“…we can now better appreciate why certain rabbis have attempted to find solutions within Jewish law to the contemporary agunah problem”
I have been told that the Beth Din of America operates on the principle...
Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“The laying-up of something in the Temple had the effect of dedicating it to God, and so gave it an additional sanctity”
In view of the divine origin which was attributed to the Scriptures, it is...
“In recent years, our society, and our college campuses, have been infused by an approach to identity politics that…seems to be struggling with…tension of humility and arrogance”
As we learn about ourselves and one another through talking and listening and being...
“After years of experiencing West through Auto-Tune and mike effects, hearing his natural voice is a reminder that doubt remains his greatest motivation”
West hasn’t released much music since “Yeezus,” an album on which his voice began...
“This is not going to be a ‘there’s no difference between the candidates’ election”
This is not going to be a “there’s no difference between the candidates” election....
“Mr. Trump is an unlikely spokesman for the grievances of financially struggling, alienated Americans…”
Mr. Trump is an unlikely spokesman for the grievances of financially struggling, alienated Americans:...
“Even austerity can be made decadent: To wealthy practitioners, minimalism is now little more than a slightly intriguing perversion…”
“Minimalism” was eventually canonized as an art-historical movement, but the name came to mean...
“Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces”
Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces....
“Telling someone to ‘check their privilege’ can be a means to discredit different opinions merely because people who express them belong to a certain racial category”
“White privilege” is too broad a term. It lumps a white Walmart employee with...
“Part pop philosophy and part aesthetic, minimalism presents a cure-all for a certain sense of capitalist overindulgence”
Despite its connotations of absence, “minimalism” has been popping up everywhere lately, like a...