Read more rabbi stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/33086/rabbi.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:54:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70339/crocs-too-comfy-for-yom-kippur-rabbi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Lithuanian rabbi has ruled that Crocs should not be worn during Yom Kippur because the sandals are too comfortable, Ynet news reports. Rabbi Elyashiv based his judgment on a prohibition against leather sandals, saying they were banned because they fail to provide an appropriate level of suffering for the...http://www.newser.com/story/70339/crocs-too-comfy-for-yom-kippur-rabbi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 25 Sep 2009 17:47:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65124/nj-mayors-ny-rabbis-busted-in-corruption-probe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn a huge corruption bust, FBI agents arrested 30 people today, including the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, the deputy mayor of Jersey City, a New Jersey assemblyman, and several Brooklyn and New Jersey rabbis, the Star-Ledger reports. The arrests stem from a 2-year money-laundering probe centered on New York’s...http://www.newser.com/story/65124/nj-mayors-ny-rabbis-busted-in-corruption-probe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 9:34:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61990/us-gets-its-first-black-female-rabbi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLast week Alysa Stanton was ordained as a rabbi at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, one of the country's oldest synagogues, and a little history was made—the US had its first black female leader of a Jewish congregation. Stanton, born a Pentecostal Christian, converted in 1987, enduring hostility...http://www.newser.com/story/61990/us-gets-its-first-black-female-rabbi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Jun 2009 6:43:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61904/jews-eat-up-kosher-koogle-search-engine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOrthodox Jews have long been discouraged from searching the Internet due to rabbinical restrictions on viewing immodest content. No longer, Reuters reports. Enter Koogle—the name is a mashup of Google and a traditional Jewish noodle dish—a Hebrew-language search engine that filters out non-kosher content and appears to meet...http://www.newser.com/story/61904/jews-eat-up-kosher-koogle-search-engine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Jun 2009 13:34:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58897/rabbi-seeks-boycott-of-revolting-mannequins.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Israeli rabbi has called for a boycott of shops that display scantily clad mannequins, AFP reports. Mannequins and "obscene photographs" of models wearing swimsuits or underwear "elicit sorrow among the passers-by," said the rabbi. Stores in the northern city of Tiberias that keep their racy displays will lose their...http://www.newser.com/story/58897/rabbi-seeks-boycott-of-revolting-mannequins.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 13 May 2009 14:21:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54330/israeli-army-rabbis-preached-hate-during-gaza-assault.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDuring Israel’s recent Gaza offensive, an increasingly influential corps of military rabbis cast the conflict as one to “expel the non-Jews” from Israel, the Los Angeles Times reports. “This rabbi comes to us and says the fight is between the children of light and the children of darkness,” one soldier...http://www.newser.com/story/54330/israeli-army-rabbis-preached-hate-during-gaza-assault.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 25 Mar 2009 9:49:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53823/pope-must-hide-cross-at-jerusalem-site-rabbi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPope Benedict XVI plans to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem next month as a show of mutual understanding and sensitivity between Catholicism and Judaism—but a request from a prominent rabbi almost ensures he’ll offend someone, Time reports. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch said the pontiff should remove the cross he...http://www.newser.com/story/53823/pope-must-hide-cross-at-jerusalem-site-rabbi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Mar 2009 13:58:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49240/israeli-rabbis-cut-off-vatican-over-holocaust-dispute.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIsrael’s senior rabbinical body has severed ties with the Vatican, saying Bishop Richard Williamson should recant his statements denying that millions of Jews were "deliberately gassed" during the Holocaust. The chief rabbinate expressed “sorrow and pain” at the decision, which follows worldwide outrage among Jews and progressive Catholics for Pope...http://www.newser.com/story/49240/israeli-rabbis-cut-off-vatican-over-holocaust-dispute.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Jan 2009 15:02:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/48381/protestants-hold-inauguration-monopoly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's swearing-in will be the sixth straight inauguration where rabbis and Catholic priests will be absent from the dais, reports Time . For decades it was traditional to have Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish representatives at the ceremony, but Billy Graham’s invocation (and benediction) at George Bush’s 1989 inauguration ushered in...http://www.newser.com/story/48381/protestants-hold-inauguration-monopoly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Jan 2009 7:42:47 CST