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Google News: Jewish studies flourish in China
[The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.] - We spent three hours a day exploring thinkers as diverse as Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, the Hatam Sofer, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Franz Rosenzweig and Hannah Arendt. We did close readings of primary sources together in class. This was a
Google News: Are yeshiva students exempt from the army?
[Jerusalem Post] - Some, like rabbis Samson Raphael Hirsch and Moshe Glasner, were enthusiastic supporters of such patriotic service. Others, including rabbis Samuel Landau and Meir Eisenstadt, expressed grave reservations about the halachic propriety of the aggressive
Google News: The weeks after Tisha Be'av
[Jerusalem Post] - In his reflections on the month of Av, the 19th-century rabbi and leader of modern-orthodox thought, Samson Raphael Hirsch, asks why the Jew mourns on the Ninth of Av. He answers by saying that “On the 10th of Tevet, the land was lost and the capital
Google News: Philanthropist was 'amazing example of a world Jew'
[Haaretz] - He attended the Samson Raphael Hirsch school, named for the famous rabbi who founded a stream of Orthodox Judaism often referred to as Neo-Orthodoxy. His parents divorced when he was 10 and, in the absence of a father figure, Fred assumed many
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