Journalism, Orthodoxy “When you’re a member of the very society you’re reporting on, every word is laden with responsibility. Personal and professional are always mixed” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 May 2020 In my eight years as an Orthodox journalist writing mainly about Orthodox life for...
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....
Modern Orthodoxy “…in recent years, two issues have risen to the forefront of our communal consciousness that have proven to be stressors of” Modern Orthodoxy Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 March 2019 Modern Orthodoxy is hard to understand and harder to live. Orthodoxy is a set...
Modern Orthodoxy “Material affluence, and the anxiety (and feelings of precarity) that surround that affluence, in the modern Orthodox world are not specific phenomena of a particular religious subgroup” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 November 2018 To understand modern Orthodoxy, we must view “Orthodoxy” within its larger social, economic, and...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy Modern Orthodoxy’s “future will likely be as ambiguous and complicated as its complex, tension-filled philosophy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 October 2018 Despite Rabbi Lamm’s eloquent and intellectually sophisticated elucidations of the Modern Orthodox world view,...
Orthodoxy, Rabbis “…it is, I think, the biggest, the one most central to the debates within Orthodoxy today, and the most personal” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2017 It is impossible to credit the claim that it doesn’t matter at all to...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “We need to believe that Torah U’Madda was not a limited-time offer that expired sometime in the last century…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 February 2017 Today’s Centrist Orthodox world–the world of Yeshiva University, the world that produces the overwhelming...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews…perhaps the most-defining is our embrace of the Talmudic maxim hokhma bagoyim ta’amin…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 January 2017 Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews: religious Zionism; engaging with the...
Orthodoxy “One of the most salient features of Orthodox Jewish life at the turn of the twenty-first century is the halakhic handbook designed for the layperson” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 January 2017 One of the most salient features of Orthodox Jewish life at the turn of...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Unity and comity are good things, but I am not at all convinced that the community is better served by a false front that tries to conceal or patch the deep discord behind it than by frank acknowledgment of irreconcilable differences” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 January 2017 Ultimately, as many areas of common ground as we can find, and as much...