In this lecture, based upon an essay he wrote for the 2016 book Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity, Rabbi Soloveichik analyzes the thought of his grandfather, Ahron Soloveichik, and his great-uncle, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and how their approaches to Jewish thought relate to American Jewry and U.S. history.
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Promised Lands: The Torah and the American Founding
Two Catholics, a rabbi, and a Presbyterian discuss the indelible impact that the Torah has had on America.

Religion’s Refusal to Die
Rabbi Soloveichik joins Patrick Deneen and Jonathan Silver to explore the resilience of religion in the 21st century.