Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Our recent communal engagements around women and Orthodoxy have taken on something of the aspect of trench warfare” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 December 2016 Our recent communal engagements around women and Orthodoxy have taken on something of the...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Rabbis “There are women who are learned and it is only fitting that they too have a title” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 November 2016 …I still don’t see the objection to female clergy. I am not talking about...
Homosexuality, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “We can push and tinker around the edges, but as an Orthodox community, we cannot simply change Orthodoxy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 September 2016 Ultimately, we will not succeed in satisfying the full range of expectations of every...
Homosexuality, Modern Orthodoxy “Steering away from the issue might feel safe, but that avoidance is detrimental and dangerous” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 September 2016 In my experience, many, if not most, 20 to 40-year olds in the modern...
Homosexuality, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “…the reconciliation of the Torah’s discussion of homosexuality represents the single most formidable religious challenge for our young people today” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 September 2016 This may surprise many adults, but the reconciliation of the Torah’s discussion of homosexuality...
Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “What are the goals of the progressive Orthodox movement and are the strategies currently in place fostering the achievement of those goals?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2016 What are the goals of the progressive Orthodox movement and are the strategies currently...
Modern Orthodoxy “In effect, it creates a terrible rift between halachic Judaism in Israel and in the diaspora” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2016 …the Chief Rabbinate of Israel has essentially repudiated all of the converts who have...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “We don’t have to listen too closely to hear the loud grumbling in Orthodox circles. Change is afoot” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2016 Tradition is not monolithic, and its orthodox rabbinic leadership has never been more suspect,...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy “…if the criticisms of Rabbi Gordimer and others were offered on a basis of friendship and common purpose, …” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 June 2016 I have no difficulty if someone wants to criticize, even sharply, Open Orthodox writers,...
Jewish Community, Jews in America, Modern Orthodoxy “A new infusion of an invigorated Modern Orthodoxy that meets the best intellectual, moral and spiritual standards of postmodern culture is a critical ingredient for the strengthening of the center of affiliated Jewry” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 June 2016 Modern Orthodox professionals have played a key role in the revitalization of American Jewry...