The Debate Link

Some of you may have read a recent Intercept post claiming that Congress is considering banning support for the boycott of Israel (by ...

Evelyn Torton Beck's Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology arrived in the mail today. Originally published in 1982, it remains both wo...

Holy moly, Jennifer Rubin is speaking sense : Let me suggest the real problem is not the Trump family, but the GOP. To paraphrase Brooks, ...

The Chicago Dyke March, an alternative to Chicago Pride that is meant to have a more "social justice" orientation, caught a heap o...

Last fall, I noted that if there was any hope that Senate Republicans would actually exercise meaningful oversight over the Trump administr...

When I read that an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan had been denied a visa to come to the US and participate in a robotics competi...

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters supports BDS. Consequently, he wants Radiohead to cancel their concert in Israel . Nassau County, New Yor...

Avi Gabbay is the new head of Israel's Labor Party , defeating former Labor head and former Defense Minister Amir Peretz in a run-off (b...

I've written a bit about nuclear power before , and how it may be our best hope at achieving deep decarbonization in a reasonable time f...

The New York Times has an article about utility efforts to roll back "net metering"* for solar power . The article is pretty cle...

I love root beer. As a non-alcohol drinker, it's the closest thing I get to experiencing the varieties of real beer. And so, for years, ...

When the Israeli government reneged on its promise to promote equal space for non-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall -- and moved forward a b...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a gripping profile of a Muslim doctor living in Dawson, Minnesota -- why he moved there, how the election ...

I've long maintained that is perfectly possible, in concept, to be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic (under reasonable definitions ...

United Torah Judaism is an Israeli political party representing the Ashkenazi ultra-orthodox. It is currently in Netanyahu's coalition, ...

Here's a blast from the past. Back in 2009, I started following the case of one Bongani Masuku , at that time International Secretary of...

I write quite a bit on the claim that one "can't criticize Israel without being called anti-Semitic."  Among the observations ...

From almost the beginning of this blog, I had a Sitemeter account to track my visitors. It was great -- I could see who was coming to my s...

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear the challenges to President Trump's travel ban memorandum . Lower courts had enjoined...

One more post on the expulsion of Jewish marchers carrying a rainbow flag with a Star of David on it from a "Dyke March" in Chicag...