With the rise of the yeshiva movement, he also remarked that Torah im Derech Eretz was by no means a unique temporary measure - as was often claimed by protagonists of the "Torah only" view. Kosher ve-Yosher: Although one of the phenomena of post-World War II Orthodoxy has become the (re)introduction of stringencies in halakha, Breuer held that these should not be limited to the ceremonial sphere but also to the many financial and social laws of Judaism. He would, for example, refuse a hechsher to companies with bad financial records. References External links Bodenheimer, Ernst Rabbi Joseph Breuer: The Rav of Frankfurt, U.S.A., Jewish Observer Frankel, Pinchas On the Breuer Kehilla, ou.org Hirsch / Breuer genealogy (GIF file) 1882 births 1980 deaths Hungarian Orthodox rabbis German Orthodox rabbis Orthodox rabbis from New York City German people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States People from Pápa 19th-century German rabbis Rabbis from Frankfurt 20th-century American rabbis