Uncategorized “A profession exists to solve a hard problem, one that requires some sort of specialization” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 August 2015 A profession exists to solve a hard problem, one that requires some sort of...
Late Antiquity “…oriental banquets must be compared and contrasted with Greek symposia, and the latter in turn with Roman convivia” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 August 2015 Common consumption of food, and of alcoholic beverages in particular, is one effective way...
Internet “Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention, more arrows pointing in than out” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 August 2015 The Web makes interactivity technologically possible, but what technology giveth, social factors taketh away....
Bible “…the architecture of the Holy of Holies…suggest a type of theological equality” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 August 2015 …the architecture of the Holy of Holies expressed something else, as well, because, if...
Internet “An individual with a camera or a keyboard is now a nonprofit of one, and self-publishing is now the normal case” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 August 2015 An individual with a camera or a keyboard is now a nonprofit of one,...
Israel, Zionism “We pay so much attention to the physical threats to Israel, but what about the spiritual and moral threats to its existence?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 August 2015 As terrible as the atomic threat is – there is a greater threat. That...
Internet “The real significance of a new medium isn’t in how already-famous people use it or how businesses use it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2015 The real significance of a new medium isn’t in how already-famous people use it...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, YCT “Over the past generation new institutions…have emerged as counterweights to the rightward and isolationist drift within Orthodoxy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2015 Over the past generation new institutions — Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Yeshivat Maharat, JOFA and...
Hip-Hop, Radio “In a sense, classic hip-hop is following a radio trend that began in the early 1970s…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 August 2015 The Beat, and stations like it, target listeners in their mid-20s to mid-40s: people...
Judaism “Joy and love and acceptance are the greatest resources we can offer our children to foster their spiritual renewal” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 August 2015 It’s so easy for religious observance to become a wedge issue between you and...