Meir Soloveichik


Meir Yaakov Soloveichik is an American Orthodox rabbi and writer. He is the son of Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveichik, grandson of the late Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik and the great nephew of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the late leader of American Jewry who identified with what became known as Modern Orthodoxy.

Education

Learned in Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School of Chicago for elementary grades. Graduating from Yeshiva College in New York City, he received rabbinic ordination at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and studied philosophy of religion at Yale University Divinity School, although he never received a degree from Yale. He later received a PhD in Religion from Princeton University. He wrote his doctorate on the modern Orthodox theologian Michael Wyschogrod.

Career

A regular contributor to general interest and Jewish publications such as First Things, The Forward, Commentary Magazine, and the journal Azure, where he was Contributing Editor, he has written a number of articles concerning issues in Jewish thought and life, the relationship between Judaism and Christianity and the limits of interfaith dialogue established by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
He was the resident scholar of the Jewish Center in New York City, and later, Associate Rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, also in New York City. In May 2013, he became Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City, a Sephardic synagogue, and the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States.
He is the director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University.
It had been reported that he had been considered a candidate to replace Jonathan Sacks as the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom. However, the position ultimately went to Ephraim Mirvis.
In August 2012, he gave the invocation at the opening session of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

Brisker rabbinic dynasty

Religious writings

Judaism and the Origins of America
He is married to Layaliza Soloveichik, a 1997 graduate of Yale University Law School.