Rabbi Isaac of Dampierre and His Students
Ri is known to have lectured on the entire talmudic corpus and his academy...
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“…Modern Orthodox Jews can continue to display the courage of their convictions”
In brief, influences from the Right are not necessarily authentic. Influences from the Left...
“…in the postwar era, the dominant face of American Orthodoxy was that of Yeshiva University-trained rabbis…”
…in the postwar era, the dominant face of American Orthodoxy was that of Yeshiva...
“An example of American Midrash is our interpretation of Hanukkah and Passover as freedom holidays–reflecting American ideals”
The discrepancies between our American and Jewish values create a dilemma around which we...
“Jewish law…does not sentence people to prison as a punishment…because the Jewish communities didn’t have real prisons”
He tells us that Jewish law, unlike secular law, does not sentence people to...
“The rabbinate will become a healthier profession when…rabbis are able to become full-fledged human beings once again”
It’s time to pull your rabbi down from the pedestal. The rabbinate will become...
“We currently have no mechanism to track abusers as they hide their tracks by moving jobs or preying on the weak in our community…”
We currently have no mechanism to track abusers as they hide their tracks by...
“The claim that harder standards are more authentic is Jewishly invalid”
The claim that harder standards are more authentic is Jewishly invalid. “Fences” around the...
“…quite a bit of work remains to be done in terms of explaining the sources of the Talmud’s articulations of carnality and sexuality…”
Since the “Talmudo-Iranica” revolution, students of the Babylonian Talmud have proceeded to reexamine basic...
“…the internalization of the idea that haredi Judaism represents the touchstone and arbiter of Orthodox authenticity” has “placed Modern Orthodoxy on the defensive…”
Since the passing of Rabbi Soloveitchik from the scene some 30 years ago, the...