A Defense of Charedim

London readers - I’m coming to London next week, and I am thinking of doing a RationalistJudaism get-together. If you’re interested in joining, please be in touch!

When the charedi leadership banned my books twenty years ago as being heretical, most people thought that it was the most ridiculous thing. Consequently, several charedi apologists rushed to defend the “Gedolim.” Yet their contorted attempts to justify why it was heretical for me to voice positions that had been stated by such greats a...