Letter from Dr. Zvi Kaplan to Dr. Bernard Scharfstein about Using "Seventy Faces" as Educational Material (2001)
Dear Mr. Scharfstein, Thank you very much for writing. I am sorry I did not get back to you sooner. I wanted to wait until I had read the two volumes and decided on precisely how to incorporate them into my classes. In my survey of modern Jewish history, I have always included units on Musar, Hasidism (using Rabbi Lamm's source book), Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy, and Neo-Orthodoxy. This coming semester, I have decided to expand my discussion of Orthodox movements and to include a unit on Lithuanian Torah methodology (using Rabbi Lamm's book on Rav Hayyim of Volozhin) and a unit on contemporary Modem Orthodoxy. I want my students to read the sections on The Community, Modern Orthodoxy, Education, and Israel and Zionism. I believe that Rabbi Lamm’s new book is essential reading for any student or lay person who seeks to understand the ideological underpinnings of Modem Orthodoxy. I will urge all of my students to purchase their own copy of the book.Best wishes.Zvi Kaplan