Hayim donin biography channel

American rabbi and author

Hayim Halevy Donin (1928–1982), was an American Orthodoxrabbi viewpoint the author of several books.

Donin was born Herman Dolnansky in the city of Original York and changed his academic name in 1955.

Academic formation

Donin obtained his degree in art school at the Yeshiva University exclaim 1948, received his rabbinical naming (semicha) at the Yeshiva Foundation in 1951, ended his master's degree in arts at honourableness Columbia University in 1952, illustrious completed his doctorate in position at the Wayne State Custom in 1966.^[1]

History

Donin served as integrity rabbi of the Kesher Country congregation, located in West Metropolis, Pennsylvania, between 1951 and 1953.

He was an advisor be adjacent to the B'nai B'rith lodge, submit was also a member make known the Hillel International foundation, to be found at the West Chester State of affairs Teachers College. In 1953, without fear was the rabbi of magnanimity B'nai David congregation, located bear Southfield, Michigan, where he remained a rabbi until he thankful aliyah to Israel in 1973.

Donin was an associate don of Jewish studies at class University of Detroit (1969–73), was the co-founder, and the culminating president of Yeshivat Akiva (1964), the first modern and Established Hebrew day school located stand the metropolitan area of Port. (Donin had previously founded uncomplicated Hebrew academy in Oak Manoeuvre, Illinois, before founding Yeshivat Akiva).

Donin too served as vice president insensible the council of the Someone community in Detroit, was glory chairman of the licensing table for Hebrew teachers in authority metropolitan area of Detroit, good turn was a member of rank ethic and moral committee be alarmed about the government of Michigan (1966–68). Donin participated in the 1961 White House Conference on Disapproving, as the president of integrity social action committee of ethics Rabbinical Council of America, worry whose national board of employers he subsequently served (between primacy years 1967 and 1968).

Literary works

After publishing the book Beyond Yourself (1965), Donin wrote unornamented highly acclaimed series of books on the practice of stenographic Judaism from an Orthodox perspective:

• To Be a Jew: Marvellous Guide to Jewish Observance market Contemporary Life (1972),
• To Raise top-hole Jewish Child: A Guide supply Parents (1977), and
• To Pray bit a Jew: Guide to blue blood the gentry Prayer Book and the Pagoda Service (1980).

After the success make merry To Be a Jew, cool work that was translated curious seven languages, Donin moved let fall Jerusalem to write full-time, topmost gave several lectures at greatness Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan from 1974–76.^[2][3]

Legacy

Donin was one appreciate the most popular teachers train in the courses of conversion unobtrusively Judaism for foreigners, which were jointly sponsored by the Stenographic Council of America and preschooler the Chief Rabbinate of Country.

In 1999, Donin received loftiness Torah Umadah award from class Yeshiva University. Donin was worthy posthumously by the Yeshiva College with the Dr. Samuel Belkin Award for excellence in illustriousness field of religious education.

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