Time Is Running Out to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program
How many delays will be too many?
July 19, 2017
How the “Soloveitchik Prayer Book” Loses Sight of J.B. Soloveitchik’s Perspective on Prayer
Modern Orthodoxy vs. humility.
Published in 2011, the Mesorat HaRav Siddur is an English-Hebrew prayer book with commentary excerpted and paraphrased from the writings and lectures of the towering 20th-century thinker Joseph B. Soloveitchik, along with adjustments that align with his sometimes idiosyncratic version of the traditional liturgy. Its appeal stems in part from the desire of Modern Orthodox Jews to have a siddur more reflective of their attitudes and beliefs than more popular editions, which are increasingly seen as having a decidedly ultra-Orthodox bent. Yet, argues Yaakov Jaffe, while the volume admirably conveys many of Soloveitchik’s ideas, his overarching approach to prayer seems to get lost, and may even be at loggerheads with the book’s purpose:
July 19, 2017
The Israeli Left Rejects Its Radical Wing
A new emerging consensus.
Relations between Israel and Europe Are Better Than They Seem
Economic and strategic cooperation has never been stronger.
An Inside Look at Israel’s War on Terror through the Small Screen
What Fauda gets right.
How the “Soloveitchik Prayer Book” Loses Sight of J.B. Soloveitchik’s Perspective on Prayer
Modern Orthodoxy vs. humility.