Israel, Gaza, and Rethinking the Laws of War
Current military codes are inadequate to Israel's situations.
May 6, 2015
For Aharon Lichtenstein, Modern Orthodoxy Was Not about Compromise
It was about living Judaism to its fullest.
Aharon Lichtenstein, the famed talmudic scholar and yeshiva head who passed away last week, was the leading proponent of a Modern Orthodoxy that, as Shalom Carmy writes, was not a “tepid compromise” between religious observance and Western culture. Rather, in his life and in his thought Lichtenstein propounded a vision of living Judaism to its fullest:
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For Aharon Lichtenstein, Modern Orthodoxy Was Not about Compromise
It was about living Judaism to its fullest.
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