Mayer Schiller


Rabbi Mayer Schiller 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. He taught at Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy of Yeshiva University, He is a baal teshuva, having begun practicing Orthodoxy in the spring of 1964 at age 12.
He 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) and the Ulster Third Way. However, Schiller has also advocated a universalist 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, The Conscience of a Conservative -and 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". He was an English teacher at Mesivta Beth Shraga. His writings are collected on the site

Works

  • Rabbi Mayer Schiller, "Piety, Banality, Scholarship, and Superficiality" Jewish Action p. 16-17. Vol. 43, No. 1
  • — "Symposium: The Future of American Orthodoxy" Jewish Action p. 56-59. Vol. 59, No. 1
  • — "The New Judaism" American Council for Judaism Issues p. 5-12.
  • — "A Symposium in Divided and Distinguished Worlds" Tradition Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 5, 58-62
  • — "Reflections on the Sixth Day War After Half a Century " Tradition Vol. 26 No. 4, p. 6, 15-19
  • — "The Sea Change in Orthodox Judaism: A Symposium" Tradition Vol. 32 No. 4 p. 19, 101-105
  • — "Hirschians and Kookians in America: Report on an Endangered Species" Jewish Action p. 9-15. Vol. 47, No. 1
  • — "The Forgotten Humanism of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch" Jewish Action pp. 21–26. Vol.49, No. 3
  • — "The Academic and/or Man of Faith" Jewish Action p. 28-32. Vol. 50, No. 2
  • — "Fun and Relaxation Reexamined" Jewish Action Vol. 51, No. 2
  • — "Realities, Possibilities, and Dreams: Reaching Modern Orthodox Youth" Ten Da'at p. 23-26. Vol. 111, No. 2
  • — "Torah Ummada and The Jewish Observer Critique: Towards a Clarification of the Issues" The Torah u-Madda Journal 6 p. 58-90
  • — "Exchange with Rabbi Shlomo Danziger" Jewish Action pp. 30,32,81, Vol. 60, No. 2
  • — "Are We Still a Holy Nation? An All-Embracing Kedushah" Jewish Action pp. 32–34 Vol. 62, No.1
  • — "Can the Death of Ideology Spell the Rebirth of Hasidism?" Jewish Action p. 48-51. Vol. 45, No. 3
  • — "The Unique Village of New Square" Jewish Action pp. 35–39. Vol. 52, No. 2
  • — "A Portrait of Moshe 'Gabbai'" Jewish Action p. 39-43. Vol. 60, No. 1
  • — "A Personal God and the Rebbe Who Taught Him: Rabbi Aharon Roth " Great Minds of the Twentieth Century in Jewish Action p. 38-41. Vol. 57, No. 1
  • — "Separation: Is There an Alternative?" American Renaissance Vol. 6, No. 2
  • — "First Toward Tradition Conference : The Arduous Calling of Religious Conservatives". October 6, 1994
  • — "Second Toward Tradition Conference : Conservatism's Death and the West's Hope". September 11, 2000
  • — "Third Toward Tradition Conference : The Politics of Kiddush Hashem" September 11, 2000