Difficulties with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein’s Reading of the Source for Synagogue Mehitzah
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and others argue that the “great reform” made on...
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“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”
The Pew Portrait of Jewish Americans, the rich national data set utilized by Wertheimer,...
“…Jews who don’t know how to be Jewish because they lack the guidance of organized religion”
…Jews who don’t know how to be Jewish because they lack the guidance of...
“…the process of Talmud…can have real world value, and that, as full participants in a riven civil society, we should see it as our obligation to realize that value”
I do want to suggest that the process of Talmud, which I understand in...
“A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern Orthodox halakhah can be….”
A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern...
“Sarah’s story becomes a cautionary tale for us — a tale about the vital need every human being has to feel a sense of weight and gravitas…”
It is not coincidental that while Sarah is the direct object of several verbs...
“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”
Modern Orthodoxy occupies a position as a progressive wing of the Orthodox community. We...
“Halakhah has become another tool in the arsenal of inter-denominal polemics and, even more fiercely, internal Orthodox polemics”
There is, too often, an inverse relationship between the public awareness of a given...
“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”
If civil disobedience was inevitable, I’m glad that activist rabbis were prominent among those...
A Significant Challenge in teaching rabbinic and biblical texts to children and young adults
“Rabbinic texts and biblical texts were initially written for an elite, adult community,” he...