What's the difference between imam and rabbi?

Imam


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Imaum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The best lactogenic antibody response was observed when IMam X IM X 2 route of immunization was used with live BRV as the antigen.
  • (2) 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
  • (3) Mohammed Siddique, a 60-year-old imam, and his 24-year-old son, Mohammed Waqar, punished the boy for perceived shortcomings during religious lessons at the Sparkbrook Islamic centre, attached to the Jamia mosque, in Birmingham.
  • (4) But Saeid Golkar, lecturer at Northwestern University in the United States and senior fellow at Chicago Council on Global Affairs, believes the ‘pay cheque scandal’ may have indirectly revealed another potential ‘principle-ist’ contender in Parviz Fattah, head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee.
  • (5) His remarks were translated by sheikh Yahya Safi, executive member of the Australian National Imams Council.
  • (6) Dyer declared a state of emergency, and alongside Mina, Hopper and a local imam urged Americans to give blood and unite.
  • (7) But imams such as Suleiman and Mahmoud Abdel Samir, who wrote a PhD tackling this claim, say it is unlikely Muhammad advocated it.
  • (8) In October 2013, in a sign of how bad things had become, the imam of Yarmouk’s largest mosque issued a fatwa that permitted people to eat cats, dogs and donkeys.
  • (9) (Some Muslims in Egypt claim FGM is an Islamic requirement, though imams who have researched the issue say it has no root in the religion, and point out it is practised far less in other countries with Muslim majorities.)
  • (10) Councils call themselves courts and the presiding imams are judges.
  • (11) So when you give them that, of course they’re going to fund you and give you resources and connect you to the right people.” That there are imams on the taskforce is also a concern to imam Hassan Jaamici Mohamud, who believes it conflates church and state, and could cause distrust among the congregations.
  • (12) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
  • (13) The election of Shady Alsuleiman, our first Australian-born imam, as ANIC’s president is an important resetting point.” Josh Frydenberg says grand mufti had 'graphic failure' of leadership Read more Fierravanti-Wells had herself called for a stronger statement from the grand mufti.
  • (14) A suspect was charged on Monday in the fatal shootings of an imam and another Muslim man , as hundreds of mourners gathered in Queens, New York, to remember the victims and call for justice.
  • (15) A day earlier, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, one of the Islamic Republic's most venerable imams, treated the weekly televised gathering at Tehran University stadium to a stern anti-American diatribe.
  • (16) The only moment of respite in a morning of violence was when the mosque's imam called the faithful to prayer.
  • (17) This week’s successful targeting of Haji Imam is another step forward in the struggle against Isis and its brand of nihilistic jihad.
  • (18) But now the imam he normally uses to approve his meat is sick with a suspected case of dengue fever.
  • (19) He is elected by the Australian National Imams Council, which brings together about 200 largely Sunni imams.
  • (20) Frank Gardner said the monarch personally told him she was aghast that Abu Hamza could not be arrested during the period when he regularly aired vehemently anti-British views as imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London.

Rabbi


Definition:

  • (n.) Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Miliband said he had been "right" to raise the past record of MEP Michał Kamiński despite the insistence of Poland's chief rabbi that his countryman was not antisemitic, despite his "problematic" past.
  • (2) Zwiebel says he is aware some rabbis still conceal allegations, but insists the large majority are now fully engaged with law enforcement.
  • (3) "Because," Noah says in a midrash, speaking as the rabbis need him to, "nobody likes you.
  • (4) "The rabbis are wonderful spiritual leaders and they should be doing what they do best, spiritual guidance," says Mark Meyer Appel, whose group Voice of Justice gives emotional support to victims and their families.
  • (5) "If the civil authorities are going to come into the community like gangbusters and say we don't care about your rabbis and we don't care about your customs and we don't care about your culture and none of this matters to us, they'll get far less cooperation from the community … I think [Hynes] is working within a reality.
  • (6) Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) Good for UK Chief Rabbi Sacks!
  • (7) It does remind us of the 1930s.” Heisler said he agreed with his colleague, Rabbi Zoltán Radnóti, who argued that the rights of refugees should not be up for discussion in a post-Holocaust context.
  • (8) As one rabbi noted, to heed Netanyahu would be to give in to the terrorists .
  • (9) A great read, and a delightful puzzle, but as the contradictory and whimsical interpretations of the rabbis show, hardly a reliable basis for justifying real-world land grabs.
  • (10) Anti-semitism is rampant in much of the 'hypocritical' Middle East, the editor wrote, with Jewish rabbis depicted on prime-time Syrian TV as cannibals.
  • (11) Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) HEARTBREAKING: Rosh Yeshiva Kollel Toras Moshe Rabbi Moshe Twersky HY"D killed in todays Jerusalem terror attack.
  • (12) Originally from Boston, Twersky was a father of five and was the grandson of the renowned rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik, credited with being a key figure in the Modern Orthodox movement.
  • (13) According to Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israeli NGO which has been supporting the village in its efforts to get planning permission: “The village of Palestinian Susiya has existed for centuries, long before the establishment of the [Jewish settlement of Susiya in 1983.
  • (14) With echoes of the Catholic priest scandal, for decades rabbis have hushed up child sex crimes and fomented a culture in which victims are further victimised and abusers protected.
  • (15) Even the rabbis, though, fail to squeeze much in the way of laughs out of the coda to Noah's story.
  • (16) After San Francisco, she travelled to India and Nepal before winding up in Jerusalem, where she lived with her then girlfriend, who was considering becoming a rabbi.
  • (17) A highly-educated, socially aware group of persons presented themselves for Tay-Sachs screening having learned about it mainly from friends, newspapers, radio, and television but not from physicians or rabbis.
  • (18) The opening salvo in what became a heated and often surreal religious war of words arrived on August 19 from Rabbi Abraham Hecht, president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America, who claimed to speak for half a million Jews.
  • (19) Kagan swiftly rebutted the argument, pointing out that “there are many rabbis that will not conduct marriages between Jews and non­Jews, notwithstanding that we have a constitutional prohibition against religious discrimination.” Even if the court rules that states cannot ban same-sex marriage, this will not mean that religious leaders will be compelled to perform marriages that contravene their religious traditions.
  • (20) It ran from January 1981 (Sir Ralph Richardson) to July 1996 (Rabbi Jonathan Black) and covered a great swathe of British life.