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Category Archives: Rabbis
Rabbis Looking To Get On In Life
In his second lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: In 1906, Rav Meir Simcha was asked by the leaders of Jerusalem to assist Rav Shmuel Salant as rav of … Continue reading
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Rabbis Thirsting For Honor
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. I was a preacher’s kid. I knew dozens of clergy. Almost all of them said they felt a divine call to become a pastor. By contrast, I don’t know any rabbis who felt a … Continue reading
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Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival Rejects Important New Documentary About Rabbinic Sexual Abuse
How can L.A. festival chief Hilary Helstein continue after this? She’s a disgrace. How can she reject this new film recently written up in the Washington Post? Hilary Helstein Is Hilary right when she says this is a community that … Continue reading
Should We Look To Rabbis For Temporal And Political Guidance?
Jonathan Baker writes: This is a set of summaries of a series of six lectures on the teachings of Harav Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik zt”l by Rabbi Aaron Rothkoff-Rakeffet at Lincoln Square Synagogue from 7 June to 12 July 1993. … Continue reading
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Yosef Shalom Elyashiv – The Greatest Sage Has No Relationship With His Children
In his third lecture for Torah in Motion on the R. Eliezer Berkovitz, professor Marc B. Shapiro says in 2010: “One of you wants to know if I have read the new biography of Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. “This is … Continue reading
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