The Debate Link

When it comes right down to it, we're not sure how to fight hate and hateful ideologies. Should it be called out loudly, wherever and wh...

I'll be brief. In some old posts on this blog, I wrote words to the effect that Dennis Prager, a right-wing Jewish commentator, was ...

Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) was one of the key forces behind the founding of Congress' Black-Jewish caucus . The caucus is nominally bip...

It is no revelation to say that Jews on campus experience their share of antisemitism, and deserve our support. But one of the more frustrat...

It's never good when "Jews" are trending, the saying goes, and the latest trend has been some pretty nasty antisemitism from c...

The ADL is America's preeminent Jewish civil rights organization. That position comes with an inevitable share of gripes. Jews who think...

A recurrent theme in this series is people "blaming the Jews" for activity that is, in all relevant respects, absolutely praisewor...

A few years ago, I had the distinctly bizarre experience of being the target of a particularly devoted internet troll. The interesting thing...

Russia has announced the results of the totally free and fair referenda conducted in occupied Ukrainian territory and wouldn't you know ...

As the Russian government announced new military mobilization decrees to reverse their faltering Ukraine campaign, the world has witnessed a...

Apropos of the controversy over Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) declaration that those who back "Israel's apartheid government...

At a forum hosted by the group American Muslims for Palestine, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) made waves by declaring that supporters of "Is...

In 2009, Marty Peretz called Avigdor Lieberman a fascist . My how the world turns. Today, of course, Lieberman is effectively a centrist fig...

It's abortion/privacy week right now in my Constitutional Law class ( Griswold  and Roe  today, Casey  and Dobbs on Thursday). After cla...

You may have seen the story bandying about the internet: "A tiny New Mexico Jewish community is trying to buy back its historic synagog...

I know it's not worth it to engage in Republican histrionics about how ranked choice voting is anti-majoritarian  after Democrats won an...

Shortly after the attempted assassination of Salmon Rushdie, a Denver University professor went on a podcast to opine on the assailant's...

Inspired no doubt by  recent news out of UC-Berkeley Law , Ken Stern published a column arguing that student groups have the right -- as des...

One of the Biden Administration's responses to the Dobbs  decision was to issue an interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and...

It's so nice to see Republicans finally showing the courage of their convictions, by not just making spurious Holocaust comparisons, but...