Gender, Orthodoxy, Rabbis “I’ve never heard of a woman who was distracted by a male rabbi’s sermon due to his being good-looking” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 September 2015 It’s no secret that men are more sexually attracted to women then vice versa....
Gender “…if gender were nothing more than a social convention, why was it necessary for Caitlyn Jenner to undergo facial surgeries, take hormones and remove her body hair?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 September 2015 The prevailing narrative seems to be that gender is a social construct and that...
Gender, Judaism, Orthodoxy “Whether it’s from mere discomfort around women or buried chauvinism, the reality is that most men relate best to male leaders” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 August 2015 For better or for worse, men like their boy’s clubs. They’re attracted to environments...
Business, Gender, Parenthood “… we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) change as a result of having children, and often do care less about work” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2015 As a society, we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men,...
Gender, Masculinity, Talmud “…sexual identity was for them not a hidden mystery to be disclosed by means of the science of physiognomy, but the product of a simple distinction between sexual organs” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 July 2015 Both the issue of eunuchs and of bodily defects suggest that categories of a...
Gender, Masculinity, Scholarship, Talmud “In the formative years of women’s and gender studies in the field of rabbinics, inquiries into the Talmudic concept of gender took the shape of liberal feminist readings” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 July 2015 In the formative years of women’s and gender studies in the field of rabbinics,...
Gender, Talmud “A saris is simply a sterile man (just like an aylonit is a sterile woman)…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 July 2015 There is nothing to indicate that the rabbis saw saris as effeminate or not...
Gender “The ‘I was born in the wrong body’ rhetoric favored by other trans people doesn’t work any better and is just as offensive” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 June 2015 The “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric favored by other trans people...
Gender “…it’s growing harder to avoid asking pointed questions about the frequent attacks by some trans leaders on women’s right to define” women Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 June 2015 …as the movement becomes mainstream, it’s growing harder to avoid asking pointed questions about...
Gender “For…many women, …one of the difficult parts of witnessing and wanting to rally behind the movement for transgender rights is…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 June 2015 For me and many women, feminist and otherwise, one of the difficult parts of...