Modern Orthodox

'All Afternoon': Feminism comes to River Ridge - book review

Kleinman notes in her novel 'All Afternoon,' set in 1978, that feminism was “slow in coming” to the fictional New Jersey town of River Ridge.

DISCO CEILING in Arlington, Texas. The 1970s saw the social revolution known as Women’s Lib.’
American Jews [Illustrative]

Israel educators must be models - opinion

REPRESENTATIVES OF the Chief Rabbinate of Israel cross Jaffa Street in Jerusalem as they deliver a kosher certificate to a local restaurant.

Time for Israel’s non-kosher public to push back - opinion

FORMER PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Who does Israel belong to? Why Bennett’s model matters now - opinion


How influential were Orthodox Jews in Trump's administration? - analysis

White House Channuka parties included a broad swathe of the Jewish leadership.

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Hanukkah reception and executive order against antisemitism signing in the East Room of the White House in Washington, US, December 11, 2019

On Kabbalah and Modern Orthodoxy

Perhaps Kabbalah can serve as both a model and inspiration for Modern Orthodoxy to continue to think ‘outside of the box’ and still remain grounded to its traditional past and to Halacha.

THE KABBALISTIC Tree of Life, with the names of the 10 sefirot and 22 paths.

I converted through Reform Judaism. Stop telling me I’m not a Jew.

After years of studying, learning and teaching, I finally achieved the goal I’d had from the age of 16.

Jessy Kuehne

Why Yitz Greenberg’s ‘road’ may lead to a stronger Jewish center

A collection of essays about the theories and writings of Rabbi Yitz Greenberg includes 12 thoughtful essays spanning topics such as halacha (Jewish law), theology, and modern norms of observance.

The cover of ‘The Road Not Taken’

Israeli high school principal returns to IDF to help amid COVID-19

Many Israeli civilians, especially in the Homefront Command, are being called to return to reserve duty.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi visits Bnei Brak

Israel must deepen commitment of Diaspora to Jewish identity’ says OU head

Fagin insisted that if the Jewish state views the Diaspora as a strategic asset then it needs to invest far larger resources into Jewish education in the US.

Outgoing head of the Orthodox Union in the US Allen Fagin.

On modern Orthodoxy

I have found that students are confused about Modern Orthodoxy and perceive it as some sort of ‘Diet Orthodoxy’.

‘TO BE involved in the modern world, ipso facto means to live a life of constant compromising of Orthodoxy’s rigorous norms.’

Rabbi Norman Lamm, longtime head of Yeshiva University, dies at 92

The noted Modern Orthodox rabbi, author and communal leader had just lost his wife to COVID-19 a month earlier.

Rabbi Norman Lamm

300 Israeli women march for 24 hours in support of agunot

The walk even included a discussion circle with agunot and Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad La’isha staff of rabbinical court advocates, lawyers and social workers, with the purpose of raising funds for Ohr Torah Stone's Yad La'isha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center and Hotline.

Agunot and former agunot during Yad L’Isha’s  first-annual Eshet Hamidbar (Woman of the Desert) 22-kilometer walk

Book review: Open Orthodoxy founder tells story

Rabbi Avi Weiss takes the reader on his evolving journey

JOURNEY TO OPEN ORTHODOXY By Rabbi Avraham “Avi” Weiss Urim Publications 613 pages; $29.95