Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Gordimer’s approach would ultimately consign Modern Orthodoxy to the ash heaps of Jewish history for its irrelevance. It’s also anti-historic” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 February 2016 For those of us on the fence about these issues, Gordimer’s dialectic is untenable,...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy “…a wider battle taking place between the Modern Orthodox establishment, led nominally by the RCA, and a vocal left-wing minority known as Open Orthodoxy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 February 2016 …last week’s uproar offers another occasion, far from the first in recent years, to...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy “Gordimer’s tactics do achieve one purpose; they squelch free and open debate” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 February 2016 Gordimer’s tactics do achieve one purpose; they squelch free and open debate. It’s always...
Open Orthodoxy ” The overall impression from Gordimer’s oeuvre is not that he has a critique of Open Orthodoxy based on particular issues, but based on their character…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 February 2016 Whatever you want to say about Open Orthodoxy, the attacks on it, particularly from...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Gordimer’s refusal/failure to propose a new model of Modern Orthodoxy…bespeaks a failure in his thinking…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 January 2016 Orthodox Jewry of our days needs new constructs. Tradition, once again needs to be...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy “Rabbi Gordimer…offers nothing to those who ask the questions addressed by Open Orthodoxy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2016 Rabbi Gordimer is not obliged to endorse or even respect Open Orthodoxy’s agenda or...
Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “…exceedingly authentic: the societal changes Open Orthodoxy is fearlessly confronting within a Torah context” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 December 2015 The problem is that you can ostracize Open Orthodoxy, but the issues they’re dealing...
Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “…Open Orthodoxy can be the outreach arm for Orthodox Judaism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 December 2015 Just as Chabad is the outreach arm for ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Open Orthodoxy can be...
Open Orthodoxy “Open Orthodoxy is trying to balance two ideals: It wants to keep the neighborhood-like intimacy and rituals of Torah Judaism but make them more open and inclusive” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 December 2015 Open Orthodoxy is trying to balance two ideals: It wants to keep the neighborhood-like...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy “…schism will lead to disaster and eventual oblivion for both sides” in Modern Orthodoxy Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 December 2015 I contend that schism will lead to disaster and eventual oblivion for both sides....