-Modern Orthodoxy’s ‘Cultic’ Influence
The Jewish Week:
"Rabbi Marc Angel of Manhattan is going out with a bang.
As he prepares to retire from the pulpit this fall, the prominent Modern Orthodox
rabbi and former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, has fired a salvo
at his own movement, saying it is “slipping over the line to a cultic superstitious
kind of religion.”
“In the early part of my rabbinate, Orthodoxy was free, open to dialogue and
discussion, and had a message for other Jews and for the world,” he said.
But during his 38 years as spiritual leader of the Upper West Side’s Congregation
Shearith Israel, known as the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Rabbi Angel
said he has seen a growing insular perspective that shuns innovative thought and
relies instead on the opinions of so-called authorities."
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