Movies, Star Wars “People don’t give George [Lucas] the credit that he deserves” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2015 People don’t give George the credit that he deserves. The work he did on...
Books, Internet “Reading on-screen tempts us to see things only through the pinhole of our immediate curiosity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2015 Reading on-screen tempts us to see things only through the pinhole of our immediate...
Politics in America “When happiness has become championed and talked about incessantly, as it is today, the best we can hope for is that it raises other universal issues…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 August 2015 When happiness has become championed and talked about incessantly, as it is today, the...
Internet, Newspapers “For people with a professional outlook, it’s hard to understand how something that isn’t professionally produced could affect them-not only is the internet not a newspaper, it isn’t a business, or even an institution” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 August 2015 Many people in the newspaper business, the same people who worried about the effects...
Business “Banks — especially when they become large and complex — are at once essential and destructive, beneficial and insidious” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 August 2015 Banks, at their best, perform a sort of financial magic. Consumers put their little...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Lubavicher Hasidim, Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, YCT “Ironically, from a professional perspective the liberal YCT rabbi actually has more in common with Haredi outreach-oriented figures than the inreach focused RIETS graduates” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 August 2015 Ironically, from a professional perspective the liberal YCT rabbi actually has more in common...
Politics in America “Crying ‘gotcha’ has now become like crying wolf. The term has been cheapened by overuse” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 August 2015 Crying “gotcha” has now become like crying wolf. The term has been cheapened by...
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Rabbis, Synagogues “…the rabbi sometimes hears contradictory sounds — sometimes described as ‘the voice of the prophet’ or sometimes ‘the voice of the profit'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 August 2015 …an ongoing struggle that many rabbis and clergy of various faiths wage within themselves....
Business, Gender, Parenthood “… we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) change as a result of having children, and often do care less about work” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2015 As a society, we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men,...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Modern Orthodoxy “The main goal of attacking the Modern Orthodox efforts so vigorously, then, is not to dictate Modern Orthodox behavior but to clarify the limits of ‘Haredi feminism'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2015 There is a “silent” revolution taking place in which Haredi women are increasingly taking...