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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, on the other hand, is characterised by its involvement with the broader Jewish Community and by its Religious Zionism. | | | One of the characteristics of all religious orthodoxies, is the submission to the authority of its tradition - authority and tradition are a prerequisite for orthodoxy, and within an orthodoxy, the individual is expected to perceive himself as not having any choice but to conform to all of its dictates. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Orthodox_Judaism
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| | St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary - Orthodoxy in Post-Modern Pluralistic Societies |
| | Orthodoxy today is not a persecuted minority among a plethora of Christian and other spiritual movements in a "pagan" empire whose faithful members are in the fresh fervor of the first proclamation of Christ in the world. | | | This leads to the very essence of Orthodoxy's witness in the world: the conviction that Jesus Christ is the Son and Word of the only true God, and that He alone is the way, the truth and the life of all people, God's very wisdom and power in the world. | | | Nor is Orthodoxy today the established Church of a Christian empire whose persecuted saints are in constant struggle with heretics, apostates and sinners, and even at times with each other. |
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http://www.svots.edu/Faculty/Thomas-Hopko/Articles/postmodern.html
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| | Orthodox Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Modern Orthodoxy is considered traditional by most Jews today, but within the Orthodox community groups to its right consider it of questionable validity, and hold that Hirsch's views are not the same as modern day Modern Orthodoxy. | | | Rather, each Orthodox group claims to be a non-exclusive heir to the received tradition of Jewish theology, usually affirming a literal acceptance of Maimonides's 13 principles as the only acceptable position. | | | For example, all Sephardic Orthodox Jews base most of their practices on the Shulkhan Arukh, the 16th century legal index written by Rabbi Yosef 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism
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| | "Is Modern Orthodoxy an Endangered Species?" - by Rabbi Walter S. Wurzburger |
| | Similarly, Modern Orthodoxy's readiness to cooperate with non-orthodox movements on issues of common concern is interpreted despite, its protestations to the contrary, as a tacit acknowledgment of the legitimacy of religious pluralism and, allegedly, demonstrates a lack of commitment to basic Orthodox tenets of faith and practice, which insist upon the binding authority of Halakhah. | | | Unfortunately, in the popular mind, Modern Orthodoxy is seen as a "moderate" brand of religion - a compromise between the rigorous demands of strict Halakhic observance and expedient concessions to secular life-styles. | | | What renders the position of Modern Orthodoxy even more precarious in the modern world is the perception that it condones laxity in religious observance. |
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http://www.yerushalayim.net/organizations/oc/projects/rove/wurzburger2.htm
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| | Judaism: Modern orthodoxy in Israel |
| | In Israel, modern Orthodoxy was associated with the cause of religious Zionism. | | | Whereas modern Orthodoxy and religious Zionism were never identical they shared many of the same values and many of the same adherents. | | | What is most startling is that a whole set of ideas all of which imply a reconstruction of classical Orthodox assumptions are expressed all at once, in what appears to be a sustained manner, by a large group of religiously observant scholars writing in a non-apologetic style. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0411/is_4_47/ai_54600118
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| | Judaism: Modern Orthodoxy in crisis: a test case |
| | In the mid-1990s, several prominent Modern Orthodox rabbis responded to the challenge of the sectarian Orthodox by founding EDAH (Hebrew for congregation), an organization dedicated to disseminating the classic Modern Orthodox message. | | | Just as Conservative Judaism was surprised by the refusal of the Modern Orthodox to roll over and die, so has Modern Orthodoxy been shocked by the resurgence of an Orthodoxy which disdains higher education and western culture. | | | In the words of the title of Heilman and Cohen's book, he can be a cosmopolitan and open to the secular and general Jewish world, or he can be a parochial and reflect the ethos of the yeshiva world. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0411/is_3_51/ai_97722703/pg_2
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| | HADASSAH MAGAZINE |
| | All streams of Orthodoxy affirm the Divinity of the Torah and are committed to the observance of 613 commandments. | | | One remedy is a new Modern Orthodox rabbinical school in New York being established by Berman and Weiss to train rabbis in the Modern Orthodox hashkafa (world view) and bolster respect for their rulings. | | | Modern Orthodoxy also has a strong link with Zionism, having been at one time "the only significant religious sector that embraced it," says Greenberg. |
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http://www.hadassah.org/news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2000/Feb/orthodox.htm
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| | World Mizrachi Movement - Ideas and Opinions |
| | Modern Orthodox women are getting an advanced education in both religious and secular studies, working as professionals and becoming leaders in the community. | | | It is the modern Orthodox community that identifies fully with Israel. | | | In the first third of the twentieth century, in what was then called Palestine, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook was the dominant rabbinical authority who found a religious basis for approving the actions of the mostly irreligious chalutzim in building the land. |
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http://www.mizrachi.org/ideas/view.asp?id=122
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| | Psychiatry and Materialism as a Modern Belief System - Orthodoxy, Ideology, Modern Mythology Parading as Science |
| | Modern science as applied to Man and society in the social sciences is as guilty of this as any religion ever was. | | | Psychiatry and modern psychology, functioning as materialistic interpretations of Man and life, act as a unique set of opinions and beliefs about Man, his world, and the universe, just as any religion or philosophical system. | | | Materialism, just as any religion, is only a unique set of axioms, assumptions, opinions and beliefs about the nature of Man, his world, the universe, and how Man relates to his world and the universe. |
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http://www.sntp.net/materialism_ideology.htm
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| | j. - 1,500 modern Orthodox converge to define identity |
| | Many committed to a modern Orthodox integration of religious and secular life have in recent years felt delegitimized by the haredim, or fervently religious, who view the religious and secular worlds as essentially incompatible. | | | The unique role of the modern Orthodox is that they are religious Jews who view working in the world as a positive religious value. | | | In his keynote address kicking off the conference, Berman, Edah's director, said that modern Orthodoxy is a religious path defined by "maximum integration with society," with adherents who "simultaneously affirm a passionate total commitment to halachah," Jewish law. |
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http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/10679/format/html/displaystory.html
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| | We are a group of modern Orthodox day schools and yeshiva high schools that recognize: |
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http://riets.edu/riets/iData/professionals/AMODS.asp
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| | Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought: Open orthodoxy! A modern Orthodox rabbi's creed.@ HighBeam ... |
| | Both the Modern Orthodox and Orthodox Right branches of Judaism uphold the absolute correctness of the Torah mi-Sinai, the laws given directly by God to the Israelites. | | | However, they differ in their treatment of Halakha, laws which were not handed at Mount Sinai but which were recorded in the bible. | | | They also diverge in their views on non-Jewish people, the significance of the state of Israel, as well as, the societal role of women. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20583577&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | Mail-Jewish Volume 8 Number 46 |
| | Modern Jewish women today are different than any Jewish women before us. | | | The Chafetz Chaim recognized this and, with regard to learning Torah, wrote in Likutei Halachot, Sotah 21 that it is vital for women who are learning secular languages to learn Torah in order to strengthen their religious convictions. | | | I very firmly believe that before we should make Orthodox Judaism comfortable for the Modern Orthodox woman, such a woman must make a serious attempt to become comfortable with Orthodox Judaism and the roles which it sets up for her. |
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http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v8/mj_v8i46.html
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| | THE JEWISH QUESTION IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH |
| | Jews are taught to hate their own souls when they are faced with the anti-Judaism of the Fathers which can also be found in the Church's services in the words of the hymns. | | | Unfortunately, in modern Orthodoxy in such countries as the USA or England it often happens that in one city you can find three or even five national Orthodox Churches. | | | As for the Jews who come to Orthodoxy in Russia, I believe, there is something of God's providence in this process, because Jews remind Russian Orthodox Christians of the universal character of the Church which cannot be confined to any local concrete cultural forms. |
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http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/jewish_1.html
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| | The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles |
| | I say: revamp educational curricula to reignite the spirit and values of classical Zionism, including aliyah, and to reaccentuate the centrality of the State of Israel. | | | While many Orthodox Jews these days are discussing what must be done to make tradition more "relevant," I believe the far more important challenge is to make tradition more valuable, more directly beneficial to individual Jews as well as the larger social order. | | | We must teach this principle in all schools, religious and secular. |
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http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=6768
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| | Jewish Education at the Lookstein Center - RAV JOSEPH B Soleveitchik |
| | What differentiates the approach of Rav Soloveitchik from that of Haredi poskim and makes him the authority figure of so-called "Modern Orthodoxy" is his endorsement of secular studies, including philosophy, his espousal of religious Zionism, and his pioneering of intensive Jewish education for women. | | | It is this type of halakhic Judaism which can invoke the spiritual authority of the Rav, who never wavered in his demand for scrupulous adherence to halakha. | | | It is this religious philosophy, which engenders a unique approach to halakha, which has made him into the posek par excellence of Modern Orthodoxy. |
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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. | | | It is therefore significant (and relevant to our current discussion of Modern Orthodoxy) that Orthodox Jews (almost universally) educate their teenagers away from gentiles. | | | Probably as a Kierkegaardian leap of faith, ala Rabbi Soloveitchik. |
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http://houseofhock.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_houseofhock_archive.html
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| | FT October 2003: Opinion: Fretful Orthodoxy |
| | Modern or “Neo” Orthodoxy, an intellectual product of the nineteenth century, was premised on the belief that one could live both according to Torah, in all of its full traditional rigor, and the “way of the land”—that is, the higher culture of modern Europe. | | | Hirsch was confident that traditional Judaism could hold its own against both radical religious reform (as practiced by his classmate and erstwhile friend at the University of Bonn, Abraham Geiger, the architect of Reform Judaism) and contemporary intellectual fashion. | | | Written by Gil Perl and Yaakov Weinstein, graduate students at Harvard and MIT respectively, the pamphlet presents itself as “A Parent’s Guide to Orthodox Assimilation on University Campuses” and warns Jewish parents of the moral and spiritual corruption that awaits their children should they send them to elite secular universities. |
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| | Mail-Jewish Volume 39 Number 43 |
| | And when the reform masses do indeed (as a whole) make this argument, that is when they no longer see orthodoxy as being "more real" than it seems logical to conclude that at that time this would not be a concern. | | | As a result, you need (I believe) to directly confront those influences with your child, to teach them the skills they need to deal with them. | | | Doesn't that just make it look like we don't really > believe in the legitimacy of our movement, and have to go asking advice > of an Orthodox rabbi?" This is of course true. |
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http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v39/mj_v39i43.html
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| | Yeshiva University Commentator -- Volume 63 Issue 9 |
| | Another common criticism of opponents of Modern Orthodoxy is its supposed lack of spirituality. | | | One of the most commonly addressed issues was feminism - both in regard to women's increased role in ritual religious life and to problems faced by women such as those of agunot. | | | We must draw from culture's true wisdom to enrich the life of Torah, prudently choosing what to absorb, and enrich culture by bringing to it the eternal values of Torah. |
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http://yuweb.addr.com/v63i9/news/edah.shtml
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| | JewishPress.com > News > View Article |
| | But he also said that “we are on the cusp of a Modern Orthodox renaissance” and that the energy of students who come back from Israel with an increased spiritual yearning should be harnessed to create a more open Orthodoxy. | | | Edah — an eight-year-old organization whose raison d̓etre may be aptly described as “keeping Modern Orthodoxy alive” — held its fourth international conference Sunday, and the patient̓s prognosis seemed to be very optimistic. | | | Dr. Heilman, in an interview after the conference, called it a “crisis of confidence.” He said that when Rabbi Berman spoke of “a lack of passion” in the Modern Orthodox community, he may have been referring to this lack of confidence. |
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| | FORWARD : News |
| | In the weeks leading up to Edah's first conference, the organization was lambasted by right-wing rabbis and turf-conscious leaders from Modern Orthodoxy's so-called flagship institutions: Yeshiva University and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. | | | At this year's gathering in New York, titled "The Quest for Holiness," there was every reason for the 1,200 participants to be upbeat about the prospects of an Orthodoxy firmly committed to democracy, secular studies, the state of Israel, social justice, increased religious participation for women and better relations with non-Orthodox Jews. | | | Yet, even ardent religious feminists at the conference said they were resigned to the fact that parts of the women's agenda will not be embraced by many of their rabbinic allies in the crusade to revive Modern Orthodoxy. |
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http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.02.23/news6.html
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| | Out of Step Jew |
| | To this end the Religious Kibbutz Movement has taken hard socialism out of its main ideological leanings and is looking to expand its influence in the country in general and the religious community in particular. | | | We have dueled in the past over intermarriage (here and here) and now she interestingly attacks what she calls "Orthoclasis" – or the tending toward Orthodoxy and the assumption that all authentic Judaism is Orthodox. | | | But now, as we see from Naomi Channa, there are entirely religious people whose main practical difference with Orthodoxy regards the place of women in the shul. |
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http://outofstepjew.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_outofstepjew_archive.html
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| | Orthodoxy and the Modern Mystic |
| | In her book Mysticism, Evelyn Underhill calls this the ``unitive experience.'' The experience of knowing yourself to be the sum total of All That Is. An experience that is, according to those who have been there, incomprehensible to anyone who has not experienced it themselves. | | | The timeless message of mystical Truth is permeating our modern religious and social orthodoxy. | | | People are seeing through the empty illusions of their materialistic lives. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, ... |
| | Rabbi Weinberg battled for an enlightened Orthodoxy and cared for its community of adherents for most of his life, always maintaining his principles in the face of adversity. | | | Shapiro has produced an extremely interesting biography of a tormented rabbinic scholar who was fated to live through some of the most terrible decades of Jewish history. | | | Weinberg's apologies on behalf of the then-new Nazi regime should also be sympathetically viewed in historical context. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1874774528
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| | q&a |
| | The student must master Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, a sister language of Hebrew. | | | Within the Orthodox world, there is a battle raging between the Modern Orthodox and the Yeshiva brand of Orthodoxy -- each is vying for the collective soul of Orthodoxy. | | | Found that when arguing with my right-wing Orthodox colleagues, most of them are very stodgy and "Reactionary" in their thinking. |
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http://www.israelinks.com/q&a.htm
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| | JEWSWEEK - Modern Orthodoxy at a crossroads |
| | The idea was to evaluate the beliefs and practices of the Modern Orthodox in light of a progressive Modern Orthodox ideology. | | | With the future of such fundamental questions as what the Jewish people do about belief, text, and prayer now part of a stated conflict, the Modern Orthodox community has its own date to recall: February 16th, the day that Edah responded. | | | Not all the participants in the workshops and forums, though, fit into the mold of your general Jewish educator. |
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http://www.jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l192&enVersion=0&
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| | Kansas City Jewish Chronicle |
| | The role of women in the modern Orthodox world has been one of Rabbi Berman's prime interests. | | | Rabbi Saul Berman, a leading Modern Orthodox scholar and teacher, has chosen the middle ground. | | | Within Judaism, in the Conservative and Reform movements, there has been virtually a complete equalization between men and women. |
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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=8104333&BRD=1425&PAG=461&dept_id=154733&rfi=6
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| | j. - Orthodox leader speaks out on Jewish unity, breaking long silence (print view) |
| | Leaders of the congregational branch of the movement that integrates Torah and modernity have occasionally spoken out against the liberal movements' positions. | | | Lamm told his listeners that they should value and encourage the efforts of non-Orthodox leaders to more seriously integrate traditional Jewish practices into the lives of their followers. | | | "If the modern Orthodox community doesn't stand up, then who will? |
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http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7587/format/print/displaystory.print
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| | Modern Orthodoxy offers a path that responds to the complexity of my world and provides answers that resonate without requiring me to bifurcate my life between the religious and the secular. | | | Modern Orthodoxy does not have many simple answers. | | | Students who feel that Modern Orthodoxy is nothing but a compromise will ultimately either reject it (whether moving to the right or to the left) or live a life in which they are embarrassed by the religious lifestyle they lead. |
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http://www.shma.com/feb01/mayer.htm
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| | About Hineni :: Modern Orthodoxy :: www.hineni.org.au |
| | The Modern Orthodox Movement is unequivocally committed to the truth, validity and eternal applicability of the Orthodox Halachic system, while responding to, and fully engaging with the modern, secular world. | | | Hineni promotes a Modern Orthodox lifestyle, through exposing chanichim to the beauty of the movement. | | | Modern Orthodox Judaism also believes in the centrality of Eretz Yisrael to the Jewish people and the significance of the modern State of Israel. |
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http://www.hineni.org.au/aboutus.php?page_id=3
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| | Atheism And Orthodoxy in Modern Russia |
| | The Orthodox Church is still closed in upon itself; it is still more occupied with its own internal problems than with spiritual demands of modern society. | | | The Church's leaders gained access to the civil authorities, but thus far they have been unable (with some exceptions) to gain direct access to ordinary people, especially to those outside the Church. | | | This type of Orthodoxy is being preached even by some key members of the hierarchy, and it has many supporters within the Church. |
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http://www.3saints.com/atheism_orthodoxy.html
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| | Edah |
| | The mission of Edah is to give voice to the ideology and values of modern Orthodoxy and to educate and empower the community to address its concerns. | | | Fully committed to Torah, halakhah, and the quest for kedushah, Edah values open intellectual inquiry and expression in both secular and religious arenas; engagement with the social, political and the technological realities of the modern world; the religious significance of the State of Israel; and the unity of Klal Yisrael. | | | Discuss issues of concern with members of the global Modern Orthodox community. |
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| | Colleges, feminism, Conservative Judaism, etc., the modern world in general makes inroads upon tradition, and we must not surrender to it, must not innovate or change just to fit it. | | | He saw women's minyanim, feminism, the polarization and the coming split in Conservative, and stood firm and said "Surrender!" Despite logic, we cannot give in if it's changing or bending halacha. | | | In 1975, there was a great debate between R' Emanuel Rackman and the Rav, in which Soloveitchik kept Modern Orthodoxy and his students firmly in the Orthodox camp. |
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http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/rav5
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| | The Torah is a sacred guidebook, intended to help us actualize God's values in the conduct of our productive lives. | | | The Modern Orthodox experiment begins with the assumption that Orthodoxy can preserve its integrity and passion, and even be enriched, by its intersection with modernity, and that the interaction will allow Orthodoxy to bring to the broader world a clearer vision of the grandeur of Torah. | | | While Modern Orthodoxy differs from the approach of Haredi Orthodoxy on most of the issues above, we remain united with them in the theological and halakhic commitments that are at the core of our common tradition. |
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http://shma.com/feb01/berman.htm
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| | The Divine Primacy Of The Bishop Of Rome And Modern Eastern Orthodoxy |
| | The Divine Primacy Of The Bishop Of Rome And Modern Eastern Orthodoxy | | | Modern Eastern Orthodoxy: Reply to a former Catholic. | | | Please click on the link above to see the notice regarding this new work contributing to the Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. |
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http://credo.stormloader.com/dprimacy.htm
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| | Modern Orthodoxy |
| | Meanwhile the strictly orthodox (ortho = straight and doxein = to believe) have become most dissatisfied with the Modern Orthodox who have become open to a limited secularism. | | | Orthodoxy at first rejected science and all the arts because the “enlightened”, including the new German Reform Jews, had initiated the so-called “scientific study of Judaism.” Now the great Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch (1808-1888) assumed the rabbinate in Frankfurt and from there became a major writer, scholar and teacher in Israel. | | | century development of “Modern Orthodoxy” alongside Hasidism (pious) and the spread of the Cabala. |
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http://www.jbuff.com/c112201.htm
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| | S.C.J. FAQ: Section 2.7. Who We Are: What are some of the Orthodox sub-groups? |
| | "Centrist/modern/cosmopolitan" (colloquially [sometimes pejorative, sometimes affectionate] "kipa sruga" [crocheted skull cap]) Orthodox usually mean an Orthodoxy which approves of many aspects of secular culture, especially secular education, in addition to traditional Torah study. | | | They shun denominational lables in order to get beyond the politics of religion, so that they can work with all Jews in supporting the practice of halachic Judaism. | | | UTJ is a trans-denominational organization, working with the broad spectrum of Jews, and is not part of Modern Orthodoxy or any other denomination. |
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http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/02-07.html
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| | Meeting of the Minds - "Modern Orthodoxy" |
| | The Judge spoke passionately on his beliefs about Modern Orthodoxy and presented his case in an articulate, enthusiastic manner. | | | Whilst no claim was made of Modern Orthodoxy’s exclusive truth its benefits were made evident. | | | Amongst the topics discussed, was the point that Modern Orthodoxy is based on the ideas of moderation, open intellectual enquiry and compassion towards other members of society. |
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| | FROM THE DESK OF THE EIC: The Closing of the Modern Orthodox Mind - The Commentator - Editorials/Op-Ed |
| | Otherwise, the truth will come out on its own. | | | FROM THE DESK OF THE EIC: The Closing of the Modern Orthodox Mind | | | It all started when my father, a native resident of Los Angeles, inquired about the quality of Jewish education in the New York era, and more specifically, if my aunts and uncles were pleased with their children's yeshiva day schools. |
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http://www.yucommentator.com/news/2005/05/16/EditorialsopEd/From-The.Desk.Of.The.Eic.The.Closing.Of.The.Modern.Orthodox.Mind-951404.shtml
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| | Avodah V3 #5 |
| | Schechter's model of "Catholic Israel" that was an outgrowth of the R' Zecharia Frankel model of Historical Judaism and that led to the development of Conservative Judaism. | | | However, I > don't believe the "modern" orthodox (however you define the term) accept > such a loose attitude towards halacha. | | | Nevertheless, I am NO supporter of his philosophy. |
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http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol03/v03n005.shtml
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| | Shofar: Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, ... |
| | Based upon his Ph.D. dissertation, Marc Shapiro's analysis of the fascinating and rather tragic story of Rabbi Weinberg's life is a welcome addition to the scholarly bookshelf Weinberg, known commonly as the "Seridel esh" (the title of his four-volume collection of responsa), was a rabbinic luminary, a polemicist, and a scholar of targumic literature. | | | Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966, by Marc B. Shapiro. | | | Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966.(Review) |
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| | LAMED: Modern Orthodoxy Course |
| | The course will focus on the differences and histories of the many types of Modern Orthodoxy, such as the relationship between German and American orthodoxy, the new Religious Zionists, and will include discussions as to where Yeshiva [University] falls into the mix. | | | The course, slated for 3:00-4:15 on Mondays and Wednesdays this Spring, will be offered by simulcast over the internet for people outside the University. | | | Alan Brill will offer a course on the history and ideology of Modern Orthodoxy in Spring 2005. |
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| | phorum - Lookjed List Archive - Re: Essays on Modern Orthodoxy |
| | of Club Med for Modern Orthodox Jews (Tradition Fall 1985). | | | Thank you to all those who responded -- your suggestions have been | | | - The Orthodox Forum book edited by Rabbi JJ Schacter on modern orthodoxy |
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| | Back Row Of The 'Beis: Behind Their Backs |
| | A personal note of family history to help prove the point: My gggrandfather was the Av Beit Din of Brody. | | | So there we were on Thursday, in Dr. Lamm's conference room on the 5th floor of Furst Hall -- otherwise known as the Grand Throne Room of Modern Orthodoxy. | | | The right wing of Orthodoxy has -- at least for the last 250 years -- behaved rather badly toward Orthodoxy's left and center. |
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