Arthur Hertzberg
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Arthur Hertzberg was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg in 1972
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A rabbi is a Jewish preacher and religious leader in Judaism. A person becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi — known as Semikhah — following a course of study of Jewish history and texts,
Arthur Hertzberg
…kabbalistic books and the writing of the chasidim were less worthy as compared to the Iliad, the Odyssey or Dante's Inferno. His father was an Orthodox rabbi trained in Eastern Europe, who taught Arthur to appreciate the richness of the Talmud and the other great works of Judaism. Although Hertzberg would…
Portrait of a Rabbi, Emil Orlík, 1901
Inscribed door lintel mentioning the beth midrash of 3rd-century rabbi Eleazar ha-Kappar. On display at the Golan Archaeological Museum, Katzrin
Jewish chaplain insignia, U.S. Air Force
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a leading Rabbinical authority for Orthodox Judaism of the second half of the twentieth century