Israel “The U.N. investigation is not going to make the world a better place” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 July 2015 The U.N. investigation is not going to make the world a better place. It...
Bible, Talmud “The Rabbis who inherited the biblical story [of Numbers 31] as sacred writ…adopted the strategy of finding meaning in its details…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 July 2015 The Rabbis who inherited the biblical story as sacred writ (and...
Israel, Jews in America, Zionism “Many Israelis believe that while this rift between Israel and diaspora Jewry is unfortunate, it is also inevitable” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 July 2015 Many Israelis believe that while this rift between Israel and diaspora Jewry is unfortunate,...
Jewish Organizations “Most Jewish organizations…function and have value, yet we spread ourselves out over too many responsibilities” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 July 2015 Most Jewish organizations are a cable remote. We function and have value, yet we...
Talmud “The irony of…should be a warning against assuming any kind of simple binary division between resistance and imitation of colonial cultures” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 July 2015 The irony of finding a deeply Hellenized concept of gender at the very heart...
Historiography “To contrast history writing and storytelling as polar opposites is thus to distort the nature of both types of literature” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 July 2015 Fraenkel’s approach would seem to create an unbridgeable chasm between historical writing and other...
Politics in America “A better idea is to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace him with a distinguished woman from American history” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 July 2015 Treasury is proposing to put a woman’s portrait alongside Hamilton’s on the $10 bill,...
America, Sex “This is a strange moment for sex in America. We’ve detached it from pregnancy, matrimony and, in some circles, romance” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 July 2015 This is a strange moment for sex in America. We’ve detached it from pregnancy,...
Races in America “The useful part of white identity’s vagueness is that whites don’t have to shoulder the burden of race in America” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 July 2015 By the early 20th century, the descendants of the earlier Irish immigrants had successfully...
Gender, Talmud “A saris is simply a sterile man (just like an aylonit is a sterile woman)…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 July 2015 There is nothing to indicate that the rabbis saw saris as effeminate or not...