“…a wider battle taking place between the Modern Orthodox establishment, led nominally by the RCA, and a vocal left-wing minority known as Open Orthodoxy”
…last week’s uproar offers another occasion, far from the first in recent years, to...
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“…geography plays a key role in L.A.’s Jewish community, with Jews spread out all over the vast city…”
Rabbi Wolpe believes geography plays a key role in L.A.’s Jewish community, with Jews...
“Gordimer’s tactics do achieve one purpose; they squelch free and open debate”
Gordimer’s tactics do achieve one purpose; they squelch free and open debate. It’s always...
“In congratulating ourselves on our past, we neglect the work that must be done in the present”
…I wonder whether we’re running the grave risk of turning Heschel into an American-Jewish...
“Vicarious victimhood has become all too accepted as the organizing category’ of 21st-century Jewish identity”
Vicarious victimhood has become all too accepted as the “organizing category” of 21st-century Jewish...
” The overall impression from Gordimer’s oeuvre is not that he has a critique of Open Orthodoxy based on particular issues, but based on their character…”
Whatever you want to say about Open Orthodoxy, the attacks on it, particularly from...
“Orthodox Judaism today is not struggling against the allure of a more Protestant Americanized ethos”
Orthodox Judaism today is not struggling against the allure of a more Protestant Americanized...
“…don’t believe anyone who says that you must have an all-or-nothing relationship with the dominant culture and its expressions”
Television, social media, rock and roll and hip-hop music and movies are, unquestionably, tempting...
“Modern Orthodoxy…will have to invest in initiatives that engage the social, cultural, and political issues of the day…”
As for the broader challenges confronting Modern Orthodoxy, its religious and lay leadership, if...
“Gordimer’s refusal/failure to propose a new model of Modern Orthodoxy…bespeaks a failure in his thinking…”
Orthodox Jewry of our days needs new constructs. Tradition, once again needs to be...