The Debate Link

A recent study found that Jews are the demographic group most accepting of trans individuals in the United States . When certain Christians ...

Haven't done one of these in awhile, but then, sometimes the universe doesn't give you an option. Behold :  I'm going to call it...

Let's see, what's new .... having a board game night with some friends, sent a (horribly rough) first draft of my first dissertation...

I came across this earlier today -- it's from an Orthodox Jewish advice column where a woman asks how she can be less judgmental of othe...

This was initially going to be a comment on my last "Things People Blame the Jews For" post, but I realized it needed it's ow...

Reza Aslan says he's "worried about Israel's future"  because of the growing numbers of Haredi Jews. The article (which ap...

I have a confession to make. In the context of interfaith relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims, I really don't like it when p...

The motivating question behind Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel is why Europeans came and conquered America, Africa, etc., rather...

DePaul Law School's Center for Jewish Law and Judaic Studies had an interesting conference recently where several prominent Jewish law ...

I've often joked that the Cantor is my ultimate synagogue nemesis -- were it not for Cantors showing off, the service would end in half ...

I read about this speech when it occurred, but I never was able to find an English translation until now. The speaker is Ruth Calderon, MK ...

Eric Yoffie says what I've been pleading for someone to say : Synagogues (or other Jewish communal spaces) are not open-mic nights. Ther...

It wasn't the first academic piece I had accepted for publication (that would be "When Separation Doesn't Work: The Religion Cl...

I still think Anna Breslaw will hold the honor, but John Cook is making a late season run for the coveted "most anti-Semitic article ...

The Israeli branch of Conservative Judaism (known as Masorti Judaism) has announced it will begin ordaining gay Rabbis , following a similar...

A leading Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, Avi Shafran, was given space recently in The Forward to explain his organization's take on homosexualit...

The good: An interesting conference brought together various Imams and Rabbis to explore the commonalities between Shariah and Halacha. The...

There is an annoying trend one can spot occasionally that declares Islamophobia to be the new anti-Semitism. The implication is that anti-Se...

The last post was originally meant to just be the intro blurb for a roundup, before it got all long and unwieldy. So I spun it off, and now...

Gaddafi is dead! But other things are happening as well: * * * Spencer Ackerman has advance copies of all the headlines that will flow from...