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...other tales, the message is saltier. Rabbi Leib and the witch Cunegunde contend for the soul of the world. The evil woman loses every battle of wills. Desperately she conceives a plan that cannot fail to undo her opponent: she will marry him. But in stories like The Wicked City, Singer is no longer content to twinkle. The angry retelling of Genesis changes Abraham's nephew Lot from a shepherd into the radical lawyer of Sodom. In one case, Lot represents a man who has murdered his own parents, throwing the defendant on the mercy of the court because...
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...
...Repentance (Paulist Press; 320 pages; $11.95). Compiled by an Israeli disciple of Soloveitchik's, Pinchas Peli, Repentance is based on transcriptions of Yom Kippur discourses that the Rav delivered in New York City over twelve years. Reviewing the earlier Hebrew edition of Repentance, Chicago's Reform rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf declared that Soloveitchik is "more and more obviously the teacher of the time. If I am not mistaken, people will still be reading him in a thousand years...
...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...
...life as well as his thought, Soloveitchik bridges the ancient ghettos and modern urban culture. The scion of an eminent line of 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...