Text Me
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Text Me, and a Powerful Poem Later this summer the volume Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Contemporary Technology (Jewish Resources for Understanding, Embracing, and Challenging our Evolving Digital Identity) will be published by Hamilton Press. I have shared with readers of the Kaplan Center website in an earlier column the ways in which the project seems…
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In The Twinkling of An Eye: Five Features of the Upcoming Pandemic Transitions by Rabbi Jeffrey Schein This article was originally published on March 18, 2021 at eJewishPhilanthropy. Prelude We will soon be going through a transition. Some prefer to call it the movement towards a “new” normal. In our volume L’Dor V’Dor in the…
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Pandemic, Pods, and Havurot Jonathan Rosen in The Talmud and the Internet (2000) explored the meandering, highly associational nature of Talmudic thought. A word or phrase in one context is connected with lightning-like speed with the same word or phrase in a different passage, and a new meaning is often derived from the connection. I…
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The Masked Rider I think we are forever searching for the sweet spot where Jewish texts illuminate our life as American Jews, particularly today. I understand that identifying where and how our two civilizations meet to be a Kaplanian imperative. So I now return to the “Text Me” project previously described and search out the meeting…