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If I were asked to characterize in a phrase the change that religious Jewry has undergone in the past generation, I would say…
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Haym Soloveitchik
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New York, United States of America
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1994
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One widespread misconception concerning Judaism is the notion that Judaism is a religion which is not rooted in dogma. […] To be sure, membership in the community of Israel is not contingent upon a…
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J. David Bleich
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New York, United States of America
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1983
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Abortion is not murder, vociferous and repeated claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Abortion cannot be murder in Jewish law, because, as indicated above, murder is one of the three “cardinal” sins…
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David M. Feldman
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New York, United States of America
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1986
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The predictions of an unbridgeable and cataclysmic rupture within the Jewish community agitate all of us who love and care for and worry about our Jewish people and its future. The twin issues of…
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Norman Lamm
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New York, United States of America
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1986
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I am an Orthodox rabbi and I am gay. For a long while I denied, rejected, railed against this truth. The life story that I had wanted—wife, kids, and a family that modeled Torah and hesed—turned out…
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Steven Greenberg
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Berkeley, United States of America
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1993
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[ . . . ] The duality in the attitudes of cognitive man and homo religiosus is rooted in existence itself. Cognitive man concerns himself with a simple and “candid” reality. He does not seek to closet…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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1943
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What made Amos vs. Amaziah weigh so heavily in the annals of history? I can only attempt a hint or an inkling of an answer.
I do so best by returning to the vision of Amos, as he…
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Shalom Spiegel
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1957
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In our national gallery—the gibbore ha-umah—there are three great Moseses: the law-giver of Mt. Sinai, Moses Ben Maimon of Cordova, and Moses Isserles of Cracow. Twice was the winged word coined:…
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Leo Jung
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
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Elhanan Wasserman
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Baranovitsh, Second Polish Republic (Baranovichi, Belarus)
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1936
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I am Rabbi Balfour Brickner. I serve as the national director of the Commission on Interfaith Activities, a joint commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Jewish Chautauqua Society…
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Balfour Brickner
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
1974