However, I wonder if there are other Maimonides alumni who are married to non-Jews, but it hasn't been detected because the non-Jews they are married to are *white* rather than *Asian*. Dr. Feldman's wife immediately stands out as "not likely to be Jewish" because of her looks. It would seem to me that Maimonides would now need to go verify that every spouse of an alum is halachically Jewish. (For all I know, that's already been done. But I do wonder...)
Which, of course, what Noah hoped to insuate. Much of his article is -- as others have pointed out -- a strident attack on Modern Orthodox as a collection of racist religious fundamentalists. the "paradox" of the article is he believes we deceive the world and/or delude ourselves. Thus his discussion of Leberman's "apparent" normalcy while engaging in "bizare" religious rites such as the wearing of leather straps and avoiding certain foods, the insinuation that Orthodox Jewish doctors will not treat non-Jewish patients on Sabbath or somehoe value them less than fellow Jews, and the suggestion that such Orthodox dogma makes every Modern Orthodox Jew a potential Baruch Goldstein.
I cannot help but be reminded of the Rabbinic gloss (midrash) on Haman and Achashvarosh, the king in the Esther story. The Talmud gives this fictional example of Haman's emphasis on how Jewish law works: "Behold Oh King, how this foreign people disrespect you. If a fly fell into a goblet of wine, they would cast aside the fly and drink the wine. But if Your Majesty touched it, they would refuse to drink it and pour it on the ground."
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Date: 2007-07-25 02:51 pm (UTC)Which, of course, what Noah hoped to insuate. Much of his article is -- as others have pointed out -- a strident attack on Modern Orthodox as a collection of racist religious fundamentalists. the "paradox" of the article is he believes we deceive the world and/or delude ourselves. Thus his discussion of Leberman's "apparent" normalcy while engaging in "bizare" religious rites such as the wearing of leather straps and avoiding certain foods, the insinuation that Orthodox Jewish doctors will not treat non-Jewish patients on Sabbath or somehoe value them less than fellow Jews, and the suggestion that such Orthodox dogma makes every Modern Orthodox Jew a potential Baruch Goldstein.
I cannot help but be reminded of the Rabbinic gloss (midrash) on Haman and Achashvarosh, the king in the Esther story. The Talmud gives this fictional example of Haman's emphasis on how Jewish law works:
"Behold Oh King, how this foreign people disrespect you. If a fly fell into a goblet of wine, they would cast aside the fly and drink the wine. But if Your Majesty touched it, they would refuse to drink it and pour it on the ground."