Excerpted | Category | Jews in America

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 March 28, 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 March 26, 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 March 22, 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 October 25, 2017

How does our community, committed to Israel as well as a host of other...

Israel, Jews in America

“American Jewry and Israeli Jewry can both be success stories, even as the standards for thickness, moral integrity, spiritual health, political vitality, and continuity must be measured by different gauges”

Author Drew Kaplan Date September 4, 2017

By extension, it is time to take each of these communities seriously on their...

Israel, Jews in America

“The gap is real between American and Israeli Jews, with the exception of small pockets of like-minded communities…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date August 30, 2017

The gap is real between American and Israeli Jews, with the exception of small...

Jews in America

“In our time, the Jewish community’s “functional consensus”, forged in the mid-twentieth century, has nearly unraveled…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date August 24, 2017

Historians of American Jews are accustomed to a different conceptualization of the past, one...

Israel, Jewish Community, Jews in America

“It is time to start treating the gap between Israeli and American Jews as spectral in color rather than monochromatic

Author Drew Kaplan Date August 22, 2017

It is time to start treating the gap between Israeli and American Jews as...

Israel, Jews in America, Zionism

“There are a lot of vigorously debated hypotheses about why American Jews appear to be distancing themselves from Israel”

Author Drew Kaplan Date June 20, 2017

There are a lot of vigorously debated hypotheses about why American Jews appear to...

Jewish Community, Jewish Federations, Jewish Organizations, Jews in America

“I’m tired of the reduction of Jewish journalism to a celebration of ethnic tics”

Author Drew Kaplan Date February 8, 2017

The most important subject facing the American Jewish community is the new financial and...

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