Uncategorized “Cities often produce whatever the next wave of social change is going to be, and then violently reject it for altering the nature of the city” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 December 2015 Cities often produce whatever the next wave of social change is going to be,...
Uncategorized “As the Qaraites allowed themselves to eat milk and meat together over the course of the tenth century, they became nicknamed ‘the eaters of milk and meat’” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 December 2015 In beginning of ninth and tenth century, Qaraites were concentrated in Iraq and Persia,...
Uncategorized “Israelis who move to the United States tend to be secular and to have little patience with the Israeli rabbinate…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 November 2015 Israelis who move to the United States tend to be secular and to have...
Uncategorized “Cities change. It is their nature.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 November 2015 Cities change. It is their nature. Those which stop changing stop being cities. Cities...
Uncategorized “I personally connect the dots of the MaHaRaL’s golem legend with two items that are historically documented” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 October 2015 Broadly speaking in terms of “Judaism Says,” golems are to zombies what Purim is...
Uncategorized “…otherwise well-informed and educated people have no idea of the relative costs and benefits” of recycling Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 October 2015 Recycling has been relentlessly promoted as a goal in and of itself: an unalloyed...
Uncategorized “Much of the time, the internal consistency of professional judgment is a good thing…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 October 2015 Much of the time, the internal consistency of professional judgment is a good thing-not...
Uncategorized “Before a courthouse was erected to represent the new law of the land, or banks built to store the gold of the Argonauts, barrooms were the finest buildings in California” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 October 2015 Before a courthouse was erected to represent the new law of the land, or...
Uncategorized “In a world where publishing is effortless, the decision to publish something isn’t terribly momentous” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 October 2015 In a world where publishing is effortless, the decision to publish something isn’t terribly...
Uncategorized “No matter how put together we all appear on the outside, on the inside, everyone has burdens” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 October 2015 One thing a rabbi knows: No matter how put together we all appear on...