“The push toward women’s ordination bears the unmistakable hallmarks of the modern progressive paradigm…”

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The push toward women’s ordination bears the unmistakable hallmarks of the modern progressive paradigm—a lazy conflation of equality with sameness, self-righteous rebellion against a perceived caste system, agitation for quick change—and tracks with the growing dominance of the progressive social and political agenda in mainstream culture. Whatever the high-minded intentions of those affiliated with Open Orthodoxy, there is no ignoring the extent to which it has been influenced by sensibilities that firmly contradict those of traditional Judaism.

Aylana Meisel, “Why Did American Orthodox Rabbis Just Ban Something They’ve Already Banned Before?”, Mosaic (10 November 2015) [http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/11/why-did-american-orthodox-rabbis-just-ban-something-theyve-already-banned-before/]

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