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| | Orthodox Judaism |
 | | Orthodox Judaism is the direct successor of early Rabbinic or Talmudical Judaism (See Talmudical Judaism), holding that the "Oral Torah" particularly as it is contained in the Bavli (or Babylonian Talmud) has divine authority equal to that of the "Written Torah" in the Hebrew Bible. | | | In the orthodox tradition practice in relation to circumcision, the dietary laws, the sabbath, the calendar, the role of women, marriage, the use of Hebrew in worship, the study of the Talmud and the rabbinate, is of such importance that it to some extent outweighs deviations in theological belief. | | | Orthodox Jewish women, inspired by the women's movement in secular society, have questioned traditional teaching on such matters as the remarriage of divorcees and the participation of women in public worship. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/judaism/orth.html
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| | Modern Orthodox Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Modern Orthodox Judaism (or Modern Orthodox, also known as Modern Orthodoxy and sometimes abbreviated as "MO") is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize traditional observance and values with the secular modern world. | | | Modern Orthodoxy is almost uniformly receptive toward Israel and Zionism, viewing the State of Israel (in addition to the Land of Israel) as having inherent Jewish significance. | | | It is broadly defined as the effort to adapt Orthodox Judaism to modernity and to avoid the social and/or cultural isolation which living in strict accordance with halakha would seem to impose [1]. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Orthodox_Judaism
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| | Judaism |
| | The feel that Judaism should "alter its externals to strengthen its eternals." Reform holds that there is divine authority only in the written law of the Old Testament (its main distinction from Orthodox.) They feel that the practices of dietary laws and covering the head at worship are outmoded and should be abandoned. | | | Judaism was the first religion to teach Monotheism, or belief in one God. | | | But with the lengthy development of Judaism and its many changes it is incorrect to posit, as some have done, that Jewish history produced two separate religions: an OT religion of Israel and the postexilic religion of Judaism. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/judaism.htm
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| | ORTHODOX JUDAISM FACTS AND INFORMATION |
| | Orthodox Judaism affirms monotheism, the belief in one God. | | | Orthodox Judaism is composed of different groups with intertwining beliefs, practices and theologies, and in their broad patterns, the Orthodox movements are very similar. | | | Orthodox Judaism's central belief is that the Torah, including both the Written Law and the Oral Law, was given directly from God to Moses and can never be altered or rejected in any way. |
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http://www.witwib.com/Orthodox_Judaism
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| | Judaism |
| | Orthodox and Conservative Jews hold that the prophecy of Moses is held to be true; he is held to be the chief of all prophets, even of those who came before and after him. | | | Judaism is the religion and culture of the Jewish people. | | | Judaism is based on strict unitarian monotheism, the belief in one God. |
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http://www.fastload.org/ju/Judaism.html
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| | Orthodox Judaism: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Like all modern denominations of Judaism, Orthodoxy is not identical in practice to the forms of Judaism that existed in the times of Moses, nor even identical to the Judaism which existed in the time of the Mishnah and Talmud. | | | Orthodox Judaism affirms monotheism, the belief in one God. | | | All Sephardic Orthodox Jews base most of their practices on the Shulkhan Arukh, the 16th century legal index written by Rabbi Joseph Karo; All Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews base most of their practices on the Mappah, a commentary to the Shulkhan Arukh written by Rabbi Moses Isserles. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/orthodox-judaism
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| | Orthodox Judaism |
| | Orthodox Judaism believes that both the Written and Oral Torah are of divine origin, and represent the word of Gd. | | | Orthodox Judaism is not a unified movement with a single governing body, but many different movements adhering to common principles. | | | An excellent summary of the core beliefs of Orthodox Judaism may be found in the Rambam's 13 Principles of Faith. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Orthodox.html
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| | Orthodox Judaism Information |
| | Orthodox Jews generally consider a 16th century CE law code, the Shulkhan Arukh, to be the definitive codification of Jewish law, and assert a continuity between pre-Enlightenment Judaism and modern-day Orthodox Judaism. | | | Modern scholars also suggest that the Torah consists of a variety of inconsistent texts that were edited together in a way that calls attention to divergent accounts (see Documentary hypothesis). | | | But by the Hellenic period most Jews had come to believe that their God was the only God (and thus, the God of everyone), and that the record of His revelation (the Torah) contained within it universal truths. |
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http://www.echostatic.com/index.php?title=Orthodox_Judaism
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| | SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Modern Orthodox Judaism |
| | Supporters of Modern Orthodox Judaism believe that Jews should hold fast to the traditional Jewish principles of faith, and should live by traditional Jewish laws and customs. | | | Modern Orthodoxy may be described as typically following more lenient positions in halakha known as kulas (meaning "leniencies" in Hebrew), and avoiding chumras (meaning "strictures" in Hebrew), while still viewing halakha as obligatory. | | | Modern Orthodox Judaism (or Modern Orthodox, also known as Modern Orthodoxy and sometimes abbreviated as " MO ") is a movement within Judaism that attempts to synthesize Orthodox Judaism with the secular modern world in its interactions with it. |
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http://www.singaporemoms.com/parenting/Modern_Orthodox
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| | Judaism 101: Movements of Judaism |
| | It includes the modern Orthodox, who have largely integrated into modern society while maintaining observance of halakhah (Jewish Law), the Chasidim, who live separately and dress distinctively (commonly, but erroneously, referred to in the media as the "ultra-Orthodox"), and the Yeshivish Orthodox, who are neither Chasidic nor modern. | | | The Orthodox movements are all very similar in belief, and the differences are difficult for anyone who is not Orthodox to understand. | | | Conservative Judaism generally accepts the binding nature of halakhah, but believes that the Law should change and adapt, absorbing aspects of the predominant culture while remaining true to Judaism's values. |
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http://www.jewfaq.org/movement.htm
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| | Judaism 101: Movements of Judaism |
| | It includes the modern Orthodox, who have largely integrated into modern society while maintaining observance of halakhah (Jewish Law), the Chasidim, who live separately and dress distinctively (commonly, but erroneously, referred to in the media as the "ultra-Orthodox"), and the Yeshivish Orthodox, who are neither Chasidic nor modern. | | | The Orthodox movements are all very similar in belief, and the differences are difficult for anyone who is not Orthodox to understand. | | | Orthodox and sometimes Conservative are described as "traditional" movements. |
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http://www.jewfaq.org/movement.htm
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| | American "Centrist" Orthodoxy |
| | This Orthodox institution of higher learning has its roots in the "Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan, which was established in 1896 as the first American Orthodox seminary, for religious education and the training of Rabbis. | | | Rabbi Soloveitchik was active in the religious Zionist movement (Mizrachi),and in the Rabbinic Council of America (the association of "centrist" Orthodox Rabbis). | | | The Union of Jewish Orthodox Congregations (commonly referred to as the "Orthodox Union" or: "OU"). |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/363_Transp/Orthodoxy/Centrist.html
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| | The State of Orthodox Judaism Today |
| | Increasing numbers of married women in Orthodox communities are covering their hair — either with hats or wigs — a Jewish law that was hardly observed among most Modern Orthodox women since the days of the shtetl in Europe. | | | Many Modern Orthodox Jews are increasingly stringent in their adherence to Jewish law and express a growing sense of alienation from the larger, secular culture. | | | The fact that Orthodox Judaism is, in the words of historian Jonathan Sarna, the "great success story of late 20th-century American Judaism" may seem surprising; a religion that believes in strict adherence to rules and rituals thrives at a time when personal choice seems to reign as the cultural norm. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/orthostate.html
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| | Judaism_and_Darwin |
| | Other religions (for instance, some orthodox Jewish sects) also reject the scientific notion of evolution in favor of a literal Biblical rendition of the origins of the earth and living things. | | | Judaism requires belief in God as the creator of the Universe, but is relatively unconcerned with exactly how or when He created it. | | | Within Judaism there is a notion of sh'erit hapleta.-the faithful remnant. |
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http://www.lookstein.org/articles/judaism_and_darwin.htm
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| | -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Modern Orthodox Jews, however, model their lives on the relatively recent theological notion of Torah u'Madah, literally, Bible and science. | | | Modern Orthodox Jews, with their, well, modern attire and often clean-shaven faces are a world apart from ultra-Orthodox Jews, with their black clothes, black hats, beards for men, and dangling earlocks. | | | It does not mean that these Orthodox Jews live in a religious world on Saturday, the Sabbath, and a secular world during the week. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/36/story_3615_1.html
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| | Commentary Magazine - The Orthodox Moment |
| | ...Modern Orthodox males dress in stylish business suits at work and either wear a small, unobtrusive skullcap or cover their heads only at prayer and when eating... | | | ...Much of today's Orthodox world is socially segregated, comprising people who not only are suspicious of other Jews and their religious movements but actually know little or nothing about them, even if they live down the block or around the corner... | | | ...today, virtually all Orthodox males can be counted on to worship in synagogues at least once a week, and virtually all Orthodox Jews observe many if not most of the central precepts of traditional Judaism... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V107I2P20-1.htm
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| | Israel Forum - M.O. is the largest Orthodox group in the US |
| | Modern Orthodox institutions have seen themselves facing an uphill struggle to maintain their numbers, ideological positions and influence in the Orthodox community. | | | You may have people who self-identify as Modern Orthodox, Ukeles explained, but if they send their children to right-wing yeshivas and are afraid to speak up when their shul doesnt say the prayer for the State of Israel, etc., they may be overtly Modern Orthodox but in retreat. | | | In fact, the Modern Orthodox are the largest segment by far of the Orthodox population in New York, according to a leading sociologist whose study on the community has yet to be released. |
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http://www.israelforum.com/board/printthread.php?t=7721
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| | YUTOPIA: Understanding Orthodox Judaism |
| | As mentioned previously (and obvious to many readers), Orthodox Judaism is considered to be religious, traditional, and/or authentic, but there are several gradations and sub-categories within Orthodoxy. | | | Even if Orthodox Jews are inconsistent, they still believe that God gave the Torah and Jews are obligated to fulfill the will of God and as understood by the Rabbinic Sages. | | | The key to understanding Orthodox Judaisms, I believe, is to correctly identify the relationship between texts and tradition. |
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http://yutopia.yucs.org/archives/001377.html
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| | Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Conference examines Orthodox Judaism's place in modern world 02/20/99 |
| | Modern Orthodoxy needs a new rabbinical school committed to combining the best in Jewish scholarship with the best in Western cultural studies and progressive thinking, argued Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, headmaster of the New Jewish School of Greater Boston. | | | The conference was a homecoming for religious Jews who have long been concerned with such controversial issues as the leadership role of Jewish women, religion and democracy in Israel, and attitudes toward the non-Orthodox, at a time of growing conservatism within the Orthodox movement. | | | The smallest of the religion's three main branches in the United States, Orthodox Judaism espouses adherence to Jewish law it believes was divinely revealed. |
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http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/022099/fea_judaism.shtml
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| | Joseph Soloveitchik: Information From Answers.com |
| | His refusal emboldened other Modern Orthodox rabbis, and the Rabbinical Council of America and Union of Orthodox Congregations then joined the Synagogue Council of America, a group in which Orthodox, Reform and Conservative denominations worked together on common issues. | | | Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) and those on Modern Orthodox's right wing hold that Hirsch only wanted Jews to combine observant Jewish lifestyle with learning the surrounding gentile society's language, history, and science, so that a religious Jew could earn a living in the surrounding gentile society; they also hold that this is true of Soloveitchik. | | | However as he became entrenched in the Modern Orthodox outlook, he removed himself from the former organizations, and instead joined with the Mizrachi Religious Zionists of America (RZA) and the centrist Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), where many of his students were to be found in leadership positions. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/joseph-soloveitchik
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| | Judaism: Open orthodoxy! A modern Orthodox rabbi's creed |
| | But if we Modern Orthodox share with the Orthodox Right the same fundamental Halakhic principles, we do part company on some very basic ideological issues. | | | Additionally, in halakhic observance the Modern Orthodox community is more open to halakhically-grounded innovation - like the institution of Yom Hashoah as a day commemorating the Holocaust- while the Orthodox Right is wary of virtually all innovation, fearful that it will lead to a breakdown of halakhic norms. | | | Moreover, in the area of rabbinic law, we Orthodox - Modern and Right alike - contend that legal authority is cumulative, and that a contemporary posek can only issue judgments based on a full history of Jewish legal precedent. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n4_v46/ai_20583577
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| | NJJN - Who’s ‘Modern’? It’s academic |
| | While several speakers and many attendees were from the demographically Modern Orthodox communities of Bergen County, particularly Teaneck, the local Orthodox synagogue rabbis and educational leaders were not represented. | | | Those who responded that they believe it “very important” that their children attend university, Ukeles dubbed “Modern Orthodox”; those that labeled it somewhat or not at all important, he considered to be haredi, or “ultra-Orthodox.” | | | Of the two groups, Modern Orthodox constitute the majority — 60 percent – though the larger family size of the haredi community indicates that the lead is shrinking. |
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http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/030305/njwhosmodern.html
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| | The House of Hock: 06/01/2004 - 06/30/2004 |
| | In the Modern Orthodox world 99% of the masses are messed over spiritually to allow for the creation of the 1% elite. | | | As we continue down the rabbit hole of Modern Orthodox Intellectual History, it was pointed out separately by Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh & Dr. Rabbi Seth Farber, that RYBS was the first to speak about shemiras hamitzvos as a minimum for all Jews. | | | There are people who have basically given up Orthodox Practice and Orthodox Belief, but still choose to participate in the Orthodox Community. |
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http://houseofhock.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_houseofhock_archive.html
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| | Does Modern Orthodoxy Have a Future? |
| | In the absence of a Modern Orthodoxy that aspires to be both modern and Orthodox, it is difficult to imagine a future in which the two aspects of that fragile equation do not split into their constituent parts. | | | Schools are at the heart of Modern Orthodoxy &; and of these two books — because being a Modern Orthodox Jew is defined by a joint inculcation into two distinctly separate worlds, and the amount of exposure to each determines one's place along the political-religious spectrum. | | | On its right, modern practice is rapidly losing its religious authority to the encroaching dominance of the haredim; on its left, it is losing its worldly authority to other forms of Judaism that are more willing and able to adapt to contemporary life. |
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http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=austerlitz20040609837
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| | About KI - Twin Cities Jewish Community |
| | The history of Modern Orthodox Judaism rests in the rabbis who have contributed to reminding us that the Torah is applicable to the modern world every bit as much as it was applicable at Mt. Sinai. |
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http://www.kenessethisrael.org/GenInfo/modortho.htm
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| | AJHistory by Menachem Butler: ModernOrthodoxisms |
| | Modern Orthodox people love to be offended by the ignorant Yeshivish kids who refer to him as JB. | | | Any book by or about him is an essential component of the Modern Orthodox library, even though most of those who own them will never read them and secretly find them boring. | | | Flipped out - When the product of a Modern Orthodox high school attends a Yeshiva or Seminary in Israel, and adopts the outlook and dress of Chareidim, they are described as having flipped out. |
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http://ajhistory.blogspot.com/2005/03/modernorthodoxisms.html
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| | Jewish Education at the Lookstein Center - INTEGRATION OF JUDAIC AND GENERAL STUDIES IN |
| | But if Himmelfarb is correct, then the modern Orthodox school itself is undermining rather than supporting the religious outlook that it should be encouraging within its student body. | | | Berger comments that while religious orthodoxy has expected in the past that its adherents take their beliefs "for granted," questioning as little as possible, such an expectation is no longer viable 9, two possible courses of action present themselves to the modern-day religionist. | | | Spiro writes, "The modern Orthodox
see it as a Torah obligation to penetrate all of experience; intellectually-and emotionally; to learn all that there is to know about man, about nature, to exercise one's mind in the development of science and to express one's talents in the area of the arts. |
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| | Modern Judaism: Bibliography |
| | Modern Philosophies of Judaism: A Study of Recent Jewish Philosophies of Religion, by Jacob B. Agus. | | | Judaism and Modern Man: An Interpretation of Jewish Religion, Temple Books. | | | Modern Varieties of Judaism, Lectures on the History of Religions / Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/363_Transp/ModernJudBib.html
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| | Orthodox conference |
| | Many committed to a modern Orthodox integration of religious and secular life have in recent years felt delegitimized by the haredim, or fervently Orthodox, who view the religious and secular worlds as essentially incompatible. | | | "I'm modern Orthodox, but I feel the pressures from people around me, friends who are moving to the right," said Rutman, who studies biology at York University and says she is one of the only people in her community who wears pants. | | | A longtime hallmark of modern Orthodoxy - a willingness to dialogue and work with non-Orthodox Jews - has eroded in recent years as the movement's institutions, like the Orthodox Union and Rabbinical Council of America, and a growing number of their constituents, have withdrawn from such endeavors on national and local levels. |
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http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/990219/ortho.shtml
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| | Transform Your Community |
| | The modern Orthodox community must embrace and support the State of Israel so that it can maintain its significance as a religious and spiritual center for the entire Jewish world. | | | Leaders of the modern Orthodox community must develop educational opportunities, youth programs, and immigration services for those who are able to spend time in Israel, whether it be a temporary visit or permanent settlement. | | | While this can be accomplished through monetary support, increased visitation, and political advocacy, it is important that the modern Orthodox community strive to increase its actual presence in the land. |
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http://edah.org/zionism.cfm
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