Shlomo (Miles) Brody is Beren Academy '96 graduate. His parents have been the driving force behind the school, then called Hebrew Academy, since its inception. They have contributed time, money, and energy to the school. I remember how I first saw Dr. Baruch Brody, who was carrying a huge log on his shoulders into the building. It must have been needed on the children's playground. Back then he reminded me of Lenin on the Subbotnik, but later I would want to compare him to a giant in the story of Rabbi Nachman, “The Lost Princess.”
His son Shlomo went on to Harvard to study Jewish history, philosophy, and literature. After graduation, he received Semicha from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. He teaches at the Yeshivat HaKotel and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University, focusing on the philosophy of halacha.
He is an online editor of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), Tradition - a Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, including its acclaimed blog, Text & Texture, the Ask the Rabbi columnist for The Jerusalem Post.
His latest post on the prayer of Aleinu and the Pardes Story requires more of my study. He is by far the most prolific writer on the RCA blog, and his 45 posts cover the widest areas of modern Jewish life and philosophy today, aptly summarizing the gist of controversies, and leaving the reader curious for more, while allowing everybody to draw their own conclusions.
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