Table of Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Adam S. Ferziger, Miri Freud-Kandel, and Steven Bayme
A Personal Retrospective
Modern Orthodoxy and the Road Not Taken: A Retrospective View
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
Part One: Law and Theology
History and Halakhah
Steven Katz
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg’s Covenantal Theory of Bioethics
Alan Jotkowitz
Irving Greenberg’s Theology of Hybrid Judaism
Darren Kleinberg
On the Meaning and Significance of Revelation for Orthodox Judaism
James Kugel
Divine Hiddenness and Human Input: The Potential Contribution of a Postmodern View of Revelation to Yitz Greenberg’s Holocaust Theology
Tamar Ross
Modern Orthodoxy and Religious Truth
Marc B. Shapiro
On Revelation, Heresy, and Mesorah—from Louis Jacobs to the TheTorah.com
Miri Freud-Kandel
Part Two: Past and Present
What Is “Modern” in Modern Orthodoxy?
Alan Brill
Can Modern Orthodoxy Survive?
Jack Wertheimer
Where Have All the Rabbis Gone? The Changing Character of the Orthodox Rabbinate and its Causes
Samuel C. Heilman
Modern Orthodox Responses to the Liberalization of Sexual Mores
Sylvia Barack Fishman
“The Road Not Taken” and “The One Less Traveled”: The Greenberg–Lichtenstein Exchange and Contemporary Orthodoxy
Adam S. Ferziger
Index
Editors and Contributors