“The public intellectual face of Modern Orthodoxy comes to look too much like the Haredi world, with whom we disagree profoundly on issues of gender and women’s place”

The public intellectual face of Modern Orthodoxy comes to look too much like the Haredi world, with whom we disagree profoundly on issues of gender and women’s place. More importantly, it widens the every growing chasm between women’s two lives: their experiences in the larger society as competent professionals who are respected as equals, and their experiences within their religious communities. To the extent that we believe this dissonance to be spiritually destructive on an individual level and corrosive to the formation of our communities, it behooves us to attempt to lessen it by bringing women as much as possible into these public-facing forums and insuring that they are part of the intellectual conversations that define Modern Orthodoxy.

Shana Strauch Schick and Yoel Finkelman, “Why Are There So Many “Manels” in Modern Orthodoxy?”, The Lehrhaus (14 September 2020) [https://thelehrhaus.com/commentary/why-are-there-so-many-manels-in-modern-orthodoxy]