“Jewish history has taught us all too well that when your enemy publicly states his intention to destroy you, take him seriously”
Jewish history has taught us all too well that when your enemy publicly states...
Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“Now, both Mrs. Clinton and the news media have changed. She seems less a presidential candidate than a historical figure…”
Mrs. Clinton’s relationship with the political press has never been warm. She started the...
“Through the power of interpretation, the Jews were able to free themselves from the laws of the Torah…”
Through the power of interpretation, the Jews were able to free themselves from the...
“Certainly, the issues Byers laid out continue to stare the N.C.A.A. in the face, even as men’s basketball and football prosper”
As the architect of the modern N.C.A.A., Byers became stuck in the contradictions...
The meaning of Mishnah
The Hebrew word shanah ‘to repeat’ in its technical sense means to learn (e.g....
“So what are we really talking about when we talk about natural? It depends…”
So what are we really talking about when we talk about natural? It depends;...
“…if nature offers a moral standard by which we can measure ourselves, and a set of values to which we should aspire, exactly what sort of values are they?”
Implicit here is the idea that nature is a repository of abiding moral and...
“Once you designate some spaces as safe, you imply that the rest are unsafe”
Some people trace safe spaces back to the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1960s...
“…the term “whore” does not necessarily have to be misogynist, but it was in the context…”
I should not have just called a whore. She’s a loathsome and awful...
“A genuine, spiritually and theologically grounded, rabbinic voice is missing from the American Jewish community’s Israel conversation”
Rabbinic talk is not political talk. Political does not mean partisan. Political talk focuses...