Let's face some facts about "modern" Orthodoxy (I'm a 12-year yeshiva graduate myself): it's an oxymoron. Hasidim don't attempt to blend into the population whereas the modern orthodox clearly do. Modern orthodoxy, in my experience, is the most judgmental of any sect of Judaism and arguably the most hypocritical as they go through a constant schizophrenic struggle to mix orthodoxy with modernity. To their credit, Hasidim and Reform Jews rarely have the same dilemma.

In a world where the former head of one of New York's most well-known co-ed Yeshivas had to face the "scandal" of being gay (hello?? 40-something and unmarried? was the board that hired him that clueless?) and in NJ we find another modern orthodox family that founded a yeshiva one day and then tried setting up a family member with a prostitute on another, I may not "approve" of Noah marrying someone who didn't convert but I certainly admire and applaud his desire to go on the record about his experience. I'd be delighted to know him.