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as in priestly
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Recent Examples of rabbinic
The Talmud, with its rabbinic legal codes and commentaries, its reams of debates and interpretive disagreements, provided a heady way into learning a new religion.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
But the particular rule regarding kohanim and converts is rabbinic, not Biblical, which—arguably—allows a degree of discretion.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
The ark described in the Torah, which housed the Ten Commandments tablets among other holy objects, was hidden after the destruction of the First Temple, per rabbinic tradition.
—Alex Traiman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
Many of the million or so new arrivals had never kept kosher or been circumcised, and roughly a quarter of those weren’t considered Jews by Israel’s rabbinic establishment, usually because their mothers, like Zoya’s, weren’t Jewish.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
But the particular rule regarding kohanim and converts is rabbinic, not Biblical, which—arguably—allows a degree of discretion.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
The ark described in the Torah, which housed the Ten Commandments tablets among other holy objects, was hidden after the destruction of the First Temple, per rabbinic tradition.
—Alex Traiman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
Many of the million or so new arrivals had never kept kosher or been circumcised, and roughly a quarter of those weren’t considered Jews by Israel’s rabbinic establishment, usually because their mothers, like Zoya’s, weren’t Jewish.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rabbinic
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Francis has long made ministry to prisoners a hallmark of his priestly vocation, and a Holy Year dedicated to a message of hope is no exception.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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One thing to consider, however, is that Leviticus is devoted to priestly concerns.—
Jacob F. Love,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 2025
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Now, different South Carolina officials and agencies are pointing fingers at each other over what appear to have been two clerical errors that led to gaps in Dickey's record.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
7 July 2025
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Though Guidepost’s report and court filings in Hunt’s case referred to Womack with a pseudonym, a momentary clerical error left her name unredacted in a court document.—
Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Over the next several months, ESA and the five launch companies will negotiate with European governments for funding leading up to ESA's ministerial council meeting in November, when ESA member states will set the agency's budget for at least the next two years.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 July 2025
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With ministerial review, the city is not required to gather public input or hold a public hearing.—
Tyler Faurot,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 July 2025
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But in spite of this discrimination, religious dissent grew rapidly in the mid-18th century, led by evangelical Presbyterians and Baptists.—
Time,
Time,
10 July 2025
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Monday’s filing was the product of a lawsuit filed in Texas in September 2024 on behalf of the National Religious Broadcasters, an international association of evangelical Christian communicators, as well as Intercessors for America, a conservative Christian prayer advocacy group.—
Angele Latham,
The Tennessean,
9 July 2025
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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first-ever pope from the U.S., after 133 cardinals selected him from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in Rome on May 8.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Cardinals from around the world are at the Sistine Chapel in Rome for the papal conclave to select the new head of the Catholic Church following the April 21 death of Pope Francis.—
Cheryl V. Jackson,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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View Comments The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
20 June 2025
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The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.—
CNN.com,
Mercury News,
20 June 2025
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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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That dismissal is in part due to the patriarchal undermining of films that are largely written and directed by women; Song also stated that people are also fearful of examining their own relationship to the idea of love, which is at the (literal) heart of the rom-com genre.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
3 July 2025
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But for prominent women’s rights campaigners, Sana’s death was the ultimate outcome of unrestricted online abuse of women in a patriarchal country.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
9 June 2025
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“Rabbinic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbinic. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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