Rabbi Shubert Spero. Rabbi Spero was born in New York City

New York City

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. He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas

Yeshiva Torah Vodaas

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 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S degree at City College of New York

City College of New York

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 and attained an M.A and a PhD in philosophy at Western Reserve University. In 1947 he received smicha and in 1950 became rabbi of Young Israel

Young Israel

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 of Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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. In 1983 with his wife and family he made aliyah

Aliyah

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 to Israel setteling in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Spero is currently the Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University and Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel

Young Israel

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 of Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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.

He has written extensively on the subjects of halakha

Halakha

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, ethics, the Holocaust, Jewish Philosophy

Jewish philosophy

Jewish philosophy , includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or, in relation to the religion of Judaism. Jewish philosophy, until modern Enlightenment and Emancipation, was pre-occupied with attempts to reconcile coherent new ideas into the tradition of Rabbinic Judaism; thus organizing...

 and the thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Works

• God in All Seasons‎ (1967)
• Morality, Halakha, and the Jewish tradition‎ (1983)
• Holocaust and Return to Zion: a Study in The Jewish Philosophy of History‎ (2000)
• Aspects of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik's Philosophy of Judaism: An Analytic Approach (2009)