Orthodox Jews in America Book

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue: Within the Wide Tent of a Bronx Orthodox Congregation, Circa 1960 1

1 All Alone and Out of Control 21

2 American Challenges and Jewish Challengers 48

3 Religious Dilemmas of a Treif Land 84

4 Strategies of New York's Orthodox Activists 109

5 Crisis and Compromise 148

6 Brooklyn's Committed Communities 184

7 A More Faithful Following 199

8 Comfortable and Courted 226

9 Orthodox vs. Orthodox 256

10 Open and Closed to Feminism 273

Epilogue: The Tentative Orthodox of the Twenty-First Century 312

Notes 325

Index 369