Jewish Considering what makes up the “Jewish civil religion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 August 2014 The Jewish civil religion entails transnational Jewish solidarity and the sense of belonging to...
Jews “The Jewish nation experienced collective pain this summer” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 August 2014 The Jewish nation experienced collective pain this summer, as Jews around the world rallied...
Jewish Some Issues with Lumping In Other Tragedies onto Tisha b’Av Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 August 2014 …ssuming that history is merely didactic and meant to teach lessons as opposed to...
Jewish “This year, it’s easy to feel Tisha b’Av” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 August 2014 It’s painful to see images of death and devastation. There is torment in observing...
Jewish Languages Seeing the Beauty in the Hebrew Word איכה… Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 August 2014 What’s beautiful about the Hebrew word איכה is that it captures the very human...
Jewish “first and foremost, we are Jewish brothers and sisters. Disagreements and disputes are secondary to our primary state of unity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 August 2014 We are a diverse people, and our heterogeneousness has never been more apparent than...
Middle East “Hamas’s rule over Gaza must be brought to an end” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 August 2014 The latest round of warfare showed that Hamas had become more dangerous, and its...
Jewish “One of the biggest challenges of Tisha b’Av is finding the strength to feel pain that has had thousands of years to heal” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 August 2014 One of the biggest challenges of Tisha b’Av is finding the strength to feel...
Television “DVRs made recording shows easy for even technophobes; so easy that some of us might have forgotten where and when they were shown (making the concept of “airing” increasingly archaic)” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 August 2014 VCRs allowed TV audiences to time-shift their viewing for years, but programming them could...
Jewish Education Teaching Hafrashat-Challah and Tzenius should not be so different… Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 July 2014 When I poll Bais Yaakov graduates about their emotional associations with certain mitzvos, I...