Homosexuality, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “We can push and tinker around the edges, but as an Orthodox community, we cannot simply change Orthodoxy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 September 2016 Ultimately, we will not succeed in satisfying the full range of expectations of every...
Homosexuality, Modern Orthodoxy “Steering away from the issue might feel safe, but that avoidance is detrimental and dangerous” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 September 2016 In my experience, many, if not most, 20 to 40-year olds in the modern...
Modern Orthodoxy “In effect, it creates a terrible rift between halachic Judaism in Israel and in the diaspora” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2016 …the Chief Rabbinate of Israel has essentially repudiated all of the converts who have...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “We don’t have to listen too closely to hear the loud grumbling in Orthodox circles. Change is afoot” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2016 Tradition is not monolithic, and its orthodox rabbinic leadership has never been more suspect,...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy “…if the criticisms of Rabbi Gordimer and others were offered on a basis of friendship and common purpose, …” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 June 2016 I have no difficulty if someone wants to criticize, even sharply, Open Orthodox writers,...
Jewish Community, Jews in America, Modern Orthodoxy “A new infusion of an invigorated Modern Orthodoxy that meets the best intellectual, moral and spiritual standards of postmodern culture is a critical ingredient for the strengthening of the center of affiliated Jewry” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 June 2016 Modern Orthodox professionals have played a key role in the revitalization of American Jewry...
Modern Orthodoxy “One of the challenges for Modern Orthodoxy in particular is to enable halakhic conversation across the feminist/nonfeminist divide” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 May 2016 One of the challenges for Modern Orthodoxy in particular is to enable halakhic conversation...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “The question is whether change—if and when it comes—will originate out of the effort to preserve tradition or to drag it into lockstep with politics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 April 2016 Traditional Judaism believes that men and women occupy different roles in society because they...
Modern Orthodoxy “Modern Orthodoxy’s right wing must step up and join the real conversation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2016 Modern Orthodoxy’s right wing must step up and join the real conversation. The questions...
Jews in America, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Rabbis “…although Modern Orthodoxy has produced many brilliant and dedicated leaders and laymen, it has yet to cultivate younger figures possessing the authority and broad appeal of its founding fathers” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2016 The charge that the establishment lacks even a healthy amount of dynamism is undeniably...