Tag: Rav Soloveitchik

Reflections of Rav Soloveitchik on the Tenth Anniversary of the State of Israel and Sovereignty.

There is a threat today representing a new category of missionary:They call themselves “Hayovel.”

Let us resolve to connect ourselves powerfully to Eretz Yisrael and Jerusalem.

The challenge of death is to keep the person who has died alive in spirit.

It may be suggested that a time frame of separation is mandated to heighten the physical encounter.

Is it worth taking the chance that ‘some of our own’ may leave the fold in order to gain those who may come into the fold?

Rav Soloveitchik stated that "to me it is something vulgar, this clamor of the liberals that abortion be permitted."

Aside from being the first Orthodox Jewish layman to head the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (1982-1984), Rabbi Berman is also well known for the close relationship he shared with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (popularly called “the Rav”), who ordained him in 1959.

"From the age of 12," Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff told The Jewish Press in a recent interview, "I had one dream: to be a tzaddik, a gaon, and a melamed. I never became a tzaddik, I never became a gaon, but I did become a melamed, nodeh l'Hakadosh Baruch Hu."

New Book Reveals His Private Thoughts On Chabad, Zionism, Women's Hair Covering

Among the many posthumous additions to Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's literary legacy, one book always seemed conspicuously absent: a Soloveitchik Haggadah in English.

Thanks, Fox News    As I sit here in Jerusalem writing, a fierce battle rages in Lebanon as our dear sons fight for the life...