Modern Orthodoxy “The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws” Author Drew Kaplan Date February 26, 2018 The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws: Jewish...
Conservative Judaism, Open Orthodoxy “…denominations are more than just ideas and orientations…” Author Drew Kaplan Date May 29, 2017 It seems kind of obvious that, if there is a denominational shakeup and a...
Modern Orthodoxy “…everything there is to know about the halakhic process and its development can be understood from within it is a claim that is untenable in light of the last thirty or forty years’ of knowledge production in the academy” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 13, 2017 The Rav’s words have been traditionally understood as an affirmation of the world-view of...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy “…the religious leadership of an institution whose motto is “Torah U’Madda” has frozen its conception of religiously permissible Madda at that with which the Rav engaged at the University of Berlin in the 1920s…” Author Drew Kaplan Date February 8, 2017 Yeshiva University faces many challenges, some reflective of broader societal trends and some of...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “We need to believe that Torah U’Madda was not a limited-time offer that expired sometime in the last century…” Author Drew Kaplan Date February 7, 2017 Today’s Centrist Orthodox world–the world of Yeshiva University, the world that produces the overwhelming...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews…perhaps the most-defining is our embrace of the Talmudic maxim hokhma bagoyim ta’amin…” Author Drew Kaplan Date January 24, 2017 Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews: religious Zionism; engaging with the...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy “Torah U’Madda, if it stands for anything, stands not for the ability to go to an excellent university, get a prestigious law degree, and make a wonderful living for a family in Teaneck, Woodmere, or New Rochelle” Author Drew Kaplan Date January 23, 2017 Torah U’Madda, if it stands for anything, stands not for the ability to go...
Modern Orthodoxy “The question is not…whether our Modern Orthodox high school students are prepared to engage with the non-Jewish world…” Author Drew Kaplan Date January 10, 2017 The question is not…whether our Modern Orthodox high school students are prepared to engage...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Unity and comity are good things, but I am not at all convinced that the community is better served by a false front that tries to conceal or patch the deep discord behind it than by frank acknowledgment of irreconcilable differences” Author Drew Kaplan Date January 9, 2017 Ultimately, as many areas of common ground as we can find, and as much...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “The rift between centrist and open Orthodoxy is…about the nature of gadolhood and the structure of rabbinic authority…” Author Drew Kaplan Date January 2, 2017 The rift between centrist and open Orthodoxy, is thus not only about who is...