Abstract
The result of these demographic, cultural, religious, and economic factors is that Jewish day school education has become standard among the overwhelming number of Orthodox Jews in America, whether Modern or ultra-Orthodox. The extensive dissemination in the Modern Orthodox community of works on “practical Halakhah” written overwhelmingly by ultra-Orthodox Jews, as well as the widespread use of prayer books, classical texts, and ḥumashim issued by Haredi publishing houses like ArtScroll further testify to this “turn to the right.” [...]many who live a Modern Orthodox lifestyle—even the “social Orthodox” identified by Jay Lefkowitz, who do not share classical Orthodox views of revelation and belief—adopt Haredi attitudes in certain areas of their lives. Most significantly, they often insist that Jewish law sanctions a much more lenient attitude toward women than ultra-Orthodox authority would concede, and this frequently leads to Modern Orthodox approval of “partnership minyanim” and yeshivot like Maharat in New York that confer rabbinic ordination on women.