10:28 AM
Gil Student
A new issue has been released of the Yeshiva College undergraduate newspaper The Commentator. Allow me to highlight a few articles and make a few comments. (Do not assume that I did not enjoy the articles I omit here.)
1. You saw it here first, folks.
2. Berakhah ve-Hatzlakhah. You're going to need it.
3. From the editor: An Evil Empire:
Even the most high-brow of Jewish blogs - whose bloggers offer self-righteous meanderings and other mind-blowing insights into modern Judaism - are part of the sensationalistic blog culture.I think I should be offended.
4. From R. Mayer Schiller: His Association with Modern Orthodoxy and YU. Good comments about the "shift to the right." Also, he mentions something that I thought I was the only one to notice - the acceptance within the Religious Zionist camp of secular Jewish (i.e. Jabotinsky-style) ideals. The best, though, is his penultimate paragraph:
Yes, the YU radical left ideologues (not too many of these, though!) may slip into pluralist notions that reject truth itself and our right seems to lack a bit of understanding and love for all -- not to equate these two errors! - but it is here, within minarets and futurist cubes, that so much of the drama of contemporary Torah faith is grasped, lived and presented to Jewry and mankind.5. Tributes to the inestimable R. Shlomo Drillman and the indefatigable Prof. Louis Feldman.
6. The Chancellor, R. Dr. Norman Lamm, makes probably the wisest statement of the YUdaica series, in a speech delivered 25 years ago:
At this time of jubilee reunion, instead of being satisfied with reviewing the past and indulging in self-gratulation over what we have accomplished in American and world Jewry and in the community-at-large, it is more constructive for us to turn to the future and speak about what we are planning for the years to come.
