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Article: Reproach, recognition and respect: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Orthodoxy's mid-century attitude toward non-Orthodox denominations.
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- American Jewish History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Introduction
On June 12, 1954, the congregation of Temple Bnai Moshe in Brighton, Massachusetts celebrated the opening of their new sanctuary on Commonwealth Avenue with a dedication dinner. Almost all of Boston's Jewish leadership attended the affair that honored the spiritual leader of the congregation, Rabbi Joseph Shubow. Shubow had graduated Harvard in 1920 and received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Institute of Religion in 1933. He had held a position on the presidium of the American Jewish Congress and was the congregation's rabbi for twenty years, excluding the years 1942-45 when he had served as a captain in the U.S. army. Because of his prolific ...