The study's findings have raised concerns about the quality of education and the integration of ultra-Orthodox students into ...

Father Seraphim Rose was born in 1932 in San Diego, California, and died in 1982 as a priest-monk at St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. While not yet ...

Modern Orthodox Jews, unlike many Hasidic and haredi Orthodox communities, are distinguished not only by their accommodations to the secular world but by their often enthusiastic Zionism.

In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have ...

People who leave Modern Orthodoxy for communities to the right seek communities in which keeping halacha is the central priority; they seek more serious environments for davening and learning; and ...

The term Orthodox of course refers not only to Modern Orthodoxy but to the Orthodox community as a whole. Following Shapiro’s argument, not only Modern Orthodoxy, but also its counterparts to ...

The Modern Orthodox-Lite component is the most endangered.. Reactions to Avi Ciment’s “The Modern Orthodox Conundrum.” Rabbi Avraham Gordimer Dec 10, 2022, 7:08 PM (GMT+2) ...

Orthodox Jewish communities are still difficult places for many LGBTQ people. Yet the view, once ubiquitous, that Orthodox tradition is incompatible with their identities is gradually shifting.

Modern Orthodoxy, which aims to hold onto Jewish tradition while engaging with the outside world, is leading the way. But as the seating arrangement in South Philadelphia demonstrates, the changes ...

But in the Modern Orthodox community, where a religious lifestyle is balanced with an embrace of the secular world, LGBTQ acceptance has accelerated.