Philly's Nuevo-orthodox "oy, there goes the neighborhoo

amother

Wed, Jan 10 2007, 2:35 pm

Article from Philly Magazine

I know many of the people interviewed in the article, so it was a trip down memory lane too.[/url][/list]

amother

Wed, Jan 10 2007, 3:12 pm

I found this article extremely disturbing.

Quote:

If the divide between the Orthodox and the seculars is going to soften, it will be because of such small moments. Hundreds of thousands of individual gestures blurred the divisions between secular Jewish life and gentile culture in the last generation (and led to my marrying a gentile woman from Chestnut Hill). Perceptions change bit by bit.

Um, yeah, not a good idea to blur the dividing line... Rolling Eyes

chavamom

Wed, Jan 10 2007, 3:18 pm

I read the article. I think what they were talking about was secular and frum having human interactions so that they don't hate one another (or in this case, mostly the secular disliking the frum). That is not disturbing to me.

I should add that my dh is from that neighborhood and my IL's (not frum) still live there, so I see both sides of it.