Sexual Assault/Rape “While rumors do not indicate outright criminality, they must be investigated. The cost of ignoring them is too high” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 May 2016 In the 1950s, Gresham Sykes and David Matza named five strategies delinquents use to...
Politics in America “…if you think a little thing like losing a general election will dispose of Ted Cruz’s ambitions, you don’t know Ted Cruz” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 May 2016 Unloved, unattractive, a Simpsons-quoting nerd still chasing the teenage dream of world domination, the...
Modern Orthodoxy “The push toward women’s ordination bears the unmistakable hallmarks of the modern progressive paradigm…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 May 2016 The push toward women’s ordination bears the unmistakable hallmarks of the modern progressive paradigm—a...
Politics in America “With Cruz, though, even the most fervent peroration always feels like a debater’s patter, an advocate’s brief…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 May 2016 Enough, for one week at least, about the strange victories of Donald Trump. Let’s...
Uncategorized “…as the number of European travelers to Egypt increased in the 1500s and 1600s, the idea of granaries became increasingly insupportable in light of observation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 May 2016 In 1484, no less pious a fellow than a Catholic canon from Mainz, Bernhard...
Gender, Sex “We are learning to support girls as they “lean in” educationally and professionally, yet in this most personal of realms, we allow them to topple…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 May 2016 We are learning to support girls as they “lean in” educationally and professionally, yet...
Halakhah “…the question of whether halakhah excludes women from holding specific roles or offices” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 May 2016 …the question of whether halakhah excludes women from holding specific roles or offices. From...
Jewish Community “The once-concentric circles of your Jewish community and your social justice community are now more like Venn diagrams with an ever-receding area of commonality” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 May 2016 We’ve told you that there are organizations where you can find your people, people...
Modern Orthodoxy “One of the challenges for Modern Orthodoxy in particular is to enable halakhic conversation across the feminist/nonfeminist divide” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 May 2016 One of the challenges for Modern Orthodoxy in particular is to enable halakhic conversation...
Politics in America “Sometimes, it seems, ‘populism’ is just a synonym for widespread unhappiness with the status quo” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 May 2016 There was a time when “populist” meant something more specific. The word originated with...