Robert S. Rubin

Lexi Held is makin' her mark in the desert 🌵 The newcomer is the Mercury’s third-leading scorer behind AT and Satou—helping Phoenix to a strong 6-4 start and the 4-seed in the standings. She’s also scored the most points by a Mercury rookie through their first 10 games since Brittney Griner. Watch her take the court as the Mercury host the Wings tonight at 10pm/ET on League Pass.

@robertakwall @PublishersWkly @BloomsburyBooks @go_literary Mazal tov!

Announced today in @PublishersWkly my book deal with @BloomsburyBooks for “POLARIZED: Why American Jews Are Divided And What to do About It”. October 2026! Excited to work with editor@richardbrownsc and my agent @go_literary

You don’t get that a pregnant woman in Israel on the way to have her baby and a couple outside a DC Jewish museum and 380 ppl at a music festival and 11 ppl in a Pittsburgh synagogue and 4 ppl in a French supermarket and 3 ppl at a Kansas JCC were all killed for the same reason?

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were just murdered in cold blood. These two young staffers from the Israeli Embassy were shot and killed outside a Jewish event in Washington, DC. They had just left a humanitarian gathering at the Capital Jewish Museum—an event focused on turning pain into purpose. One of them had just bought a ring. He was planning to propose next week in Jerusalem. The shooter opened fire at close range. As he was arrested, he chanted, “Free Palestine.” Let’s be clear: this wasn’t resistance. This wasn’t protest. This was cold-blooded murder. And it didn’t happen in a war zone. It happened on the steps of a Jewish museum, in the capital of the United States, during an event centered on cross-faith cooperation and aid. This is where we are. Peaceful protest stops being peaceful the moment it gives cover to violent ideology—because violence always follows. If your rhetoric dehumanizes Jews, if your cause requires you to cheer for murder, if your silence excuses the killing of a young couple simply for being Israeli and Jewish—then your movement isn’t about justice. It’s about vengeance. We are seeing a dangerous trend: the line between political cause and murderous hate is blurring—and too many people are letting it happen. They’re rationalizing it. Justifying it. Even glorifying it. Don’t. There is no cause that justifies walking up to innocent people and shooting them point blank. There is no context that makes this okay. There is no justice in hate. This isn’t a post about policy. This is a post about basic human decency. So if you believe in coexistence, in dignity, in compassion for all people—then now is the time to speak up. Not only against the murderers, but against the narratives that breed them. Against the movements that excuse them. Against the voices that fuel them. Because when you normalize hate, this is where it leads. May Yaron L. and Sarah Milgrim rest in peace.

"Like other forms of bigotry, the problem of anti-Jewish prejudice will not be resolved by its targets. Anti-Semitism will not be expunged by the 0.2 percent of the world that is Jewish, but by the 99.8 percent that is not." theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Venomous, untrue statements about Israel, its supporters, and the war against Hamas in Gaza have chipped away at the old taboo against open antisemitism in America. Constant demonization of American Jews and Zionists is how a democratic state and its supporters have been made into targets. It is how the “permission structure” for violence against Jews in America has been erected. Growing up, learning about Simon of Trent or other medieval blood libels, I wondered how something so unnatural, so deranged, could ever happen. How lies could spread so far, transmogrify into a movement, infect culture so comprehensively, and engender deadly action. Those who participate in this culture of lies and who now want to distance themselves from yesterday’s violence will insist that the alleged killer’s acts do not represent them. That it harms their movement. But how can anyone honest with themselves not draw a connection between a culture that says Zionists are anti-humans—even Nazis themselves—and the terrorists now attacking Jews across the globe?

FLORIDA WINS THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

@bungarsargon @unherd She did write a book that goes into the details of her childhood and the values that she acquired from parents and others.

Listening to Michelle Obama's new podcast, I kept wishing I could hear her parents' advice for struggling families. Instead, we get a podcast that caters to rich women and gatekeeps the secrets that led to Michelle's success. My latest @unherd: unherd.com/2025/03/michel…

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I resigned from the American Psychological Association last year after 43 years of membership. Sally Satel ⁦@slsatel⁩ explains the reason - takeover (and ruination) of scholarly & civil-society institutions by illiberal radicals. thefp.com/p/american-psy…

We're starting a unique BA in Economics and Public Policy here at Shalem College. We're looking for a Chair. Details about Shalem and the program we are building here: Call for Applications: Head of Program (in development) for Economics and Public Policy Studies Shalem College provides outstanding students with a foundation for developing the intellectual, cultural, and ethical qualities they need, both as individuals and citizens, for meaningful and purposeful lives and to contribute to the prosperity of the State of Israel and Israeli society. The college offers a dual-major framework: a demanding Core Curriculum that all students take together along with three departments for the second part of the dual major: Middle East and Islamic Studies, Strategy, Diplomacy and Security, and General Philosophy and Jewish Thought. During their studies, students acquire practical skills in deep reading, measured speech, respectful listening, logical reasoning, and clear writing. They also develop liberating habits of critical thinking, intellectual humility, self-awareness, and sound judgment, giving them the ability to deal with complex problems, free from the constraints of simplistic solutions. (Information about Shalem College can be found at shalem.ac.il.) The college seeks to identify a Program Head to establish a unique and groundbreaking bachelor's degree program in Economics and Public Policy. The program's goal is to train graduates with deep economic intuition and the ability to apply economic thinking in public policy. They will understand market forces, the impact of incentives, unintended consequences, and trade-offs between different objectives. As students, they will learn to think about data in a deep and sophisticated way, with emphasis on causality, diverse analytical tools, and the limitations of empirical certainty in a complex world. After completing the program, they will be able to contribute to Israeli discourse on central public policy challenges and understand and critique proposed solutions to these challenges. Candidates must meet the following minimum requirements: • PhD in relevant fields and academic rank of at least Senior Lecturer, with preference for Professor rank • Proven academic and research reputation and deep interest in economics and/or public policy • Commitment to excellence in teaching • Full proficiency in Hebrew and English Initially, the Program Head will be involved in the program's development. Upon receiving approval from the Council for Higher Education, the Program Head will formally assume the position and must commit to being employed by Shalem College for at least three years from the program's launch. To apply, candidates should write to the Search Committee at EPPcandidates@shalem.ac.il by March 31, 2025 and attach: • CV in standard academic format • List of academic publications • Cover letter explaining why the candidate is interested in the position The Search Committee, headed by Prof. Russ Roberts, President of Shalem College, will conduct initial screening of candidates, at its sole discretion, and is not obligated to invite all candidates for interviews. The committee may request references from candidates. The Search Committee reserves the right to proactively approach potential candidates, even if they haven't applied. The Search Committee has sole discretion in selecting and matching candidates to the position. The committee will maintain candidates' discretion throughout the search process.

And now, continuing the action! Max Strus | #LetEmKnow

@deanbphillips Please run for president again!

Americans deserve honesty. It was shameful and electorally disastrous for Democrats to pretend Biden was up to the task, and to deny economic pain & the border/immigration crisis. Denying waste, poor ROIs, weak management, and inefficiencies in government is similarly disastrous. Only by cooperating w/DOGE can we possibly save, reform, and strengthen the Dept of Education and USAID - the most humane and effective nat’l security tool in our arsenal.

Ballo ripped that right out of the air 😤 @IndianaMBB

DePaul - Ghost, Rip STS Action

Which teams should shoot more 3s? ...and which less? 🤔

@EYakoby @DouglasKMurray @coldxman @bariweiss @DrMichaelOren @SalmanRushdie The Ratline by Sands War of Return by wilf and Schwartz Palestine 1936 by Kessler

My reading list for 2024: The War on the West - @DouglasKMurray The End of Race Politics - @coldxman Churchill, Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts How to Fight Antisemitism - @bariweiss America in Retreat - Brett Stephens Ally - @DrMichaelOren Knife - @SalmanRushdie The 33 Strategies of War - @RobertGreene Stand-Up Nation - @AvivaKlompas The Strange Death of Europe - @DouglasKMurray Woodrow Wilson, The Light Withdrawn - Christopher Cox The Parasitic Mind - @GadSaad The Churchill Complex - Ian Buruma One Jewish State - @DavidM_Friedman 2048 - @DrMichaelOren 1984 - George Orwell Woke Inc - @VivekGRamaswamy 12 Rules for Life - @jordanbpeterson Free Your Mind - Laura Dodsworth The First Amendment Book - Wagman Hillybilly Elegy - @JDVance

@Yair_Rosenberg EMES!

A seasonal reminder that "latkes vs. hamantashen" is a trick question and the answer is actually "sufganiyot."

Embrace it. #BlueGrit 🔵😈

Up at the half. Halftime score presented by @Aries_Charter #BlueGrit 🔵😈