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America, Politics in America

“Spreading conspiracy theories once had a price — printing or even mimeographing a tract costs money — but now…, anyone can post a madcap theory or a doctored photograph virtually for free”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 April 2019
Democracies depend on buy-in; citizens need to believe in certain basics, starting with the...
Tagged America, consipracy theories, conspiracy theory, Donald Trump, Internet, Trump |
Gender, Jobs/Professions, Work

“In the early days of coding, women flocked to programming because it offered more opportunity and reward for merit, more than fields like law. Now software has the closed door.”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 April 2019
If biology limited women’s ability to code, then the ratio of women to men...
Tagged Computer coding, Gender, Silicon Valley, Women |
Incarceration

“American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder cases”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 April 2019
American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder...
Tagged America, American Cultural History, American history, homocide, murders |
Modern Orthodoxy, University

“as the culture of the mid-twentieth century was replaced…, the notion of students grappling with their yeshiva and college educations…, producing a grand synthesis called ‘Modern Orthodoxy’, seemed increasingly quaint”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 April 2019
Yeshiva College has also changed along with the broader landscape of higher education. We...
Tagged higher education, Modern Orthodoxy, Yeshiva University |
Israel, Politics in Israel

Bibi “has no true ideological home, so he has made his home the Prime Minister’s Office”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 April 2019
It’s a mistake to put Netanyahu in the same category as the strongmen riding...
Tagged Bibi Netanyahu, Israel, Israel politics, Israeli Politics |
YouTube

“…some magical place where a total lack of any discernible talent or intelligence or interpersonal skills had never interfered with anyone’s success”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 April 2019
When it finally sunk in that I’m not the next Nabokov, I got pretty...
Tagged YouTube |
Jewish Community

“I don’t see an end in sight to the massive private foundations dominating the Jewish philanthropic landscape, but there are definitely better ways forward”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2019
…what has to change in the world of Jewish philanthropy and fundraising to make...
Tagged Jewish American Philanthropy, Jewish philanthropy |
Jewish Community, Jews in America

“Birthright Israel manifests the interlacing power of identity and endowment in American Jewish life”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2019
Birthright Israel, the nonprofit organization that Steinhardt started in 1999 with his billionaire friend...
Tagged Birthright Israel, Charles Bronfman, Jewish philanthropy, Michael Steinhardt, Sheldon Adelson |
Jewish Community, Jews in America

“Cohen’s analysis focused simply on biological continuity and avoided the substantive questions inherent in any discussion of the how of the Jewish future”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 April 2019
Until he was brought down by revelations of decades of sexual harassment, sociologist Steven...
Tagged American Jewish Community, continuity crisis, Jewish continuity crisis, Jewish Demographics, Michael Steinhardt, Steinhardt Foundation, Steven M. Cohen |
Homosexuality, Jewish Community, Orthodoxy

“…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2019
…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community....
Tagged Halakhah, Homosexuality, Judaism, LGBTQ, Orthodoxy |
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