America “…the most consequential work of the Roberts Court in protecting corporate rights has been in cases that have gone mostly unnoticed” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 March 2016 …the most consequential work of the Roberts Court in protecting corporate rights has been...
Writing “What’s the point of a reviewer in an age when everyone reviews?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 March 2016 What’s the point of a reviewer in an age when everyone reviews? A common...
Modern Orthodoxy “Modern Orthodoxy’s right wing must step up and join the real conversation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2016 Modern Orthodoxy’s right wing must step up and join the real conversation. The questions...
Jews in America, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Rabbis “…although Modern Orthodoxy has produced many brilliant and dedicated leaders and laymen, it has yet to cultivate younger figures possessing the authority and broad appeal of its founding fathers” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2016 The charge that the establishment lacks even a healthy amount of dynamism is undeniably...
Bible “Shoshana has been borrowed in Latin and European languages to become Susanna (and its pet forms: Susie, Sue, Susan, Suzanne)” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 March 2016 The lovely girl in Song of Songs is compared to a lily of the...
Orthodoxy “…it is important for the halakhic community to understand that there needs to be different paths for different people…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 March 2016 …it is important for the halakhic community to understand that there needs to be...
Orthodoxy “If the accusation of heresy is bandied about constantly, with flimsy basis…, then it will lose any sort of meaning” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 March 2016 I worry that the constant misrepresentation of the boundaries of heresy, such that the...
Movies “At the moment that our foundational religious stories began to echo too distantly in the past, a new storytelling rose to supplement what time threatened to take from us” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 March 2016 Hollywood is not only a fun factory of vapid entertainment. At times, Hollywood plays...
Israel, Palestinians “…our society is defined by the revulsion and deep sense of soul searching that has followed each incident. Theirs, simply, is not” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 March 2016 When Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Palestinians in cold blood in 1994, Israeli society was...
Uncategorized “Western democracies desperately need to recapture basic values of citizenship, of shared participation in pursuit of the common good…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 March 2016 Western democracies desperately need to recapture basic values of citizenship, of shared participation in...