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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 03:58, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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Israel Isaac Kahanovitch[edit]

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  • ... that approximately one-third of the adult Jewish population of Winnipeg, Canada, attended the funeral of popular Chief Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch in 1945? Source: "His funeral in 1945 was attended by a crowd of about 5,000, about one-third of the total adult Jewish community of Winnipeg" (Encyclopedia Judaica; also can be verified online in reprinted article at Jewish Virtual Library)

Created by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 00:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC).

  • Note to the promoter and @Yoninah:: I'm still pretty new at reviewing so please keep that in mind.
  • Article created 12 Nov 2017, so new enough. Prose size is 4885 characters so long enough. All paragraphs have citations, Earwig has 9.9% but these are all titles or names of organizations. QPQ has been done.
  • The cruxes of each hook are for clearly stated in article and are different enough in wording from original source. Hooks are interesting. The main parts of the hooks are sourced. Although:
  • Right now there's no citation for him being Chief Rabbi for nearly 40 years (or from 1906–1945 if you want to leave the math to the reader). That seems to only be stated in the lede, uncited. Should be an easy fix; perhaps you can just add the year he became Chief Rabbi where it's referenced below and clarify he remained Chief Rabbi until his death.
  • There also isn't a source for him being "popular"; sources seem to say things like "renowned" or "highly regarded" and "popular" doesn't seem to quite mean the same thing. Perhaps you can let the size of his funeral attendance speak for itself and just strike the adjective?
  • (P.S. I wonder if it might be better to also include a WP:SECONDARY source unaffiliated with Parks Canada for the first alt, though.)
  • just those two minor points and I'll be happy with either. Umimmak (talk) 17:54, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
  • @Umimmak: thank you for the review. Regarding ALT0, I paraphrased sources that called him "popular", but we can certainly delete it from the hook, since the attendance at his funeral demonstrates the same point. I think ALT0 is the best hook. Regarding ALT1, the sources are not quite clear on how long after he accepted the position at Beth Jacob Synagogue in 1906 was he named Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg, so I deleted the "40 years". Yoninah (talk) 13:13, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
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