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ing's central focus on "women's issues,"
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
ing Jewish texts and Orthodox legal and
New York
policy issues.
"There's no better place than this
sense of community. That
conference to find people who are
was the overriding feeling
inspiring us to engage the world while
among some 1,500 modern
we stick to our modern Orthodox tradi-
Orthodox Jews who gath-
tions," said Rabbi Gershon
ered here over the Presidents Day
Sonnenschein, who came from
weekend for a conference whose goal
Springfield, Mass., with 14 people from
was to re-articulate just what it means
the synagogue he leads, Congregation
to be a modern Orthodox Jew today.
Kadimah.
The conference, which was organized
"Just being together with this
by the nascent group Edah and drew
many people is very
twice as many people as
Above:
Edah
spiritual
empowering."
expected, came at a time
mentor,
Rabbi
Saul
The conference was also
when many of modern
Berman, delivering
an opportunity for partici-
Orthodoxy's adherents are
his keynote address
pants, particularly those in
struggling to define their
at the group's
many of the dozens of ses-
movement's philosophy.
recent conference.
sions, to engage in a self-cri-
"I'm joyous," said Beth
tique of modern
Wohlgelernter, a New Yorker
Orthodoxy's failings.
who manages a start-up high technology
"To be a modern Orthodox Jew
firm and was a member of the confer-
today is often to feel lonely, to be
ence planning committee.
without a community in which to
"I feel like we were all wandering in
ask ideological questions," said
the desert for 40 years, but now I have a
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, who was
community again," she said while sur-
ordained at Yeshiva University and
veying the crowded hotel ballroom as
is now headmaster of the pluralistic
she waited for the group's spiritual men-
New Jewish High School in
tor, Rabbi Saul Berman, to begin his
Waltham,
Mass.
keynote address.
Even with the strong feelings of com-
The conference, titled "Orthodoxy
munity, the participants' views were not
Encounters a Changing World," attract-
monolithic.
ed participants from as far away as
Respectful disagreement on such
California and Canada.
issues as the right balance between
Other hallmarks of the conference
modernity and traditional Jewish
were the prominence of women as ple-
priorities, and on the appropriate
nary lecturers and teachers, the gather-
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