I have recently begun reading the Yeshiva University Commentator, and have found it to be quite feisty and entertaining. This letter is in reference to the article by Mordechai Levovitz in Volume 64 Issue 2, titled "Defending the 'Schmutz'"

This article highlights what is, or should be, the defining issue facing Modern Orthodoxy, or Torah U'Maddah. Which is - do these movements represent an authentic expression of the Judaic tradition, or are they uncomfortable compromises? Or, more explicitly, do the philosophies and ideologies that they espouse genuinely spring from sources within Judaism, or are they actually an expression of modern secular culture and values, with some occasional Judaism forcibly grafted on to form an uneasy mixture?

With his article, Mordechai Levovitz has certainly shed some light on this sometimes ambiguous issue.

K'siva V'chasima Tova to all.

Yisroel Rubin

Lakewood, NJ