Draft Outline for Reader for High School Senior on Modern Orthodoxy*
- Theory and Practice
- Rabbi Saul Berman– The Ideology of Modern Orthodoxy – A statement of Ideology
- Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz– Twenty-five phenomena of renewed Modern Orthodoxy– Dynamics in Place
- Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz– Privilege, Perspective, and Modern Orthodox Youth– As Issues Show Up for Youth
- Dr. Jack Wertheimer– Can Modern Orthodoxy Survive?– Looking in From the Outside
- Rupture of Faith and Authority
- Chaim Grade– My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner– Another Translation from Commentary- My War with Hersh Rasseyner– How might they both be right?
- Dr. Rabbi Haym Soloveitchik – Rupture and Reconstruction– Holding the Literary and Mimetic Traditions
- Diversity within the Community
- Rabbi Marc Angel, Minhagim: Divinity and Diversity– Beyond AshkeNormativity
- Professor Rabbi David Berger – On the Spectrum of Messianic Belief in Contemporary Lubavitch Chassidism– What is our Relationship with Chabad?
- Issues of the Time
- Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein– Does Jewish Tradition Recognize an Ethic Independent of Halakha?– You not not to be wrong for me to be right
- Rav Shagar, Love, Romance, and Covenant– How is Love and Modernity intertwined?
- Dr. Tamar Ross– The Feminist Contribution to Halakhic Discourse: Kol Be-isha Erva as a Test Case – Interesting Regarding Content and Process
- Rabbi Alan Yuter– The Low Down on the Height of the Mechitsa: A Modern Orthodox Reading
- Blu Greenberg– Abortion -We Need Halachic Creativity – A Clear voice from 1974 on the Topic
- Rhythm of Jewish Life
- Maya Bernstein– Memento Mori:On Yom Kippur, a lesson about living with mortality– Living in the World
- Contemporary Talmud: Yishai Ribo’s Keter Melucha – The Rhythm of Modern Orthodoxy
- What is in a Name?: Charedi, Mainstream, Modern, or Open Orthodoxy
- Rabbi Avi Weiss– Open Orthodoxy! A Modern Orthodox Rabbi’s Creed– 1997
- I. Schwartz – Nothing Orthodox about Open Orthodoxy– Yated Ne’eman
- On Open Leadership– Regarding Wiki Judaism
- Generous Orthodoxy–
- Our Future
- Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z’l, Letters to the Next Generation: Reflections on Yom Kippur
- Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z’l , Letters to the Next Generation 2: Reflections on Jewish Life
- Please respond to these letters in light of everything you have read and experiences. Feel free to send them in to me here and I will post them. hiorlow@gmail.com
*Clearly this is a work in progress which was inspired my my son. I would love to hear what other short form and accessible pieces you would want to see here. Be in touch hiorlow@gmail.com
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