Chaim Topol,mononymously known as Topol,was an Israeli actor,singer,and illustrator. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye,the lead role in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof and the 1971 film adaptation,performing this role more than 3,500 times from 1967 through 2009.
Chaim Potok was an American author,novelist,playwright,editor and rabbi. Of the more than dozen novels he authored,his first book The Chosen (1967),was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies and which was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Russian-born biochemist,Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949,and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was fundamental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration and later convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel.
The 1920 Nebi Musa riots or 1920 Jerusalem riots took place in British-controlled part of Occupied Enemy Territory Administration between Sunday,4 April,and Wednesday,7 April 1920 in and around the Old City of Jerusalem. Five Jews and four Arabs were killed,and several hundred were injured. The riots coincided with and are named after the Nebi Musa festival,which was held every year on Easter Sunday,and followed rising tensions in Arab-Jewish relations. The events came shortly after the Battle of Tel Hai and the increasing pressure on Arab nationalists in Syria in the course of the Franco-Syrian War.
Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin or Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin is an American Haredi Lithuanian-type boys' and men's yeshiva in Brooklyn,New York.
Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community,or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911,through a capitulation by Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel,Israel has had two chief rabbis,one Ashkenazi and one Sephardi.
Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum was a Hasidic rebbe and the world leader of the Satmar Hasidim.
The 48th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. Its composition was determined at a general election held on 17 September 2005. The new parliament met for the first time on 7 November 2005. It was dissolved on 3 October 2008.
Chaim Ozer Grodzinski was a Av beis din,posek,and Talmudic scholar in Vilnius,Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for over 55 years. He played an instrumental role in preserving Lithuanian yeshivas during the Communist era,and Polish and Russian yeshivas of Poland and during the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939,when he arranged for these yeshivas to relocate to Lithuanian cities.
Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah is the supreme rabbinical policy-making council of the Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah movements in Israel;and of Agudath Israel of America in the United States. Members are usually prestigious Roshei Yeshiva or Hasidic rebbes,who are also usually regarded by many Haredi Jews to be the Gedolim ("great/est") sages of Torah Judaism. Before the Holocaust,it was the supreme authority for the World Agudath Israel in Europe.
Gávavencsellő is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county,in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. The village was established in 1971 by merging the former separate villages of Gáva and Vencsellő.
Menachem Porush was an Israel politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael and its alliances between 1959 and 1975,and again from 1977 until 1994.
In Jewish law,a posek is a legal scholar who determines the position of halakha,the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive,or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.
Chaim-Dovid Saracik is an Orthodox Jewish Chasidish musician who lives in the Old City of Jerusalem. He professionally goes by the name Chaim Dovid. He has produced more than eleven albums and has played for thousands of people over the past couple of decades.
David Storobin is a New York attorney and a former New York State Senator. A Republican,Storobin represented District 27 in the New York State Senate for several months in 2012.
Chaim M. Deutsch is an American politician who served as a New York City Council Member for the 48th district from 2014 to 2021. He is a Democrat. The district includes Brighton Beach,Gerritsen Beach,Gravesend,Manhattan Beach,Marine Park,Midwood,Plum Beach,and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. He was expelled from City Council after his guilty plea to charges of tax fraud in April 2021.
The position of Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem was instituted centuries ago and was originally held by a member of the Sephardic community. Moses Galante served as Rishon LeZion,the title used from beginning of the 17th century to refer to the chief rabbi of Jerusalem. In 1878,the Ashkenazi community appointed their own representative. Since then,Jerusalem has had two chief rabbis,each representing their respective communities.
Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky was the mashgiach of the yeshiva in Bergen Belsen and the Chief Rabbi of Hanover from 1946 to 1949.
New York City's 44th City Council district is one of 51 districts in the New York City Council. It has been represented by Democrat Kalman Yeger since 2018,succeeding fellow Democrat David Greenfield. Though Yeger caucuses with Democrats on the Council,he is among the Council's most conservative members and has run for office on both Democratic and Republican party lines.
