Noah Feldman, an orthodox Jew, educated at Maimonides Academy in Brookline, Massachusetts many years back, is very upset that his school paper is not including updates on his life events (marriage to a Korean American, two children). He clearly thinks the exclusion of his data is due to his straying from his modern Orthodox upbringing. In a New York Times Magazine article yesterday. Feldman starts with his personal peeve and then goes on to a more general trashing of modern Orthodoxy. I am not modern Orthodox, and will leave it to others to comment on his issues with the tenets and teachings of the faith. But Feldman also drops a few major whoppers in his article that undoubtedly made this an appealing piece to run in the Times. The "newspaper of record" has been determined to deliver a message that Islam is no different than other faiths, in that all religions have a few bad apples (In the case of jihadist Islam of course, those bad apples...(Read Full Post)