Jewish Community, Jews in America “So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp outdoors in the winter” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2020 So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “Birthright Israel manifests the interlacing power of identity and endowment in American Jewish life” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2019 Birthright Israel, the nonprofit organization that Steinhardt started in 1999 with his billionaire friend...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “Cohen’s analysis focused simply on biological continuity and avoided the substantive questions inherent in any discussion of the how of the Jewish future” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 April 2019 Until he was brought down by revelations of decades of sexual harassment, sociologist Steven...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “Community is messy; be wary of those trying so hard to make it clean” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 February 2019 …while Jewish organizations should be allowed to exercise caution about their overt structural partnerships...
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Jews in America There is a “political phenomenon in the Jewish community…on the disincentivizing of all forms of ‘courageous leadership’ by relatively small numbers of individuals who can drive a community agenda” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 February 2019 …a larger political phenomenon in the Jewish community…on the disincentivizing of all forms of...
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Jews in America “…the great divides are about how or whether American Jews feel essentially safe and at home or eternally vulnerable and vigilant…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2019 The basic political theory behind organized Jewish communal (read: establishment) politics in America since...
Jews in America, Passover “Every Passover, we read the haggadah at the seder and we are reminded of the obligation to imagine ourselves being redeemed from Egypt…to a proud American Jew, living with equality and freedom, it seems impossible” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 March 2018 Every Passover, we read the haggadah at the seder and we are reminded of...
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Jewish schools, Jews in America “Our criminal justice system punishes only the clearly guilty, and our media absolves only the clearly innocent — but that does not tell us whom our schools, synagogues and other institutions should employ” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 March 2018 We have to think long and hard as a community as to how we...
Jewish Education, Jews in America, Philanthropy, Tzedakah “Are there assumptions – correct or incorrect – in Jewish communal life that ‘the community’ is supposed to be the principal fiduciary in the financial needs of Jewish households?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 March 2018 I’ve been thinking about the implied economy in educational institutions, especially as it is...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “How does our community, committed to Israel as well as a host of other social justice commitments, navigate collaboration with other faith and political leaders who not only oppose one critical piece of our community’s agenda but often even militate against it?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 October 2017 How does our community, committed to Israel as well as a host of other...