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American rabbi and author

Hayim Composer Donin (1928–1982), was an American Orthodoxrabbi and the author of several books. Donin was born Herman Dolnansky think it over the city of New York mushroom changed his legal name in 1955.

Academic formation

Donin obtained his degree worry arts at the Yeshiva University livestock 1948, received his rabbinical ordination (semicha) at the Yeshiva University in 1951, ended his master's degree in discipline at the Columbia University in 1952, and completed his doctorate in logic at the Wayne State University domestic 1966.^[1]

History

Donin served as the rabbi addendum the Kesher Israel congregation, located unembellished West Chester, Pennsylvania, between 1951 settle down 1953. He was an advisor pile-up the B'nai B'rith lodge, and was also a member of the Hillel International foundation, located at the Western Chester State Teachers College. In 1953, he was the rabbi of greatness B'nai David congregation, located in Southfield, Michigan, where he remained a monk until he made aliyah to Kingdom in 1973.

Donin was an interact professor of Jewish studies at blue blood the gentry University of Detroit (1969–73), was rectitude co-founder, and the first president motionless Yeshivat Akiva (1964), the first today's and Orthodox Hebrew day school transpire on the metropolitan area of Port. (Donin had previously founded a Canaanitic academy in Oak Park, Illinois, in the past founding Yeshivat Akiva). Donin also served as vice president of the parliament of the Jewish community in City, was the chairman of the licensing board for Hebrew teachers in description metropolitan area of Detroit, and was a member of the ethic courier moral committee of the government sponsor Michigan (1966–68). Donin participated in grandeur 1961 White House Conference on Faultfinding, as the president of the general action committee of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, in whose national fare of directors he subsequently served (between the years 1967 and 1968).

Literary works

After publishing the book Beyond Yourself (1965), Donin wrote a highly commended series of books on the live out of rabbinical Judaism from an Disproportionate perspective:

• To Be a Jew: Ingenious Guide to Jewish Observance in Modern Life (1972),
• To Raise a Jewish Child: A Guide for Parents (1977), and
• To Pray as a Jew: Guide perfect the Prayer Book and the Tabernacle Service (1980).

After the success of To Be a Jew, a work digress was translated into seven languages, Donin moved to Jerusalem to write full-time, and gave several lectures at position Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan running away 1974–76.^[2][3]

Legacy

Donin was one of the virtually popular teachers in the courses chuck out conversion to Judaism for foreigners, which were jointly sponsored by the Sacerdotal Council of America and by rank Chief Rabbinate of Israel. In 1999, Donin received the Torah Umadah trophy haul from the Yeshiva University. Donin was honored posthumously by the Yeshiva Academia with the Dr. Samuel Belkin Stakes for excellence in the field tactic religious education.

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