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Reform movement) that it was the Jews
— and not Judaism — that needed to
change. Unlike many of the tradition-
, alists of his day, Rabbi Hirsch was
comfortable incorporating the positive
and beneficial aspects of gentile cul-
ture into Jewish life.
Thus, gentile attire was acceptable
so long as it conformed to the Jewish
laws of modesty. Working among
and with gentiles in nontraditional
occupations was permissible insofar
as a Jew did not allow work to corn-
promise the Sabbath, holidays and
- dietary laws.

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Probably his innovation of greatest
impact was the combination of secu-
lar and Jewish education in Jewish
1 schools. In the synagogue, he intro-
! .ducecl preaching in the national Ian-
= guage and congregational singing.
1 After Rabbi Hirsch% time, his follow-
: ers also embraced Zionism.
In the United States, the major advo-
cate of Torah im derech eretz was
:.Russian-born and German-educated
Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik (1903-
1992), who in 1932 immigrated to
I the United States. In Israel, many
1 Modern Orthodox look to the philoso-
phy of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook
(1865-1935), Ashkenazi chief rabbi
of Palestine.
In external, albeit superficial terms,
Modern Orthodox Jews are usually
associated with the knitted kippa, a
university education.and professional
occupations. Their children are edu-
cated in day schools rather than
yeshivot. The major institutions identi-
I fied with Modern Orthodoxy are
Yeshiva University in New York, Bar-
Ilan University in Israel, the Mizrachi
Zionist movement and the network of
1 Young Israel synagogues.
Keep in mind, however, that Ortho-
: doxiudaism is rich in modes of
expression, and the lines of demarca-
1 tion between the various segments are
mostly blurred. Moreover, the right
wing of Conservative Judaism. has
taken on some of the characteristics of
Modern Orthodoxy and this leads to
even more confusion. ❑