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Discourses on Destruction and Rebirth: The Rav on the Shoah, Zionism and the American Diaspora

JL;DR SUMMARY Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's recently translated discourses in "The Return to Zion: Addresses on Religious Zionism and American Orthodoxy" reveal his perspectives on the Shoah, Zionism, and American Jewry between 1939 and 1958. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentityZionismHalakhahJoseph B. SoloveitchikAmerican OrthodoxyMizrachi OrganizationTorah EducationJewish Response To SufferingKol Dodi Dofek

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"Soloveitchik, The Return to Zion: Addresses on Religious Zionism and American Orthodoxy (New York: OU Press and Ktav, 2023)."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"a communal rabbi in Boston, and the founder and leader of a local yeshiva, he was also a national leader"
Poland
"Many traits and markers of Yisrael Saba were preserved among Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian Jews, with their thousand-year old histories and traditions"
Lithuania
"Many traits and markers of Yisrael Saba were preserved among Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian Jews, with their thousand-year old histories and traditions"
Russian Federation
"Many traits and markers of Yisrael Saba were preserved among Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian Jews, with their thousand-year old histories and traditions"
Israel
"Should we leave the great work of building the land of Israel with all its historical complications and paradoxes"

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