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their own. In many communities, Orthodox day schools, or
Orthodox-oriented community day schools, have large numbers of students from non-Orthodox families. The liberal movements should be appreciated and encouraged because they are doing something Jewish, even if it is not the way that Orthodox Jews would like them to, he said. "What they are doing is something, and something is better than nothing," he said in his speech. "I'm very openly attacking the notion that we sometimes find in the Orthodox community that 'being a
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groups to interview potential converts as to their sincerity. Many Reform rabbis took offense at the notion that the beit din must be strictly halakhic and
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No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. Torah is "a Torah of truth," and to hide from the facts is to distort that truth into a myth. Of course, it must be repeated that the theories here under discussion have not (yet)
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had not conclusively proved the eternity of matter and that since eternity and creation were philosophically equally acceptable alternatives, he preferred to accept creation since this theory was the one apparently taught in
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for a general audience not familiar with Jewish theology; this work focused on how a proper understanding of
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on April 16, 2020, at the age of 88. At the time of his death in May 2020, Lamm had two sons, Shalom and Joshua, and a daughter, Chaye
Warburg. He had a second daughter, Sara Lamm Dratch, who died in 2013. He was also survived by 17 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
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Lamm wanted this to be only the beginning of a solution to Jewish disunity. He stated that had this unified conversion plan not been destroyed, he wanted to extend this program to the area of halakhic Jewish divorces, thus ending the problem of
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628:(emigration to the State of Israel). Lamm devised a solution for the denominational crisis which required delicate diplomacy as well as goodwill on all sides. In response to Lamm's suggestion, Prime Minister Shamir appointed Israeli
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said that two rabbis there had sexually abused them. After retirement Lamm left the spotlight of communal life. According to a family member Lamm suffered from an illness that affected his memory. Lamm died on May 31, 2020, in
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In a lecture before Klal, a "mixed" group of rabbis, he maintained that non-Orthodox rabbis are "valid" spiritual leaders of their congregants, whereas the
Orthodox are "legitimate" religious leaders. "Valid" comes from the
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need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. We must then use the newly discovered truths the better to truly understand our Torah โ the "Torah of truth."
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been established as true. But they may be: and Judaism will then have to confront them as it has confronted what men have considered the truth throughout the generations.
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of Manhattan in 1958; and then the senior rabbi of the Jewish Center from 1959 to 1976. In 1959, he also became a professor in Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University.
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Lamm's writings on this subject are prominently featured in the "What Is Out There?" featurette, on disk two of the two-disc special edition of
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convincingly proven, he would have accepted it and reinterpreted the verses in Genesis to accommodate the theory of the eternity of matter.
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are to a large extent complementary - both value the acquisition of secular knowledge and both demand adherence to
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in 1949 before working in a clandestine laboratory in upstate New York developing munitions for the newborn
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1313:"In a Letter Announcing His Retirement, Yeshiva University Chancellor Apologizes for Sexual Abuse Scandal"
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Leo Jung Jubilee Volume Essays in Honor on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
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Lamm spent almost 25 years as a pulpit rabbi. He was the Assistant Rabbi to Rabbi
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and its theology of Torah in confrontation with Madda or "Western Civilization".
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Norman Lamm, "The Royal Table: A Passover Haggadah", (OU Press, New York, 2010)
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Sermon anthology of the RCA Vol. 44 (1986): Notes of An Unrepentant Darshan
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Sermon anthology of the RCA Vol. 44 (1986): There Is A Prophet in Israel
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is better'" than being a non-Orthodox Jew, he said in an interview.
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Menachem Mendel Kasher, Norman Lamm, Leonard Rosenfeld (Editors).
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Norman Lamm, 'Halakhot Va-halikhot', Mosad ha-Rav Kuk, 1990.
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and Reform Judaism. In 1989 and 1990 Israeli Prime Minister
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Faith and Doubt - Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought
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The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary
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1957:Center for Israel Studies at Yeshiva University
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1708:HaPardes, July 1992: ืืขืก ืืืืื ืืืืืกื ืืืืืืช
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1225:Cohen, Debra Nussbaum (December 5, 1997). "
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1576:The Shema: Spirituality and Law in Judaism
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1711:HaPardes, November 1993: ืืืจืช ืืืื ืืืืื
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1056:"The Lamm Heritage | Yeshiva University"
1942:Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University
1665:HaDarom, No. 32 : ืืขื ืื ืืฆืืช ืงืืืืฉ
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1603:http://www.forward.com/articles/11308/
1233:via JWeekly.com. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
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1909:Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
1731:Yeshiva University: The Lamm Heritage
1696:HaPardes, May 1986: ืืขื ืื ืกืคืืจืช ืืขืืืจ
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1889:Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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1015:A Bullet Factory in the Catskills
657:Agudath Israel World Organization
463:As a Modern Orthodox Jew, Lamm's
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