Sex, Television “The tone-setting awkward sex scene has become a staple of the modern television series opener” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2016 Perhaps you’ve seen the new TV series whose pilot episode begins this way: A...
Talmud “Sometimes in Tannaitic Literature, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are not connected by relationship to a single man, nor by a common subject) as the essential connective element of a relatively large chapter” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 November 2016 …Sometimes in TL, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are...
Jews in America, Zionism “The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too many Jews, support for Israel became a vicarious faith…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 November 2016 The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too...
Scholarship “When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah…flourished in the early decades of the first century in Galilee, then…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 November 2016 When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah,...
Politics in America “A generation ago, a Presidential contender like Trump wasn’t conceivable” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 November 2016 A generation ago, a Presidential contender like Trump wasn’t conceivable. Jimmy Carter brought smiling...
Politics in America “In the eighties, the decade of conservative ascendancy, the Clintons’ brand of politics seemed to provide the ingredients of a Democratic revival” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 November 2016 Bill and Hillary moved to Arkansas in 1974, and got married the following year....
Politics in America, Races in America “The ‘authenticity’ that Trump’s followers so admire is factually wrong and morally repulsive” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 November 2016 If racial injustice is considered to be monolithic and unchanging—omitting the context of individual...
Politics in America “To the left, ‘Clintonism’ implies accommodation and calculation. But to the right in 1992, it meant usurpation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 November 2016 Few current observers seem to recall the wrath that greeted Bill Clinton’s ascension. To...
Politics in America “…Americans today, especially on the Trump right and the Sanders left, won’t give politicians anything close to that kind of trust” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 November 2016 Clinton was saying in private what she can’t or won’t in public. The e-mails...
Politics in America “American politics in 2016 has taken a big step toward politics in the rest of the world” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 November 2016 The Trump phenomenon, which has onlookers in Europe and elsewhere agog at the latest...