America, Politics in America “The Middle East has gone from an addiction to a distraction” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 November 2018 And too often we forget that the people in these countries are not just...
America, Mexico “more Americans have been added to the population of Mexico over the past few years than Mexicans have been added to the population of the United States” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 November 2018 Americans now make up more than three-quarters of Mexico’s roughly one million documented foreigners,...
Halakhah, Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Rabbis “The ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends…on one’s ability to foresee the opposition of one’s peers to one’s innovation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 November 2018 …the ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends, to a...
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...
Babylonian Talmud, Scholarship “…the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and…urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia is the Babylonian Talmud” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 September 2018 By far, the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and, in a sense,...
Archaeology, Rabbinic Literature, Scholarship “The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 September 2018 The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity. In the...