Uncategorized “Liberal civilizations…are better at sustaining meaningful lives than at commemorating the meaning of deaths” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 January 2015 Liberal civilizations, which depend on the assertion of the individual face, are better at...
Rabbis “The rabbinate will become a healthier profession when…rabbis are able to become full-fledged human beings once again” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 January 2015 It’s time to pull your rabbi down from the pedestal. The rabbinate will become...
Jewish Community “We currently have no mechanism to track abusers as they hide their tracks by moving jobs or preying on the weak in our community…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2015 We currently have no mechanism to track abusers as they hide their tracks by...
Judaism “The claim that harder standards are more authentic is Jewishly invalid” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2015 The claim that harder standards are more authentic is Jewishly invalid. “Fences” around the...
Talmud “…quite a bit of work remains to be done in terms of explaining the sources of the Talmud’s articulations of carnality and sexuality…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2015 Since the “Talmudo-Iranica” revolution, students of the Babylonian Talmud have proceeded to reexamine basic...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “…the internalization of the idea that haredi Judaism represents the touchstone and arbiter of Orthodox authenticity” has “placed Modern Orthodoxy on the defensive…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2015 Since the passing of Rabbi Soloveitchik from the scene some 30 years ago, the...
Halakhah Difficulties with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein’s Reading of the Source for Synagogue Mehitzah Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 January 2015 Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and others argue that the “great reform” made on...
Modern Orthodoxy “Modern Orthodox Jews care about Israel because they have a strong sense of peoplehood, and they have a strong sense of peoplehood because they care about Israel” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 January 2015 The Pew Portrait of Jewish Americans, the rich national data set utilized by Wertheimer,...
Israel “The uniform of a senior officer, like the robe of a judge, is a symbol that the officer is acting on behalf of the national interest…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 January 2015 …the more senior a commander, the greater the obligation to conceal his or her...
Jews, Jews in America “…Jews who don’t know how to be Jewish because they lack the guidance of organized religion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 January 2015 …Jews who don’t know how to be Jewish because they lack the guidance of...