I think this pretty much sums up our community

[rhu]

From this morning's announcements at shul:

At 6:00, the rabbi will moderate a community forum for those who wish to discuss the article in last Sunday's New York Times.

At 7:00, the rabbi will continue his class on "Darwin and Evolution."

If the community forum takes more than an hour, the class on Darwin will start late.

Comments

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

I hope you will post a quick summary of the community forum. I sort of feel like there may have been perhaps a kernel of useful criticism under the "my feelings are hurt so I'm going to lob all sorts of nastiness at Orthodox Jews" layer of the letter, but cannot articulate what it may have been in any useful form. Except to think, (1) Maimo couldn't pay for advertising like that, (2) I should send Maimo a (small) donation in honor of their having m'charaymed him, and (3) maybe I should just give up and turn Haredi.

I'm surprised that he thought the community forum would take only an hour.

[sethg]

Before we become charedi, we need to get an ice cream maker, so we will be able to make cholov yisroel ice cream that actually tastes good.

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

No, you just need to m'karev those two nice Jewish boys from Vermont.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I wasn't able to attend, so I can't give you a summary of the forum. My understanding from someone who was there was that it was actually a discussion of the issues raised in the article, and explicitly not about the article or its author. Topics covered were (1) how the Orthodox community and individuals who affiliate with an Orthodox community should interact with those who marry out, and (2) how do we handle source texts that don't sit well with us today. They ran out of time before handling the relationship with the non-Jewish community.

And I don't think he expected it to only take the hour, but the 7pm class was already scheduled (it's part of a summer series).