I have chosen to respond to Dr. Eugene Korn’s compelling essay and to his respondents by ironically not addressing many of the issues he raises through Rabbi Soloveitchik’s "Confrontation," the essay ...

First there was Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, the 99-year-old heir to a vaunted tradition of Talmud study. A few hours later it was Rabbi Yitzchok Sheiner, the 98-year-old leader of a prominent yeshiva.

“Confrontation” is a characteristically brilliant, highly influential, and notoriously problematic work. While Rabbi Soloveitchik addresses a number of pragmatic issues clearly and to my mind ...

This became especially clear to me when I first read Halakhic Man, a profound and poetic reflection on Jewish life by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, one of the most influential rabbinic scholars of ...

“The people and ideas that I was exposed to very much helped mold me. I got there right after Rabbi Soloveitchik stepped down from public life.” Saks immigrated to Israel in 1994, took part in ...

R. Eliyahu bases his opinion on an aggadic — that is, homiletic — statement of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, which claims that the mitzvah to wage war against Amalek is not limited to the ...

“One Tisha B’Av, I heard this point powerfully presented by Rav Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik [Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik]. He said, ...