Column blames left for radicalizing the ultra-Orthodox First Tavi. Now Bebe. Who's next? How Israel thwarted the second Gaza flotilla No word on whether it moves west down Ventura Boulevard That was the half-year that was, on The Scroll  | |  When Yale shuttered its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism last month, critics saw anti-Israel political correctness. But the project may simply have been a casualty of the university's global ambitions. Charles Small remembers the precise moment when the fate of his Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism, known by its acronym YIISA and pronounced "yeesa," was sealed. On August 23 last year, he was preparing to give the welcoming address at the largest academic conference ever convened on the subject of anti-Semitism, a conference he had meticulously planned for over a year. Some 500 people were in the audience to attend the three-day event, "Global Anti-Semitism: A Crisis of Modernity," including more than 100 academics from 18 countries working in 20 academic disciplines. While the conference featured panels like "Christianity and Antisemitism" and "Law, Modernity and Antisemitism," the clear thrust of the confab was to shine a light on contemporary Islamic anti-Semitism, with a particular focus on the declared enemies of the State of Israel. Small, a lecturer at Yale, was sitting between his parents, who had traveled from Montreal to witness their son's crowning professional achievement. Before he rose to speak, Small's mother turned to him. "Charles, Yale must be so proud of you," she said. "You can stay here the rest of your career." More  | The Dutch parliament moved last week to prohibit the ritual slaughter of animals, putting the notoriously tolerant Netherlands on a path to ban a practice key to both Jewish and Muslim observance More BY LAUREN COMITEAU |  | I’ve always had a frosty relationship with my testicles. Last month I turned 41, and now I’m convinced that they’re more trouble than they’re worth. More |  | Terrence Malick's new film—a cinematic meditation on God, grace, and the wretchedness of man—is an important and masterful work of art. It's also the least Jewish film ever made. More | |
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