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as in priestly
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Recent Examples of rabbinic
When the consolidation was announced in 2022, the college faced a record $8.8 million deficit and rabbinic student enrollment had dropped by 37% over the previous 15 years.
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Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 4 June 2024
At every grill along the road, there was pork along with beef, chicken, and lamb: defying rabbinic law seemed another sign of such Israelis’ wondrous temerity.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
In fact, the Zionist pioneers, the precursors of Israel’s liberals, were secular modernizers who were appalled by the rabbinic strictures that alienated Jews in Eastern European cities.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
Accordingly, after the United Nations required, in 1947, that the new state adopt a constitution, several proposals were drafted—the most prominent of which would have overturned rabbinic privileges inherited from the British Mandate.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
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Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 4 June 2024
At every grill along the road, there was pork along with beef, chicken, and lamb: defying rabbinic law seemed another sign of such Israelis’ wondrous temerity.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
In fact, the Zionist pioneers, the precursors of Israel’s liberals, were secular modernizers who were appalled by the rabbinic strictures that alienated Jews in Eastern European cities.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
Accordingly, after the United Nations required, in 1947, that the new state adopt a constitution, several proposals were drafted—the most prominent of which would have overturned rabbinic privileges inherited from the British Mandate.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rabbinic
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Finally, Moses washes Aaron and his sons and actually dresses them in their priestly garments (29:4–9).Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024
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His priestly education continued with graduate-level study in philosophy, theology, and international development at Fordham.Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
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Sponsor reserves the right to correct clerical or typographical errors in promotional materials.Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 20 Dec. 2024
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Loughlin might get a break in the daily monotony with a job that includes clerical work, cooking, baking, food prep, dishwashing or cleaning.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Its brand is now recognizable across the country from bicycle stands in cities to ministerial meetings.Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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On the same day, the Gulf Cooperation Council hosted a rare informal joint GCC-Iranian ministerial meeting, the first in more than 17 years, during which members affirmed the Gulf states’ unwillingness to allow their territory and airspace to be used to launch attacks against Iran.Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024
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The conservative evangelical Awaken Church was holding its first service in the city as part of a long effort to establish a church there, and some residents were protesting.Maura Fox, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Republican Party and Trump himself have spent the past several years pushing an increasingly anti-trans agenda, in what some experts have described as an ongoing ploy to lock up the evangelical vote.Samantha Riedel, Them, 13 Dec. 2024
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It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic.Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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Francis isn’t about to let a storm get in the way of him and his papal duties.Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
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Pope Francis's stop in East Timor is part of his ongoing apostolic journey across four countries between Sept. 2 and Sept. 13.Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2024
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Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016.Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.Julia Hobbs, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
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Congregations have been disaffiliating by vote in individual episcopal area conferences, and more than 4,000 congregations have already disaffiliated under the law, including 71 previously in Kentucky.Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
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This is a woman that’s obligated to override the limits of a patriarchal society—because even a progressive family was still patriarchal in Brazil in the ’70s.Damon Wise, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
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These disasters and distractions are intentionally invented by white supremacist, patriarchal empires to work tangentially and symbiotically.Akilah Sailers, Essence, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Rabbinic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbinic. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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