Jews “The greatest threat to Jewish life in the United States is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s religious illiteracy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 September 2014 The greatest threat to Jewish life in the United States is not the Israeli-Palestinian...
Middle East Azerbaijan treats its Jews well: “the positive example it could be for other Muslim nations” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 September 2014 …we learned a great deal about how and why Azerbaijan invests in and supports...
Israel “In hindsight, it seems clear that officials in Jerusalem should never have tolerated hostile rockets fired years ago…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 September 2014 In hindsight, it seems clear that officials in Jerusalem should never have tolerated hostile...
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Israel “…when a city becomes a Charedi city, the other residents, if they are smart and if they can, should run for their lives” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 September 2014 Some of this Charedi instinct to overplay a political hand has to do with...
Israel “Rav Kook’s intersection of the ideal and the real, though written over a hundred years ago, still characterizes the Jewish approach to the Land of Israel and our residence in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 September 2014 Rav Kook’s intersection of the ideal and the real, though written over a hundred...
Israel, Middle East “Gaza is locked into a war of fruitless aggression, battling an enemy that only really exists in the Palestinian imagination” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 August 2014 But Hamas cannot relent. To surrender their anti-colonial campaign, to move from a strategy...
Israel “What happens when the anticolonial strategy of terrorism is employed against an indigenous national identity?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 August 2014 The Palestinian national narrative is one of calamity and victimhood at the hands of...
Israel “As Israel has grown stronger and more prosperous, the sense of national danger has faded. But the paradigm has not.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2014 As Israel has grown stronger and more prosperous, the sense of national danger has...
Young Adults, Zionism “Our dilemma today is that at the very time that we desperately need an ideological linkage between powerful Israel experiences and the creation of robust Jewish communities for young Jews in America, Zionism is absent from the mix” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 July 2014 Our dilemma today is that at the very time that we desperately need an...
Israel How Greatly Different Relations Between Israelis & Arabs are Since Pre-Second Intifada Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 July 2014 During the 1980s and ’90s, tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank...