Politics in America “What does it mean for the American presidency itself to become a fake out?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 Now that the trolling ethos has infiltrated the actual core of government, whole systems...
Beer, Wine “…beverages in antiquity most often contained many ingredients: products solely composed of barley, grapes, or dates were rare” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 Compounding the difficulty in identifying שֵׁכָר is the fact that beverages in antiquity most...
Star Wars “That’s the thing about Star Wars – it’s very all-encompassing, it’s old: it takes everything from the past and it packages it forward into the future” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 That’s the thing about Star Wars – it’s very all-encompassing, it’s old: it takes...
Israel, Palestinians, Politics in Israel “…when pushed to explain why the much-promised two-state solution is perennially stuck, always the answer is to blame Arab obstructionism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 May 2017 Whenever the claim that Israel stole Palestinian lands is heard, Israel inevitably answers, “We...
Conservative Judaism “The Conservative movement is torn between two conflicting positive imperatives…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 May 2017 “The Conservative movement is torn between two conflicting positive imperatives,” said Steven Bayme, director...
Beer “Every beer is a brewer’s invention to some degree—a combination of ingredients that could never be found in nature” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 May 2017 Every beer is a brewer’s invention to some degree—a combination of ingredients that could...
Journalism “We need to talk about the real ‘problem with the discourse’, which is the cheap culture of false equivalency and its exploitation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 May 2017 We need to talk about the real “problem with the discourse”, which is the...
Beer, Bible, Middle East “The process for making beer was different in the ancient world from that used today, and it didn’t include the addition of hops or carbonation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 May 2017 Barley, one of the more popular grains for making beer in the ancient world,...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings “The family purity handbook shares the qualities of the other halakhic handbooks…, but it has a history of its own” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 May 2017 The family purity handbook shares the qualities of the other halakhic handbooks…, but it...
Politics in America “Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space between actions and consequences” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 May 2017 Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space...