Modern Orthodoxy at a Crossroads (Audio)

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Recent events may have created an irreversible rift in the Modern Orthodox community. Steve Savitsky talks with Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein.

 

Savitsky Talks is a weekly 20 minute audio program with interviews and discussions that probe and explore contemporary Jewish life. Steve Savitsky’s unusually direct and objective approach make this program a refreshing take on the Jewish community’s often challenging role in the world.

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  • Skidancer

    So then Rav Kook, zt”l, and his adherents would have been thrust out of the Modern Orthodox tent, as would have the Baal Shem and his. It seems to me that Modern Orthodoxy now needs to sustain its own identity and no longer can legitimately and successfully respond to the world as it changes.

    • Meir Zev

      If it is at all possible, could you or someone else reading this please clarify the point that you are making. 

      This is not meant to be a criticism.  It’s more in the way of a confession on my part that I’m not as sharp as the rest of us who undoubtedly understood every word.

      Thank you.

  • Rev.Borris Jovanovich

    We all need to adjust what Almighty requires from us according to Hashem’s word and not according to worlds wish.It is necessary that all leaders of G-D’s people gather and return to roots as Hashem require from Israel ,and not what individuals teach.Let us stop teaching what man wants to hear ,but teach what Hashem wants from individual Israeli .

  • Meir Zev

    Troubling to say the least.

    If we actually comprehended the black hole into which we are staring we would declare a tainis.

    Even though Rabbi Alderstein stated that the women’s issues identified with this crisis were symptomatic of a larger problem as opposed to being its driving force, the education that the majority of women identified with the Orthodox Union have received these past 45 years and the mindset that was derived therefrom, makes either a split within the Union or even worse, a disastrous compromise, inevitable.

    Worse still, even two generations later no one seems to understand the toxicity of Feminism and the threat it poses to the future of Modern Orthodoxy in this country.

    The Yeshiva world has also made their share of mistakes, and they are facing a disaster of a different nature.  But one thing they got right was Bais Yaakov. 

    We could resolve most of the halachic, hafkafic, and social issues that confront the totality of Torah Jewry by putting ALL of the girls in a Bais Yaakov track and MOST of the boys in a Hesder track.  If we were able to do such a thing (I’m not even sure that Moshiach could pull it off) we would raise a generation of of emotionally healthy, educated and very frum ovdai Hashem.

    For what else are we striving?

  • Stanley M. Wagner

    The audio interview on the subject of “Modern Orthodoxy at a Crossroads” was excellent. It was one of the most balanced discussions I have heard on the issue, one that should be seriously addressed before the rift becomes a chasm. I just wish to broaden the arena of discussion by adding that we have the very same problem in Israel, where the charedi world is more militantly opposed to modern Orthodox hashkafot and, strangley enough, that is the glue that binds the various shades of Modern Orthodoxy here and, for practical reasons, keeps everyone “under the tent.” There is no reason, therefore, that a personality such as HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein should be kept out of the debate simply because he lives in Israel, as was suggested. On the contrary, because the issue is of such grave importance, it merits being discussed in the broadfest forum.

    Rabbi Dr. Stanley M. Wagner
    Jerusalem

    • Anonymous

      i agree completely with rabbi wagner