Tikvah
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May 1, 2017

Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Forgotten Statement on the Conflict between Jewish and Secular Education

Breaking down the wall.

Not long after arriving in the U.S. in 1932 and becoming the rabbi of Boston’s Orthodox community, Joseph B. Soloveitchik gave an interview to a reporter from the Boston Herald—presumably in Yiddish or German—which she then translated for publication. In it, Soloveitchik speaks of the “difficult problem” of trying to blend “two hostile educational systems,” namely the religious and the secular:

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