Politics in America “…though voters claim that they worry about corruption, a lot depends on context” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 February 2017 …Trump’s base, as the pollster Stanley Greenberg has written, believes that “politics has been...
New Testament, Rabbinic Literature “A careful reader of the Gospel is able to uncover the author’s motives and intentions while at the same time making connections between the images in the Gospel with other images, or ‘truths’, presented in the Talmudic ‘library'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 February 2017 True storytellers never tell, they show. Michael Riffaterre uses the concept of “fictional truth”...
News Media, Newspapers, Politics in America, Television “Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 February 2017 Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad. The role...
Education, Marketing “A good brand delivers a credible promise that the target would like to personify” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 February 2017 A good brand delivers a credible promise that the target would like to personify....
Beer, Bible “Ancient Israel’s affinity for beer has largely been ignored” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 February 2017 Beer was a staple in the Israelite diet, just as it was throughout the...
Jewish Federations, Jewish Organizations “Jewish nonprofit professionals have stood on the sidelines and watched philanthropic dollars go to those who have shown the least interest in the Jewish project” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 February 2017 For too long now, foundations and federations have thrown themselves at the unaffiliated, the...
Beer, Bible “The importance of beer in the ancient Near East can be seen by the fact that, in time, the word for beer came to designate the state of drunkenness” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 February 2017 The importance of beer in the ancient Near East can be seen by the...
Beer “…it is in the literature. rather than in the archaeology and economic records of the ancient Near East, that beer leaves its greatest mark” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 February 2017 Unlike wine, beer does not improve with age and it is typically consumed immediately....
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings “Short apodictic summaries of halakhah are necessarily monolithic” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 February 2017 Short apodictic summaries of halakhah are necessarily monolithic. By contrast, discussions citing and accurately...
Uncategorized “When violence has been resorted to as a means of effecting change in American society, it has invited a harsh crackdown on those very people it was intended to help” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 February 2017 …to any who would make noise about using force to effect change, please grow...