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Are Centrists All That Different From the Right?

JL;DR SUMMARY The article revisits the ongoing debate within Orthodox Judaism between Centrist Orthodoxy, which balances Torah study with secular knowledge (Mada), and right-wing Orthodoxy, which largely rejects secular culture and education. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Orthodox JudaismYeshiva UniversityCentrist OrthodoxyTorah UmadaSecular StudiesRabbi David BashevkinRabbi Norman LammRabbi Mordechai GifterHirschian ModelOrthodox Debate

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New York, United States
"On Chol Hamoed Pesach 1988, Rav Mordechai Gifter, Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe, lambasted Rabbi Lamm and Yeshiva University after a New York Times article entitled Jewish Moderate Urges Believers to Take a Stand covered Rabbi Lamms ideology."

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