Anti-Semitism “…it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 July 2017 If I live and work, as I do, in the kind of daily, intimate...
Anti-Semitism “Being progressive does not insulate you from falling prey to bigotry anymore than being conservative does…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 July 2017 Medieval Christian Europe persecuted its Jews because it considered them responsible for the alleged...
Anti-Semitism “The public and private discussions I’ve had just in the past month suggest a hunger to understand antisemitism…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 July 2017 Over years of speaking about White nationalism in the 1990s and early 2000s in...
Jews “As a narrative device in Hebrew, Yiddish, and other vernacular literatures, the tavern has served as a metonym for the rural Jewish encounter with the local Christian population…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 June 2017 As a narrative device in Hebrew, Yiddish, and other vernacular literatures, the tavern has...
Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Zionism “…how did a people that envisions itself in prayer as a community of tents, itinerant in the wilderness, become so fixated on construction projects?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 June 2017 The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required...
Israel, Jewish “…this restlessness is the psychological, spiritual epicenter of Jewishness as it has been enacted, transacted, and transmitted for centuries” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 June 2017 Midway through Salt Houses — the stunning debut novel by Hala Alyan about four...
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 20 June 2017 There are a lot of vigorously debated hypotheses about why American Jews appear to...
Bible, Israel “The truth is, much like The Odyssey, the Bible is a majestic story of a journey that lives uncomfortably at odds with what the failures inevitable upon arrival” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 June 2017 The truth is, much like The Odyssey, the Bible is a majestic story of...
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...
Jewish “Keret says that ‘talking about Jewish values is like talking about love'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 June 2017 Keret says that “talking about Jewish values is like talking about love. Some...