Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
Rabbi Soloveitchik, Orthodoxy's most brilliant interpreter in the U.S., in sists that Orthodoxy and modern life can go hand in hand. A pre-eminent Talmudic authority at Manhattan's Yeshiva University, Soloveitchik sees the "divine disciplines" of Orthodoxy as part of "a great romance between men and God." Halakhic Precepts, he argues, are a natural dialectic of "advancement and withdrawal" ? six days of work, one of rest; 16 days of the month when husband and wife can have intercourse, twelve when they cannot because of restrictions surrounding the menstrual period. "Detail is important," says Soloveitchik. "Ethics pays attenion...
Soloveitchik tirelessly commutes between New York and Boston, where he supervises the enlightened Yeshiva he founded there, the Maimonides School. It is designed to give students from kindergarten through twelfth grade the best in both secular education and Jewish
This outfit and the scholar's yeshiva students outrage a Jewish suburban group that looks on Unitarianism as rather a nice solution to any questions of Jewishness. The lawyer is appointed to rid the community of these symbols of religious exclusivity and suffering. But the lawyer undergoes a transformation of identity and winds up wearing the D.P.'s clothing, and beating his breast in ritual anguish. Michael Tolan undergoes this probe of the tribal subconscious with moving sensitivity...
...only 23, Riskin was ordained and began teaching at a special branch of Yeshiva University for Jews with little religious education. Soon Yeshiva had a side job for him, as minister to a tiny Conservative congregation whose dozen or so members met only for the High Holy Days in an upper West Side hotel room. Riskin accepted for a six-month trial period after setting three conditions: 1) he would hold weekly services and weekly classes on Jewish law, 2) he would accept no salary, and 3) the congregation must drop "Conservative" from its name...