“By focusing on the three things we do well, Jewish organizations can eliminate the redundancies, complexities, and challenges that…”
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Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“Dignity is a rather elusive and malleable concept compared with more concrete qualities such as race and sex”
Dignity is a rather elusive and malleable concept compared with more concrete qualities such...
“Ben Sira’s comments attest to the gap between the way he wanted guests to behave at banquets and reality”
Ben Sira, too, recognized that banquets were likely places for conflicts to be born,...
“…it is important that members of the campus community, including its leadership, speak up when there are hate crimes…”
…it is important that members of the campus community, including its leadership, speak up...
“…I have no illusions about what my rabbinic degree certifies me to do. It does not make me a world expert in Torah law…”
I am a Rabbi. I earned that title by four years of intense study,...
“Incivility shuts people down…”
Incivility shuts people down…. Employees contribute less and lose their conviction, whether because of...
“One should always be wary of a book by a scholar insisting that there is a pattern where before none has been seen…”
One should always be wary of a book by a scholar insisting that there...
“Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history”
Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history....
“…if “Cushite” was used to convey the foreignness of Moses’ wife, it is fitting that Miriam is in turn made to feel the outsider as she is set apart outside the camp”
…if Miriam used the term “Cushite” as a racial slur referring to skin color,...
“Substituting compulsory morality with compulsory liberalism simply shifts the burden of coercive state power from one group to another”
Obergefell would be a tragic irony if it succeeded in finally closing the door...