{"id":706,"date":"2017-07-16T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=706"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T18:52:13","slug":"how-far-can-we-bend-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2017\/07\/how-far-can-we-bend-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far Can We Bend Tradition?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rabbi Alan Yuter’s Jerusalem Post article<\/a>\u00a0discusses how far one can bend Jewish tradition . . . and who is doing the bending.<\/p>\n

Haredi Orthodoxy is grounded upon Jewish law, as well as a studied counter-cultural parochialism that finds religious virtue in being extra strict and socially \u201cother.\u201d \u201d Its religious narrative valorizes the traditions, memories, and good old days and folkways of Eastern Europe. \u00a0. . . For modern Orthodoxy, God gave a Torah at Sinai, not a lifestyle. Since the Torah does not condemn modernity, modern Orthodoxy has chosen to embrace it. Consequently, modern Orthodoxy\u2019s approach to conversion is also more flexible and open. Its agenda is determined by the plain sense understanding of Judaism\u2019s sacred library. Is this flexibility a breach or an application of tradition? Which of these two Orthodoxies is more authentic, based upon the Oral Torah benchmark tradition?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

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Rabbi Alan Yuter’s Jerusalem Post article\u00a0discusses how far one can bend Jewish tradition . . . and who is doing the bending. Haredi Orthodoxy is grounded upon Jewish law, as well as a studied counter-cultural parochialism that finds religious virtue in being extra strict and socially \u201cother.\u201d \u201d Its religious narrative valorizes the traditions, memories, Continue Reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,95,78,83],"tags":[],"coauthors":[86],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halakhah","category-halakhah-modern-judaism","category-modern-judaism","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t