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University of Edinburgh.
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Asher Wade
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At that time, he was attending the University of Hamburg in Germany working towards his doctorate in metaphysics and relativity. He had already earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in the United States and a Master"s degree in Philosophical Theology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. This caused a stir, not only within the Church, but also among his professors at university, primarily with his doctoral supervisor, who, it turned out, had been a chaplain in one of Hitler"s tank divisions in Poland during World World War World War II This professor thwarted the completion of his doctoral program
Although he was forced to drop his prior research studies as a condition for this support, Wade happily began research in a fully Jewish topic, Samson Raphael Hirsch and the Orthodox-Reform Debate.
About two years later, having undertaken expensive research trips to New York, as well as having written up his first rough-draft, his second supervisor mysteriously withdrew his support of his doctoral program, which left Wade with two dissertations written but disallowed from taking the oral exams for completion. While living in America, they were contacted by Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore.
This meeting, chaired by Herman North. Neuberger, led to him and his family being sent in 1988 to Jerusalem where he learned for a number of years at Yeshiva Ohr Somayach. Wade was ordained as a rabbi in December 1992 and worked at The Heritage House in the Old City of Jerusalem, Ohr Somayach as well as Aish HaTorah for many years.
In 2004, Wade completed a professional doctoral degree in clinical psychology through Southern California University for Professional Studies.
