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
  • Elder believes Marx chose the rabbinate as a career for two reasons.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • For me, that’s a reflection of the priorities of my rabbinate.
    — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Siegal feels that this upcoming honor is truly beyond any other moments of her rabbinate.
    — Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 2 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Under court pressure, the rabbinate agreed to release the names of rabbis whose certification letters were rejected last year.
    — Washington Post, 9 July 2017
  • 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
  • Separately, ministers approved a bill that would maintain the rabbinate’s monopoly on conversion.
    — Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg.com, 25 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • That your siblings might marry someone acceptable to the Orthodox rabbinate in order to secure this inheritance raises doubts about its decency.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • 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
  • This Hollywood rabbinate explains that local synagogues have for decades required visible, often armed security.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The Perez family chose to hold a burial ceremony for Daniel, a 22-year-old tank commander, immediately after receiving the news, as was encouraged by the Israeli military rabbinate.
    — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The Rabbanut exams test halachic knowledge, but so do semikha (ordination) exams administered outside the rabbinate’s system, including those of Yeshivat Maharat, Yeshiva University and Ohr Torah Stone.
    — Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Indeed, a new national study of the American rabbinate released in November by the Atra Center for Rabbinic Innovation found that 51% of the rabbinical students surveyed identified as LGBTQ+.
    — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026

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