http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/opinion/brooks-the-orthodox-surge.html?hp&_r=0
Thank you very much for the link!
Some of these comments are jems and I'd love to talk face to face with the authors but one I glanced at just cracked me up with how he ended it.
"I grew up in the Midwood section in the 1960's where first generation jews and italians lived and worked to play out the American dream. There was a small orthodox temple in a private house on my block on Ocean Avenue and avenue L. They had their own school and temple and kept far away from us,the secular jews.
There was no melting pot by and large they did not go to college and become doctors and lawyers like the rest of us but became traders in their world of diamonds,jewelry and electronic stores.
Their love of learning was restricted to the fundamentalist world of Torah and very little tolerance for anything else. Lived happily sequestered in the world of 19th century Poland. There will be little original or progressive thinking, none of the wonderful,powerful accomplishments of the secular jews who gave us a trove of Nobel prize winners in Science and Literature.
I mourn for Jerusalem and what my religion is turning in to."
Does he not realize that he is the one changing the religion? The orthodox are not turning it into anything, that is what reform tries to do... Just laughable IMHO.