Forward, December 12th, 2003
Austerlitz, Saul Forward 12-12-2003 Contemporary American Judaism of the culturally oriented, lox-and-bagels-on-Sundays variety has always maintained a conflicted relationship with traditionally minded Orthodoxy: Orthodox practice is stigmatized, viewed as a mindless celebration of past tradition that wholly ignores contemporary mores, though there remains for many a half-submerged, guilty sensation that Orthodoxy, at least in its Eastern European, shtetl-fabulous version, is more "real" than the suburbanized, politically correct 2003 model. This fear and fascination of non-observant Jews to...
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