This is the second column of a three-part series about the author’s recent trip to Israel. I want to begin by happily saying, ”I made it to Israel for the Evolve Hadassah Paced to Please trip! Unfortunately, due to flight cancelations, I…
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I Finally Made It to Israel and It was a Life-changing Adventure
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Queueing for Auschwitz
On the first morning of a seminar at the Auschwitz Memorial, I stepped out of the guesthouse to get breakfast and found myself staring at something my mind simply refused to process: a queue. Not a small line, not a manageable cluster of early…
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I Beg My Pardon
For many years, when allegations against Netanyahu surfaced for ill-judged behaviour, corrupt conduct and bribery, Netanyahu repeated the mantra: There was nothing. There is nothing. There will be nothing. Netanyahu stopped repeating the mantra…
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Israel’s Liver Cancer Fight Gets More Urgent
As CEO of an Israeli biotech startup focused on liver cancer treatment, I’ve spent years studying the global landscape of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — the most common form of liver cancer and one of the world’s deadliest malignancies….
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The many faces of Israel
The feelings about Israel range from seething hatred to absolute devotion, and they include many other feelings in between. There are probably not many entities on the planet that inspire such a complex and extreme range of emotions, and it’s…
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Understanding AI through a Torah Lens
Understanding AI through a Torah Lens Creating AI in the Image of Man When the Torah tells us that human beings were created b’tzelem Elohim — “in the image of God” (Genesis 1:26–27) — it does not explain what, exactly, that means….
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Quasi-Wars
American history teaches about the Quasi-War. This was also known as, “The Undeclared War with France.” Sometimes it is called the “Pirate Wars” and other times the “Half War.” Regardless, it was an undeclared Naval war between the…
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Early Humans Were Lighting Fire in England 400,000 Years Ago
Over 400,000 years ago, a species of early human was lighting fires in Suffolk, archaeologists reported on Wednesday in Nature.
The report on the hominins of prehistoric Barnham, apparently early Neanderthals, by was published in Nature. It is the…
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The Politics of Breasts in Ancient Greece and Rome
Greco-Roman society celebrated the penis as a man’s essential attribute, which came with privileges, power, social expectations, as well as responsibilities. This was a man’s world: everything was controlled and curated by the patriarchal system,…
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One year after Assad: Is the West celebrating a mirage?
December 8 marks the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and the arrival in power of Ahmed al-Sharaa. It is a date that many Western capitals celebrate as the beginning of a new era: a Syria finally turning toward…
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