“Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock…don’t need to be good friends to be effective colleagues”
The differences that matter — that create comic friction and dramatic tension — are...
Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“In retrospect, Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup”
In retrospect, Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup. Before...
“…I start to get angry at women…for thinking that the right to get as trashed as a man means anything but the right to be as useless”
The magazines telling me strong is the new sexy and smart is the new...
“There is clearly a desire on the street to ‘grow’ Orthodoxy and invite into it those who have been heretofore excluded”
There is clearly a desire on the street to “grow” Orthodoxy and invite into...
“…unlike the anti-occupation activists, establishment figures…are generally far less certain Israel has the power on its own to bring about peace and security”
Most mainstream Jewish leaders acknowledge that Israel’s rule in the “occupied territories” or “administered...
“The primary political challenge for Europe today is that of moving beyond the nation-state…”
The primary political challenge for Europe today is that of moving beyond the nation-state,...
“When you insist on obligations in addition to rights, you empower people”
Why limit ourselves to the few words in the BLM platform that have to...
“There is hardly another subject area in which people outside of the classroom feel so comfortable influencing what, when, how and by whom it can be taught to our students”
There is hardly another subject area in which people outside of the classroom feel...
“…it is a fruitless quest to continue to try to find elusive rabbinic sources for everything which Paul wrote”
In the case of Paul and the rabbis, let us assume that, at no...
“The moment that a person’s interpretation of Torah would evoke the deep disgust of the average civilized person is the moment when the Torah’s intended story about itself has been lost”
The story the Torah tells us about itself is that the way of life...