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Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenges to Its Establishment

Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenges to Its Establishment

August 16, 2009 | Prof. Marc Shapiro
American Modern Orthodoxy consists of at least two rather distinct types, an intellectual and a sociological one. Intellectual Modern Orthodoxy has an ideology of joining the best of Western civilization with a commitment to Jewish law and traditional Jewish values. Sociological Modern Orthodoxy numbers many more people and is mainly a lifestyle choice. It is a commitment to Jewish law combined with the better things in life.
Rivkah Duker Fishman on The Man of Vision: The Ultra-Orthodox Ideology of Rabbi Shach

Rivkah Duker Fishman on The Man of Vision: The Ultra-Orthodox Ideology of Rabbi Shach

October 1, 2006 | Rivkah Fishman-Duker
The Worldview of Rabbi Eleazar Schach The Man of Vision: The Ultra-Orthodox Ideology of Rabbi Shach (Ish Ha-Hashkafah: Ha-Ideologia Ha-Haredit al pi HaRav Shach), by Avishay Ben Haim, Mosaica Publishers, 179 pp. [in Hebrew]. Reviewed by Rivkah Duker Fishman