Mayer Schiller
American rabbi
Rabbi Mayer Schiller (born June 1951) is an American chasid based in Monsey, New York, who identifies himself as a member of Skver and Rachmastrivka groups, and is a spokesperson for the Skver community in New Square. Schiller also maintains active ties to the Modern Orthodox community. Prior to his retirement Schiller taught as a high school teacher at Mesivta Beth Shraga and Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy of Yeshiva University. He is a baal teshuva (a Jew from a secular background who begins practising Orthodox Judaism), having begun practicing Orthodoxy in the spring of 1964 at age 12.
Political activity
Schiller is a nationalist who criticizes liberal notions of race and the bias against traditional religion in today's media and popular culture. He has been associated with various groups, including the Third Way (UK), the Ulster Third Way, and American Renaissance. However, Schiller has also advocated a universalist humanist morality and embrace of the Other, provided that is pursued without loss to group identity. He is involved with the group Toward Tradition, which seeks to advance co-operation between Orthodox Jews and conservative Christians, for example, on issues like abortion, marriage, family, religious schools, and religious freedom.
Schiller is also the author of two books, The Road Back: A Discovery of Judaism Without Embellishments and The (Guilty) Conscience of a Conservative (under the name Craig Schiller), along with a monograph in defense of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's Torah Im Derech Eretz philosophy, titled "And They Shall Judge the People With True Righteousness". His writings are collected on the site rabbimayerschiller.com
Works
Rabbi Mayer Schiller, "Piety, Banality, Scholarship, and Superficiality" Jewish Action (Fall 1982) p.
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