim period, and the same year he was arrested and finally but set free in exchange of a ransom.
		In 1980, he became chief rabbi of the Central Consistoire, the main Jewish organisation in France.
	www.ejpress.org /article/4366 (512 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Sir Stanley Kalms, the businessman and treasurer of the Conservative Party, said the Chief Rabbi was speaking for the vast majority of Jews, although he was critical of Dr Sacks's suggestion that he would talk to extremists.
		Last April the Chief Rabbi said Israel was waging a legitimate "war on terror" and argued that incursions into West Bank towns were "the direct equivalent" of America's war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
		Rabbi Sholom Gold, Dean of the Jerusalem College for Adults, said: "We who are living here day in and day out, our perspective is the one that really counts." He said on BBC Radio 4's The World at One that the Palestinian agenda was "the destruction of the state of Israel".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/28/nrabb28.xml (829 words)

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		Investigators are set to determine whether the rabbi was aware of the violent incident, part of which took place in his own home.
		Rabbi Amar’s aide, Shlomo Farber, told Ynet the rabbi is examining the possibility of returning to Israel earlier than planned.
		The rabbi's son, Meir Amar, who has been leading a secular life for the past 20 years and has a criminal record, is the prime suspect in the investigation.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3082488,00.html (584 words)

	YayYaishYaishuYaishuaMeshichainu: rabbi daniel tzion: chief rabbi and believer in Christ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rabbi Daniel Zion z"lThe Chief Rabbi of Bulgarian Jews During World War II The first record of Jews in Sofia, Bulgaria, is from 811 A.D. Before that time the center of Jewish life, which has a continues existence in Bulgaria since the early days of the Roman Empire, was in the city of Viddin.
		Rabbi Daniel Zion served the community and was elected to be the chief Rabbi of Bulgaria.
		Rabbi Daniel Zion gathered all the Jews in the central synagogue of Sofia, which is the second largest synagogue in all of Europe.
	jesusoverisrael.blogspot.com /2005/09/rabbi-daniel-tzion-chief-rabbi-and.html (18524 words)

	AOJS
		It was in Ireland that he met and married Amelie Munk, herself the daughter of a prominent rabbi, who became his lifelong partner and energetic companion in all his endeavors.
		In 1967, Rav Jakobovits was appointed Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth.
		While Chief Rabbi of England and, later, as a member of the House of Lords, the opinions of Rav Jakobovits were sought by religious leaders, academics and medical professionals from around the world.
	www.aojs.org /HaRav.asp (559 words)

	Andrew Sullivan \| The Daily Dish: Moscow's Chief Rabbi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"A word about the current "Chief Rabbi" of Moscow: he is a representative of the Chabad-Lubavitch hasidic sect.
		Many - probably most--of them believe that their late leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (now dead about 10 years) was the messiah, and expect him to "return".
		Anyhow, they have insinuated themselves into Russian Jewry through a combination of vigorous outreach and getting into bed with Putin, which is how an American-born rabbi like Berl Lazar ended up as the "chief rabbi" of Moscow.
	time.blogs.com /daily_dish/2006/02/moscows_chief_r.html?promoid=rss_daily_dish (217 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar commented on the catastrophe in southeast Asia, saying we must increase good deeds and pray for Divine mercy.
		Israel's Chief Sephardi Rabbi Amar was asked, among other questions, about the situation of "agunah" - a woman who is apparently widowed but unable to marry again because there is no proof of her husband's death.
		As opposed to the world-wide flood at the time of Noah, the latest "Divine anger," as Rabbi Amar described it, was focused on southeast Asia, where the continuously rising number of victims has climbed past 135,000.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=74503 (604 words)

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