Comments on: Conservative Judaism: The Next Generation

By: harris

harris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:07:23 +0000

The conservative movement after more than one hundred years still cannot get its act together.Keeps shooting it self in the foot and does not produce gedolim. The serious go orthodox and the left goes reform.

By: jdub

jdub — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:20:25 +0000

Sorry, that last line should read “New Yorker cartoon.” Need more caffeine before posting.

By: jdub

jdub — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:20:05 +0000

I think ssecunda has a point. As a modern orthodox person who lives “out of town” (but am a New Yorker born and bred who still views NYC as “in town”), we’re constantly amazed at the craziness that certain folks in NY seem to be engaged in. Stuff that would never fly even in large out of town communities that, since we are smaller than NY, tend to be a little more heterogeneous. The NY Jewish community, because of its size, tends to view the world like the old New Yorker community, except it would be NY, Israel, and the rest is flyover.

By: MIchael P.

MIchael P. — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:28:20 +0000

You have a point, but at least in the cases of Elliot Cosgrove and Jeremy Kalmanofsky, I know that they have both spent substantial time outside of NYC and are not born and bred New Yorkers. With the budgetary problems at JTS, flying someone in from out of NYC might have also been in issue.

By: ssecunda

ssecunda — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:02:37 +0000

I am totally on the outside here, but isn’t it funny that all three rabbis are based in NYC. It’s a wide wide country out there, and we New York intellectuals live in an incredible bubble.