Excerpted – Page 86 – Excerpts of Interest

Religion, Technology

“Religions have a particular habit of collecting yesterday’s technologies and holding on to them long after they’ve faded from use and collective memory”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 March 2016

Religions have a particular habit of collecting yesterday’s technologies and holding on to them...

Politics in America

“…how has Donald Trump, the coddled scion of a New York real-estate baron, emerged as a populist hero?”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 March 2016

…how has Donald Trump, the coddled scion of a New York real-estate baron, emerged...

Technology

“When a technology does die out in all places but one, something very special happens…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 March 2016

When a technology does die out in all places but one, something very special...

Politics in America

“There was a time when an election to succeed a two-term president was not about everything”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 March 2016

Who will prevail in 2016 — the vision of change that Obama presented and,...

Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy

“Alas it is the centrists who always suffer the most in these battles”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 March 2016

…one sad consequence of this schism and the internecine fighting leading up to it,...

Modern Orthodoxy

“…Modern Orthodox education does stress some core beliefs: on the one side, the divinity of Torah law and the centrality of Jewish peoplehood and Zionism; on the other side, the unquestionable value of secular education and accomplishment”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 March 2016

…Modern Orthodox education does stress some core beliefs: on the one side, the divinity...

Jewish

“Make this video aspirational because that’s what the bar/bat mitzvah is all about. It’s not about the child. It’s about our Jewish story”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 March 2016

The story that is important — the narrative that a child joins on this...

Movies

“A sequel like last May’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ from Marvel, is less a self-contained film than a loose amalgam of ongoing stories”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 March 2016

A sequel like last May’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” from Marvel, is less a...

Politics in America

“What Trump has demonstrated is that in our present cultural environment…the first lines of defense against a demagogue no longer hold”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 March 2016

What Trump has demonstrated is that in our present cultural environment, and in the...

Modern Orthodoxy, Open Orthodoxy

“…we must recognize there is a lot of good in all camps and we should support positive developments no matter where they originate”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 March 2016

As noted already, Rabbi Gordimer is an avid reader of Open Orthodox writings. In...

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