The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.