“Rhetorically, Trump drove a high-speed train filled with fireworks into a nuclear power plant”
Rhetorically, Trump drove a high-speed train filled with fireworks into a nuclear power plant....
Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“…for many of those sympathetic to Israel, the indifference to terror when it takes place in Israel indicates that a higher standard applies compared to other countries”
…for many of those sympathetic to Israel, the indifference to terror when it takes...
“Racism ceased to be a matter of systems and policy and became a referendum on the rot of the individual soul”
Racism ceased to be a matter of systems and policy and became a referendum...
“The Republicans nominated someone who doesn’t know anything about his signature issue”
The Republicans nominated someone who doesn’t know anything about his signature issue. Trump lambasted...
“While the Internet has become a global phenomenon, the American Jewish community is specifically finding its own ways to interact with technology in order to gain access to people and ideas beyond a local region”
When one thinks about Judaism, the computer does not come to the forefront of...
“Steering away from the issue might feel safe, but that avoidance is detrimental and dangerous”
In my experience, many, if not most, 20 to 40-year olds in the modern...
“…the concept of the ben sorer umoreh raises essential questions for parents who strive to build loving relationships with their children”
The law, as defined by the Talmud, ensures that it is virtually impossible for...
“With rates of suicide and drug abuse as high as they are in America, Chabad.org recognizes that these are the moments when they have a chance of connecting to, and helping, a specific audience”
There is a cliché that “There are no atheists in a fox hole.” Chabad...
“…the women are super double tanked — that to be a modern, urbane woman means to be a serious drinker”
That’s the summer I realize that everyone around me is tanked. But it also...
“…the more the children of the better-off were cherished, and pampered, the worse the treatment of the children of the poor appeared to be”
If Victorian- and Progressive-era middle-class moralists were newly concerned about the dead and dying...