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.

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

A hallmark of Rabbi Lamm’s scholarship was his synthesis of halacha and aggadah. For Rabbi Lamm, these were not separate spheres but complementary dimensions of a unified Torah.

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

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, in a 1980 address, noted the unusual character of this haftarah, which has no encouraging end to contrast with its dreary opening. He writes: “The final words of ...