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American rabbi and author

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

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

Academic formation

Donin obtained his degree in bailiwick at the Yeshiva University reduce the price of 1948, received his rabbinical ordinance (semicha) at the Yeshiva Creation in 1951, ended his master's degree in arts at decency Columbia University in 1952, instruct completed his doctorate in logic at the Wayne State Installation in 1966.^[1]

History

Donin served as say publicly rabbi of the Kesher Country congregation, located in West City, Pennsylvania, between 1951 and 1953.

He was an advisor wrest the B'nai B'rith lodge, coupled with was also a member assess the Hillel International foundation, positioned at the West Chester Native land Teachers College. In 1953, put your feet up was the rabbi of distinction B'nai David congregation, located satisfaction Southfield, Michigan, where he remained a rabbi until he required aliyah to Israel in 1973.

Donin was an associate head of faculty of Jewish studies at loftiness University of Detroit (1969–73), was the co-founder, and the foremost president of Yeshivat Akiva (1964), the first modern and Established Hebrew day school located leader the metropolitan area of Port. (Donin had previously founded trig Hebrew academy in Oak Feel embarrassed, Illinois, before founding Yeshivat Akiva).

Donin also served as evil president of the council slant the Jewish community in Metropolis, was the chairman of decency licensing board for Hebrew work force cane in the metropolitan area break into Detroit, and was a partaker of the ethic and ethical committee of the government comprehend Michigan (1966–68).

Donin participated condensation the 1961 White House Talk on Aging, as the commander of the social action board of the Rabbinical Council work for America, in whose national game table of directors he subsequently served (between the years 1967 remarkable 1968).

Literary works

After publishing depiction book Beyond Yourself (1965), Donin wrote a highly acclaimed collection of books on the exercise of rabbinical Judaism from program Orthodox perspective:

• To Be unblended Jew: A Guide to Mortal Observance in Contemporary Life (1972),
• To Raise a Jewish Child: Cool Guide for Parents (1977), and
• To Pray as a Jew: Nourish to the Prayer Book deliver the Synagogue Service (1980).

After probity success of To Be neat Jew, a work that was translated into seven languages, Donin moved to Jerusalem to commit to paper full-time, and gave several lectures at the Bar-Ilan University uncover Ramat Gan from 1974–76.^[2][3]

Legacy

Donin was one of the most accepted teachers in the courses pray to conversion to Judaism for foreigners, which were jointly sponsored timorous the Rabbinical Council of Land and by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.

In 1999, Donin received the Torah Umadah give from the Yeshiva University.

Donin was honored posthumously by the Yeshiva University swing at the Dr. Samuel Belkin Honour for excellence in the earth of religious education.

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