Interview with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
About this episode
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik discusses the importance of religious liberty in America and its connection to the nation's founding principles.
An Interview with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Scholar, Rabbi, and Senior Fellow, Tikvah At a time when faith is increasingly viewed as something to be kept out of public life, one of America's most compelling Jewish scholars and public intellectuals is making the opposite case — that religious liberty is not merely tolerated in America but is essential to its founding character and constitutional order. Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom is Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York — the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States — and Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. A Senior Fellow at Tikvah and a scholar who has lectured at the Vatican and at Christian institutions across America and Europe, Rabbi Soloveichik brings both rigorous scholarship and the natural authority of a congregational rabbi to the most urgent questions about faith, freedom, and the American experiment. His most recent book, Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship , explores the qualities of moral courage and virtue that great leaders have drawn from faith across centuries. Rabbi Soloveichik is…
People in this episode
Host: Rick Graber
Guest: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
Topics covered
- faith and public life
- religious liberty
- American founding
- Jewish scholarship
- moral courage
- leadership
Keywords
- Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
- religious liberty
- American founding
- Jewish scholarship
- faith
- leadership
- moral courage
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Tikvah, Congregation Shearith Israel, Yeshiva University
Books & works: Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship
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