Israel “Like FIFA, the Chief Rabbinate is engaged in a cause that will eventually backfire” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 July 2015 The haredi section of Israeli society has long abandoned the rulings and personages of...
Races in America “Eliminating the binary definition of whiteness…is essential for a new racial vision that ethical people can share across the color line” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 July 2015 Given that the monolithic definition of whiteness is antithetical to social justice, perhaps we...
Creativity “Figure out your clearest, most productive time of day to work, and guard this time carefully” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 July 2015 You need to be blank, and even a little bit bored, for your brain...
Star Wars “…in the Clone Wars, even the soldiers on both sides were manufactured goods. The Republic and the Confederacy had been partners in the same corrupt game.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 July 2015 The Clone Wars were yet another thing to be upset about. Everything about that...
Politics in America, Semantics “…’folks’ serves as a softener of rhetorical edges. It suggests a mode of kinship and self-conscious informality that politicians increasingly default to, perhaps as an overcorrective to the inflated wealth of those same politicians” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 July 2015 …“folks” serves as a softener of rhetorical edges. It suggests a mode of kinship...
Business “To be fully attentive and improve your listening skills, remove obstacles” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 July 2015 To be fully attentive and improve your listening skills, remove obstacles. John Gilboy told...
Jewish “The Jewish model of leadership…befits a people who share God’s lofty vision of justice, but who know this world all too well” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 July 2015 The Jewish model of leadership is filled with conflict, tension and stress. We are...
Zionism “Retrieving Zionism as an imaginative discourse for the Jewish people is the best answer to the ‘crisis’ of liberal Zionism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 July 2015 Retrieving Zionism as an imaginative discourse for the Jewish people is the best answer...
Sex, Shabbat, Talmud “How did it happen that some Second Temple sources define piety as abstaining from sex on Shabbat, but that the Rabbis defined Shabbat by the embrace of this very activity?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 July 2015 How did it happen that some Second Temple sources define piety as abstaining from...