Susan Silverman
Sarah Silverman
['Andrew Cuomo', 'Dorgon', 'Antiochus', 'Henry', 'Frank Stallone', 'Mehmed VI', 'Karna', 'Jochi', 'Jeremy Irons', 'Yang Guang', 'Guy Verhofstadt', 'Tom Gullikson', 'Brian Henson', 'Brueghel', 'Ludovico Sforza', 'Ronald', 'Ricky Hui', 'Jimmy Carter', 'Anjelica Huston', 'Leonidas II', 'Neve Campbell', 'Lucrezia Borgia', 'Yuan Shao', 'Boris III', 'Benazir', 'Kurt Busch', 'Manuel II Palaiologos', 'Sanjay Kapoor', 'Saif Ali Khan', 'Umm Kulthum', 'Charles III', 'Luther', 'Hussain ibn Ali', 'Yevgeni Petrov', 'Berenice III', 'Marlon Wayans', 'Obal', 'Finrod Felagund', 'Sima Daozi', 'Serge', 'Emperor Mu', 'Ellen DeGeneres', 'Van Gogh', 'Liu Sheng', 'Pope Urban VIII', 'Mao Anqing', 'Carol II', 'Dave Grusin', 'Michael Madsen', 'Elvin Jones', 'Estrid Svendsdatter', 'Sarah Miriam Peale', 'Adaloald', 'Dorothy Wordsworth', 'Charles IV', 'Neferure', 'Philip III', 'Ralph', 'Ridley Scott', 'King George I', 'Giles Gilbert Scott', 'Demetrius II', 'Eurysthenes', 'Uzal', 'Lucius Antonius', 'Bob Younger', 'Anastasia', 'Louis Mountbatten', 'Heraclius II', 'Marco Andretti', 'Gerald Durrell', 'Andronikos III Palaiologos', 'Gretl', 'Tanisha', 'Scipio', 'Haylie Duff', 'Rafi ud Darajat', 'John Davison Rockefeller', 'Wihtred', 'Jungjong', 'Yasir Nawaz', 'Lanny Poffo', 'Emperor An', 'Empress Maria Feodorovna', 'Numerian', 'Kieran Culkin', 'Ritesh Deshmukh', 'Huangdi', 'Marcel Duchamp', 'Roosevelt', 'Hayley Mills', 'Chirico', 'Bret Hart', 'Apollo', 'Tove Jansson', 'Fanny Mendelssohn', 'Twinkle Khanna', 'Derwent Coleridge', 'Vincent van Gogh']
Susan Silverman
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. Susan 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 2013 Susan was named one of The Jewish Daily Forward's "Forward 50", and the Jewish erotica website Jewrotica.org named her one of the world's ten sexiest rabbis. 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. She has written articles for MyJewishLearning.com and her book, Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World will be published by Da Capo Press March 2016.