Over shabbat I was reading the Edah journal (recently made available in non-online form...).

This article really infuriated me. Perhaps more on that another time. In fact, I happened to be staying with the journal's editor and he told me to write a response, so I might just do that, though I feel underqualified, and also the article is in some ways so ridiculous that I feel bad doing anything but completely dismissing it...

On the other hand, I was very very happy to see Rabbi Brill (Dr. Brill, since his maimo-chumash-teaching-days, i suppose...) say some things I think need to be said much more often. Just to see someone else point out that all the talk about Modern Orthodoxy, aside from being stuck in the nineteenth century, has little if anything to do with most experiences of Judaism in the contemporary world... More to say there,too,some time, maybe, though I might not care enough about politics...

It's fun to read jewish scholarship again. (The what-am-i-doing-with-my-life wheels start to turn...)