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because I was frightened of
the unknown," Rabbi Riskin
recalls. "I was very fulfilled
in America. I loved what I
was doing. Coming to Israel
to a certain extent meant
starting all over again, and
not knowing how things
would work out."
The rabbi was also going
at it alone, bringing his
American, Yeshiva Univer-
sity-influenced brand of
centrist Orthodoxy to Israel,
where centrist educational
institutions were virtually
nonexistent. As a result, in
recent years Rabbi Riskin
has been attacked by the
right-wing religious estab-
lishment in Israel for his
vocal stands on the role of
women in Orthodoxy and
other issues.
Women at Rabbi Riskin's
institutions study the
Talmud, unlike most other
programs for women.
After Rabbi Riskin invited
Necahma Leibowitz, a well-
known female Torah schol-
ar, to teach at one of his
male institutions, Rabbi
Eliezer Schach, head of the
Degel HaTorah political par-
ty and an influential
Halachic authority, issued a
proclamation forbidding
people from studying Torah
with Rabbi Riskin.
Yet many students from
around the world come to
study in one of Rabbi
Riskin's many institutions.
The Ohr Torah network con-
sists of high schools for boys
and girls, college-age pro-
grams, and rabbinical semi-
naries preparing more than
70 students for the rab-
binate.
"The facts speak for them-
selves," the rabbi says.
Still, Rabbi Riskin weath-
ers the criticism alone.
"Someone once said that
there's very little twilight in
Israel. It's day and it's night.
The people are like that, too.
They're white and they're
black; they're left and
they're right. So estab-
lishing a centrist position
and justifying halachically
and theologically that posi-
tion, is much more difficult.
The extremes are much
more vociferous," he claims.
Just as others are critical
of him, Rabbi Riskin lashes
out against the right wing's
anti-Zionist stance.
"Someone who does not
recite Hallel Psalms of Praise
to God on Israeli In-
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