ABSTRACT
Modern Orthodoxy, Charles Liebman argues, is a movement striving to end Orthodoxy's social isolation. He identifies two kinds of “modern Orthodox”: those who self-identify as Orthodox, but when facing a halachic obstacle simply bypass it, and those who wish to remain committed to Halacha, but do so by interpreting it in a way compatible with modernity. Liebman predicted this movement would disappear, its members either secularizing or turning to the ḥaredi world. Yet the movement survived, at the same time creating a significant ideological basis of published work. 1
