“Today, half of all married Reform Jews have non-Jewish spouses, and 80 percent of those who married between 2000 and 2013 wed non-Jewish spouses”
Today, half of all married Reform Jews have non-Jewish spouses, and 80 percent of...
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“Continuity is not an end in itself, but a culture’s purpose is not to be an ephemeral work of performance art”
Marriage in the classical sense is a commitment to sustainability. Continuity is not an...
“The Modern Orthodox community should not fear positive change and growth, but should welcome it”
The Modern Orthodox community should not fear positive change and growth, but should welcome...
“With its mechanisms of accountability broken, Modern Orthodoxy is more and more vulnerable to claims of direct Divine inspiration and non-accountable certainty”
With its mechanisms of accountability broken, Modern Orthodoxy is more and more vulnerable to...
“Modern Orthodox Jews often express ambivalence about these workarounds”
Modern Orthodox Jews often express ambivalence about these workarounds. On the one hand, the...
“Majority rule can break down in at least three ways”
Majority rule can break down in at least three ways. First, we can disagree...
“…almost all Israeli Jews emerged from backgrounds that knew nothing of denominational Jewish differences or liberal approaches to the Jewish religion”
While Israel is a highly pluralistic society, with Jews coming from all parts of...
“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”
If scientists and engineers now live in the world of Big Data, then we...
“I’ve never heard of a woman who was distracted by a male rabbi’s sermon due to his being good-looking”
It’s no secret that men are more sexually attracted to women then vice versa....
“…it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will ‘lead to a schism within Orthodoxy…'”
…it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will “lead to a...