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Soloveitchik, 81, is known to his devotees as "the Rav," a Hebrew term of honor that means he is "the Rabbi." (Less reverential Jews on the right wing of Orthodoxy use just his initials "J.B.") As professor of Talmud since 1941 at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York City, Soloveitchik has prepared nearly 1,500 men for ordination. By some estimates, this is the largest number of rabbis trained by any sage of the past millennium. The group makes up the majority of the North American Orthodox rabbis now serving in synagogues. Neither the Conservative...
...enough. He wanted to help Jewish boys get the learning in school that he had wrested by himself from his Bible and unabridged dictionary. Some 20 years ago, he made a special trip to New York City's Yeshiva University to walk the halls of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and to talk hesitantly with the scholars...
...deep-voiced, long-bearded second man was Rabbi Morris S. Margolies, last week elected president of Yeshiva and of the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He, too, is a native of Russia. In 1899 he became rabbi of the Boston Orthodox Community. Since 1906 he has been rabbi of the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan. In Manhattan there are few orthodox Jewish activities to which his name has not been attached. Orphans and the aged have listened for his slow steps, rabbinical students have harkened to his priestly wisdom. His greatest fondness is study, his ambition bringing Jewish culture and spiritual...
...Manhattan Island there are arising some gorgeous, massive buildings in an Americanized Byzantine manner- rigid facades; a squatty dome; ornate yet severe decoration. They represent the first independent stand on education ever taken by Jewry in the 2,000 years of its exile. Out of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary has grown the Yitzchok Elchanan Yeshivah, in which there will be the first Jewish college ever established in the U. S., equipped to grant "the same academic degrees as other American colleges in a background thoroughly Jewish and thoroughly American in spirit...
...Huff '10, J. M. Longyear '10, H. W. Miller '12, L. C. Parsons '10, F. F. A. Pearson '11, H. T. Pulsifer '11, L. L. Schmied '12, G. A. Schneider 2L., H. C. Simons '10, P. C. Squire '11, J. A. Warren '09. Raymond Hartwell, D. Gardiner 2L. Rabbi Elchanan, R. M. Middlemass '09 Albert Gregor, O. L. M. H. Lyding '09 Ussishokof, J. A. Eccles '10 Orlinski, M. Adelsheim '09 Schamberg, A. Gregg '11 Von Schlegel, C. H. Pullen '11 Wolfstamm, S. Perritt '10 Liefert, F. A. Wilmot '10 Bernstein, D. Carb '09 Petroff, J. C. Savery '11 Winggte...
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