YO – we don’t owe anyone halachik solutions to problems that they dream up or copy from goyim, that would be ziyuf Hatorah. Also, they weren’t pushed away at first – many in the frum world thought that they were not so bad. Mendelssohn’s books were in the homes of many frum people, as were other maskilim. There were rabbonim…. I’d rather not say their names, who shared and learned with maskilim, even taking some ideas from them.
Reform were more open about their intentions than the quasi frum maskilim. It didn’t take long at all for them to throw out halacha and encourage intermarriage in Germany.
We cannot change or water down yiddishkeit to accommodate people whose stated agenda was to lower yiddishkeit; it’s self destructive.
Damoshe, where is there hatred and why is it baseless to decry people who wear hats and jackets but promote LGBT, such as the abomination couple who came into the news a few months ago because the “wife” got fired from teaching in a yeshiva? How is that baseless? They’re trying to ruin judaism with their apikorsus. M not referring to rabbi yoshe ber soloveitchik or the like; today’s MO young people are either talmidim of rabbi shechter, and relatively normal, or crazed leftists bent on feminism, LGBT, and more.