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 ...

While once reminiscing with Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zts"l, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zts"l's son-in law, about our years in Brookline, Massachusetts, he highlighted the unique Shabbat sessions with ...

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 ...

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 ...

But he also was the “truest disciple” of his grandfather, Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik, the founder of Modern Orthodoxy in America, Twersky’s brother-in-law told the Forward. Twersky, the scion of ...

The articles in this column are transcriptions and adaptations of shiurim by Rav Joseph Ber Soloveitchik, zt”l. The Rav’s unique perspective on Chumash permeated many of the shiurim and lectures he ...

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A handwritten letter I acquired this week written by the Rav Joseph Ber Soloveitchik is a reminder of the often forgotten relationship between Rav Soloveitchik and Rav Ahron Kotler. The letter is ...