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Bio of R. Lamm (1959)
Rabbi Norman Lamm. Address: 27 West 86th Street, New York, N.Y. Telephone: TR 7–4717. Place of birth: Brooklyn, N.Y. Date of birth: December 19, 1927. Marital status: Married, 2 children. Education – Secular: Yeshiva College, B.A., 1949, summa cum laude, valedictorian. Candidate for Ph.D. at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Rabbinic: Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Semikha, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University, 1951. Professional Experience – Assistant Rabbi, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, New York, N.Y.; Rabbi, Congregation Kodimoh, Springfield, Mass. (1953–58); Associate Rabbi, The Jewish Center, New York, N.Y. (since October 1958). Rabbi Lamm is the author of numerous articles in both popular and scholarly journals in Hebrew and English, including Judaism, Orthodox Jewish Life, The Jewish Parent, Congress Weekly, Hadoar, HaPardes, Hadarom, and Tradition. His monograph “The Chosenness of Israel” is soon to be published as part of Yeshiva University’s Studies in Torah Judaism series. Some of the topics on which Rabbi Lamm has published or is scheduled to publish include: (1) The Fifth Amendment and the Halakhah, (2) Halakhah and the Advances of Modern Science, (3) New Horizons in the Relations of Judaism and Natural Sciences, (4) A Halakhic and Philosophic Definition of “The Jewish Community,” (5) Ritual and Ethics in Religious Education, (6) The Chosenness of Israel, (7) Separate Pews in the Synagogue: A Social and Psychological Approach, (8) The Conservative Amendment to the Ketubah, (9) The Sacrificial Service: A Rationale, (10) Capital Punishment in the Jewish Tradition, (11) Kabbalah and Contemporary Thought, (12) Feasts and Fasts in the Modern Era. Affiliations – Rabbinical Alumni Association of Yeshiva University (National Vice President); Rabbinical Council of America (Editor, Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought); Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists (Charter Member); Yeshiva U…
