Jews in America “In our time, the Jewish community’s “functional consensus”, forged in the mid-twentieth century, has nearly unraveled…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 August 2017 Historians of American Jews are accustomed to a different conceptualization of the past, one...
Israel, Jewish Community, Jews in America “It is time to start treating the gap between Israeli and American Jews as spectral in color rather than monochromatic Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 August 2017 It is time to start treating the gap between Israeli and American Jews as...
Jewish Community, Jewish Federations, Jewish Organizations, Jews in America “I’m tired of the reduction of Jewish journalism to a celebration of ethnic tics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2017 The most important subject facing the American Jewish community is the new financial and...
Jewish Community, Politics in America “This assessment…bespeaks an overly self-absorbed Jewish community and continues the left’s self-defeating tone-deafness when it comes to Trump and his associates” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2016 Among American Jewish progressives, the consensus is that Bannon, Donald Trump’s “strategic adviser,” is...
Israel, Jews in America “Dangerous myths have grown up among the American Jewish community, myths that are totally detached from the reality in Israel…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 November 2016 Dangerous myths have grown up among the American Jewish community, myths that are totally...
Internet, Jewish Community, Jews in America “While the Internet has become a global phenomenon, the American Jewish community is specifically finding its own ways to interact with technology in order to gain access to people and ideas beyond a local region” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 September 2016 When one thinks about Judaism, the computer does not come to the forefront of...
Israel, Races in America, Zionism “While American Jewish leaders will use the platform to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter, the movement provides a lesson for how we will eventually reconcile our commitments and rescue our moral integrity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 August 2016 While American Jewish leaders will use the platform to distance themselves from Black Lives...
Jewish Community “The once-concentric circles of your Jewish community and your social justice community are now more like Venn diagrams with an ever-receding area of commonality” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 May 2016 We’ve told you that there are organizations where you can find your people, people...
Jews in America “In congratulating ourselves on our past, we neglect the work that must be done in the present” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2016 …I wonder whether we’re running the grave risk of turning Heschel into an American-Jewish...
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations “…that Jewish world doesn’t take enough risks. Professionals are scared of the rebuke of the lay people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 December 2015 To Mr. Bronfman and every other member of self-declared Jewish royalty: Chabad doesn’t have...