Rabbi Walter S. Wurzburger, a leader of Modern Orthodox Judaism

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 and student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, was born in Munich in March 1920 and emigrated to America in 1938.

He was Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University

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, and headed both the Rabbinical Council of America

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 and the Synagogue Council of America

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 during his career. He received the National Rabbinic Leadership Award and the Samuel Belkin

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 Literary Award. Rabbi Wurzburger is the author of Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Covenantal Ethics, God is Proof Enough, and co-editor of A Treasury of Tradition

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Rabbi Walter Wurzburger studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Yeshiva College and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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, and received a PHD from Harvard on the philosophy of Brentano.

He became rabbi of congregation Shaarei Shomayim in Toronto. Wurzburger served as Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Shaaray Tefila in Lawrence, New York

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, where he and his wife resided until his death in April 2002.