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Beer, Bible, Jewish, Wine

Whereas barley beer and beer goddesses reigned supreme in the lowlands of Egypt and Mesopotamia, wine was the preferred fermented beverage in the upland regions of the southern Levant. The Holy Land is where two of the world’s major religions – Judaism and Christianity – originated, and their holy writings (“scriptures”) are a testament to the centrality of wine in faith and practice.

Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 November 2020
Whereas barley beer and beer goddesses reigned supreme in the lowlands of Egypt and...
Tagged beer, Bible, Christianity, Christianity and Judaism, Judaism, Wine |
Homosexuality, Jewish Community, Orthodoxy

“…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2019
…halakha is currently paying a steep price for Orthodoxy’s exclusion of the queer community....
Tagged Halakhah, Homosexuality, Judaism, LGBTQ, Orthodoxy |
Scholarship

“Neusner moved the study of Judaism from Near Eastern Language or History departments into Religious Studies”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 February 2019
As both a scholar and an academic politician, Neusner moved the study of Judaism...
Tagged Academia, Jacob Neusner, Judaism, Scholarship |
Hanukah, Judaism

“A mature adult faith demands that we take in difficult, painful facts and allow them to become part of our understandings of God, our language of faith and connection”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 December 2018
A mature adult faith demands that we take in difficult, painful facts and allow...
Tagged God, Hanukah, Judaism, purim |
Israel

“With the erosion of ethnic boundaries in Israel, and the mixing of different traditions to form a more general ‘Israeliness’, traditionalism has become mainstream”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 July 2018
The roots of traditionalism lie in Mizrachi Judaism. In the Orient, instead of the...
Tagged Israel, Israeliness, Israelis, Jewish life in Israel, Judaism, Mizrachi Judaism |
Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Zionism

“…how did a people that envisions itself in prayer as a community of tents, itinerant in the wilderness, become so fixated on construction projects?”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 June 2017
The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required...
Tagged Israel, Jewish People, Jews, Judaism, Zionism |
Judaism

“…if misrepresented as a rabbinic ordinance, a custom may be seen as more sweeping than it actually is”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 May 2017
…custom, even when considered obligatory, derives its authority from the practice of either a...
Tagged Customs, Jewish customs, Jewish practice, Judaism |
Babylonian Talmud, Judaism, Rabbinic Literature

“…the true Jewish ethos of modesty does not exclusively pertain to sexuality…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 February 2017
The topic of “tzniut” or “modesty” has recently become a prominent point of discussion...
Tagged Judaism, modesty, Rabbinic Literature, sexuality, Talmud |
Judaism

“Change can be very slow, even inadvertent, in Jewish tradition”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 December 2016
Change can be very slow, even inadvertent, in Jewish tradition. Present-day academies of Talmudic...
Tagged Jewish tradition, Judaism |
Judaism, Late Antiquity, Religion

“Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 October 2016
Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period, and...
Tagged Christianity, Judaism, Second Temple, Simkovich Universalism Lehrhaus |
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