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December 4, 2012

Turning of the Torah Tide

Diana Muir Appelbaum, Jewish Ideas Daily

“Torah Judaism today retains more of its youth than at any time since the Haskalah.”  Historian Marc Shapiro made this remark in a recent talk on intellectual trends within 19th-century Orthodoxy.  Can he possibly be correct? 

In a word, yes.

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