This is the Forward’s coverage of rabbis, the spiritual leaders of Jewish congregations.
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Holy Ground This small, stubborn Appalachian synagogue is defying the odds — and so is its new rabbi
In Charleston, West Virginia, a century-old congregation is betting that a 30-something rabbi with two little kids can keep its doors open for decades
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News Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, New York Orthodox rabbinical school, ordains an out gay rabbi
The men's seminary, known as a center of Orthodox Jewish innovation, plotted a new course after controversial 2019 decision
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Yiddish World VIDEO: What Rabbi Soloveitchik said about Jewish concern for Israel
The renowned Talmudist and philosopher gave the sermon ten years after Israel’s founding
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Opinion A quiet IRS policy change could pose a massive threat to the rabbinate
There's a reason that synagogues are supposed to be apolitical spaces
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News ‘Rabbi to watch’ Sandra Lawson turns DEI focus to North Carolina
Reconstructing Judaism's Lawson will lead racial justice group in the state she now calls home
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Opinion At the forefront of French opposition to the war in Gaza, the superstar rabbi who inspired an HBO series
Decrying destruction, death and famine, Delphine Horvilleur is practicing what she's been preaching
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Culture On a clever new show, a female rabbi makes Judaism modern
'Reformed' tells the story of a French rabbi based on Delphine Horvilleur
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Yiddish World Chaim Grade’s last Yiddish novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ finally available in English
The book can be seen as a Holocaust memorial, as its events seem to foreshadow the upcoming annihilation of Polish Jewry
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