Modern Orthodoxy “…as creators of Halakhah, we must work to make sure that every halakhically committed voice is genuinely heard” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 October 2019 …communities need joy to survive, and Modern Orthodoxy cannot be built on constant moral...
Prayer, Synagogues “The decision of which siddur a congregation should use is both a significant choice for any congregation, and a choice whose importance should not be exaggerated” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 September 2019 The decision of which siddur a congregation should use is both a significant choice...
Modern Orthodoxy “the Artscroll Siddur is the product of a worldview which does not reflect the values of the Modern Orthodox community and therefore cannot truly meet the needs of our community” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 September 2019 …the Artscroll Siddur is the product of a worldview which does not reflect the...
Politics in America “The reality of this primary process is that if you aren’t on the stage in Houston next week, you aren’t going to be the Democratic nominee” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 September 2019 …the 10 men and women not on the stage will argue that the Democratic...
Twitter “Twitter, in its imposed brevity, seems to affirm the aphorism’s original meaning: be intelligently succinct” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 August 2019 What of Twitter? “Brevity is the soul of wit,” Shakespeare’s Polonius says, issuing the...
Historiography, Scholarship Challenges of reconstructing Rashi’s Torah commentary: “there never was an Urtext of Rashi’s Torah commentary” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 July 2019 …synopsis of the current state of knowledge regarding medieval Jewish scribal practice, manuscript production,...
Politics in America, Semantics “Invoking the word does not demean the memory of the Holocaust. Instead, the lessons of the Holocaust will be lost if we refuse to engage with them.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 June 2019 …it’s important to note that despite the contemporary association of concentration camps with the...
Israel “Yom Yerushalayim often gets the short end of the stick, often overlooked even by those who profess to celebrate it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 June 2019 Yom Yerushalayim often gets the short end of the stick, often overlooked even by...
Israel, Politics in Israel “After years of fragmentation, Israeli society seems to be consolidating anew – fusing Jewishness and nationalism, and decidedly on the right” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 May 2019 After years of fragmentation, Israeli society seems to be consolidating anew – fusing Jewishness...
Politics in America Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “has become a handy and versatile symbol — the representative representative” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 May 2019 The congresswoman has become a handy and versatile symbol — the representative representative. For...