An American Orthodox Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston's Maimonides School

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, born in 1903 and scion of a preeminent
Lithuanian Orthodox family, was one of the most towering intellectual figures of American Orthodoxy in the twentieth century. After receiving rabbinic ordination and completing his studies toward a Ph.D., he immigrated to America where he served as the Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. As the leader of centrist Orthodoxy in America for more than fifty years, his many acco…