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“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...
Tagged Modern Orthodox, Modern Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy in America |
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...
Tagged Conservative Judaism, Denominations, Jewish denominations, Open Orthodoxy |
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...
Tagged academy, Halakhah, Modern Orthodoxy, Rav Soloveitchik, Torah U’Madda |
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...
Tagged Academia, Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy, Torah U’Madda, Yeshiva University |
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...
Tagged Academia, Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Torah U’Madda, Yeshiva University |
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...
Tagged Academia, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy |
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...
Tagged Modern Orthodoxy, Torah U’Madda |
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...
Tagged Modern Orthodox Jews, Modern Orthodoxy |
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...
Tagged Battles in Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy |
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...
Tagged Battles in Orthodoxy, Centrist Orthodoxy, gadolhood, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, rabbinic authority, rabbis |
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