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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.
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.
Actors: Maureen Lipman (actress), Blair Mowat (composer), Adam James (actor), Justin Krish (editor), Thomas Arnold (actor), Anna Madeley (actress), Ben Caplan (actor), Richard Albrecht (actor), Susannah Wise (actress), Sophie Vickers (producer), Tom Frederic (actor), Ilan Goodman (actor), Alexis Zegerman (actress), Oliver Kassman (producer), Sandra Strong (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: 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...
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Steve Arons (actor), Brandon deSpain (actor), Rafael Sanz (writer), Rafael Sanz (producer), Rafael Sanz (director), Brian Ish (actor), Sharon Gee (actress), Sean Allison (actor), Manuel Fihman (actor), Naci Baybura (actor), Tommaso Bosco (miscellaneous crew), Paul Moreno (actor), Peter Brusikiewicz (actor), Tiffany Lee (actress), Monica Moskatow (actress),
Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Edward Asner (actor), Brian Ward (actor), Keith David (actor), Brian Ward (actor), Clement von Franckenstein (actor), David Cohen (actor), Peter Jason (actor), Tommy 'Tiny' Lister (actor), Stuart Pankin (actor), Keith Robinson (actor), Johnny Gill (actor), Ella Joyce (actress), John Hermann (actor), Antonio D. Charity (actor), Ron Pucillo (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Kevin Nealon (actor), Chris Rock (actor), Dennis Dugan (actor), Kevin James (actor), John McEnroe (actor), Dave Matthews (actor), Kevin Cannon (actor), Shelley Berman (actor), John Farley (actor), Sayed Badreya (actor), Barry Livingston (actor), Ian Fisher (actor), Michael Buffer (actor), Rob Schneider (actor), Adam Sandler (actor),
Plot: 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, barefootActors: Ivana Milicevic (actress), Tony Scott (producer), Cameron Diaz (actress), Toni Collette (actress), Ridley Scott (producer), Curtis Hanson (producer), Rick Kain (actor), Norman Lloyd (actor), Eric Balfour (actor), Carlease Burke (actress), Shirley MacLaine (actress), Ken Howard (actor), Alan Blumenfeld (actor), Curtis Hanson (director), Mark Isham (composer),
Plot: 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, beachActors: Jack Dee (actor), Laura Sevier (miscellaneous crew), Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew), Irène Jacob (actress), Mike Binder (director), Mike Binder (writer), Debbie Wiseman (actress), Colin Firth (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Mariel Hemingway (actress), Vincent Grass (actor), Mike Binder (actor), Stephen Marcus (actor), Christopher Lawford (actor), Keith Hayley (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Michael Monks (actor), Sven-Ole Thorsen (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Rod McCary (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Ed Sullivan (actor), Paul Mazursky (actor), Xander Berkeley (actor), Michael Chieffo (actor), Francis X. McCarthy (actor), Michael Greene (actor), James DuMont (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Stanley Tucci (actor), Kevin Tighe (actor),
Plot: 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, columnistActors: Edward Asner (actor), Lewis Schoenbrun (director), Lewis Schoenbrun (writer), Lewis Schoenbrun (producer), Matt Letscher (actor), Eric P. Steckler (producer), Michael D. Roberts (actor), Luellyn Harper (costume designer), Dan Cashman (actor), David Sawyer (actor), Barry Salmon (composer), Marc Revivo (actor), Blanche Sindelar (actress), Bennes Mardenn (actor), Alejandra Cruz (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Neil Simon (writer), Neil Simon (writer), Neil Simon (producer), Ann-Margret (actress), David Faustino (actor), Rick McCallum (producer), Herbert Ross (producer), Tom Wright (actor), Michael Dudikoff (actor), Allan Graf (actor), Art LaFleur (actor), Walter Matthau (actor), Santos Morales (actor), Ruth Morley (costume designer), Marvin Hamlisch (composer),
Plot: 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, hitchhikerActors: Lewis Seiler (director), Isadore Bernstein (writer), Lou Breslow (writer), Mischa Auer (actor), Hobart Bosworth (actor), Alec B. Francis (actor), Tom McGuire (actor), Dickie Moore (actor), Helen Jerome Eddy (actress), Martha Mattox (actress), Beryl Mercer (actress), Benjamin Stoloff (producer), Betty Jane Graham (actress), Richard Bennett (actor), Alexander Carr (actor),
Genres: Drama,