Category Archives: Marc B. Shapiro

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

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The Censorship That Stopped Scholar Marc Shapiro From Writing For Tradition Magazine

Rectify posts: “Let me ask you – you and some others are so concerned about the censorship of the bare breasted and otherwise revealing images – so perhaps you should adorn your books with them, such vital parts of the … Continue reading

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How To Write Histories Of Great Rabbinic Sages

In a lecture on rabbinic biographies for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: It was two of my publications that brought this issue front and center in the Orthodox world… I wrote a doctorate on Rabbi Yechiel … Continue reading

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I Do A Page Of Talmud A Day But I Don’t Understand Much

I like to drink a couple of cups of coffee and stand there and listen to the rabbi and I feel like I’m doing something amazing. I don’t think I’d get up early every morning to struggle over one line … Continue reading

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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

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