Which is entirely unlikely to happen soon, in any case.
Yet they persist.
Theoretically, the vast majority of his readership should be Chareidim on the right. Yet, only about 6% (!) of his readership belong to this category. If thats truly the case, all he might be doing is the opposite.
Which is the point I'm trying to bring to the fore here.
R' Harry tries to bring support from a single isolated incident, which may or may not be true, which may or may not have happened in Lakewood, and which may well be a frustrated administrator trying to get someone to pay for tuition.
In the course of discussing tuition for one family who’s father learns full time in kollel, and the negotiations were getting intense. So the adminstrator tells the father, “It’s time for you to leave kollel, get a job, and pay tuition just like anyone else.”I mean, please!
In truth, what seems to be happening here is the opposite. Plenty of stories abound where the Modern Orthodox movement is slowly moving to the right. Google it.
[The year in Israel might be part of the cause, but thats for a different discussion.]
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A while ago I wrote about about the political/religion spectrum isn't a line but a roof. The hardest part of the roof to be on it the point at the top because the urge to slide off to one side or another is so strong.
This is what is slowly happening with Modern Orthodoxy. The serious ones are sliding right, the "socially conscious" ones are sliding left, leaving no one in the middle.
True, and Harry's hopeless hopes for a merger would only be between the RWMO and LW Chareidim, further splintering groups. You need a major disruption to actually merge them.
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