Gadolhadorah – “So much of this debate, both in the U.S. and EY, is framed as a binary choice where the only two options are the far-left, woke liberals who embrace every extreme toevah and the so-called “torah-true” yidden who reject any compromise on matters of hashkafah and reject the YU/REITS/MO etc. segments of the tzibur.”
I don’t know if you are referring to my posts, but if you are, my point was not to judge the MO/YU etc. My point was, that sooner or later, the MO world who want to be honest with themselves and with the Ribbono Shel Olam (I believe most are, certainly within the RIETS orbit), will THEMSELVES have to make a ‘binary choice’ between a goyish velt that increasingly brooks no compromise on THEIR ‘hashkafah’, and some sort of real Torah hashkafah. Stretching that term as wide as possible still can’t accommodate LGBTQXYZ_who_knows_what_next+++, and not accommodating the flavor-of-the-month will get you ‘cancelled’ professionally and academically. They will not be able to have their ‘modern’ cake and eat it.
There can be coexistence without compromising individual values and hashkafah.
Sure there can be. IMHO, the reason there is less than there could be is simply because in big cities each individual community is big enough to do their own thing with little interaction with others. That also affords the luxury of circling the wagons and criticizing others… In out-of-town settings you do see much more cooperation.