How Open Should Orthodoxy Be?
Is "Open Orthodoxy" an outlook or a movement? Will it bring us together or tear us apart? Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, spiritual leader of Ahavath Achim in Englewood, NJ and past president of the RCA, and Rabbi Asher Lopatin, President of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, participate in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Elliott Malamet at UPenn.
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Meet the speakers
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Rabbi Asher Lopatin is the president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, the leading modern and open Orthodox rabbinical school in America. Previously, he was the spiritual leader of Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel Congregation, a modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago, for 18 years. He received his ordination from Rav Ahron Soloveichik and Yeshivas Brisk in Chicago, and from Yeshiva University, as a Wexner Graduate Fellow. A Rhodes Scholar with a M.Phil. in Medieval Arabic Thought from Oxford University, Rabbi Lopatin is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles.
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin has served as spiritual leader of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, New Jersey, since 1984. With a membership of approximately 700 families, Ahavath Torah is the largest orthodox synagogue in Northern New Jersey. Rabbi Goldin has already made an impact on the broader Jewish community, as can be seen by his selection as one of the “Forward 50”, the Forward Magazine’s list of Jewish communal leaders who have made a difference this past year. An articulate spokesmen for…