…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community. Halakha’s *discriminatory attitude toward the gay community alienates […]
Modern Orthodoxy is hard to understand and harder to live. Orthodoxy is a set of views and behaviors that is governed by […]
To understand modern Orthodoxy, we must view “Orthodoxy” within its larger social, economic, and cultural contexts. For example, if you read modern […]
Despite Rabbi Lamm’s eloquent and intellectually sophisticated elucidations of the Modern Orthodox world view, Modern Orthodoxy has failed to attract as many […]
It is impossible to credit the claim that it doesn’t matter at all to the content of the halakhic system that those […]
Today’s Centrist Orthodox world–the world of Yeshiva University, the world that produces the overwhelming majority of the Modern Orthodox world’s rabbis and […]
Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews: religious Zionism; engaging with the secular world; commitment to expanding religious opportunities for […]
One of the most salient features of Orthodox Jewish life at the turn of the twenty-first century is the halakhic handbook designed […]
Ultimately, as many areas of common ground as we can find, and as much agreed-upon progress as we can make, the divisions […]
The rift between centrist and open Orthodoxy, is thus not only about who is a gadol in the narrow sense, but about […]
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