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What Rabbi Soloveitchik said about Jewish concern for Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY Rukhl Schaechter explores a recently surfaced video featuring Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik, a pivotal figure in Modern Orthodoxy, delivering a sermon in Yiddish from 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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Jewish EducationYiddishMaimonides SchoolSacrificeModern OrthodoxyHolinessYom HaatzmautTorah InterpretationsIsraeli StatehoodRabbi Soloveitchik

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Jews praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, April 1936."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"He immigrated to the United States in 1932, later to become Chief Rabbi of the Orthodox community of Boston."

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