Anti-Semitism, University “My fellow activists tend to dismiss the anti-Semitism that students like me experience regularly on campus” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 October 2016 My fellow activists tend to dismiss the anti-Semitism that students like me experience regularly...
Jews “One may assume that to be both punk and Jewish is a paradox…, but the community is still growing and continues to have an online presence” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 September 2016 The blogging community can easily find common themes from one Jewish Punk website to...
Anti-Semitism “If there is, indeed, any such thing as a ‘New Anti-Semitism’, it is ‘new’ in the sense that it does not fit the historical pattern of ancient anti-Semitism…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 September 2016 If there is, indeed, any such thing as a “New Anti-Semitism”, it is “new”...
Bible, Jews, Judaism “The moment that a person’s interpretation of Torah would evoke the deep disgust of the average civilized person is the moment when the Torah’s intended story about itself has been lost” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 September 2016 The story the Torah tells us about itself is that the way of life...
Jews “If the heresy hunter argues a point of disputed fact…he or she may ultimately be wrong. No amount of intimidation can change what is true to false” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 May 2016 As a cardinal value of Jewish ethics, humility may be the best antidote to...
Jews in America, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Rabbis “…although Modern Orthodoxy has produced many brilliant and dedicated leaders and laymen, it has yet to cultivate younger figures possessing the authority and broad appeal of its founding fathers” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2016 The charge that the establishment lacks even a healthy amount of dynamism is undeniably...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Rabbis “The firmness of R. lsserles finds its fullest expression in his commentary on the Shulchan Aruch” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2016 The firmness of R. lsserles finds its fullest expression in his commentary on the...
Rabbis “A rabbi needs sufficient training to go deeper into Jewish tradition than a well-read Jew” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2016 A rabbi needs sufficient training to go deeper into Jewish tradition than a well-read...
Rabbis “R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik…wanted Christians to understand their scripture anew through sympathetic Jewish eyes and to educate his Jewish readers about their misunderstanding of Christianity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2016 R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, the traditional rabbi from Lithuania…is actually more sympathetic to Christian...
Anti-Semitism, Jewish Federations, Jewish Organizations, University “…but the real stimulus to Federation funding was the occasional threat of anti-Semitism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 January 2016 I argued for funding to do more serious Jewish education on campus, but the...