{"id":663,"date":"2007-08-05T20:51:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T03:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:30:44","slug":"feldman-article-raises-questions-of-journalistic-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Feldman Article Raises Questions Of Journalistic Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ralph Lieberman writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Initially, Professor Noah Feldman’s “Orthodox Paradox,” an article appearing in the July 22 issue of The New York Times Magazine, may seem entertaining. But on further reading, a very disturbing message emerges – a message that calls into serious question the intent of the author and the judgment of The New York Times in publishing the piece.<\/p>\n

If you remove the personal interest story and the extensive background, the thesis of the essay is quite damning: Feldman argues that the Modern Orthodox community has drawn inappropriate and even dangerous lines in matters of life and love:<\/p>\n

… My Modern Orthodox synagogue is filled every Shabbat with doctors, and I routinely hear their beepers go off for patients who are, in most cases, non-Jews.<\/p>\n

Feldman knows very well that not even the teacher he cites would even think a physician should deny treatment to non-Jews. It is, however, entirely natural in the halachic process to explore the underlying rationale, to debate these fine issues of law even when we know – on the basis of secular law, morals and religious obligations – that a Modern Orthodox physician must treat all patients in need – on Shabbat or even on Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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