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Facebook

“If you feel that these media influence and inform public opinion – and swing elections! – then abandoning Facebook and deleting your account may actually be civically irresponsible”

Author Drew Kaplan Date April 9, 2018
1. FB promised to be and, in many ways, has become a new public...
Tagged Facebook, online conversation, online discourse, public discourse |
IDF, Israel

“The ‘most moral army in the world’ talking point is both substantively and tactically foolish, it convinces nobody…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date April 8, 2018
The IDF is not the most moral army in the world, because there is...
Tagged Gaza, IDF, Israel, Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
Jews in America, Passover

“Every Passover, we read the haggadah at the seder and we are reminded of the obligation to imagine ourselves being redeemed from Egypt…to a proud American Jew, living with equality and freedom, it seems impossible”

Author Drew Kaplan Date March 28, 2018
Every Passover, we read the haggadah at the seder and we are reminded of...
Tagged American Jewry, American Jews, Haggadah, Passover, Passover Haggadah, Passover Seder |
Passover

“The creators of the Mishnaic Haggadah structured it as a work of Greco-Roman rhetorical oratory, the most common and effective means of persuasion available in their culture…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date March 28, 2018
The creators of the Mishnaic Haggadah structured it as a work of Greco-Roman rhetorical...
Tagged Greco-Roman rhetorical oratory, Haggadah, Hallel, Passover, Passover Haggadah, Passover Seder |
Passover

“…scholars have argued that the Seder might be understood as a modified Roman symposium”

Author Drew Kaplan Date March 27, 2018
For over half a century, scholars have argued that the Seder might be understood...
Tagged Haggadah, Passover Haggadah, Passover Seder, Roman Symposium |
America

“One problem with calling American extremists Nazis is that the word carries an inevitable outlandishness”

Author Drew Kaplan Date March 27, 2018
One problem with calling American extremists Nazis is that the word carries an inevitable...
Tagged American extremists, Nazis |
Politics in America

“Mr. Bush left many voters on the right angry, resentful and suspicious — of war, of policy, of ideology, of the very idea of political solutions and leadership”

Author Drew Kaplan Date March 26, 2018
There is always some space between a party’s voters and its leaders, some difference...
Tagged Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Politics in America, Republican Party |
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Jewish schools, Jews in America

“Our criminal justice system punishes only the clearly guilty, and our media absolves only the clearly innocent — but that does not tell us whom our schools, synagogues and other institutions should employ”

Author Drew Kaplan Date March 26, 2018
We have to think long and hard as a community as to how we...
Tagged Abuse, accusations, American Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations |
Internet

“As the internet of 2017 has changed, so has the internet user”

Author Drew Kaplan Date March 25, 2018
As the internet of 2017 has changed, so has the internet user. We are...
Tagged Internet, social media |
Living

“Convenience as we now know it is a product of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when labor-saving devices for the home were invented and marketed”

Author Drew Kaplan Date March 25, 2018
Convenience as we now know it is a product of the late 19th and...
Tagged conformity, convenience, History, industrial efficiency, life, living |
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  • "Debates about Israel seem to be the precise place where “existential anxiety” stopped referring to philosophical angst and started referring to the fear your nation could be destroyed"
  • "'Classified' still conjures images of top-secret government plots, but, in Trump’s Washington, it’s more often used to describe information that the president would prefer to keep quiet"
  • "Rabbi Zera merely describes a stringent practice which Babylonian Jewish women had taken upon themselves"
  • "Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild slights by putting an absurd amount of energy into plotting meaningless reprisals"
  • "Anxieties about the internet began to feel more rote and less plausible, in no small part because the internet had disappeared as a distinct place"
  • "...we err in presuming convenience is always good, for it has a complex relationship with other ideals that we hold dear"
  • "If there’s any historical development over the past few years that has reinforced the new allergy to devil’s advocacy, it’s the ascent of actual fascists..."
  • "The last thing a woman wants to be worrying about while in the heat of the moment is whether her arousal is an expression of her own eroticism or a symptom of patriarchal oppression"
  • "The phenomenon of a minority people arising out of the ashes of Auschwitz to reframe not only their world but to also profoundly impact the broader culture may best summarize this century of Jewish influence"
  • "Fueled by a growing Latino community and Hollywood stars promoting the health benefits of the fruit’s unsaturated fats..., America’s avocado craze has intensified every year"
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  • Speaking on Panel at Temple Beth David about Denominations | Rabbi Drew Kaplan: […] the outset, I made sure I stated that there are multiple Orthodoxies,
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  • On Not Worrying About Decreasing Synagogue Membership in America | Rabbi Drew: […] Synagogues may have been good for the middle of the twentieth century
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