I never had the privilege of meeting Rav Soloveitchik z”l or learning under him. But I believe I have read all of his books on Jewish philosophy and Halacha, and even some of his Talmudic novellae and ...

Dr. Atarah Twersky, the widow of Professor Isadore Twersky, daughter of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, passed away on Friday afternoon at 90. Dr. Twersky was the sister of Dr. Tovah Lichtenstein, YU ...

Publisher and Editor Gary Rosenblatt very cogently states the late Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik’s position on interfaith dialogue (“YU’s Schachter Accused Of Obsolete Views On Church,” Aug. 21).

A new video recording in which the late Talmudic scholar Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik speaks about baaley teshuva (Jews who become observant) has been uploaded onto YouTube by Ohr Publishing, in time ...

Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, a major Jewish philosopher who shaped Orthodox Judaism in America through his writing and lectures and his ordination of more than 2,000 rabbis, died Thursday at his ...

The walk from our home to the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts should typically take 20 minutes. Often I wanted it to last for an eternity. It is an early spring Shabbat afternoon at 109 ...

This Passover, on the 18th of Nissan, we mark the 30th yahrzeit of Rabbi Joseph B. (Yosef Dov) Soloveitchik – "the Rav" as he is known to his myriad of disciples and the generations of disciples ...

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Lawrence J. Kaplan is Professor of Rabbinics and Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Studies of McGill University, Montreal Quebec, where he has been teaching for over the past forty years.