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Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism. Theologically, it is chiefly defined by regarding the Torah, both Written and Oral, as revealed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and faithfully transmitted ever since.
Orthodox Judaism is the most religiously stringent of the three main streams of American Judaism. Its adherents believe the Torah was given to the Jewish people in a mass revelation at Mount Sinai and that the rabbinical tradition (known as the Oral Law) is a faithful elucidation of divine rules for Jewish living that are obligatory upon all ...
Jun 15, 2023 · From Reconstructionism to ultra-Orthodoxy, Judaism is richly diverse. MendyHechtman/iStock via Getty Images. As a scholar of modern Jewish history, religion and politics, I am often asked to...
More recently, President Donald Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, also have made “Orthodox” a household word — and drawn some criticism for compromises in their observance. Lieberman, in many ways, represents an Orthodox Judaism of decades past, one that integrated more seamlessly than today’s ...
- Michael Kress
Orthodox Judaism seeks to preserve Jewish practice as inherited from the pre-modern period. In the passage before the one reprinted below, the author–a leading advocate of "centrist" or "modern" Orthodoxy–notes three of the intellectual and moral challenges posed by modernity: (1) Adherence to Jewish law is voluntary since Jewish ...
- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Orthodox Judaism is the modern term for what historically has been mainline Judaism: in other words, before the nineteenth century, Orthodox Judaism was Judaism, plain and simple. It is based on an understanding of the Torah as the unchangeable, inerrant revelation of God that provides the sole guide for all aspects of one’s daily life.
OVERVIEW. Since the nineteenth century the term "Orthodoxy" (Greek orth, "correct," and doxa, "belief") has been applied to the most traditional movement within Judaism. This movement sees itself, compared with other Jewish groups, as the authentic carrier of Jewish tradition since ancient times.
