Prologue : within the wide tent of a Bronx Orthodox congregation, circa 1960
All alone and out of control
American challenges and Jewish challengers
Religious dilemmas of a treif land
Strategies of New York's Orthodox activists
Crisis and compromise
Brooklyn's committed communities
A more faithful following
Comfortable and courted
Orthodox vs. Orthodox
Open and closed to feminism
Epilogue : the tentative Orthodox of the twenty-first century.