Reply To: Bridging the Gap Between The Torah World and MO

You need to define “MO”. If “Modern Orthodox” means that while supporting zionism and thinking that YU is a bunch of fanatics, one keeps kosher all the time and wears a yarmulke at all times, and observes Shabbos and Yuntuf – there isn’t all the much of a gap. Keeping Shabbos and Kashrus, and wearing a kippah, largely precludes full participation in American society and ghettoizes you. It precludes most employment and educational and business opportunities and subjects you to substantial
discrimination. The gap between a “kippah srugah” and someone who doesn’t wear a kippah is greater than the gap between the “kippah srugah” and a “streimel”.