Modern Orthodoxy “Scholarship and the arts are thus neglected as leisure activities” for the Modern Orthodox nowadays Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 June 2015 While many pay lip service to intellectual activities or the arts, they do not...
Modern Orthodoxy “Current Modern Orthodox theology is Litvish and hyper-Maimonidean, it lacks a native spiritual core, and does not satisfy people’s search for meaning” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 June 2015 Contemporary Modern Orthodoxy is struggling; a significant number of its adherents are abandoning yiddishkeit...
Modern Orthodoxy “American Modern Orthodoxy must first recognize the problem: namely that it is not as intellectually vibrant or creative as it once was” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 June 2015 American Modern Orthodoxy must first recognize the problem: namely that it is not as...
Modern Orthodoxy “Unlike the more insular ultra-Orthodox communities, Modern Orthodoxy puts a bigger premium on studying at the best colleges and pursuing professional careers” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 May 2015 Modern Orthodoxy is especially vulnerable to kids leaving the derech, precisely because its philosophy...
Modern Orthodoxy “Rav Lichtenstein was the living and breathing example we could look at to see Modern Orthodoxy at its best” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 May 2015 Rav Lichtenstein was the living and breathing example we could look at to see...
Modern Orthodoxy “The problem is not only that creative types will likely be unable to afford the Modern Orthodox lifestyle…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 March 2015 …the pressure to produce high earners discourages and marginalizes those members of the community...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Modern Orthodoxy Diminishing Numbers of Modern Orthodox Jews in America Contrasted with Haredim in America Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 February 2015 As compared with the 3 percent of American Jews who (according to Pew) identify...
Modern Orthodoxy “Rabbis across the spectrum of Modern Orthodoxy…point to a community that has absorbed American understandings of the sovereign self” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 January 2015 While such disagreements on matters of Jewish law occupy the foreground, a series of...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “What is clear is that the ongoing vitality of American Modern Orthodoxy, and ultimately its survival, will depend upon the emergence of new causes or visions that generate pride and solidify a broad identification…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2015 For over two centuries, factions both in Europe and North America loosely assembled under...
Modern Orthodoxy “…Modern Orthodox Jews can continue to display the courage of their convictions” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 January 2015 In brief, influences from the Right are not necessarily authentic. Influences from the Left...