Henkin
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Henkin is a Jewish last name and may refer to the following people:
- Leon HenkinLeon HenkinLeon Albert Henkin was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for the "Henkin's completeness proof": his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic.-The completeness proof:Henkin's result was not novel; it had...
, logician and mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
- Henkin quantifier, a concept he pioneered
- Dr. William A. HenkinWilliam A. HenkinDr. William A. Henkin Phd, is a San Francisco, California based licensed marriage and family therapist , and a Board Certified Sex Therapist and Clinical Supervisor...
, psychotherapist and sex therapist
- Yosef Eliyahu HenkinYosef Eliyahu HenkinRabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin was a prominent Orthodox rabbi in the United States.He was born in 1881 in Klimavichy, Belarus, then in the Russian Empire, and studied at the Slutzker Yeshiva under Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer...
, famous OrthodoxOrthodox JudaismOrthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...
rabbiRabbiIn Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah... - Louis HenkinLouis HenkinLouis Henkin , widely considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States, was a former president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and University...
, legal academician and writer - Yehudah Herzl HenkinYehudah Herzl HenkinRabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin was born in 1945 and currently lives in Jerusalem.His father was Hillel Henkin, a Jewish educator in New Haven, CT.Rav Henkin has emerged in the last decade as a major posek with four volumes of responsa titled Bnei Banim....
, famous OrthodoxOrthodox JudaismOrthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...
rabbiRabbiIn Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...
is a nephew of Louis Henkin and grandson of Yosef Eliyahu Henkin.