Israel “…to many Jews an infantalization of the soldiers has crept into perceptions, that [IDF] soldiers, fresh out of high school, remain child-like” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 October 2014 One constant in almost all the informal wartime appeals was the fear that the...
Israel Considering What Justice Means on Campus vs Compassion Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 October 2014 I always wonder about – by the way, in talking about mercy and compassion...
Israel, Jews “The best way to ensure that American Jews stay connected to Israel is to ensure that they stay connected to Judaism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 October 2014 …the best way to ensure that American Jews stay connected to Israel is to...
Israel, Rabbis When American rabbis speak about “the politics and foreign policy of the Jewish state”, they become “B-grade pundits, they undermine their authority” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 October 2014 …although American rabbis may feel deeply about the politics and foreign policy of the...
Israel “In hindsight, it seems clear that officials in Jerusalem should never have tolerated hostile rockets fired years ago…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 September 2014 In hindsight, it seems clear that officials in Jerusalem should never have tolerated hostile...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Israel “…when a city becomes a Charedi city, the other residents, if they are smart and if they can, should run for their lives” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 September 2014 Some of this Charedi instinct to overplay a political hand has to do with...
Israel “Rav Kook’s intersection of the ideal and the real, though written over a hundred years ago, still characterizes the Jewish approach to the Land of Israel and our residence in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 September 2014 Rav Kook’s intersection of the ideal and the real, though written over a hundred...
Israel, Middle East “Gaza is locked into a war of fruitless aggression, battling an enemy that only really exists in the Palestinian imagination” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 August 2014 But Hamas cannot relent. To surrender their anti-colonial campaign, to move from a strategy...
Israel “What happens when the anticolonial strategy of terrorism is employed against an indigenous national identity?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 August 2014 The Palestinian national narrative is one of calamity and victimhood at the hands of...
Israel “As Israel has grown stronger and more prosperous, the sense of national danger has faded. But the paradigm has not.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2014 As Israel has grown stronger and more prosperous, the sense of national danger has...