The Debate Link

It's a pretty common refrain, particularly among the people who have recently found themselves leopard chow : "I support cutting go...

When we last left off my artist's journey, I was making mediocre (and that's okay!) renditions of a fruit stand . But since then, I...

Well, my corneal hydrops are back . And just in time for me to get on a nine-hour flight to London with a four-month-old baby! I've done...

I've always been a lucid dreamer. I typically know when I'm dreaming, and am able to exert some level of control over the course of ...

The other day I was enmeshed in a Facebook thread, as one does, where a colleague was complaining about a post that equally condemned the Ca...

    Nathaniel turned four months old last week. And I’m already a proud papa. Of course, he isn’t really  doing that much right now. But why...

  I'm still learning about the fault lines of local Portland politics. Everyone is a Democrat here, so that's no help. We just compl...

Earlier this evening, two staffers with the Israeli embassy were shot and killed while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Wash...

As many of you know, one of the artists I collect (in fact, the artist who got me into art collecting) is Halim Flowers . Halim's backst...

Donald Trump has named a set of appointees to his newly formed Religious Liberty Commission. This article does a good job covering much of t...

Here's one of my least favorite evergreen internet donnybrooks: Person A: So-and-so isn't a real Christian [or insert identity here]...

Today was Jill's first Mother's Day as a mom. Tuesday, Jill returns to work after the end of her parental leave. The end of her leav...

Once, when I was in middle school, a friend and I saw a picture of a border guard from some eastern European country inside a Scholastic Mag...

One of the great traumas of my youth, as my mother tells it anyway, was when a favorite brand of gummy bear oatmeal was discontinued. It was...

The first I heard of wildfires in Israel, it was in the context of an allegation that the fires were the result of Israeli settlers committi...

Over the past year or so, I've developed a new passion and hobby in collecting art. I deeply resent this, since it flies in the face of ...

This is an infuriating story on many levels : The principal at The Madeleine School, a private Catholic school in Northeast Portland, summon...

In a generally interesting column about Israel's war aims in Gaza, Raviv Drucker writes : Today, the lust for revenge, an easy willingne...

Michael Gloss, a twenty-one year old American, was reported killed fighting for Russia in its war on Ukraine . This is news primarily becaus...

Tradition holds that there were 613 Commandments given to the Jews at Sinai. A more recent tradition, pioneered by Emil Fackenheim, identifi...