Word: rabby
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...wholesale-retail space in midtown Manhattan, is peppered with actors, musicians, some designers for DKNY and others at home among racks of classy outfits destined for sale at Barney's or Bergdorf Goodman. Even the speaker looks swank, in perfectly coordinated suit and tie and black velvet yarmulke. But Rabbi Abraham Hardoon is not here to talk pret-a-porter; he is discoursing on the ancient esoteric Jewish tradition of Kabbalah...
...wrote the best-selling The Jew in the Lotus, has chronicled that growing recognition in a sequel released last month, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters. He is part of a publishing mini-boom. Jewish Lights, a small house whose star is mystically oriented Reform rabbi and NPR commentator Lawrence Kushner, expects to sell 200,000 books this year. God Is a Verb, a Kabbalistic primer by Rabbi David Cooper, recently tore through three printings in two weeks. Says a publishing spokesman: "Every Jewish book that comes through, whether we buy it or not, people want...
Twersky, an associate of Dudley House, was an authority on Rabbinical literature and Jewish thought, as well as a leader in Brookline's Jewish community. The rabbi's local funeral took place on Monday. His body was then transported to Israel for burial, according to an obituary in yesterday's Boston Globe...
Twersky's father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, founded the school, which Rosenberg called the "oldest and largest Jewish day school in New England...
Many students said they liked the services and the rabbi's words...