Showing posts with label Jewish community: Modern Orthodoxy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish community: Modern Orthodoxy. Show all posts
Sunday, September 18, 2011

"Half" Jews

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The issue of " Half-Shabbos " is still on my mind, months after it broke in the media – but my approach has changed. At first I th...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

North American Modern Orthodoxy and the Chief Rabbinate, Revisited

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First: Please watch this new video from Rabbi Yakov Horowitz on protecting children from molestation. After both of of last week's posts...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Part II - Our disappointment in the Chief Rabbinate of Israel

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In Part I here , I explained: I've been recruited to speak in a panel discussion this coming Shabbos, on Rabbinic Jurisdiction in Israel...
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Monday, July 4, 2011

Part I - Our love for the Chief Rabbinate of Israel

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I've been recruited to speak in a panel discussion this coming Shabbos, on Rabbinic Jurisdiction in Israel. Since I'm the North Amer...
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Tznius and Modern Orthodoxy

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[ This week's Haveil Havalim is here ] First: I dislike the term “tznius” as applied to clothing, because it more accurately refers – b...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Toward a Modern Orthodox Ideology

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A dozen years ago, a rabbi who was among the founders of Edah explained to me that Edah was meant to develop an ideology for Modern Orthodo...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The "Conversations" of Open Orthodoxy - one rabbi's humble review

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I'm staying near the Convention Center in Philadelphia for a couple of days, so I walked to Mikveh Israel for shacharis (more appropriat...
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Monday, January 28, 2008

Flipped Out: Life on the Fringes of Modern Orthodoxy

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My “Modern Orthodoxy” has been called into question in personal conversation a couple of times recently, and each time it was odd and unsett...
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