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America

Main Street “unraveled in the 1960s and 1970s, as fair trade laws were repealed, manufacturers discovered overseas suppliers and unions came undone”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2017
To save Main Street, state lawmakers in the 1930s passed “fair trade” legislation that...
Tagged America, Main Street |
Politics in America

“…despite the country’s fondness for aspirational rhetoric, our illiberal traditions have serious staying power, too”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 April 2017
As a point of strategy, it may behoove Democrats to embrace patriotic or nationalistic...
Tagged Democrats, Language, patriotism, Politics, Politics in America, Presidential Election 2016 |
Politics in America

“I have been obsessed lately with trying to draw distinctions between what we call the moral, the political, and the partisan”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 April 2017
I have been obsessed lately with trying to draw distinctions between what we call...
Tagged moral, partisan, political, Politics |
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Passover

“Through their sharp political interpretations of the Passover story, Rav and Shmuel described the political condition of the Jewish people long after the Exodus from Egypt”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 April 2017
In its transition from Joseph’s death to a new era, the book of Exodus...
Tagged Babylonian Talmud, Passover, Pharoah, Rav, Shmuel, Talmud |
Passover

“I find Pesach stunning for its integrating the particular redemption story of a particular people into a moral message that is universal; or the reverse, routing a universal story into the particular story of the Jewish nation”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 April 2017
I find Pesach stunning for its integrating the particular redemption story of a particular...
Tagged Jewish particularism, Jewish Universalism, Passover, Passover Seder, Universalism |
Passover

“Pesach: better for peoplehood organizing, in my view, than community organizing…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 April 2017
I am not enamored by the politicization of Seder symbols into clear public policy...
Tagged Jewish peoplehood, Passover, Passover Seder, peoplehood |
Passover

“The core pedagogies of the Haggadah are asking questions and telling stories”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2017
The core pedagogies of the Haggadah are asking questions and telling stories. Real questions...
Tagged Haggadah, Passover, Passover Seder |
Orthodoxy, Politics in America

“Many in our community contend that President Trump’s strong support of Israel counterbalances his defects and justifies our support of him. I do not agree because l am fearful and I very much hope that I turn out to be wrong that his antics will end up being detrimental to both this country and to Israel”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2017
In democracies, elections come and go rather frequently and the day after, the rain...
Tagged anti-semitism, Donald Trump, Israel, Orthodox Jews, Presidential Election 2016 |
Jobs/Professions

“So why don’t more organizations post salary ranges?”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 April 2017
So why don’t more organizations post salary ranges? Is it inertia? Are organizations embarrassed...
Tagged Hiring, Jobs, pay, professions, Work |
Semantics

“‘Weaponize’ was born in the 1950s as military jargon”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2017
“Weaponize” was born in the 1950s as military jargon. It was an instantly comprehensible...
Tagged Semantics, Terminology, weaponization |
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