Dialogue About Halachah Is Limited

Publication Date: January 1982

Publisher: Eugene Borowitz

Author(s): Charles S. Liebman

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Orthodox Judaism; Pluralism; Conservative Judaism; Jewish Law (Halacha)

Type: Brief

Abstract:

Responding to a paper by David Singer, the author argues that there can be no meaningful dialogue (in the sense of being willing to compromise) on the subject of halachah (Jewish law) between Conservative Jews (and members of liberal Jewish denominations in general) and Orthodox Jews, since the most basic conceptions of the nature of halachah are fundamentally and irrevocably at odds between these groups.