Table of Contents
1.Introduction 2.Who are rabbis? 3. Profiles of rabbinical authorities: Yisrael Abuhatzeira and Baruch Abuhatzeira, Avraham Mordechai Alter, Leo Baeck, Amram Blau and Ruth Blau, The Braslav Hasids and their rabbis, Mordechai Tzemach Eliyahu, Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Menachem Froman, Shlomo Goren, Abraham Yehoshua Heschel, Moshe Hirsch and Yisrael Meir Hirsch, Yitzhak Kaduri, Israel Meir Ha-Kohen/Kagan, Meir David Kahane and Benjamin Ze'ev Kahane, Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz – Chazon Ish, Avraham Yitzchak Ha-Kohen Kook and Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Yisrael Meir Lau, Moshe Levinger, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Elazar Menachem Man Shach, Joseph Dov Ha-Levi Soloveitchik, Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Yoel Teitelbaum, Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, Ovadia Yosef. 4. A collection of shorter profiles of several rabbis Arik W. Ascherman, Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag, Ezra Attiya, Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin), Yehuda Berg, Elmer Berger, Joseph Samuel Bloch, Shmuel (Shmuley) Boteach, Moshe Feinstein, Yihyah Kafih and Yosef Kafih, Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, Harold Kushner, Berl Lazar, Michael Lerner, Dov Lior, Michael Melchior, Chaim Nahum, Yitzhak Nisim, Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, Aharon Roth, Yonathan Henry Sacks, Yedidia Shofet, Adin Steinsaltz, Menachem Mendel Taub, Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel (Ouziel), Elchonon Wasserman, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Shalom Dovber Halevi Wolpo. 5. Some final thoughts instead of a conclusion