“The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws”
The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws: Jewish...
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“The problem is not only that creative types will likely be unable to afford the Modern Orthodox lifestyle…”
…the pressure to produce high earners discourages and marginalizes those members of the community...
Diminishing Numbers of Modern Orthodox Jews in America Contrasted with Haredim in America
As compared with the 3 percent of American Jews who (according to Pew) identify...
“Rabbis across the spectrum of Modern Orthodoxy…point to a community that has absorbed American understandings of the sovereign self”
While such disagreements on matters of Jewish law occupy the foreground, a series of...
“…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 United States, Modern Orthodoxy has become largely an upper middle class phenomenon”
The sort of anomalies I have mentioned appear to be confined to matters of...
A Brief, Sociological Sketch of the Modern Orthodox in America
Organizing their family lives far more traditionally than do their liberal counterparts, the Modern...