It’s never been done before—but it can be done… A Harris appointment would make the most out of the opportunity by putting a Black woman on the Supreme Court for the first time in history and giving the seat to a known quantity.

…if the Harris-to-Supreme Court chatter was a fantasy, what was revealing was that such an extreme scenario was running through Democratic Party circles at all, and has continued in the days since — not just on social media, but among the party’s professional and political ranks.

Here are three things I’ve suggested that Joe Biden could do to save his train wreck of a presidency. First get U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, to retire. All right, that is done. Now nominate Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place.

And then name Hillary Clinton, 74, to take Kamala’s place.

This investigation has the potential to rock Israel’s political class, the law enforcement establishment, the intelligence community and Israel’s foreign relations. As a result, it is unlikely to go very far.

Like Watergate, which started with one small innocuous story and snowballed, the Pegasus scandal – which began last month with a story that the spyware was used locally in a couple of anonymous cases – has now mushroomed to grotesque proportions.

For the police, the Pegasus scandal is just another detail, while for the average citizen, it feeds the existing growing concern felt by many in the Western world. Concern about technology being used to uncontrollably violate our privacy.

The passage of such a law — especially after the incredible brouhaha over the publication of Amnesty International’s report (“Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians”) — only serves to confirm charges of institutionalized discrimination by Israel against Palestinians…

The citizenship law coalition provides a glimpse of the sanity that could have been had it not encountered the endless cynicism of the nothing party heads propping up this government.

The Citizenship and Entry Into Israel Law was always justified with security excuses, but it has no real connection with security.

Far beyond military and defense goals, the accords have already seen great progress from the collaborations in fighting the pandemic to academic partnerships, cultural exchanges, and educational programs.

It appears the Abraham Accords weren’t just a gimmick of the Trump administration. It also appears that those who believed these Gulf States would lose interest in the agreements upon Biden’s arrival in the White House and even engage in rapprochement with Iran were wrong.

…the question remains: Is formal Arab recognition an acknowledgement of Israel’s strategic prowess as a potential ally against Iran and its export of revolution? Or is it simply a sellout of the Palestinians…? Or both?

For me, this story can’t be fully understood until one reads the teacher’s blog post. Her views are not merely “antizionist.” They are delusional. She accuses Israel of genocide and refuses to capitalize “Israel,” and blames Israel for police violence in US.

Imagine if the American Cancer Foundation realized that one of their employees is a pro-smoking activist and fired them, would the NYT write an article about it? Just curious.

This is what solidarity looks like, and what we in the Jewish community call “chutzpah”. No one should ever get fired for standing up for what’s right…

When Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk published “The Books of Jacob” in Poland in 2014, she drew critical acclaim from the Polish left and an intense backlash from the country’s right-wing.

That reaction has only intensified in the years since, as the novel — a nearly 1,000-page journey into the life of a Jewish messianic cult leader — was translated into several languages including Hebrew, became a global phenomenon and helped win its author the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In “Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love,” a sendup of the socialists, anarchists and intellectuals who populated New York’s Lower East Side in the early 20th century, Miriam Karpilove writes from the perspective of a sardonic young woman frustrated by the men’s advocacy of unrestrained sexuality and their lack of concern about the consequences for her.

…novels, like representational art, are not particularly conducive to abstraction. Irony, intended or not, is baked into the endeavor of novel writing. So is empathy. At the very least, there’s supposed to be a story that provides human interest and a world of sensuous objects for the reader’s pleasure, not the coldness of a created universe where God, as the Canadian Jewish novelist Sheila Heti’s apparently omniscient narrator in Pure Colour puts it, “has decided that the first draft of existence contained too many flaws” and is preparing its destruction.