Rabbi Avi Shafran is a Haredirabbi who serves as the Director of Public Affairs for Agudath Israel of America, an organization established to meet the needs and viewpoint of many HarediJews in the United States. Haredi or Charedi Judaism (alternatively Hareidi or Chareidi - this spelling being usually preferred by Haredim themselves) is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. ... Rabbi, in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root word רַב, rav, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished (in knowledge). Sephardic and Yemenite Jews pronounce this word רִבִּי ribbī; the modern Israeli pronunciation רַבִּי rabbī is derived from a recent (18th... Agudath Israel of America (or Agudas Yisroel of America or Agudat Yisrael of America or simply the Agudah [agudah is Hebrew for gathering or union]), is a Haredi Jewish communal organization in the United States loosely affiliated with the international World Agudath Israel. ... Haredi or Charedi Judaism (alternatively Hareidi or Chareidi - this spelling being usually preferred by Haredim themselves) is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. ...
Shafran is widely known in the Jewish world as a writer and lecturer. He is the author of a weekly column that is syndicated in the Jewish press in the United States and other anglophone countries, as well as in English language publications in Israel. Many of his articles are directed at a wider Jewish audience, including less observant Jews, and are designed to explain this tradition. Look up Anglophone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
His commentaries are published weekly in the Haredi journal Cross-Currents [1], and are often available at the Jewish World Review as well. Jewish World Review is an online magazine published five days a week, which purports to appeal to people of faith and those interested in learning more about contemporary Judaism from Jews who take their religion seriously. ...
He is the author of Migrant Soul[2], "the story of a descendant of full-blooded American Indians who married an assimilated Jewess" and then began a "spiritual quest" that ended with both as Orthodox Jews.
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^ Archive of Rabbi Avi Shafran's articles, on Cross-Currents
Last month, Moment magazine published an article by Rabbi AviShafran entitled "The Conservative Lie."(The title was forced on the author by the editors of Moment; his choice was "Time to Come Home.") The article included many of the arguments previously raised by Rabbi Librach from a different perspective.
Rabbi Shafran's second point was that Conservative Judaism has failed to instill its followers with any awareness of Halachah as a binding system of law.
I know AviShafran well, and there is no one who better exemplifies, ahavas Yisrael in word or deed.
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