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Social Activities and Ethnic Group Maintenance
One other concept in addition to the compromise with secularism is required before the problem under study will become entirely clear. This is the status…
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Marshall Sklare
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New York, United States of America
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1955
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February 9, 2000Dear Ammi,It was a pleasure meeting you in person last week. […]I wonder what the staff and the other patrons thought about the two of us sitting there, me with my beard, peyot, and…
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Ammiel Hirsch, Yaakov Yosef Reinman
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New York, United States of America
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2002
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[ . . . ] But before we come to analyze the dreadful calamity [i.e., the drought] that has befallen us, and before we come to see what is the putrid humor harbored in our midst…
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Shimon Aghasi
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
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1912
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To the remnant whom Hashem calls Guardians of the Torah and Doers of His Word. May the Lord our God be with them and may they rise higher and higher
our brethren guardians of the faith of israel!
Ou…
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Agudas Yisroel
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1918
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Question:In America there is now a notable general rise in religion. The membership of religious organizations has grown, religious gatherings attract a larger audience, etc. Likewise in Jewish life…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1954
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Diversity is a characteristic feature of Orthodoxy today. Orthodox leaders and movements inspire the extremes of the Jewish political spectrum, from the supernationalism of Meir Kahane…
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Immanuel Jakobovits
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1989
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By emphasizing religious activity, Judaism is completely tied to life and becomes the property of every individual Jew. A religion of pure ideas belongs primarily to the theologians; the masses who…
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Zechariah Fraenkel
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Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (Dresden, Germany)
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1845
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With God’s help, may the Lord order blessing, life, and peace for the leaders and fine men, preeminent individuals, etc., and for their head, the Great Rabbi, etc.Hear, congregation of the Lord and…
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Shomrei ha-Dos Society
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Sziget, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania)
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1886
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You ask me for my opinion on the question which at present agitates so greatly the minds of men, emancipation; whether I consider it feasible and desirable, according to the spirit of Judaism, our…
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Samson Raphael Hirsch
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Oldenburg, German Confederation (Oldenburg, Germany)
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1836
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[ . . . ] I find myself obliged to commence with a general preface, which I bring to the fore on each occasion that I have occasion to speak about the way of “the Mizrachi” [movement] and its value…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Date unknown, late 19th–early 20th century