Jewish Community, Jews in America “Community is messy; be wary of those trying so hard to make it clean” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 February 2019 …while Jewish organizations should be allowed to exercise caution about their overt structural partnerships...
Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Jews in America There is a “political phenomenon in the Jewish community…on the disincentivizing of all forms of ‘courageous leadership’ by relatively small numbers of individuals who can drive a community agenda” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 February 2019 …a larger political phenomenon in the Jewish community…on the disincentivizing of all forms of...
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...
Israel, Jewish Community, Rabbis “A genuine, spiritually and theologically grounded, rabbinic voice is missing from the American Jewish community’s Israel conversation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 May 2015 Rabbinic talk is not political talk. Political does not mean partisan. Political talk focuses...
Israel, Jewish, Jewish Community, Jews in America “…American Judaism seemed to be emerging from its hyper-political phase, the post-Holocaust, post-1967 era…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 March 2015 The mini (and short lived) spiritual explosion… took place in the 90’s, the era...
Jewish Community “We have been living on yesterday’s fumes for too long” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2015 We have been living on yesterday’s fumes for too long. Old fashioned anti-anti-Semitism, unrealistic...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “My fear now…is that all the talk about politics has chased away the spiritual seekers” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 February 2015 My fear now – and it was a fear back then, expressed by others...
Jews in America, Rabbis “…this is what it’s come to. Rabbis today in America have to be proficient in the language of Iranian sanctions…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 February 2015 Not long ago, I was sitting with a group of fellow rabbis when the...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “…the dominant conversation nowadays in American Judaism is about politics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2015 …the dominant conversation nowadays in American Judaism is about politics. Mostly it’s Middle Eastern...