{"id":1492,"date":"2007-11-11T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T06:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:20:43","slug":"shalom-auslander-is-my-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"‘Shalom Auslander is my failure’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A review of Shalom Auslander’s new memoir caught my eye — was this author the curly-haired boy who had been my ninth-grade student at Yeshiva University High School?<\/p>\n

Reading the review confirmed, first, that it was the same person, though now the curls had given way to a contemporary buzz cut, and second, that his writing was to Noah Feldman, another controversial former yeshiva student, what Junior Classics are to Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

Then I saw his eponymous Web site, and realized that my initial estimate had been over generous. Self-promotion, biblical inaccuracies, shock value, uber alles. I have no admiration for what my former high school student has done. I can sympathize with his pain growing up, but abuse doesn’t produce pseudo-philosophy of this caliber. Neither does a school.<\/p>\n

If Feldman wants acceptance, Auslander wants a book tour and a cheeseburger without the guilt. But shorn of the elaborate gyrations that don’t quite succeed in justifying a lifestyle of pot, pork and pater-bashing, Auslander has hit on a point that troubles every thinking religious person.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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