Question: American Jewish organizations tend to become more and more centralized and in some instances, even integrated. What is the position of orthodox Judaism toward this tendency? Is cooperation between orthodox and non-orthodox congregations and between Musmachim of Yeshivoth and other spiritual leaders permissible or not? Especially, we should like to know why orthodoxy fights the conservative movement, notwithstanding that the spokesmen of Conservative Judaism claim to recognize the authority of the Halakha?

It is Friday morning and most of the classrooms on the YU campus are dark and deserted, but the doors are open and the lights are on in the MTA biology lab. Inside, a group of students, looking older than the average high school senior, wear grim faces and wield sharp knives. No, this isn’t a remedial high school class that managed to smuggle their weapons past Burns security, this is Shchita 101, with the master of slaughter himself, Rabbi Serels.

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