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News Is Modern Orthodoxy Reaching Its Breaking Point?
A white rabbi and black minister (this isn’t the start of a joke) link arms and are swept up in the sound of a gospel song. Not only the two clergymen. As the song soars, an entire congregation is on its feet in this Orthodox house of prayer and the congregants are trying to overcome…
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Life It’s Time to Embrace a Post-Modern Approach to Orthodoxy
Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Mordechai Willig that an evolving viewpoint on the place for women and gays in Jewish life are manifestations of post-modernism. In contrast, Modern Orthodoxy’s shift to the right can be seen as a rejection of post-modernism. He closes rather ominously with the exhortation that “authentic” Modern Orthodox Jews must “observe the laws…
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The Schmooze This Boca Shul Just Created the Biggest Prayer Shawl in the World
Facebook Jewish tradition: it’s beautiful and comforting but a bit too constricting, right? Well, not anymore. The bookkeepers at Guinness just awarded the world record for “largest tallit (prayer shawl)”— measuring 1,471.74 square feet — to Boca Raton Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox shul. The Facebook post by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg announcing this amazing feat was…
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Fast Forward Ramaz Picks Eric Grossman as New Head of School
(JTA) — For the first time in its history, the Ramaz School, an elite modern Orthodox preparatory-style school in Manhattan, is tapping someone from outside its ranks to be its permanent head of school. The new hire, Rabbi Eric Grossman, 43, hails from Canada and is currently the head of school at the Frankel Jewish Academy…
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Fast Forward New Jersey Rabbi Steven Pruzansky Spews ‘Savage’ Hate in Blog Post
(JTA) — The rabbi of a major modern Orthodox synagogue in New Jersey has written a blog post that calls for Israel to collectively punish Arab Israelis and Palestinians until they realize “they have no future in the land of Israel.” In the post, written Friday and titled “Dealing with Savages,” Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of…
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Fast Forward Moshe Twersky, Grandson of Joseph Soloveichik, Among Jerusalem Synagogue Victims
Rabbi Moshe Twersky has been identified as one of the four people killed in a Jerusalem synagogue during morning services. Twersky, 60, was the son of rabbi and author Rabbi Yitzhak Twersky of Boston, grandson of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, a founder of Modern Orthodoxy known as The Rav. He was the dean of the…
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News Sailing To Understand Talmud and Torah
On a recent weekday morning, Rabbi Greg Wall blew a 3-foot-long shofar off the coast of Norwalk, Connecticut. It was part of a Talmud class he teaches regularly aboard a 23-foot sailboat named Enough. Wall is better known for blowing a saxophone at jazz performances, but this particular gig is part of his day job…
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News What If My Roommates Smoke Pot on Shabbat?
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