Modern attempts to revive the Sanhedrin are the efforts from 1538 CE until the present day to renew the Sanhedrin which was dissolved in 358 CE by the edict of the Byzantine emperor. The latest effort was in 2004 when a group of seventy one rabbis claiming to represent varied communities in Israel undertook a ceremony in Tiberias, where the original Sanhedrin was disbanded. That group claimed to re-establish the body, based on the proposal of Maimonides and the Jewish legal rulings of Rabbi Yosef Karo. As of March 2010, that effort is still ongoing.
Read more about Modern Attempts To Revive The Sanhedrin: Sanhedrin in Judaism, The Dissolution of The Classical Sanhedrin, Maimonides' Semicha By Consensus, A Brief Summary of The Last Five Rabbinical Attempts To Create A Sanhedrin, Rabbi Beirav, The Model For The Current Attempt
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