Jews, Sex Jewish Prostitutes in 15th Century Spain? Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 September 2014 Isaac Arama, writing in fifteenth-century Spain, tells us that not only did the Jewish...
Jewish Community, Marriage “Talking about the non-halakhic aspects of Taharat HaMishpacha should be another part of the healthy marriage toolkit” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 August 2014 No new bride should ever have to feel isolated and scared because of the...
Jewish “Am Hanivchar means that we were chosen to engage in a mission” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2014 My peers and their parents assumed that the term “Chosen People” meant that Jews...
Jewish Considering what makes up the “Jewish civil religion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 August 2014 The Jewish civil religion entails transnational Jewish solidarity and the sense of belonging to...
Jewish “This year, it’s easy to feel Tisha b’Av” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 August 2014 It’s painful to see images of death and devastation. There is torment in observing...
Jewish “first and foremost, we are Jewish brothers and sisters. Disagreements and disputes are secondary to our primary state of unity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 August 2014 We are a diverse people, and our heterogeneousness has never been more apparent than...
Jewish “One of the biggest challenges of Tisha b’Av is finding the strength to feel pain that has had thousands of years to heal” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 August 2014 One of the biggest challenges of Tisha b’Av is finding the strength to feel...
Jewish Each of the three depth languages of Judaism “presents a very different Jewish response to the modern world” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 June 2014 The need to find the depth languages of Judaism forces us to face the...
Jewish “A vibrant Jewish future that speaks three different languages requires not superficial unity, but rather vibrant connectors” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 June 2014 A vibrant Jewish future that speaks three different languages requires such connectors, people fluent...
Jewish Community Instead of Arguing About the Pew Survey, ask “how and where can Jewish experiences make the greatest possible contribution” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 May 2014 The question should not be which interpretations of the survey are correct. Instead, we...