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The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released.

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The Jew's Christmas

1913 American silent film by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley

The Jew's Christmas is a 1913 silent film. The film was written by Lois Weber, and directed by Weber and her husband Phillips Smalley. The first American film to include a rabbi as a character, it was positively received, and novelized the year after its release. Modern analysts…
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Rabbi

Teacher of Torah in Judaism

A rabbi is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as semikha—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic and Talmudic…
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