An advanced secular education in Law or Medicine doe NOT make one Modern Orthodox. It does make one able to function in the USA, earn a living, support our Jewish institutions and defend them in court.
How many times do we read here on YWN about attacks via zoning and other laws on our community. People with advanced secular education in Law are needed to fight and win these battles.
I don’t want prayer in the public schools, you want prayer in school, go to a private religious school and pay for it yourself, not with vouchers. MOs support vouchers to cover the cost of their kids in day schools.
I want the Civil Rights Laws strengthened, not weakened. I do not trust Trump.
I want the Equal Rights Amendment to be the law of the land, not just in some state constitutions here in the northeast. I want equal pay for equal work. Why should the wife supporting her husband who is learning earn less than a male in the same position?
That doesn’t make me MO
My family is not treading water, for 150 years here in the USA we have swam forward, bettering our lives and those of the frum community. We have stayed frum to the 9th generation. AND we weren’t forced to do that through social pressure in a ghetto in the Heim. We did it by choice and conviction.
MO men often clean shaven (with an electric), our family’s men have neat beards. Our wives wear wigs, they don’t wear pants.
I don’t like when Jews label other Jews, it brings no good.
I have seen the change in American Orthodoxy in the past 5 years and it has led to more division which is not good.
Today, I’ll be in Boro Park, for the first time in 3 years. I have a family funeral. I’ll not be shopping or dining out. BUT, 100 years since my great-grandfather moved from Manhattan to Boro Park we still have family members there. They are not Chassidim, They go to Yeshiva then college. Medical, Law or Engineering schools. The families are frum, we learn regularly and live our lives.