The Debate Link

I started writing this post yesterday, before the Squirrel Hill massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue . I got distracted, and it feels somehow ...

Recent trends in Jewish communal life are a lot easier to grasp once you realize that they're basically  the exact thing going on across...

It hasn't just  been Assassin's Creed: Odyssey for me these past few days (though there certainly has been a lot -- a lot  -- of As...

Last year, I wrote about a case in Massachusetts where a teacher was punished for withdrawing a letter of recommendation for a student  who ...

I have recurrent knee pain, that flares up apparently randomly and can be so debilitating that at its crest I can't even walk. It usuall...

Very good news. And, at least in terms of how the opinions were excerpted in Haaretz , they didn't pull punches either. "Since t...

I got a phone call today from a canvasser regarding the California Assembly race in my district between Buffy Wicks and Jovanka Beckles (I...

I've been very stressed these past few days. It's the usual mix of personal issues combined with the persistent fact of the world te...

I've been playing AC: Odyssey over the past few days (I am a big fan of the series ). And what a time it has been! I actually don't ...

I was planning on writing a blog post about the Canary Mission file on Lara Alqasem -- the American student currently being refused admissio...

There's this weird element of contemporary pop culture where, at any given moment, there's a celebrity that seems inexplicably hated...

Last week, I went to a talk at UC-Berkeley by James Loeffler on the Zionist history of the architects of post-WWII human rights law . In t...

Are you watching "I Feel Bad" ? I'm excited for it -- not the least because it features British-Indian-Israeli-Jewish actor Br...

A new academic hoax story has broken, and it's bigger than ever before . Three scholars wrote twenty papers, none of which contained t...

Below is the written version of the talk I gave at SF Hillel earlier today. They invited me to speak on the subject of left anti-Semitism af...

A federal district court has enjoined Arizona's anti-BDS law , saying that it likely violates the First Amendment. This was the litiga...

The University of Chicago Law School's grading scale goes from 155 to 186. For awhile, it was 55 to 86, but employers kept assuming th...

Have you ever met a five-year old who knows everything  about one very specific thing? Dinosaurs is a common candidate, but it also might ...