Since we like to source R. Shach on ChaBaD let’s see what he thinks about Modern Orthodoxy:
“Shach wrote that Yeshiva University-type institutions posed a threat to the endurance of authentic Judaism. He called them “an absolute disaster, causing the destruction of our Holy Torah. Even the so-called ‘Touro College’ in the USA is a terrible disaster, a ‘ churban ha-das ‘ (destruction of the Jewish religion)…” [53] Shach writes that the success of those people who were able to achieve greatness in Torah, despite their involvement in secular studies, are “ma’aseh satan” (the work of the satanic forces), for the existence of such role models will entice others to follow suit, only to be doomed.[54] In conversation with an American rabbi in the 1980s, Shach stated, “The Americans think that I am too controversial and divisive. But in a time when no one else is willing to speak up on behalf of our true tradition, I feel myself impelled to do so.”[41]
QWERTY what are your thoughts?