tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post113208567162736059..comments2023-10-29T11:50:25.742+02:00Comments on My Obiter Dicta: Dati-LiteJeffrey R. Woolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1132127173954284742005-11-16T09:46:00.000+02:002005-11-16T09:46:00.000+02:00(i posted this to the hebrew site as well.)yep, if...(i posted this to the hebrew site as well.)<BR/><BR/>yep, if i understand you correctly. <BR/><BR/>dat in israel is extremely polarized and is often culturally all-inclusive. this is a big problem for me personally and (one reason) why i have not made permanent aliya. with all its problems, i find it easier to be the kind of jew i want to be in america. <BR/><BR/>the kind of philosophically modern orthodox (not the behaviorally m.o., which i believe blau is talking about) the absence of which you regularly lament, is a yekar hametzius here. it is growing out of fashion in the u.s. too, but it is still around.<BR/><BR/>it makes me wonder if perhaps the isolationists are right: it is too difficult societally to be both open and adoptive of modernity without compromising halakha etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com