Modern Orthodoxy “One of the challenges for Modern Orthodoxy in particular is to enable halakhic conversation across the feminist/nonfeminist divide” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 May 2016 One of the challenges for Modern Orthodoxy in particular is to enable halakhic conversation...
Gender “The anointing of sex positive feminism has… permitted the transformation of a deep and complex feminist movement into one that helps brand magazines and sell lingerie to women…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 December 2015 The anointing of sex positive feminism has, over time, permitted the transformation of a...
Gender “In another era, Minaj’s sexuality, expressed semi-parodically…might have given feminists pause” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 October 2015 In another era, Minaj’s sexuality, expressed semi-parodically — pretending she’s a Barbie doll; glorifying...
Gender, Orthodoxy, Rabbis “I’ve never heard of a woman who was distracted by a male rabbi’s sermon due to his being good-looking” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 September 2015 It’s no secret that men are more sexually attracted to women then vice versa....
Gender “…if gender were nothing more than a social convention, why was it necessary for Caitlyn Jenner to undergo facial surgeries, take hormones and remove her body hair?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 September 2015 The prevailing narrative seems to be that gender is a social construct and that...
Gender, Judaism, Orthodoxy “Whether it’s from mere discomfort around women or buried chauvinism, the reality is that most men relate best to male leaders” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 August 2015 For better or for worse, men like their boy’s clubs. They’re attracted to environments...
Business, Gender, Parenthood “… we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) change as a result of having children, and often do care less about work” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2015 As a society, we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men,...
Gender, Masculinity, Talmud “…sexual identity was for them not a hidden mystery to be disclosed by means of the science of physiognomy, but the product of a simple distinction between sexual organs” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 July 2015 Both the issue of eunuchs and of bodily defects suggest that categories of a...
Gender, Masculinity, Scholarship, Talmud “In the formative years of women’s and gender studies in the field of rabbinics, inquiries into the Talmudic concept of gender took the shape of liberal feminist readings” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 July 2015 In the formative years of women’s and gender studies in the field of rabbinics,...
Gender, Talmud “A saris is simply a sterile man (just like an aylonit is a sterile woman)…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 July 2015 There is nothing to indicate that the rabbis saw saris as effeminate or not...