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I saw the headline of an article in The Forward this week that made me stop scrolling. It detailed a gathering of Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) rabbis making a theological case against Artificial Intelligence. It was a good read.

One quote, in…

Moral Courage in the Senate: A Perspective from Jewish Tradition and Behavioral Science

When Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified before Congress in November 2019, delivering his now-famous assurance to his father: “Dad, do not worry, I…

The weeks are passing quickly in Merhavim, and soon I will begin my third month. While it is true that time flies here, sometimes at school it seems as if it has stopped altogether. This was one of the reasons I initially hesitated to teach….

For this column, we’ll put aside all of President Trump’s character issues, which we have discussed endlessly and focus on two of his policies which endanger life on the planet.

The first could shorten making the Earth uninhabitable while…

Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights leader who died on February 17 at the age of 84, had a mercurial relationship with the Jewish community in the United States.

An ordained Baptist minister who was born and came of age when segregation…

Today Trump said that there are good talks with Iran. So on the one hand it sounds like he wants to make a deal. On the other hand, he is moving a lot of military equipment into the region. What will he do?

Here’s a theory: At first Trump…

I first came home at 15.

I was on a teen tour, crushing on boys and trying to fit in with other kids. Much of that summer was spent trying to get drunk and score hash from Bedouin in the desert while getting tan and hiking under a wide,…

Before rushing toward a confrontation between the United States and Iran, it is worth pausing to consider the consequences — not only the conduct of the conflict itself, but the regional order that would emerge the day after.

Rather than…

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck southern Iran on February 19, 2026, at 7:13 a.m. local time, with its epicenter 35 kilometers southwest of Mohr in Fars province. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers, sending strong shakes…

There is a peculiar species of modern moralist who treats war not as a tragedy to be understood, but as a stage upon which to perform indignation. Kenneth Roth’s recent lament in The Guardian is a near-perfect specimen of this genus: a…