Jewish “Make this video aspirational because that’s what the bar/bat mitzvah is all about. It’s not about the child. It’s about our Jewish story” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 March 2016 The story that is important — the narrative that a child joins on this...
Movies “A sequel like last May’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ from Marvel, is less a self-contained film than a loose amalgam of ongoing stories” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 March 2016 A sequel like last May’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” from Marvel, is less a...
Politics in America “What Trump has demonstrated is that in our present cultural environment…the first lines of defense against a demagogue no longer hold” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 March 2016 What Trump has demonstrated is that in our present cultural environment, and in the...
Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy “…we must recognize there is a lot of good in all camps and we should support positive developments no matter where they originate” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 March 2016 As noted already, Rabbi Gordimer is an avid reader of Open Orthodox writings. In...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Rabbis “The firmness of R. lsserles finds its fullest expression in his commentary on the Shulchan Aruch” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2016 The firmness of R. lsserles finds its fullest expression in his commentary on the...
Politics in America “…Republicans are likely to be highly unified and mobilized around the direction they want the country to go. Democrats are different…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2016 Despite all the turmoil in the Republican Party today and the divisions over who...
Jobs/Professions “Professional chaplains are forbidden to proselytize, and unlike most everyone else on the medical care team, we do not have an agenda for curing…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2016 The word “chaplain” is of Christian origin, but today it refers to a clergy...
Politics in America “Obama’s election set off a profound reaction on the conservative side that implicated everything about people’s view of themselves and of America” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 March 2016 The historic 2008 election was a turning point, when a reshaped Democratic coalition backing...
Internet, Politics in America “There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of the seventh party system” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 March 2016 There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of...
Politics in America “The G.O.P. establishment may be in a state of meltdown, but this process of exploiting the darkest American undercurrents began with Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 March 2016 The G.O.P. establishment may be in a state of meltdown, but this process of...