Halakhah, Modern Orthodoxy “Modern Orthodox Jews often express ambivalence about these workarounds” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 October 2015 Modern Orthodox Jews often express ambivalence about these workarounds. On the one hand, the...
Halakhah, Modern Orthodoxy “Majority rule can break down in at least three ways” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 October 2015 Majority rule can break down in at least three ways. First, we can disagree...
Orthodoxy “In the era of Big Torah, all of the arguments are on the table, and there are legitimate leaders who are charting the course to anywhere we want to go” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 September 2015 If scientists and engineers now live in the world of Big Data, then we...
Gender, Orthodoxy, Rabbis “I’ve never heard of a woman who was distracted by a male rabbi’s sermon due to his being good-looking” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 September 2015 It’s no secret that men are more sexually attracted to women then vice versa....
Modern Orthodoxy, Semantics “…it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will ‘lead to a schism within Orthodoxy…'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 September 2015 …it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will “lead to a...
Gender, Judaism, Orthodoxy “Whether it’s from mere discomfort around women or buried chauvinism, the reality is that most men relate best to male leaders” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 August 2015 For better or for worse, men like their boy’s clubs. They’re attracted to environments...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, YCT “Over the past generation new institutions…have emerged as counterweights to the rightward and isolationist drift within Orthodoxy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2015 Over the past generation new institutions — Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Yeshivat Maharat, JOFA and...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Lubavicher Hasidim, Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, YCT “Ironically, from a professional perspective the liberal YCT rabbi actually has more in common with Haredi outreach-oriented figures than the inreach focused RIETS graduates” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 August 2015 Ironically, from a professional perspective the liberal YCT rabbi actually has more in common...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Modern Orthodoxy “The main goal of attacking the Modern Orthodox efforts so vigorously, then, is not to dictate Modern Orthodox behavior but to clarify the limits of ‘Haredi feminism'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2015 There is a “silent” revolution taking place in which Haredi women are increasingly taking...
Jewish, Jews, Modern Orthodoxy “…it’s vital to the definition of a Torah community that we think that knowing more Torah, in some way, privileges you in a values conversation…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 July 2015 I think, in a Torah community, it’s vital to the definition of a Torah...