Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, prominent modern Orthodox scholar, dies at 81
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, a leader of the national religious movement in Israel and a prominent modern Orthodox scholar, has died.
A head of the Har Etzion Yeshiva in the West Bank’s Gush Etzion bloc, he died April 20.
He received a doctorate in English literature from Harvard and was awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish Literature in 2014 for his scholarly works.
Lichtenstein was ordained in 1959 in Boston by the modern Orthodox leader Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and became his son-in-law a year later. He was the head of Yeshiva University in New York when he was asked to head the fledgling Har Etzion Yeshiva jointly with the late Rabbi Yehuda Amital, and made aliyah in 1971. Lichtenstein’s son, Mosheh, currently serves as one of the yeshiva’s heads.
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