Millenials “Young Americans have been fleeced in order to fund the transient excesses of the old…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 December 2016 Young Americans have been fleeced in order to fund the transient excesses of the...
Jewish Community, Politics in America “This assessment…bespeaks an overly self-absorbed Jewish community and continues the left’s self-defeating tone-deafness when it comes to Trump and his associates” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2016 Among American Jewish progressives, the consensus is that Bannon, Donald Trump’s “strategic adviser,” is...
Gender, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “As much rancor and disagreement as there is in the Modern Orthodox world about women in the ritual sphere or leadership roles, there are many places where women’s participation is universally accepted and indeed welcomed, and where attempts to foster it would be generally agreed-upon and uncontroversial” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2016 As much rancor and disagreement as there is in the Modern Orthodox world about...
Israel “…the comparison between the alt-right’s white-Christian ethnic politics and the Jewish State is not just misleading, but sinister” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 December 2016 It is important to emphasize that, in some crucial respects, the comparison between the...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Our recent communal engagements around women and Orthodoxy have taken on something of the aspect of trench warfare” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 December 2016 Our recent communal engagements around women and Orthodoxy have taken on something of the...
Religion “When religious traditions travel, they tend to adapt to their new surroundings” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 December 2016 When religious traditions travel, they tend to adapt to their new surroundings. Like new...
Scholarship “…respecting interdisciplinary partnership, virtually all of us have loyalties which we neither can nor should deny” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 December 2016 …respecting interdisciplinary partnership, virtually all of us have loyalties which we neither can nor...
Talmud “It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers of the Mishnah…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 December 2016 It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers...
Talmud “In discussing the use of אני in TL, it is necessary to distinguish between אני אומר used in contradiction, and שאני אומר used to introduce a reason for an opinion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 December 2016 In discussing the use of אני in TL, it is necessary to distinguish between...
Clothing “School dress codes and fashion magazines are in precisely the same business: policing female clothing, as part of a larger project of policing women’s bodies” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 December 2016 …there is a difference between religious authority figures who dictate how you must dress...