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If outsiders listen to leaders of the community rather than reformers on the margins, they'll be more likely to come to agreement. Just look to Israel, where a new precedent was set.
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Watch the recording or read the transcript of our columnist's conversation last week about the hasidic yeshiva controversy.
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Incentivizing better Orthodox schooling is less legally fraught, more politically appealing, and more likely to succeed in practice than forced regulation.
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Some of the most interesting and creative work in all of Jewish studies today is happening neither in universities nor as part of a yeshiva curriculum.
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Two acclaimed new books about Israel betray a disquieting lack of moral confidence in their subject and its story
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