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The real danger lies in the architecture, not the words — a response to Stephen Witt’s NYT article

When The New York Times published Stephen Witt’s “The AI Prompt That Could End the World” (October 10, 2025), it sounded like the…

In the beginning, before bewilderment and brilliance braided themselves into one story, the family of Terach stood whole. Terach fathers three sons: Avram, Nahor, and Haran. From Haran come three children: Lot, Milcah, and Yiscah; the sages…

Part 2 of a two-part essay: Read Part 1 here:

Why Israel’s art world is afraid of honest criticism

The Walk through Jerusalem

The artist talk had ended, but the air in the gallery still felt crowded—with words, with certainty, with…

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

How the continuous Jewish presence in the Land of Israel has shaped the Jewish experience worldwide to this day

Jews today are often challenged on the historical connection of the Jewish People with the…

The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours, climate scientists said. Melissa is currently a Category 5 storm, the highest category, with sustained wind…

Seven years have passed since that terrible morning in Pittsburgh when a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue and murdered eleven Jews at prayer, the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. For those of us in the Jewish…

The stakes are high for the first official meeting between Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi – – the country’s first female to hold the office – – and President Trump today in Tokyo.

Key to the meeting will be for Prime…

Donald Trump has gone bankrupt more times than most nations survive wars. His “empire” — a string of hollowed-out towers, shuttered casinos, and unpaid contractors — is a monument to illusion. Now he wants to roll those same instincts…

This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York City to report on issues that affect their lives.

As a teen reporter I…

Israel today presents a most curious value schism. Respecting our Ancient Values, there are sustained efforts to uncover sites & items of archaeological significance; from prior Jewish ‘CommonWealths’ [1st:(Northern/Southern Kingdoms)…