Dr schick1/16/2024 Schick, as he always did after his lectures, but added that there were plenty of divisions which he remembered from older times as well. Rabbi Kirzner, an editor of R’ Hutner’s Pachad Yitzchak and an NYU economics professor who has also been on the short list to win a Nobel Prize in economics, then spoke. Schick saying at a lecture ten or so years ago how Orthodoxy was less divided in his day. Schick about his college study and graduate work. On some occasions R’ Aharon would ask Dr. He spoke at the lectures about the Shabbos meals he ate in a private room at the Agudah and Zeirei conventions with Rav Aharon. Schick’s published writings, as I hope to reference in a separate comment.Īs mentioned in the Torah Umesorah dinner audio linked here, Dr. Below are some of my recollections which are also reflected in Dr. Schick was involved in organizing, and was an annual speaker as well. Yisrael Kirzner’s shul), which I believe Dr. I would attend from time to time a long-running Friday night lecture series in Boro Park’s Bnei Yehudah(R. Weiss, the Orthodox Union’s immensely gifted executive vice president, asked me to become an officer, I demurred, saying that while I would work voluntarily for the organization, an officer must take responsibility for the group’s policies and I could not take responsibility for Synagogue Council membership.” This dual commitment was and remains unique and reflected my determination to work for the entire community. “During the 1960s, as well, I was active in Agudath Israel, as I had been since my teens, and also in the Orthodox Union, representing it on public issues. While I recall him for example suggesting in a Jewish Week article that Hatzolah ambulances should include non-Orthodox volunteers as well, institutionally, he navigated the denominational divide in his unique way, as he described in a 2010 Jewish Press article, linked below: He didn’t see boundaries,” says Avi Schick. Though he spent more than sixty years in Jewish communal service, “Marvin was an outsider,” not a paid leader of any Jewish organization or beholden to any particular parochial agenda or single constituency. David Luchins, longtime chair of the Political Science Department at Touro College. Schick was not regarded as a representative of any particular Jewish organization, says Dr. Interestingly, Avi Schick used the same word, an absence of “boundaries” to describe his father in the Winter 2021 issue of Jewish Action about shtadlanim(see link): He worked with and for the interests of both charedim and the Modern Orthodox, but was affiliated with no particular organization.” Schick and his speech were introduced (in Yiddish) by Rav Elya Svei ZT”L, and we offer Rav Svei’s remarks as well. Schick’s yahrtzeit, we are pleased to provide Cross-Currents readers with this speech about Jewish education that he delivered at a Torah Umesorah dinner 30 years ago. It is a terrific illustration of his passion, intellect and idealism.ĭr. He worked with and for the interests of both charedim and the Modern Orthodox, but was affiliated with no particular organization. (I’m not sure who the others were, if any.) As President of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School for 45 years, through his work with the Avi Chai Foundation and in countless other ways, his concern for Jewish education transcended all boundaries. He ignored other boundaries as well. When the government was on the verge of announcing that all yeshivos were acting illegally by moving general studies education to afternoon hours, he was one of those most responsible for getting it to do an about-face, thereby saving Torah education. Jewish education was the cause closest to his heart. In the 1960s and 1970s he led the fight to protect the rights of observant Jews, to combat discrimination against Shabbos observers and for aid to parochial schools. He did so through his mighty pen (producing an avalanche of op-eds), and as a member of city and state administrations in NY. Schick was involved in a wide-range of communal activities. The obituary run by the New York Times shows his prominence in the non-Orthodox world.ĭr. He was a scholar and intellectual who was also a firebrand, a fierce protector of the Orthodox community who was also unafraid to express his criticisms, a writer and a speaker who was first and foremost a doer, a university professor, and a devoted and loyal follower of his guidestar, Rav Aharon Kotler ZT”L. Schick was a unique figure in American Jewish life. Today, Sunday, June 1 st marks the 2nd yahrtzeit of our former Cross-Currents contributor, Dr.
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