Fundraising “…if a nonprofit organization ever had a dream of building magnificent scale that required that for six years,…we would expect a crucifixion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 January 2015 Amazon went for six years without returning any profit to investors, and people had...
Jews in America, Synagogues “The question, however, is whether the Synagogue, itself, particularly in its present form, can cope with the crisis which faces American Jewry” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 January 2015 The Synagogue is one of the major forces in Jewish life in America. The...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings “The Tosafist schools set out to analyze the entire Talmud using all relevant talmudic passages as a context and backdrop for the text under scrutiny” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 January 2015 The Tosafists approached the talmudic text with a similar perspective: talmudic passages could be...
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations “…it’s mystifying that in our American Jewish organizational culture, we have a huge web of information, but we have not successfully networked, tracked and sequenced our people enough” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 January 2015 …it’s mystifying that in our American Jewish organizational culture, we have a huge web...
Haredim/Haredi-ism “The haredi camp encompasses both a number of hasidic sects and the spiritual descendants of their no less pious historical antagonists…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 January 2015 The haredi camp encompasses both a number of hasidic sects and the spiritual descendants...
Modern Orthodoxy “Rabbis across the spectrum of Modern Orthodoxy…point to a community that has absorbed American understandings of the sovereign self” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 January 2015 While such disagreements on matters of Jewish law occupy the foreground, a series of...
Talmud “…both the Babylonian Talmud and Middle Persian literature are preoccupied with the preferred contours of the female body” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2015 …it is noteworthy how, despite the differences in subject matter (Jewish marital law versus...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “What is clear is that the ongoing vitality of American Modern Orthodoxy, and ultimately its survival, will depend upon the emergence of new causes or visions that generate pride and solidify a broad identification…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2015 For over two centuries, factions both in Europe and North America loosely assembled under...
Museums “The American memorial style is powerful as an engine of pathos, but is obviously limited as a language of representation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2015 On the one hand, no agreed-on figural style can any longer represent a society...
New Testament “Most Jews fear to read the New Testament, and most Christians read the New Testament unaware it is permeated with Jewish ideas and images” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2015 Most Jews fear to read the New Testament, and most Christians read the New...