Word: orthodox
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...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 nor the Reform branches of U.S. Judaism can boast an equivalently pre-eminent scholar...
...similar dispute involves demands by right-wing Orthodoxy to end cooperation with Conservative and Reform Jews in such organizations as the Synagogue Council of America and the New York Board of Rabbis. The Rabbinical Council of America, which represents the Modern Orthodox movement, years ago referred the matter to its reigning authority, Soloveitchik. He never ruled that such cooperation was permissible, but he did not condemn it either. As a result, concourse still takes place. Says Orthodox Rabbi Walter Wurzburger, former Synagogue Council president: "I dread to think of the future of Orthodoxy without...
...East European rabbis, he was trained at home in Russia by his father and received no formal schooling until he entered the University of Berlin. There he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, becoming as conversant with Kant as with Moses. In 1932 he moved to Boston as chief Orthodox rabbi and founder of a pioneering day school. He later began commuting to teach in New York. A widower, he has two daughters and one son, who is a scholar of Jewish history...
When Soloveitchik arrived on the American scene, the Orthodox Jews were isolated from mainstream society and seemed doomed to extinction in the U.S. Soloveitchik helped foster the growth of the movement by insisting that a Jew could remain both an observer of tradition and a full participant in Western culture. For him it has never been a pragmatic calculation but a belief that this was the very will...
...Affiliated U.S. Jews belong to three principal branches. By one estimate, the membership is: liberal Reform, 1,100,000, the Orthodox on the right, 416,000, the in-between Conservative...