February 2013 – Excerpted

Paul’s activity was to bring to people the good tidings that through identification with Christ a man could escape the destruction to come

27 February 2013 Drew KaplanJewish

Paul’s activity, reduced to simplest terms, was to bring to people, Jew or Greek, the good tidings that through identification with Christ a man could escape the destruction to come. His message is based on[…]

The kind of multipurpose national service agency model that was in existence in 1981 isn’t as relevant as it once was

26 February 2013 Drew KaplanEducation

“Even if we had not had the financial crunch, we would have continued to focus our energies more and more around innovation and change, because of other things taking place in Jewish life,” he said.[…]

Re-Imagining Tikkun Olam for America

20 February 2013 Drew KaplanJewish

In the 1950s, Shlomo Bardin, the founder of the Brandeis Camp Institute (BCI) in California, was the first to use the term in the United States, according to Lawrence Fine, author of Physician of the[…]

The work of Heinrich Graetz appears to have been quite peculiarly and unfairly ignored by Christian scholars

19 February 2013 Drew KaplanScholarship

What is clear, however, is that the work of Heinrich Graetz appears to have been quite peculiarly and unfairly ignored by Christian scholars, and not taken into account in the effort to attain some balanced[…]

The Jewish people were not put in this world simply to fight anti-Semitism

18 February 2013 Drew KaplanJewish

Dwelling on the indignities of the past will not renew our passion for a just life – rather the creation of a vibrant future-oriented discourse must be the basis of our identity…. As his teacher[…]

It’s an irony of modern-day life that while each year the Kosherfest trade show displays hekshered versions of ever-more goyische items – from beef jerky to Jamaican jerk – some of the most interesting Ashkenazi Jewish fare these days is decidedly treif

17 February 2013 Drew KaplanAmerica

It’s an irony of modern-day life that while each year the Kosherfest trade show displays hekshered versions of ever-more goyische items – from beef jerky to Jamaican jerk – some of the most interesting Ashkenazi[…]

The study of different literary elements in rabbinic literature must be sensitive to the different philological strata of this great corpus

12 February 2013 Drew KaplanTalmud

The study of different literary elements in rabbinic literature must be sensitive to the different philological strata of this great corpus. It is not that the rhetorical excludes the historical, or vice versa, but rather[…]

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Excerpts of Interest

Month: February 2013

Paul’s activity was to bring to people the good tidings that through identification with Christ a man could escape the destruction to come

The kind of multipurpose national service agency model that was in existence in 1981 isn’t as relevant as it once was

Re-Imagining Tikkun Olam for America

The work of Heinrich Graetz appears to have been quite peculiarly and unfairly ignored by Christian scholars

The Jewish people were not put in this world simply to fight anti-Semitism

It’s an irony of modern-day life that while each year the Kosherfest trade show displays hekshered versions of ever-more goyische items – from beef jerky to Jamaican jerk – some of the most interesting Ashkenazi Jewish fare these days is decidedly treif

The study of different literary elements in rabbinic literature must be sensitive to the different philological strata of this great corpus