Florida, Cleveland…..What about Eretz Yisroel? For the 1.6 million Jews in the Big Apple, New York is not seeming like ‘home sweet home’ these days. 24 years after 9/11 and just two years after October 7th, the city of New York last week elected…
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Florida, Cleveland…. What about Eretz Yisroel?
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Not Unicorns, Just People Solving Real Problems
When people talk about “Startup Nation,” they usually picture Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv, funding rounds, and photos of founders standing in front of big screens. That story is true, but it’s not the whole story. There’s another layer of…
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Pushkin, the Queen of Sheba, and the Hidden Light of My Jewish Roots
By Rabbi Mikhail Salita, a Brooklyn rabbi with roots in Odesa, Ukraine Sometimes destinies intertwine in ways that even angels marvel at. My great-grandfather, a Podolian Hasid, was a friend and business partner of the grandson of the great…
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Democrats Must Confront Their Antisemitism Problem
In March 2022, I was interviewed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to discuss the rise of antisemitism across the political spectrum in the United States. I warned that the hostility towards Jewish Americans would only get worse. Fast forward…
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Meet the Jewish founder on track to build the world’s first one-person unicorn
For startup founders, reaching unicorn-status is often seen as the pinnacle of success, and a clear sign that one’s company has ‘made it’. For investors, these companies are correspondingly the crowning jewels of their fund’s…
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107 Years after the Armistice – the Ceasefire
Every year November 11 arrives with its familiar ritual quiet: ceremonies, wreaths, silence, the thin cry of the bugle. The date marks the armistice of 1918 – a ceasefire, not peace. The guns were ordered to stop. Men climbed out of trenches,…
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AI Critical Thinking Without Consciousness
AI Critical Thinking Without Consciousness: A Framework for Synthetic Cognition Abstract This paper argues that artificial intelligence (AI) systems already demonstrate functional critical thinking—defined as the ability to analyze, evaluate,…
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Dear Sweet Hadar Goldin and Dearest Oren Shaul
Is it really 11 years, I was at the university, and heard someone cry out as I was on the back steps, Prof Goldin’s boy was killed; and it was horror and the depth of horror becoming more true when watching him go to his…
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UN Resolution Formalizes Morocco’s Triumph and America’s North Africa Strategy
The United Nations Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2797 on October 31, 2025, marks the final nail in the coffin of the antiquated decolonization doctrine concerning the Western Sahara. This is not a subtle diplomatic footnote; it is a…
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