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rabbi

[rab-ahy] / ˈræb aɪ /
NOUN
clergyman
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He concludes by envisioning the day he’ll see a rabbi in a Reform synagogue wearing a baseball cap.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Getzy Markowitz, a rabbi who works in the area, said the shooting took place in a community with multiple Jewish institutions, including educational centers and a food bank.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

The rabbi for the modern-day yeshiva declined to comment to the BBC.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

Pulte and Bemporad, the rabbi, did not, Bemporad says.

From Salon Jun. 9, 2026

Tillie Nachman volunteered to do the invitations, and Rabbi Friedman, who was a rabbi in his former life, said he would perform the ceremony even though Margaret Draper was not Jewish and Izzy Diamondstein was.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

May 20, 2026A previous version of this story stated the homes of two Kehillat Israel rabbis had burned in the fire.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

But the great, and sociologically accurate, joke about bar mitzvahs among the Jewish has three rabbis at lunch each discussing his problem with mice in his synagogue.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

There have been heated hearings in Israel's parliament involving rabbis, doctors, lawyers and security officials.

From BBC Jan. 31, 2026

Some ultra-Orthodox rabbis fear that conscription will make young people less religious, but others accept that those who do not study holy texts full-time can enlist.

From Barron's Oct. 30, 2025

The generic rubric ‘theists’ covers Jewish rabbis from eighteenth-century Poland, witch-burning Puritans from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Aztec priests from fifteenth-century Mexico, Sufi mystics from twelfth-century Iran, tenth-century Viking warriors, second-century Roman legionnaires, and first-century Chinese bureaucrats.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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