Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Chapters: Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Sacha Pecaric, Moses Mescheloff, Avi Weiss, Norman Lamm, Moses Rosen, Jonathan Sacks, Leo Jung, Jacob Itzhak Niemirower, Eliezer Berkovits, Shmuley Boteach, Louis Jacobs, Azriel Hildesheimer, Berel Wein, Louis Werfel, Emanuel Rackman, Steven Weil, Moshe David Tendler, Jeremy Rosen, Gedalia Dov Schwartz, David Hartman, Baruch Lanner, Shlomo Riskin, Asher Lopatin, Sara Hurwitz, Milton Polin, Haskel Lookstein, Moshe Gottesman, Reuven Bulka, Nathan Marcus Adler, Barry Freundel, Jonathan Rosenblatt, Benjamin Yudin, Benjamin Blech, Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Donniel Hartman, J. David Bleich, Yehuda Henkin, Irving Greenberg, Mordechai Willig, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Howard Apfel, Alexandru Safran, Shmuel Herzfeld, Joseph Telushkin, Zvi Sobolofsky, Zadoc Kahn, Shalom Carmy, Hershel Reichman, Michael Rosensweig, David Berger, Herbert Bomzer, Hosea Jacobi, Seth Farber, Baruch Poupko, Yosef Blau, Israel Friedlander, Ephraim Buchwald, Pinchas Hacohen Peli, Meir Soloveichik, Mark Dratch, Norman Solomon, Marc D. Angel, Andrew Shaw, Saul Berman, Yehoshua Hartman, Ze'ev Smason, Walter Wurzburger, Shubert Spero, Jacob J. Schacter, Hayyim Angel, Joseph Ehrenkranz, Yaakov Neuburger, Eugene Korn. Excerpt: Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (Hebrew: (1903-1993) was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. As Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav (actually pronounced The Rov, similar to his illustrious uncle Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik who was commonly called "The Rov"), as he came to be known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century. He advocated a synthesis between Torah scholarship and Western, secular scholarship as well as positive involvement with the broader community. He served as an advisor, guide, mentor, and role-model for tens of thousands of Jews, both as a Talmudic scholar and as a religious leader. He is regarded as a seminal figure by Modern Orthodox Judaism. Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was born on February 27, 1903 in Pruzhany, then Russia, next Poland, now Belarus). He came from a rabbinical dynasty dating back some 200 years: his paternal grandfather was Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, and his great-grandfather and namesake was Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Beis HaLevi. His great-great-grandfather was Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (The Netziv). His father, Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik (note different spelling of last name), preceded him as head of the RIETS rabbinical school at Yeshiva University. On his maternal line, Soloveitchik was a grandson of Rabbi Eliyahu Feinstein and his wife Guta Feinstein née Davidovitch, who in turn was a descendant of a long line of Kapulyan rabbis, and of the Tosafot Yom Tov, the Shelah, the Maharshal, and Rashi. Soloveitchik was educated in the traditional manner at a Talmud Torah, an elementary yeshiva, and by private tutors, as his parents realized his great mental powers. According to a curriculum vitae written and signed in his own hand, in 1922 he graduated from the liberal arts `Gymnasium' in Dubno. The