Daniel Ross Goodman, "Soloveitchik's Children Confront Christianity,” Sept. 23, 2024

In the 1960s Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik refused to engage in Jewish-Christian theological dialogue, publishing an essay titled “Confrontation” in which he presented his reasoning behind his stance. Since this time, however, more and more Orthodox Jews-including some of his own disciples-have broken with him, not only engaging in public Jewish-Christian theological dialogue but arguing forcefully and eloquently for its necessity. (One of these figures is Rabbi Dr. Daniel Ross Goodman’s own teacher, Rabbi Dr. Irving [“Yitz”] Greenberg.) In his lecture, Rabbi Dr. Goodman tells the compelling intellectual and theological story of how this remarkable transition came to pass.
This event was co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program.
Rabbi Dr. Daniel Ross Goodman is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School and a faculty member of the Theology and Religious Studies Department of St. John’s University. He is the author of three books, including "Soloveitchik’s Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America" (University of Alabama Press, 2023).