The Jewish theologian/philosopher Joseph Baer Soloveitchik (1903-1993) was able to use his extensive knowledge of rabbinical tradition and of secular and non-Jewish thought to illuminate both the contemporary Jewish situation and the circumstances of...

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, a leading Orthodox scholar, founder of the first Hebrew School in New England and an opponent of the anti-modern Orthodox, died of heart failure Thursday at his Brookline home. He was 90. Rabbi Soloveitchik, known as "The Rav," the...

Grossman, Lawrence Forward 03-22-2002 Lawrence Grossman is co-editor of the American Jewish Year Book (American Jewish Committee). On April 8, 1993, several years after debilitating illness forced his withdrawal from public life, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik died in Boston at the age...