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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
Why Aren’t Most Jews Orthodox?
I ask an Orthodox rabbi: “Why do you think most Jews are not Orthodox? Is the principal obstacle difficulty or expense or intellectual or moral? And what did you think of the Newsweek top 50 rabbis list?” The rabbi replied: … Continue reading
Should Orthodox Jewish Parents Worry About Sending Their Kids To A Secular College?
Jewish Theological Seminary professor Alan Mittleman wrote in First Things in 2003: There is a pamphlet making its way, via the Internet, through the Modern Orthodox stream of the American Jewish community. Written by Gil Perl and Yaakov Weinstein, graduate … Continue reading
Conversion Before Modern Times
In his second lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Chaim Ozer Grodzinski said that even if you acknowledge you have desires and will commit certain sins, that does not … Continue reading
The Great Controversies Of The Chofetz Chaim
The Chofetz Chaim was a European Orthodox rabbi who lived at the turn of the last century. According to Wikipedia: “Yisrael Meir (Kagan) Poupko (Dziatłava, 1838 – Radun’, 1933), known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim, was an influential Lithuanian Jewish … Continue reading
Yisroel Pensack: None Dare Call It Conservadox
Practically around the corner from where I live is a big old synagogue called Congregation Chevra Thilim that describes itself as “San Francisco’s oldest Orthodox congregation.” Chevra Thilim is currently undergoing a $1.6-million, months-long renovation, upgrade and expansion of its social hall building, which is … Continue reading
Get Ready For Female Modern Orthodox Rabbis
Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes: Leaving aside the issue of serving as a dayan, it is obvious to me that women rabbis are coming to Modern Orthodoxy, even if the powers that be are standing firmly against it. Yet they … Continue reading
The Role Of Beauty In Orthodox Judaism
I just did an interview with Rael Levinsohn: Human beings revel in beauty, sensual and erotic pleasures, many would argue that is what makes life worth living. The media and popular culture and the adult film industry exists to bring … Continue reading
American Orthodoxy Has No Public Intellectuals
In his fourth lecture on R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinksi for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Jonathan Sacks is in England. American Orthodox Judaism has no public intellectuals. After Michael Wyschogrod, Meir Soloveitchik may be the most … Continue reading
Why Don’t Rabbis Condemn Their Own Jewish Terrorists?
In his second lecture on R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinksi for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: The Haredi community in Jerusalem did terrible things to Rav Kook. The Agudah leadership, including R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinksi were horrified … Continue reading
The New Type Of Rabbi
In his second lecture on R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinksi for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Rabbi Yitzkak Rubenstein serves as the spiritual rav of Vilna. He served as spiritual rav in Chaim Ozer’s place for four … Continue reading