Business, Politics in America “E.P.A. regulations make economic sense for two important reasons industry lobbyists (and their hired politicians) overlook…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 February 2017 Among the E.P.A. measures the Trump administration wants to roll back is the Clean...
Politics in America “What Mr. Trump denounced…as ‘these ridiculous rules and regulations that make it impossible for you to compete’ actually kept Americans alive and made the country more competitive” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 February 2017 Companies also inevitably overstate the costs, especially when new pollution standards come up for...
Babylonian Talmud, Beer, Wine “…it appears that wine was much more expensive in Babylonia than beer in the Talmudic period” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2017 …it appears that wine was much more expensive in Babylonia than beer in the...
Politics in America “We are entering a deeply dark period of American history” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2017 We are entering a deeply dark period of American history. Some have called what...
Jewish Community, Jewish Federations, Jewish Organizations, Jews in America “I’m tired of the reduction of Jewish journalism to a celebration of ethnic tics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2017 The most important subject facing the American Jewish community is the new financial and...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy “…the religious leadership of an institution whose motto is “Torah U’Madda” has frozen its conception of religiously permissible Madda at that with which the Rav engaged at the University of Berlin in the 1920s…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2017 Yeshiva University faces many challenges, some reflective of broader societal trends and some of...
Politics in America, Semantics “In the present-day vernacular, people are most humbled by the things that make them look good” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 February 2017 To be humbled is to be brought low or somehow diminished in standing or...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “We need to believe that Torah U’Madda was not a limited-time offer that expired sometime in the last century…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 February 2017 Today’s Centrist Orthodox world–the world of Yeshiva University, the world that produces the overwhelming...
Uncategorized “A logo is not a brand. Neither are cute headlines or splashes of color” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 February 2017 A logo is not a brand. Neither are cute headlines or splashes of color....
Hillel, Jewish Organizations “Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own,…they, in turn, will want to serve our people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 February 2017 Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own...