Babylonian Talmud “recycling…is the likely explanation for the relative scarcity of metal finds at major urban centres at opposite ends of the Sasanian empire…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 October 2018 It should be remembered that recycling is not a modern Western concept, but is...
Babylonian Talmud Cultivated Crops during the Time of the Babylonian Talmud Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 October 2018 As in earlier periods, the staple crops were wheat, barley and dates. A daily...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Society “The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy code of sexuality, not by advocating asexuality” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 October 2018 The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy Modern Orthodoxy’s “future will likely be as ambiguous and complicated as its complex, tension-filled philosophy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 October 2018 Despite Rabbi Lamm’s eloquent and intellectually sophisticated elucidations of the Modern Orthodox world view,...
Politics in America “Trump’s assault on the premises of democracy is not only unique in modern American history but unique in the annals of modern liberal democracy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 October 2018 Trump’s assault on the premises of democracy is not only unique in modern American...