New York Rabbi To Lead Boston Institute Named for Orthodox Sage J. Soloveitchik

New York Rabbi To Lead Boston Institute Named for Orthodox Sage J. Soloveitchik

NEW YORK -- In a bid to raise the professionalism of Orthodox rabbis and educators, the Maimonides day school in Brookline, Mass., is hiring one of New York's most prominent rabbis to spearhead an institute named for the school's founder, the late sage Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik.

The new dean of the institute, which has existed for some years largely on paper, is the senior rabbi of The Jewish Center, Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter. Rabbi Schacter will function as the leader of a minyan that meets at Maimonides, will lecture in the community and will develop curricula based on the teachings of Soloveitchik, the esteemed leader of Modern Orthodoxy who founded the school in 1937, according to the school's president, Abe Levovitz.

The institute -- the creation of Soloveitchik's daughter Atarah Twersky and her husband, the late Rabbi Isadore Twersky, who raised a generation of Judaic scholars at Harvard University -- is a sign that the Soloveitchik family is moving to...