Think Big said:
“What went on in new York in the 60s and 70s is NO RAYA! the rabbonim had enough to contend with, having just come from Europe. There were so many areas in yiddishkeit that were lacking, that not having a mechitza was a “halbe tzara”. Read All for the Boss to see what challenges they had to fight at the turn of the century.”
This is classic revisionist nonsense.
First of all, you downplay the significance of the 60’s and 70’s by comparing it to the 1920’s world of “All for the Boss”
The you mention how the Rabbonim had just come from Europe.
Let me guess, you are the child (or grandchild) of holocaust survivor’s who came to the US after the war. It’s natural of you to think that frumkeit in the US began in 1945.
I’ve got news for you. Rav Moshe Feinstein was here in 1936. By the mid 1960’s he had been here for 30 years!. He attended and was mesader kidushin at many of the weddings we are talking about. I’d think twice before suggesting that he didn’t have enough integrity to object to what he though was k’neged halacha. I’m not saying he necessarily liked it. But if he participated, then he didn’t cosnider it assur either.
And he wasn’t the only one.