Results for “Chief Rabbi of Spain”

…. For more detailed biographical information, see Appendix A. Name Position Ron Packard Chairman and Founder / acting Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors John Baule Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Bror Saxberg Senior Vice Presiden...

… fact, Dan was the reason I’d made one of my rare forays into kirya politics not long after Moshe Vechetzi took over as chief of staff, when Misha Arens was still Defense Minister. I acted to derail what seemed to me a blatant attempt by Moshe to advance Drori’s and Amnon Lipkin’...

There is more to life than increasing its speed. —MOHANDAS GANDHI L, February of 2004, I was miserable and overworked. My travel fantasy began as a plan to visit Costa Rica in March 2004 for four weeks of Spanish and relaxation. I needed a recharge and four weeks seemed “reason...

… ascension to an ecstatic state accompanied by great intuitive powers, which Abulafia called “prophesy.” Ibn Adret, the Chief Rabbi of Spain at the end of the Thirteenth Century, banished Abulafia from the Country, a Century before the Spanish Inquisition ousted all the Jews. Fo...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 One day while he was hearing arguments, and I was working in the office, I received a note from the Justice asking me whether it was required under Jewish law that an orthodox woman always wears a hat, even while arguing a case in the Supreme Court. The Supreme...

episodes of rageful envy of everyone else in the world that had been spared. My wife escaped into an alcoholic flirtation with her major professor; my sons grew increasingly ensconced in the generous and kind neighborhood homes of their playmates. | metered as many hours as possi...

11/5/2015 Yitzhak Rabin's Moral Answer to the Israeli Dilemma of Peace and Survival - US News times in your history been deserted. All Americans could take pride in President Clinton's splendid eulogy; in the uniqueness of America's compassion and friendship that extended beyon...

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is proposing and advocating solutions to mounting religious

Rabbi Lord Sacks is a key Jewish voice for universalism and an embrace of tolerance

not merely accorded by the title of Rabbi. The same kind of creative and challenging

don’t eat shrimp—and to ask our Rabbi what to

4.2.12 WC: 191694 my head as a 55 year old memory association from a high school English class in which we had to memorize the author's various works that we read but probably didn't understand. (To show how little has changed in more than half a century of poor education, my da...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 and Ralph Branca (whose mother, it now turns out, was Jewish!). Jackie Robinson, who was our real hero, generally was driven to the stadium for safety reasons. I will never forget Jackie Robinson’s first game with the Dodgers. We persuaded our European-born rab...

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is proposing and advocating solutions to mounting religious

93. An ultra-Orthodox rabbi who galvanized