“When you’re a member of the very society you’re reporting on, every word is laden with responsibility. Personal and professional are always mixed”
In my eight years as an Orthodox journalist writing mainly about Orthodox life for...
Tag Archives: Orthodoxy
“…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community”
…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community....
“…in recent years, two issues have risen to the forefront of our communal consciousness that have proven to be stressors of” Modern Orthodoxy
Modern Orthodoxy is hard to understand and harder to live. Orthodoxy is a set...
“Material affluence, and the anxiety (and feelings of precarity) that surround that affluence, in the modern Orthodox world are not specific phenomena of a particular religious subgroup”
To understand modern Orthodoxy, we must view “Orthodoxy” within its larger social, economic, and...
Modern Orthodoxy’s “future will likely be as ambiguous and complicated as its complex, tension-filled philosophy”
Despite Rabbi Lamm’s eloquent and intellectually sophisticated elucidations of the Modern Orthodox world view,...
“…it is, I think, the biggest, the one most central to the debates within Orthodoxy today, and the most personal”
It is impossible to credit the claim that it doesn’t matter at all to...
“We need to believe that Torah U’Madda was not a limited-time offer that expired sometime in the last century…”
Today’s Centrist Orthodox world–the world of Yeshiva University, the world that produces the overwhelming...
“Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews…perhaps the most-defining is our embrace of the Talmudic maxim hokhma bagoyim ta’amin…”
Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews: religious Zionism; engaging with the...
“One of the most salient features of Orthodox Jewish life at the turn of the twenty-first century is the halakhic handbook designed for the layperson”
One of the most salient features of Orthodox Jewish life at the turn of...
“Unity and comity are good things, but I am not at all convinced that the community is better served by a false front that tries to conceal or patch the deep discord behind it than by frank acknowledgment of irreconcilable differences”
Ultimately, as many areas of common ground as we can find, and as much...