Jewish schools, Marketing “Do moms and dads of 7-year-olds know whether they want their kids to lead the Jewish community?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 September 2017 …do the soul-searching and idea-wrestling that lead you to a concept. Use that concept...
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations “…if the theme of sorts for Jewish organizational life over the past 10-12 years was “innovation”, the next big theme should be “mergers and acquisition” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 September 2017 I strongly believe that, if the theme of sorts for Jewish organizational life over...
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 4 September 2017 By extension, it is time to take each of these communities seriously on their...
Jewish Federations, Jewish Organizations “The reasons that the federated and legacy systems have been teetering are not simply size, but about capacity to pivot into trends, a weakness that innovative organizations have exploited effectively” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 August 2017 As we are all aware, the good processes of innovation – which changed communal...
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 30 August 2017 The gap is real between American and Israeli Jews, with the exception of small...
Jewish Organizations “The central challenge facing the process towards M&A in the Jewish ecosystem is money…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 August 2017 The central challenge facing the process towards M&A in the Jewish ecosystem is money,...
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 24 August 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 22 August 2017 It is time to start treating the gap between Israeli and American Jews as...
Jewish Community, Judaism “…we should note the tension between these kinnot seminars and the classical image of Tisha be-Av” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 August 2017 The second change relates to the in-synagogue services on Tisha be-Av morning. Traditionally, people...
Jewish Community, Judaism “…as VHS technology became widely available in the mid-1980s, synagogues started screening ‘Tisha be-Av videos’ throughout the afternoon” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 July 2017 …as VHS technology became widely available in the mid-1980s, synagogues started screening “Tisha be-Av...