Well, it seems like this story just won’t go away. There has been more ink spilled on this story in the Orthodox Jewish media than just about any other story that I can think of in recent memory.
What Dr. Noah Feldman has swerved into, is the very basic issue of how one should deal with a Jew who has intermarried. I don’t know if that was his intent exactly, perhaps it was at an unconscious level despite the title of his article in the New York Times. My original comments dealt with the substance of what he wrote. But most of the people commenting on it focused almost entirely on his intermarriage. Properly so. Indeed the rejection by his alma mater is what motivated Dr. Feldman to write the piece.
There has been a wide variety of reaction to that article but I think Gary Rosenblatt’s editorial in the Jewish Week really hit the nail on the head.
