Reply To: Describing Differences Between Jews

You’re right, it is only semantics. But why do you refer to the “YU camp”? Why and how are they a “camp”? And why have they camped themselves seperate from traditional Orthodoxy. The MO gave themselves and use that label for themselves. So-called “Chareidim” didn’t apply that label to themselves (outsiders did) and rarely use it for themselves. You can go from Kindergarten through Kollel without once hearing “We are a Chareidi Yeshiva.” Even the label Orthodox is a semantical and meaningless term that, also, was applied by outsiders. (“Chasidim”, too, is a name sarcastically applied to them by outsiders who didn’t like them.) A Jew is a Jew.