How to Use rabbinate in a Sentence

rabbinate

noun

• To Aaron, the sermon is his wake-up call to return to the rabbinate.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 7 July 2017
• This isn’t news for those of us who have dedicated our lives to the rabbinate or priesthood.
  — Ari Lamm, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
• The chief rabbinate of Israel said it is forbidden for Jews to walk on the site in 2005 because of its holiness.
  — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 12 May 2021
• For me, that’s a reflection of the priorities of my rabbinate.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2017
• Elder believes Marx chose the rabbinate as a career for two reasons.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• From this perspective, halachah is a partnership between the laity and the rabbinate, with the laity playing a critical role in the halachic process.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
• His goal, in his rabbinate, is to help people one on one with their spiritual and emotional journeys.
  — Eli Reiter, Wired, 21 Jan. 2021
• Jews of color remain few and far between in the rabbinate and community leadership roles.
  — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 3 July 2019
• But this year, the status of Reform Jews in Israel — who are not recognized by the country’s Orthodox rabbinate — became a campaign issue.
  — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• The rabbinate has also challenged the Jewish identity of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who fled to Israel after the 1989 collapse of the Soviet Union.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
• That same day, the cabinet introduced a bill that would grant the Orthodox chief rabbinate more control over religious conversions in the Jewish state.
  — Abraham Riesman, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Apr. 2018
• A growing rebellion against Israel’s state rabbinate by those who do keep kosher is also complicating the panorama.
  — Noga Tarnopolsky, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2017
• Under court pressure, the rabbinate agreed to release the names of rabbis whose certification letters were rejected last year.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2017
• Siegal feels that this upcoming honor is truly beyond any other moments of her rabbinate.
  — Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 2 Mar. 2018
• Farber charged that the rabbinate has no explicit criteria for determining the Jewishness of people who wish to marry in Israel.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, Jewish Journal, 10 July 2017
• Now 71, Priesand is one of the honored guests this week as female rabbis from across the country gather in Baltimore for the national convention of one of the nation's largest support organizations for women in the rabbinate.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2017
• The store’s employees said customers in this affluent, largely secular suburb of Tel Aviv are fine with having a Tzohar certificate on the wall rather than the official rabbinate document.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• Israelis whose Judaism is questioned by the rabbinate — or who just do not want to adhere to its strictures — have made an end-run around the institution by marrying abroad, particularly in Cyprus; the government recognizes these unions.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2016
• The rabbinate does not recognize any conversions performed abroad by non-Orthodox rabbis and has also rejected some performed by Orthodox rabbis.
  — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 4 June 2019
• Separately, ministers approved a bill that would maintain the rabbinate’s monopoly on conversion.
  — Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg.com, 25 June 2017
• Polls consistently show a significant majority of Jewish Israelis want the state to recognize all marriages equally, but the rabbinate restricts the rite almost exclusively to brides and grooms who can show an uninterrupted line of Jewish mothers.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
• Lawler also carefully narrates the dramatic and consequential rifts between the increasingly powerful Orthodox Jewish rabbinate in Jerusalem and its largely secular, scholarly counterparts.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024