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Articles by Ariel Caplan
An Interview with Rabbi Yosef Adler
AC: You function both as an educator/administrator in a flourishing yeshivah high school, the Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC), and as the rabbi of the relatively large Congregation Rinat Yisrael. Both of these sound like daunting commitments; together they are undoubtedly difficult to ... Read more →
Rav Lakhen Benot Yisrael: Humility and Rabba-nut
[i] The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who ... Read more →
Creation and Evolution: Toward a Methodology of Addressing Challenges to Faith
BY: Ariel Caplan “The conflict between ‘religion’ and ‘evolution’ has outlived its usefulness and it is high time it was allowed a quiet demise. […] We must learn to lose our fear of evolution.”[i] The acceptance of evolution as the best explanation for the diversification of ... Read more →
“Anu Mattirin Lehitpallel im ha-Avaryanim”
A Tale of Blessing Blasphemers, Praying Predators, Devout Desecrators, and the Internal Israelite BY: Ariel Caplan This piece is dedicated to Mr. Joseph Cooperman, a”h,[i] who taught me that the Jew who drives to shul on Shabbat is still a Jew. If you are an Orthodox Jew hailing from Teaneck, ... Read more →
Motivations, Populations, and the Essence of Humility: Ariel Caplan Responds