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Speculation on the Future of Orthodoxy

The Orthodox community of the last few decades has seen itself as a community on the rise. The growth in numbers of adherents, the large families, and the explosion in the numbers of synagogues and...

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Alternative Models for Jewish Education

I’ve been reading a lot of posts about Jewish education, often in the context of the economic difficulties we are currently in. I’d like to just sketch a few alternative models for Jewish education...

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Changes Coming in Orthodox Education Options?

An interesting article in the Jewish Standard suggests that parents are ready to explore new options for what a Modern Orthodox school could look like. As the tuition crisis overshadows the shidduch...

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Fake Solutions to our Tuition Crisis (pt 1)

The OU has put out a self-serving bit of hogwash trumpeting its vaporous initiative to fix the tuition crisis plaguing the Orthodox community. In brief, th OU presents a two-prong approach. The first...

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Looking for the Middle

I recently saw a post from YD about the search for a middle path between Yeshivish Orthodoxy and Modern Orthodoxy.  It was actually the second post in a series, and the first post goes into even...

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Conversions in Controversy: The Orthodox Patrilineal Descent

By now you’ve all heard about Hareidi Rabbi Avraham Sherman, who heads Israel’s High Rabbinical court, and his ongoing retroactive nullifications of conversions to Judaism. This story has been building...

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The Gap Between Hareidim and Modern Orthodox

In XGH’s most recent post, How to stop Chareidim breaking the law, the suggestion was to emphasize Kiddush Hashem/Chillul Hasehm (sanctification/desecration of God’s name, usually through public...

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Dealing with Dweck

I’m not really a current events blogger, but the corruption scandal in NJ raises some interesting questions around a topic I am very interested in: the relationship between the US government and the...

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Netilat Yadayim Redux

A little while back, I was invited to guest post on DovBear. I wrote about how Orthodox Judaism has emphasized the ritual and symbolic value of its practices at the expense of the concrete and...

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Back to the Future with Jonathan Sarna

The more I read of Jonathan Sarna, the more impressed I am with him personally, but the more I fear for institutional Judaism. Sarna is intelligent, considered, insightful and articulate, but he’s also...

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