Uncategorized “All history is retrospective” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2017 All history is retrospective. We’re always looking at the past through the lens of...
Politics in America “A post-identity liberal press would begin educating itself about parts of the country that have been ignored, and about what matters there, especially religion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2017 We need a post-identity liberalism, and it should draw from the past successes of...
Incarceration “Imprisoning people is one of the weightiest things that government does, yet outsourcing imprisonment means that treatment of inmates is shaped by bottom-line considerations” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 January 2017 Imprisoning people is one of the weightiest things that government does, yet outsourcing imprisonment...
Halakhah “Emotional input is the reason why mature people go to a human being for psaq halakhah and not a computer” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 January 2017 There is a beautiful narrative in Ketubot 23a where Shmuel considered declaring a group...
America, Semantics “The uneasy way we discuss ghettos and gentrification says something about our discomfort with the real-estate market…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 January 2017 The uneasy way we discuss ghettos and gentrification says something about our discomfort with...
Anti-Semitism “The claim of anti-Semitism is particularly non-credible to Trump’s supporters” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 January 2017 The claim of anti-Semitism is particularly non-credible to Trump’s supporters. Not to the deplorables,...
Television “The ’90s was the decade…in which conspiracism…became a form of kitschy entertainment” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 January 2017 The ’90s was the decade of Oliver Stone’s “J.F.K.,” “The X-Files” and late-night Roswell...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Marriage “…there is no such concept [of “falling in love”] in the haredi world” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 January 2017 …there is no such concept in the haredi world (and...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “The rift between centrist and open Orthodoxy is…about the nature of gadolhood and the structure of rabbinic authority…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2017 The rift between centrist and open Orthodoxy, is thus not only about who is...
Jewish Books Passages Claimed to Be in the Zohar, But Not There Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 January 2017 In my article, I referred to passages in the Zohar which traditional authorities had...