Modernity != progress. This is not to say that the Hasidic mode of life is right (or wrong), just that the term modern is being misunderstood here. When people

Modernity != progress. This is not to say that the Hasidic mode of life is right (or wrong), just that the term modern is being misunderstood here. When people use the word modern in a context like this, they usually mean to say that a movement could not have existed in a previous era in time, that it is as much an artifact of the 18th-21st centuries as the Enlightenment. I do think that arguing that Hasidic Judaism is modern and thus good is a dubious argument, I just think the author of this piece is conflating several terms.