Are Non-Jewish Actors Playing Jews In Movies A Good Idea?
The Odd Attack Ad Against Sanders
So just to sum up the state of the Democratic race in the first week of primaries: Jewish donors are attacking a Jewish candidate for being too old to run, and a Jewish candidate is calling out Jewish donors for being part of a “big money” billionaire class. It can only go downhill from her.
Debate | Should Jews Support Leaders Who Lie? | No
The simple answer would be no. It depends partly on how you define lies.
Debate | Should Jews Support Leaders Who Lie? | Yes
Yitzhak Shamir once said that for the safety and security of the State of Israel, one can lie.
How the Harvard Professor with Great Hair Blew Up Twitter
Whether these other conversations, about his celebrity look-a-like and Jewish roots, eclipsed the impeachment conversation probably depends on which Twitter world one inhabits—the one that shows up for the news or the one that shows up solely for the memes.
A year-end letter from Nadine
Debate | Are Colleges Overprotecting Their Students? | No
The university context is special, because students have a status that allows the university to regulate them qua students—which is very different from the relationship between a citizen and the state.
Debate | Are Colleges Overprotecting Their Students? | Yes
Not only does the university not have the right, or the power, to educate students in what it thinks is civil or not civil; doing so is contrary to the goal of a liberal arts education.
It’s Stephen Miller Time
The pressure was building, and Donald Trump didn’t like it one bit. It was the spring of 2017, and the still-new president was growing ever angrier. “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Trump blurted out in frustration.
Opinion | The Elephant in the Impeachment Inquiry
With Syria in turmoil, the Kurds in flight and its own government in prolonged limbo, the last thing Israel probably wants to worry about right now is an American impeachment process.