Ahron Soloveichik

Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik (1917-2001) was a major American Orthodox rabbinic sage in the second half of the 20th century. He was the dean of Hebrew Theological College from 1966-1974. He proceeded to found Yeshivas Brisk of Chicago, an institution which had only managed to remain extant largely due to its founder's reputation, and closed a few years after his death. Despite his stature among Orthodox Jews as a great sage, his legacy was overshadowed by more prominent rabbinical figures of that period, especially his older brother, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Politics
Soloveichik is notable for being a relatively rare Orthodox rabbinic authority to allow abortions in the cases of rape or when the resulting baby might only live a few years,  an even rarer voice generally against the death penalty (making a possible exception for "extraordinary circumstances"),  the only Orthodox rabbinic sage in America known to have given a speech in support of civil rights, and also the only one to have opposed the Vietnam War. Like his position on the death penalty, Soloveichik's position on Vietnam was nuanced. He made clear while he was against draft evasion, he regarded the war as immoral and maintained that any soldier commanded to carry out a mission resulting in civilian deaths was obligated to engage in civil disobedience.

Despite his relatively liberal views Soloveichik is generally seen as having been to the right of his famous brother and his positions on particularistic Jewish matters were indeed more conservative, albeit like many of his liberal positions, these too were nuanced. Although he criticized the polemics of Rabbi Meir Kahane, Soloveichik was himself an avid supporter of the Israeli settlements. He was fiercely opposed to the Oslo Accords,  but when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, he expressed his feeling that he had been in the wrong for not sufficiently protesting the most extreme Orthodox Jews who had seen Rabin's path as leading to the death of Israel and had rationalized that perhaps he deserved to die. Finally, Soloveichik was so theologically conservative that he generally opposed interdenominational cooperation quietly encouraged by his brother,  although perhaps in deference to the latter, Soloveichik did not join his uncle and other sages in loudly and publicly denouncing said cooperation.

Family
Ahron Soloveichik's grandchildren include the politically active Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Nachama Soloveitchik, both of whom identify with movement conservatism.