Haredim/Haredi-ism “The haredi camp encompasses both a number of hasidic sects and the spiritual descendants of their no less pious historical antagonists…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 January 2015 The haredi camp encompasses both a number of hasidic sects and the spiritual descendants...
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...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “…the internalization of the idea that haredi Judaism represents the touchstone and arbiter of Orthodox authenticity” has “placed Modern Orthodoxy on the defensive…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2015 Since the passing of Rabbi Soloveitchik from the scene some 30 years ago, the...
Modern Orthodoxy “Modern Orthodox Jews care about Israel because they have a strong sense of peoplehood, and they have a strong sense of peoplehood because they care about Israel” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 January 2015 The Pew Portrait of Jewish Americans, the rich national data set utilized by Wertheimer,...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Modern Orthodoxy “A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern Orthodox halakhah can be….” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 December 2014 A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern...
Modern Orthodoxy “For Modern Orthodoxy to remain true to its calling, it must advocate for incorporating the values of modernity into a life of Torah and mitzvot, and it must do so while remaining part of the ongoing Orthodox conversation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 December 2014 Modern Orthodoxy occupies a position as a progressive wing of the Orthodox community. We...
Orthodoxy “If civil disobedience was inevitable, I’m glad that activist rabbis were prominent among those arrested, and probably it would have been better had there been Orthodox rabbis among them” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 December 2014 If civil disobedience was inevitable, I’m glad that activist rabbis were prominent among those...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Israel “The preoccupation of the dati le’umi world with the settlement issue…has paradoxically contributed to enhancing…the influence of the haredim” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 December 2014 The preoccupation of the dati le’umi world with the settlement issue—with seeing God’s will...