Wikipedia's first sentence called it “reform rabbi and the sister of comedians laura silverman and sarah silverman”. Today it says “american-israeli reform rabbi and religious activist”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American Reform rabbi (born 1963) Silverman speaks at the First Congregational Church (Columbus, Ohio) in 2022”. It now reads “American Reform rabbi (born 1963)”.
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Susan Silverman is a Reform rabbi and the sister of comedians Laura Silverman and Sarah Silverman . In 1997 she and her husband Yosef Abramowitz co-authored the book Jewish Family and Life: Traditions, Holidays, and Values for Today’s Parents and Children. She worked as a congregational rabbi in Maryland and as a Jewish educator in Boston , and moved to Israel in 2006.1Susan and her daughter Hallel Abramowitz are members of Women of the Wall , and in 2012 they were arrested for wearing prayer shawls at the Western Wall . News of this went viral after Sarah Silverman tweeted her support. In 2015 Susan was present when, for the first time, some of the Women of the Wall read from a full-size Torah scroll during the group's monthly prayer service at the Western Wall . Torah scrolls at the Western Wall are normally stored in the men’s section, which women are forbidden from entering. But on April 20 a group of male Jewish sympathizers handed a full-size Torah scroll over to Women of the Wall leaders. Some Haredi Orthodox men who had been praying at the Wall attacked the male sympathizers and tried to take the Torah scroll away from the women, but the attacking men were reportedly removed by the police, and the women were able to complete their prayer service. Susan claimed she chased away a man attempting to seize the Torah by threatening to touch him, saying, "I ran towards him with my hands in the air and shouted: ‘I’m a woman! I’m a woman!’ and he ran away because he didn’t want me to touch him." Susan lives in Jerusalem and has five children, two of whom were born in Africa and later adopted by her. The Jewish Daily Forward . 10 November 2013 . The Daily Beast . 31 March 2014 . The Jewish Daily Forward . 10 November 2013 . The Jerusalem Post . 31 December 2013 . "Emanu-El contingent takes part in historic Women of the Wall Torah service | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California" . "Defying ban, Women of the Wall read from full-sized Torah scroll at Kotel - Israel News - Jerusalem Post" .2
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Rabbi Susan Silverman is a Reform rabbi and the sister of comedians Laura Silverman and Sarah Silverman . In 1997, she and her husband, Yosef Abramowitz , co-authored the book Jewish Family and Life: Traditions, Holidays, and Values for Today’s Parents and Children. She worked as a congregational rabbi in Maryland and as a Jewish educator in Boston and moved to Israel in 2006.
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American Reform rabbi (born 1963) Silverman speaks at the First Congregational Church (Columbus, Ohio) in 2022 Susan Silverman (born May 10, 1963) is an American Reform rabbi and the sister of comedians Laura Silverman and Sarah Silverman . In 1997, she and her husband, Yosef Abramowitz , co-authored the book Jewish Family and Life: Traditions, Holidays, and Values for Today’s Parents and Children. She worked as a congregational rabbi in Maryland , and as a Jewish educator in Boston , and moved to Israel in 2006.
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American Reform rabbi (born 1963) Susan Silverman, 2022 Susan Silverman ( Hebrew : סוזן סילברמן ; born May 10, 1963) is an Israeli-American Reform rabbi and religious activist.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “reform rabbi and the sister of comedians laura silverman and sarah silverman”. Today it says “american-israeli reform rabbi and religious activist”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American Reform rabbi (born 1963) Silverman speaks at the First Congregational Church (Columbus, Ohio) in 2022”. It now reads “American Reform rabbi (born 1963)”. Read the current article and compare.
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reform rabbi and the sister of comedians laura silverman and sarah silverman
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american-israeli reform rabbi and religious activist
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