This is the Forward’s coverage of rabbis, the spiritual leaders of Jewish congregations.
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News Hey kid, do you want to be a rabbi? Facing a shortage, Conservative movement looks to teens
Only seven students have enrolled in the incoming first-year class at JTS, the Conservative movement's rabbinical school in New York
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News This lawmaker and rabbi was scheduled to deliver an invocation. His colleagues replaced him with a Christian
'So many Montanans suffered so many indignities this session that being barred from leading a prayer pales by comparison,' said Montana Rep. and Rabbi Ed Stafman
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Fast Forward Rabbi Harold Kushner, whose works of practical theology were best-sellers, dies at 88
Kushner's "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" has sold more than 4 million copies in at least 12 languages.
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Books How Harold Kushner overcame some of life’s disappointments to become a publishing juggernaut
The author of 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People' has died at the age of 88
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Letters 13 NY rabbis to Jamaal Bowman: Quit your anti-Israel charades
An open letter from 13 New York rabbis criticizes Bowman's efforts to shift U.S. policy toward Israel
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik speaks about Passover
Soloveitchik, called The Rav by his students, is considered one of the most influential leaders of Modern Orthodoxy in 20th century America.
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Opinion Russia’s Jews are caught in the messy politics of Putin’s war
Many Russian Jews, caught in a war no one asked for, are seeking a new life elsewhere
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Yiddish World VIDEO: In historic first, a female Orthodox rabbi opens prayer at a state legislature
Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
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Fast Forward Robin Kelly, running for Senate in Illinois, says Israel committed ‘genocide’
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Fast Forward Isaiah Zagar, renowned Jewish mosaic artist who created Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, dies at 86
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