In Judaism, a rabbi ( /ˈræbaɪ/) is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי rabi [ˈʁäbi], meaning "My Master" (irregular plural רבנים rabanim [ʁäbäˈnim]), which is the way a student would address a master of Torah. The word "master" רב rav [ˈʁäv] literally means "great one" or one who is "abundant/much/many".
The basic form of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic and Talmudic era, when learned teachers assembled to codify Judaism's written and oral laws. In more recent centuries, the duties of the rabbi became increasingly influenced by the duties of the Protestant Christian minister, hence the title "pulpit rabbis", and in 19th century Germany and the United States rabbinic activities including sermons, pastoral counseling, and representing the community to the outside, all increased in importance.
Within the various Jewish denominations there are different requirements for rabbinic ordination, and differences in opinion regarding who is to be recognized as a rabbi. All types of Judaism except for Orthodox Judaism and some conservative strains ordain women and lesbian and gay people as rabbis and cantors.
Rabbi Shergill (born Gurpreet Singh Shergill, 1973) is an Indian musician well known for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005, "Bulla Ki Jaana". His music has been described variously as rock, Punjabi, with a bani style melody, andSufiana, and "semi-Sufi semi-folksy kind of music with a lot of Western arrangements." Rabbi has been called "Punjabi music's true urban balladeer".
After leaving college Rabbi formed a band called Kaffir which struggled to get professional performances. The band played in a few college fests but with time the other members of the band decided to move over to the corporate world. Rabbi, was committed to music and was clear that he wanted to be a professional musician. He composed jingles for a while, some of them were for Yamaha RX-T motorbikes, and Times FM. Rabbi struggled for many years to get his debut album published. Initially he worked with Sony Music, but Sony backed out. He then approached Minty Tejpal, brother of Tehelka's editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, who liked his music and offered him a contract. Soon after Tehelka ran into financial problems and eventually cancelled the contract. Magnasound also offered him a contract, but the company became bankrupt before the album could materialize. He was finally signed on by Phat Phish Records, on which he released his debut album in 2004.
Tovia Singer is a rabbi, and founder and director of Outreach Judaism.
Singer is the founder and director of Outreach Judaism, a Jewish counter-missionary organization. It describes itself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity." Singer cautions regarding congregations that "are designed to appear Jewish, but are actually fundamentalist Christian churches, which use traditional Jewish symbols to lure the most vulnerable of our Jewish people into their ranks". Singer brought Guma Aguiar to Judaism; Aguiar was born to a Jewish mother, but raised as a Christian. Outreach Judaism was described by J. Gordon Melton in 2002 as an example of "the current state of Jewish counter-cult activity".
From 2002 to 2010 Singer hosted The Tovia Singer Show on Arutz Sheva's Israel National Radio. When Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ was released, Singer stated on his 25 September 2003 show that "by the time the first nail is hammered into the cross, viewers in Germany will be passing around knife sharpeners in the theater." Following the movie's debut, J. Shawn Landres and Michael Berenbaum wrote, "not only was [Singer's prediction] inappropriate but also proved itself entirely wrong, as Germany was the only country in which leaders of the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities cooperated to issue a joint statement criticizing The Passion."
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades. Hitchens, often referred to colloquially as "Hitch", was a columnist and literary critic for New Statesman, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Mirror, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. He was an author of twelve books and five collections of essays. As a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, he was a prominent public intellectual, and his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded and controversial figure.
Hitchens was known for his admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, as well as for his excoriating critiques of various public figures including Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Diana, Princess of Wales. Although he supported the Falklands War, his key split from the established political left began in 1989 after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the Western left to the Rushdie Affair. The September 11 attacks strengthened his internationalist embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he called "fascism with an Islamic face." His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him a neoconservative, although Hitchens insisted he was not "a conservative of any kind", and his friend Ian McEwan describes him as representing the anti-totalitarian left.
Shmuel "Shmuley" Boteach (pronounced bo-TAY-ahck; born November 19, 1966) is an American Orthodox rabbi, author, TV host and public speaker.
Boteach is the author of Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy, published in 1999, which openly discusses intimacy and sexual intercourse. His outspokenness has earned him praise and criticism; Newsweek magazine named him one of the 50 most influential rabbis in the United States three years in a row, including seventh in 2009.
Shmuel (Shmuley) Boteach lives in Englewood, New Jersey. He is married to Debbie with whom he has nine children.
In 1988, Boteach received his rabbinic ordination from the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in New York City.
Boteach was sent as a Chabad-Lubavitch shaliach (emissary) to Oxford, England, where he founded the L'Chaim Society.While growing the organization considerably, he was criticized for his tactics, choices of speakers, and decision to open up the forum to non-Jews, who eventually constituted more than half of the members. A dispute erupted when Boteach was asked to remove some non-Jewish students from the society, but refused.After inviting Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to speak he was asked to leave his posting as shaliach. In 1999, the British Charity Commission for England and Wales investigated the society for possible misallocation of funds. Following the investigation, The Guardian reported, a spokesman for the London Chief Rabbi said Boteach "did not possess the appropriate United Synagogue rabbinical 'practice certificate'" for presiding over services in Orthodox Ashkenazic synagogues in Britain. Later that year Boteach won the "Preacher of the Year" Award from The Times.
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That Woman is a touching comedy drama set in North-West London, where thirty-something Danny is struggling to come to terms with a devastating breakup. Life finally begins to change for him when he's set up on the ultimate Jewish date. But as the romantic rendezvous approaches, Danny realizes there might be more at stake for him - and for his date - than he could have guessed...
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Zohan Dvir works as a Special Agent and lives with his orthodox parents in Israel. He wants to give up this life full of dangerous encounters with Palestinians. While in the process of apprehending a Palestinian activist known simply as the Phantom, he fakes his death, hides in a dog-kennel on a plane bound for New York, and decides to try his hand as a hair-stylist. He is refused employment initially, but when he offers to work for free, Dahlia hires him as a cleaner. When a hair-stylist named Debbie quits, Zohan replaces her, winning over elderly female clientèle, and falling in love with Dahlia herself. Before Zohan could propose to her, Dahlia's landlord, Walbridge, who has been raising rents regularly, hires skinhead goons to terrorize the neighborhood, creates misunderstandings between Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians, and drives them out, so as to enable him to construct a new building which is topped by a roller coaster. When Zohan decides to confront these skinheads, he does not realize that he is in for quite a few surprises himself.
Keywords: actor-playing-himself, airport, american, apostrophe-in-title, arab-israeli-conflict, arab-stereotype, arrest, arsonist, bare-chested-male, barefoot
Lather. Rinse. Save the world.
He'll Make You Silky Smooth
He's silky, smooth and harder than trigonometry!
He'll blow you away
Zohan's Father: You've caught so many terrorists, it's an art. You're like Rembrandt with a grenade.
Zohan: I just want to make people silky-smooth!
Claude: It's not that big.::Zohan: No, not that. The bush, is biggest you ever seen, right?
Gail: Usually he's harder than trigonometry.
[Zohan shows Gail the gel that was thrown at the salon; Gail tastes the gel]::Gail: Oh, that's Neosporin! I use it on cuts and on genital sores.
Salim: [to the two women riding his cab] And you are stupid cow!
Michael: What are you? Bionic?::Zohan: No, no, no, no, no, I only like the girls... Thanks anyways.
Michael: Well, tonight's our night for the Community Nightwatch.::Zohan: The Communism tight crotch? What?
Dalia: Zohan! He has a bomb... and puppies!::Zohan: No!::James: Imma blow up this whole block, Imma blow you up, Imma blow up these puppies! And we all gone' go to hell together, cause I hate these puppies!
Zohan: So let's go.
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Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.
Keywords: 2000s, arena, assisted-living-facility, audition, auto-impound-lot, autocide, bar, based-on-novel, basketball-match, beach
Friends. Rivals. Sisters.
Simon Stein: Does this mean that I'm your bitch?::Rose Feller: Do you want to be my bitch?::Simon Stein: I have wanted to be your bitch since my first day at Dommel.
Rose Feller: [laughing about Lewis and Ella kissing]::[sees Simon walk in]::Rose Feller: Simon, what are you doing here?::Simon Stein: I came as soon as your sister called::[points to the drink in Rose's hand]::Simon Stein: Should you be drinking?::[Maggie grabs drink out of Rose's hand]
Maggie Feller: Shoes like these should not be locked in a closet! They should be living a life of scandal, and passion, and getting screwed in an alleyway by a billionaire while his frigid wife waits in the limo thinking that he just went back into the bar to get his cellphone. These are cute too.::Rose Feller: Please tell me you just made that up.::Maggie Feller: Look, if you're not going to wear them... don't buy them! Leave them for someone who's going to get something out of them.::Rose Feller: I get something out of them! When I feel bad I like to treat myself. Clothes never look any good... food just makes me fatter... shoes always fit.
Rose Feller: I don't know what's wrong with your girls. My Marcia never uses the word vagina!::Maggie Feller: My Marcia doesn't even have a vagina!::Rose Feller: Oh, My Marcia has a vagina alright, but My Marcia's vagina is made of solid 24 karat gold!::Maggie Feller: My Marcia's vagina is so perfect, it's in a museum!
[Rose has just caught her sister and her boyfriend in bed together]::Rose Feller: I liked you... I really liked you. She won't even remember your name. Probably can't even spell it.::[to her sister]::Rose Feller: Can you, Maggie? Come on, sound it out. Juh-imm. Jim. Oh, she's pretty, this one... but real stupid.::Maggie Feller: Shut up, you fat pig!::Rose Feller: [beat] Did you honestly just say, "Fat pig"? You're my sister... and the best you can do is "fat pig"?::[slams Maggie against the wall]::Rose Feller: [shouts] Get out of my life!
Michael Feller: Well, Sydelle and Marsha aren't on very good terms right now.::Rose Feller: What, did she decorate a room in last season's colors?::Michael Feller: No, she joined Jews for Jesus.
Maggie Feller: The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem... f... filled... with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. Even losing you... the joking voice, a gesture I love... I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like... Write it!... like disaster.
Simon Stein: You look good. You look like you.
Rose Feller: You're not going to look like this forever, you know. Eventually you'll be older, and all of the men who foot your bill now will be buying drinks for women half your age and then what will you do? Well, you'd better think of something because middle-aged tramps aren't cute, they're pathetic.
Maggie Feller: I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go, you go, my dear. And whatever is done by only me... is your doing, my darling. I fear no fate... for you are my fate, my sweet. I want no world, for, beautiful... you are my world, my true. Here is the deepest secret no one knows. Here is the root of the root... and the bud of the bud... and the sky of the sky of a tree called life... which grows higher than the soul can hope... or mind can hide. It is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.
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Biopic of the controversial muckraking journalist Walter Winchell. After spending 12 years in vaudeville, Winchell began writing a column in the New York Mirror. Part gossip, part half-truths, the reporting focused on well-known or prominent individuals and their dalliances. Winchell grew in popularity, particularly when he started his weekly Sunday night radio show. His reporting became more political in the late 1930s when he railed against Hitler. His star began to fall in the 1950's when Josephine Baker was refused service at the Stork Club and Winchell allegedly refused to do anything about it. The end came with his support of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his own rabid anti-communism. Following McCarthy's style, Winchell accused anyone who stood in his way of being a communist. Soon, he found himself facing lawsuits, a failed attempt at a television show and eventually, the cancellation of his radio show.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, archive-footage, based-on-book, blackmail, career, career-criminal, celebrity, columnist
He didn't report the news ... he made it.
Sex, scandal, Sensationalism. He was the first of his kind ... but certainly not the last.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: I've got a scoop for you, Walter. Senator Taft is a horse's aft.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The face of fear is coming. And when it comes, Walter, you'll answer to no one, not even me.
Herman Klurfeld: But he's HITLER! You're only Walter Winchell.::Walter Winchell: That's where you're wrong. I'm Walter Winchell, he's only Hitler.
Walter Winchell: Hitler hates me. He hates me!::Newstand Operator: Yeah, well, Joe Stalin hasn't sent me a Christmas card either.
Walter Winchell: Mr. Mayor, my column gave you this office, and it can take it away.
Walter Winchell: Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea! Let's go to press!
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Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
Keywords: actor, alcoholism, based-on-play, estrangement, father-daughter-estrangement, father-daughter-relationship, film-industry, girlfriend, greyhound-bus, hitchhiker
Libby Tucker hitchhiked from Brooklyn to take Hollywood by storm. And her father by surprise.
Libby: Grandma was right. Once a shitheel, always a shitheel.::Herbert: Your grandmother talks like that?::Libby: The words are mine, the wisdom is hers!
Libby: [cursing in Spanish]... and your father too, you shitheel!::Truck Driver: Spanish?::Libby: No, Jew, but in Brooklyn first we learn Spanish then English