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A Slack message from one of the developers at 4:28 am local time. It reads

GIlbert!!

O. told me to ask you about unit 191

he said it’s someone you know? I”m asking because it generates a lot of errors related to the engines not…

Gimme a break.  What is going on in this crazy world?

Israel, United States, Turkey, and every Arab nation in the Middle East has taken a position against Iran. They are actually working together and cooperating to put Iran and its insane…

As the Winter Paralympics begin, I find myself reflecting on the resilience of Israel’s athletes – and the country they represent.

This week, as the Winter Paralympic Games open in Cortina, Italy, Israel will be represented by a single…

In the early days of 1979, Israeli diplomats in Tehran watched as crowds gathered outside of their embassy gates. For decades, they had lived quietly in the Iranian capital, part of a remarkably durable (albeit fraught) partnership between…

Let’s start with our physical world. The way we know things in life is that when we want to get from point A to point B we have to travel through space. The concept is clear way before Einstein detailed the three core concepts of our world:…

The Roman senator and orator Cato the Elder (real name: Marcus Porcius Cato) famously ended every speech with the Latin phrase Carthago delenda est (“Carthage must be destroyed”). He used this phrase to advocate for the total…

Russia, China, and North Korea’s Strategic Restraint in the Face of Iran’s Destruction

1. Introduction: The Axis That Did Not Hold

On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched what would become one of the most consequential…

Up until a few months ago, I lived in a small part of Edinburgh called Scotland. I lived there for 7 years – and during those 7 years, I and the other Jewish friend of mine experienced a sure, steady rise in antisemitic discrimination…

A Story for Children About a Brave but Worried Dog Who Heard Scary Sirens

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Dedicated to all of the children and all of the pets whose ears – wiggly, floppy, or otherwise – have picked up “the big, very loud but useful noise.”

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Is the Talmud destroying us today, the way the Beit Hamikdash destroyed us twice?

The creation of the Mishkan/Tabernacle was meant to be a project in which every single Israelite, male and female, high born and low, priest and pedestrian,…