Hillel, Israel “Israel engagement…must enlarge our educators, our Hillel directors, and our student leaders” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 November 2014 Israel engagement, in responding to this micro-crisis and in the work more broadly, must...
Hillel, Young Adults “We must ask ourselves: which behaviors, skills, and dispositions are we hoping to cultivate among young Jews, and how might they best be imparted?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 November 2014 In addition to more funding and more personnel to expand projects of the pluralistic...
Hillel, Israel, University “…there is a strategic error already starting to emerge in the Jewish community’s predictable response to these concerns…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 November 2014 School is back in session, and amidst all the excitement of new beginnings there...
Hillel Hillel professionals “did not go into Jewish education to win a Kafkaesque “color war” mapped onto complex geopolitical realities” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 October 2014 Our colleagues working at Hillels around the country are talented, and they are driven...
Jewish Community “Where can Jews of different ages, spiritual orientations and socioeconomic strata come together regularly to brainstorm while they relax?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 September 2014 Interdisciplinary research on innovation has yielded the interesting find that creativity peaks when hyper-stimulation...
Jewish Community, Jews, Sex “Jewish prostitutes definitely felt that they were part of the community…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 September 2014 Jewish prostitutes definitely felt that they were part of the community. See R. Raphael...
Jewish Community “…no surprise that the remarkable burst of Jewish innovation in the past fifteen years coincided with the emergence of a digitized generation…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 September 2014 It is no surprise that the remarkable burst of Jewish innovation in the past...
Jewish Community, Marriage “Talking about the non-halakhic aspects of Taharat HaMishpacha should be another part of the healthy marriage toolkit” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 August 2014 No new bride should ever have to feel isolated and scared because of the...
Young Adults “You can’t ignore the Internet…It’s where millennials are living their Judaism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 August 2014 “You can’t ignore the Internet,” Mejia said. “It’s where millennials are living...
Jews in America “The Pew data are best seen as a starting point for future research, as they raise a host of interesting questions” for the Jewish community Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2014 The Pew data are best seen as a starting point for future research, as...