Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Chaim Waxman, a prominent sociologist of contemporaryOrthodoxy, is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. He shows that thedirection of change is not uniform: there is both greater stringency andgreater leniency, and he discusses the many reasons for this, both in theJewish community and in the wider society.