@Nonpolitical
Thanks for your observation.
It is not often that I am accused of being ‘Modern’
Too often the segment of the male Frum world that sits and learns and lets/expects wives, parents and in-laws to support them and their institutions undervalue the contributions of baal baatim.
I don’t consider having both a Yeshiva education and advanced secular degrees and a profession to be modern.
I need only point out Jewish figures such as the Rambam who was a physician, the Late Lubavitcher Rebbe who attended the Sorbonne, The late Rav J.B. Soloveitchick with his European University degrees.
My family has been in the USA since for 150 years. It has sent its children to yeshivas, day schools, seminary then university and professional school. AND STAYED FRUM.
We are not Johhny Come Lately Americans who arrived after 1945 or 1956 who existed on our benevolence while they made a new life, enjoying the freedoms my ancestors fought for. Yes, my Grandfather served in the US Army in World War ONE, My father and uncles served in WWII, one uncle in the forces that liberated 3 concentration camps.
My family fought housing discrimination and pushed for Civil Rights legislation. Many here are too young to remember when discrimination was legal in the USA. A hotel could turn away Jews, as could sellers of houses. It was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that brought about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Because I want all Americans to have certain freedoms, doesn’t mean I avail myself of every right.
The judges before which I appear would laugh at a label of ‘Modern’ being applied to me, as would my wife, children and grandchidlren and neighboring townspeople.