Culture, Gender “…in doing away with patriarchal authority, we have also, perhaps unwittingly, killed off all the grown-ups” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 October 2014 In the world of politics, work and family, misogyny is a stubborn fact of...
Modern Orthodoxy “…the Modern Orthodox world has managed to flourish and persist by creating a community of practice and by focusing most of its intellectual energy on intensified Talmud study” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 October 2014 Thus far, the Modern Orthodox world has managed to flourish and persist by creating...
Uncategorized “Secret government programs that pry into people’s private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 October 2014 Secret government programs that pry into people’s private affairs are bound up with ideas...
Jewish Books “instead of categorizing…rabbinic authorities…as those who believed in demons and those who denied their existence, it would be more meaningful to categorize them as rationalists…versus dogmatists” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 October 2014 One usually imagines a disagreement about the existence of demons to be a dispute...
Jewish Books “Just because ancient rabbis and sages believed in demons does not mean we are bound to do likewise” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 October 2014 In his comments on the Shulhan Arukh‘s rulling, the Gaon of Vilna, known as...
Television “TV characters are among the allegorical figures of our age, giving individual human shape to our collective anxieties and aspirations…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 October 2014 TV characters are among the allegorical figures of our age, giving individual human shape...
Jewish Books Did Rambam Believe in Demons? Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 October 2014 It is the general consensus of the academic community that Rambam denied the existence...
Israel “…to many Jews an infantalization of the soldiers has crept into perceptions, that [IDF] soldiers, fresh out of high school, remain child-like” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 October 2014 One constant in almost all the informal wartime appeals was the fear that the...
Israel Considering What Justice Means on Campus vs Compassion Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 October 2014 I always wonder about – by the way, in talking about mercy and compassion...
Culture, Technology “Culture appears more monolithic than ever…. Technology conspires with populism to create an ideologically vacant dictatorship of likes” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 October 2014 Champions of online life promised a utopia of infinite availability: a “long tail” of...