Gaza, Israel “Judge combatants by their intentions, not their accuracy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 December 2014 Judge combatants by their intentions, not their accuracy: One can only imagine, with horror,...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Israel “The preoccupation of the dati le’umi world with the settlement issue…has paradoxically contributed to enhancing…the influence of the haredim” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 December 2014 The preoccupation of the dati le’umi world with the settlement issue—with seeing God’s will...
Israel, Middle East “We seem to take for granted that Arab countries can’t catch up to Israel on the freedom front, but isn’t that the bigotry of low expectations?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 December 2014 Imagine if the young people who risked their lives protesting during the long-gone Arab...
Israel Behind Israel’s “phenomenal success is a restless culture of self-criticism and responsibility that keeps the country on its toes and propels it forward” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 December 2014 It’s not a coincidence that Israel is a global leader in scientific and cultural...
Israel, Middle East “The one-state/two-state debate is highly fraught not least because of proximity…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 December 2014 The one-state/two-state debate is highly fraught not least because of proximity. Too much history,...
Israel Israel is “not held up to a higher standard among nations, just an impossible one” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 December 2014 “The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to...
Hasidim, Israel, Orthodoxy “…in Merkaz those learning are doing so for the sake of the nation, while in the haredi yeshivot those learning are doing so for themselves…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2014 A number of years ago I asked someone in Merkaz ha-Rav how his yeshiva...
Israel, Jews “Israel was a collective statement on the part of an oppressed and persecuted people that they were tired of being afraid…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 November 2014 For thousands of years to be a Jew meant being afraid. Afraid of anti-Semites,...
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, 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...