Halakhic Books/Works/Writings “…the needs of men and women informed by the values of our society are very different from those of the unlearned Ashkenazi masses of the past” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 March 2017 The technique of obscuring the difference between legislation and custom is well entrenched in...
Modern Orthodoxy “…everything there is to know about the halakhic process and its development can be understood from within it is a claim that is untenable in light of the last thirty or forty years’ of knowledge production in the academy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 March 2017 The Rav’s words have been traditionally understood as an affirmation of the world-view of...
Politics in America “If we want to restore respect for facts and break through the intellectual ghettos on both the right and left, the mainstream media will have to be aggressive without being hysterical and adversarial without being unduly oppositional” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 March 2017 Mr. Trump and company seem to be betting that much of the electorate will...
Politics in America “If close to half of America voted for Republicans in the Obama years and support Trump today, then clearly something besides the pieties of cosmopolitan liberalism is very much a part of who we are” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 March 2017 “That’s not who we are.” So said President Obama, again and again throughout his...
News Media, Politics in America “This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 March 2017 The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has taken to slapping journalists who write...
Environment, Politics in America “Just as the world seemed poised to embark on a collective effort to wean itself off dependency on fossil fuels, its leading power elected as president a man who has claimed that global warming is a conspiracy invented by the Chinese and who went on to select as his secretary of state the chairman of Exxon Mobil” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2017 Arctic ice cover reached record lows this summer and fall, while in Antarctica, we...
Orthodoxy, Rabbis “…it is, I think, the biggest, the one most central to the debates within Orthodoxy today, and the most personal” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2017 It is impossible to credit the claim that it doesn’t matter at all to...
Social Media “…the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness has been through its embrace of openness” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 March 2017 …the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness...
Jewish Community “I think the purpose of Jewish journalism is to probe and investigate and analyze Jewish identity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 March 2017 Too many people think that the purpose of Jewish journalism is to strengthen Jewish...
Politics in America “Bipartisan agreement about the future of the planet falls apart not over the bomb but over the climate” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 March 2017 Trump has often contradicted himself on the subject of nuclear weapons, but one of...