“The question is not…whether our Modern Orthodox high school students are prepared to engage with the non-Jewish world…”

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The question is not…whether our Modern Orthodox high school students are prepared to engage with the non-Jewish world. It is whether they are prepared to engage without condescension (or at best, a sense of the white man’s burden) with those who come from culturally and, more importantly, socio-economically dissimilar backgrounds.

Rivka Press Schwartz, “Privilege, Perspective, and Modern Orthodox Youth” in The Next Generation of Modern Orthodoxy, ed. Shmuel Hain (New York: The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press, 2012), 24.

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