Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy Modern Orthodoxy’s “future will likely be as ambiguous and complicated as its complex, tension-filled philosophy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 October 2018 Despite Rabbi Lamm’s eloquent and intellectually sophisticated elucidations of the Modern Orthodox world view,...
Zionism “Religious Zionism, the brand of Zionism that benefited the most from the triumph in the 1967 war, is the strangest hybrid of all” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 July 2017 Religious Zionism, the brand of Zionism that benefited the most from the triumph in...
Modern Orthodoxy “…everything there is to know about the halakhic process and its development can be understood from within it is a claim that is untenable in light of the last thirty or forty years’ of knowledge production in the academy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 March 2017 The Rav’s words have been traditionally understood as an affirmation of the world-view of...
Halakhah “Emotional input is the reason why mature people go to a human being for psaq halakhah and not a computer” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 January 2017 There is a beautiful narrative in Ketubot 23a where Shmuel considered declaring a group...