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The Golden Age of American Jewry Hasn’t Ended. It May Have Just Begun
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
Meir Soloveichik is the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel and the director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. His website, containing all of his media appearances, podcasts, and writing, can be found at meirsoloveichik.com.
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Watch or Read Meir Soloveichik and Joseph Dweck Discuss the Worlds and Moods of Ashkenaz and Sepharad
By Meir Soloveichik, Joseph Dweck, Jonathan SilverThe Jewish world is dynamic and diverse, and prayers, ceremonies, foods, and other traditions often diverge radically between different Jewish groups. In his feature essay this month, Rabbi Meir Sol...
Monthly Essay ·
Fear and Joy in Sepharad and Ashkenaz
By Meir SoloveichikWhat happens when an Ashkenazi rabbi leads a Sephardi synagogue during the Days of Awe? A profound encounter with new moods in Jewish life.
Observation ·
Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on the Politics of the Haggadah
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
The Best Books of 2023, Part II
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan Silver, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on What Jews Believe and Say about Martyrdom
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on Ten Portraits of Jewish Statesmanship
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on Jerusalem’s Enduring Symbols
By Meir Soloveichik, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
What the Right Still Has To Learn From Ronald Reagan
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Rama Burshtein and Meir Soloveichik Talk “Fill the Void”
By Meir Soloveichik, Rama Burshtein, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Was Menachem Begin a Founder of Israel?
By Martin Kramer, Meir Soloveichik, Avi Shilon, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Loss, Discovery, and a Lost Discovery in “Reading Ruth”
By Hillel Halkin, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Which Wines to Drink at the Seder This Year, and Why
By Meir Soloveichik, David M. Weinberg, Joshua E. LondonCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
What Jonathan Sacks Gave
By Robert P. George, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Reflections for the Days of Awe
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Tara Isabella Burton, David Bashevkin, Christine Rosen, Meir Soloveichik, Dovid MargolinCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on the Genius of the Late Norman Lamm
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Menachem Begin’s Covenantal Zionism
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
A Tribute to Mosaic’s Founding Editor
By Eric Cohen, Ruth R. Wisse, Martin Kramer, Hillel Halkin, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
The Mysteries of the Sh’ma
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
For the Church, a Purely Neutral Approach to the Existence of Israel is Theologically Unsustainable
By Meir SoloveichikIn his essay “Confrontation,” the great Talmudist and philosopher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik responded to the mid-1960s advent of the Second Vatican Council by emphasizing that certain root theological...
Observation ·
Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on the Purpose of Keeping Kosher (with Locusts)
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Rembrandt’s Very Human, Very Accurate, Very Jewish (and Very Unclassical) David
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Rembrandt and What it Means to be Both a Stranger and a Neighbor in the World
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
How Rembrandt Understood the Destruction of Jerusalem (and Poussin Didn’t)
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Rembrandt and the One Gentile Prophet in the Hebrew Bible
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Rembrandt and the Dangers of Vision
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
The Ultimate Portrayal of the Ultimate Example of the Unhappy Family
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Rembrandt’s Jewish Vision
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
“We Have Not Yet Appointed a Hebrew”
By Jonathan Sarna, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Rembrandt’s Great Jewish Painting
By Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
