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Month: July 2017

“…as VHS technology became widely available in the mid-1980s, synagogues started screening ‘Tisha be-Av videos’ throughout the afternoon”

31 July 2017 Drew KaplanJewish Community

…as VHS technology became widely available in the mid-1980s, synagogues started screening “Tisha be-Av videos” throughout the afternoon. These are professionally-produced programs that focus on the Holocaust, the tragic points on Jewish history, and/or the[…]

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“Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything”

17 July 201713 July 2017 Drew KaplanInternet

These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything. In the United States and other developed nations, otherwise[…]

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“Online Jewish communities…provide…types of symbols and language…that help reinforce communal identity and unity”

16 July 201713 July 2017 Drew KaplanInternet

Anderson explains the use of language and symbols that help reinforce communal identity and unity. Online Jewish communities also provide these types of symbols and language. For example, the Orthodox movement uses pictures of a[…]

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“Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the tools used in beer production…are often linked to bread-making…”

16 July 201713 July 2017 Drew KaplanArchaeology

Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the tools used in beer production — such as mortars, querns and winnowing baskets—are often linked to bread-making, and the possible connection[…]

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“Owning someone sets you up to be owned yourself, sometimes in the same breath”

14 July 201713 July 2017 Drew KaplanSemantics

The most successful ownage finds hubristic targets, people who think they know more than they do. But ownage is itself a hubristic act — it turns knowledge into a tool for exploiting another person’s lack[…]

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“Leaks are most often an outsider’s tool, and they look different from a vantage of power”

13 July 201713 July 2017 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

Leaks are most often an outsider’s tool, and they look different from a vantage of power. As a candidate, Trump mentioned WikiLeaks frequently and approvingly at rallies, in interviews and in two out of three[…]

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“You do not hear ‘win-win’ much lately”

13 July 2017 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

You do not hear “win-win” much lately. One of the loudest political messages of the past year, across the entire ideological spectrum, has been that all promises of balance and mutual gain are actually humiliating[…]

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“Zionism leverages the bravery of the Hasmoneans, but tries to get us to forget the corruption and decline of their ruling class once empowered…”

12 July 201729 August 2017 Drew KaplanIsrael

Zionism — and, here, I mean especially the muscular Zionism of the Six-Day War, the Zionism of power and permanence, with its hints of completing the narrative of Jewish unsettledness—asks so much of us. This[…]

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“‘Silencing critics’ is the beating heart of today’s ‘winning'”

12 July 201710 July 2017 Drew KaplanSemantics

“Silencing critics” is the beating heart of today’s “winning.” This is largely because your critics are not, in fact, competing with you; they have no formal power over you, are rarely seeking any and tend[…]

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“As a candidate, Trump told his followers that he would fulfill ‘every dream you ever dreamed for your country.’ But he is a plutocrat. His loyalty is to the interests of the plutocracy”

11 July 201710 July 2017 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

Trump may operate a twenty-first-century Twitter machine, but he is still a frontier-era drummer peddling snake oil, juniper tar, and Dr. Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Cure for profit from the back of a dusty wagon. As[…]

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