Modern Orthodox Judaism A brief overview The philosophy of Judaism is as broad and diverse as its four thousand years would suggest. The past century and a half, however, has clearly been one of the most dramatic times in both Jewish history and Jewish thought. The emancipation of European Jewry, or haskalah, the Holocaust, the rebirth of the State of Israel and the rise of the American Jewish community have all dramatically impacted the way …showed first 75 words of 1636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1636 total…to the prayer after meals. His yeshivas remain on the forefront of the Jewish national movement, and provide the ideological underpinning for the Religious-Zionist Movement as well as the Gush Emunim (“settler”) movement. Conclusion Modern Orthodoxy is too large a body of thought to some up accurately in one paper. I hope that I have given some sense of what Modern-Orthodox Jews believe, as well as when and why they have come to believe it.