Beer “Now we all know obnoxious beer snobs (to be differentiated from nerds or geeks)…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 December 2016 Now we all know obnoxious beer snobs (to be differentiated from nerds or geeks),...
Internet “…if you really want to explode the possibilities of a mode of communication, you have to make it easier for amateurs to get in” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 October 2016 …if you really want to explode the possibilities of a mode of communication, you...
Internet “The Internet allows those who deviate from traditional Judaism and who have multiple subcultural identities or labels to have a voice” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 October 2016 The emergence of new Jewish subcultures seems to be growing at a rapid pace...
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...
Internet “It wasn’t so long ago that people worried about a digital divide, in which online access would be a luxury good that left the bottom half behind” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 August 2016 It wasn’t so long ago that people worried about a digital divide, in which...
America, Internet “…mix of youthful safety and adult immaturity may be a feature of life in a society increasingly shaped by the internet’s virtual realities” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 August 2016 Since the 1990s, we’ve seen two broad social changes that few observers would have...
Internet “The era of the fact is coming to an end: the place once held by ‘facts’ is being taken over by ‘data'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 July 2016 The era of the fact is coming to an end: the place once held...
Internet, Social Media “The technological use of ‘avatar’ emerged via a spontaneous burst of coinages in the late 1980s and early ’90s, at the dawn of personal computing” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 June 2016 The technological use of “avatar” emerged via a spontaneous burst of coinages in the...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Internet “…Agudah finally threw in the towel and accepted the internet, setting up a website for the convention and broadcasting live…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2016 This past year, we were told that it was Agudath Israel of America’s 93rd...
Internet, Politics in America “There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of the seventh party system” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 March 2016 There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of...