“He pontificates about how a Jew should lead his life.”
Right, and the rest of us never do that. We’ve never suggested that there is one right way to do things. We’ve never said that Jews who do x are sinning. Perhaps an investigation should be undertaken to try to dig up some information on everyone here.
zevi8, I understand what you mean when you say that “the Orthodoxy we know is not true Judaism”, but I’m not sure anyone else does. I know a woman who left Orthodoxy for this very reason. She grew up frum and her father was an Orthodox rabbi, but in those days women did not cover their hair. Orthodoxy has been moving more and more to the right, and she still practices Judaism the way she did growing up, but that lifestyle now fits more with the Conservative movement than with the Orthodox. So, no, I don’t think that the statement that “covering hair is not halacha” is “nonsense” or “a rant with no validity” because according to this woman, it simply wasn’t done in those days in frum circles.