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Steven Brizel's avatar

Outside of those who are committed to the non judgmental mission of NCSY as opposed what you described as coercion you will see Kiruv on the UWS for adults .I was very active in NCSY and the advisors I was close with allowed me to grow in observance one mitzvah at a time without any element of coercion as you described it until I made the critical life changing decisions as a public school student to become Shomer Shabbos and attend YU NCSY gave me the Kabalas HaTorah especially at its legendary National Conventions and YU’s JSS gave me me the tools of how to learn

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David Eisen, Adv.'s avatar

“Modern Orthodoxy is (as far as I’m concerned) as close to an ideal Jewish worldview as possible.” I can only agree with this statement to the extent that Modern Orthodoxy also subscribes to Religious Zionism, which requires living in the Land of Israel; any religious outlook that does not include living in Israel [by definition] is NOT ideal.

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