Just Found Out…
…that Shamrya and I were cited in the New Vilna Review in the article, “Is There an Orthodox War Against Modern Orthodoxy?.”
This is a Boston-based publication, and I suspect the name is in part a deferential reference to the Vilna Shul in Boston as much as the “Jerusalem of Lithuania.”
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“Given that success, it is still the case that the two most influential branches of Orthodoxy in America today come from the haredi camp: American Habad and ArtScroll. The former is an articulation of Hasidic Judaism and the later an articulation of the Mussar movement. Yet even given the prowess of these two giant corporations (and they are, in many ways, corporations) it seemed there was sufficient space for Modern Orthodoxy to continue flourishing in the tolerant and multicultural landscape of late twentieth-century America.”
They spell that Chabad, not American Habad. As in http://www.chabad.org.
Artscroll has gone from mere publishing house to an articulation of the Mussar movement? When did this happen?
That article is a festival of weird.
Great article. And, you now have academic approbation. Next time someone tells you you don’t know what you’re talking about, or you’re the only one saying these things, you can pull this out and say, “Oh, by the way - here!”
I didn’t even know there was a New Vilna Review. This detracts from the credibility of my “You can’t really be Jewish in Boston because Boston isn’t a Jewish town” argument, doesn’t it?
I don’t think I told you - I met Shaul Magid about a year and a half ago. He gave a lecture at Northeastern (turns out they have a Jewish Studies Dept.; who knew?) about Sephardi mystical masters, their influences (Sufism, etc.), how their lines of succession and student-disciple relationships compared with their Ashkenazi counterparts, etc. Quite fascinating; I was very impressed. I spoke to him afterward and a bit via email since; nice guy. During the summers, he serves as rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue, if you haven’t met him and would like to.
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