Response ·
Against Open Orthodoxy
By Barry FreundelBeing both “open” and Orthodox sounds to me like an excuse for anything goes.
Barry Freundel is the rabbi of Kesher Israel in Washington, DC, and assistant professor of rabbinic literature and history at Towson University. He is the author of Contemporary Orthodox Judaism’s Response to Modernity (2003) and Why We Pray What We Pray (2010).