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ReplyDeleteThus, we are not affiliated with a particular religious movement
In my mind, that means: nebuch, an institution outside the fold.
It's one thing to confront the important issues that others are ignoring. It's quite another matter to distance an institution from Orthodoxy.
ps and I just saw the promotional video...it's obviously not an institution which publically promotes shomer negiah.
ReplyDelete(I feel so frum, but really, this is what I think about such an institution.)