Haredim/Haredi-ism, Society “The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy code of sexuality, not by advocating asexuality” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 October 2018 The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy Modern Orthodoxy’s “future will likely be as ambiguous and complicated as its complex, tension-filled philosophy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 October 2018 Despite Rabbi Lamm’s eloquent and intellectually sophisticated elucidations of the Modern Orthodox world view,...
Modern Orthodoxy “The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 February 2018 The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws: Jewish...
Jewish Education, Orthodoxy “In Israel, the women’s learning movement…was not viewed as threatening, but rather as a natural outgrowth of women’s changing position in the world” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 June 2017 In Israel, the women’s learning movement preceded the Orthodox feminist movement. It was not...
Marriage, Orthodoxy, Sex “Young Orthodox men and women today come into marriage confused” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 June 2017 Young Orthodox men and women today come into marriage confused. Sexual images pervade their...
Orthodoxy “The public Orthodox/halachic image of Jared and Ivanka…is something created solely by the Jewish community” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 June 2017 The public Orthodox/halachic image of Jared and Ivanka, and the resultant subjecting of their...
Conservative Judaism, Open Orthodoxy “…denominations are more than just ideas and orientations…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 May 2017 It seems kind of obvious that, if there is a denominational shakeup and a...
Orthodoxy, Politics in America “Many in our community contend that President Trump’s strong support of Israel counterbalances his defects and justifies our support of him. I do not agree because l am fearful and I very much hope that I turn out to be wrong that his antics will end up being detrimental to both this country and to Israel” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2017 In democracies, elections come and go rather frequently and the day after, the rain...
Modern Orthodoxy “…everything there is to know about the halakhic process and its development can be understood from within it is a claim that is untenable in light of the last thirty or forty years’ of knowledge production in the academy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 March 2017 The Rav’s words have been traditionally understood as an affirmation of the world-view of...
Orthodoxy, Rabbis “…it is, I think, the biggest, the one most central to the debates within Orthodoxy today, and the most personal” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2017 It is impossible to credit the claim that it doesn’t matter at all to...