Life Advice What science suggests if we “want to be more productive and creative, and to have more energy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 September 2014 If you want to be more productive and creative, and to have more energy,...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Israel “…when a city becomes a Charedi city, the other residents, if they are smart and if they can, should run for their lives” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 September 2014 Some of this Charedi instinct to overplay a political hand has to do with...
Fundraising “Donor recognition has become an increasing problem in a culture of entitlement” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 September 2014 Donor recognition has become an increasing problem in a culture of entitlement. We only...
Israel “Rav Kook’s intersection of the ideal and the real, though written over a hundred years ago, still characterizes the Jewish approach to the Land of Israel and our residence in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 September 2014 Rav Kook’s intersection of the ideal and the real, though written over a hundred...
Music Weird Al “has become popular not because he is immensely clever…but because he embodies how many people feel when confronted with pop music” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 September 2014 …what is it that Weird Al actually does? I don’t laugh at his songs,...
Beer “Having a good grasp of beer styles and their basic profiles will help you best help others” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2014 Having a good grasp of beer styles and their basic profiles will help you...
God “God’s appearance as an “I” is all-important, for it makes God an individual like ourselves” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2014 God’s appearance as an “I” is all-important, for it makes God an individual like...
Business “Moguls…did pretty much whatever they wanted—which, most of the time, meant doing deals and building empires. These imperial adventures made for good drama but bad business.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 September 2014 When news broke that Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox had made an eighty-billion-dollar bid...
Life Advice 7 tips that Dr. Erica Brown has “picked up to make written thank-you notes more memorable” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 September 2014 We have fixed prayers to help us say thank-you to God when our own...
Relationships “People crave the mutual understanding and dependability that come through long-term relationships” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 September 2014 Rootedness in physical space is important, often crucially so: People crave the mutual understanding...