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A 32-year old Jewish   [See update -- DS]  Floridian has confessed to an arson attack on the Florida mosque that was home to the Pulse nigh...

My Tablet article  on Brooklyn Commons, and the follow up posted here , really pulled me away from a lot of my other reading -- including so...

As you probably know, Brooklyn Commons, a progressive space in New York, hosted a 9/11 truther anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist by the name ...

Today, the Brooklyn Commons -- a progressive meeting and working space in New York City -- is hosting an avowed anti-Semitic conspiracy theo...

After swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti appeared at Swarthmore College, William Meyer penned an excellent column  that lucidly lays out th...

Eugene Volokh has the scoop on a fascinating lawsuit filed by the ACLU in Alabama, alleging state religious discrimination ... against Chri...

The Hebrew Israelite community -- an umbrella term encompassing a variety of Black Jewish organizations and movements -- has just selected C...

A recent letter sent by the University of Chicago to its incoming students  has generated quite a bit of attention for its verbiage on that ...

A Sheldon Adelson backed anti-BDS group has distanced itself from one of its grantees after it launched a poster campaign identifying pro-...

Sadiq Khan is the Mayor of London, the first Muslim to be elected mayor of a major Western city. Khan is also a member of the UK's Labou...

Yesterday, I had my first Ph.D subfield exam (in contemporary political theory). It was a delightful smorgasbord of Rawls, Walzer, Rorty, An...

When I teach a unit on controversial topics, I sometimes begin by making an observation about "hard" and "easy" problems...

Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for President. This has caused a giant crisis of confidence among Republicans who are committed to de...

A characteristically thoughtful piece by Gershom Gorenberg  has an important passage on recent efforts by the Israeli government to further...

The Forward manages to not only find the rare Jewish Trump voter, but, well, I'll let his justification speak for itself : Let me be c...

Rule of law is more than just a slogan. It represents the core of the government's contract with the people -- government does  rule ove...

Words have meanings. But those meanings are liable to change. One motivator for seeking a change in a word's meaning -- to have it encom...

Writing on the intersection of Jews and "race" at the turn of the 20th century, Sander Gilman writes something very interesting: ...

It's been a busy time as the end of summer approaches -- and I've made my situation worse by pitching a "big media" piece ...

The most radical thing about this Jordana Horn article in the Kveller  may be its title: "It's Time We Stopped Letting Anti-Semitis...