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Akiva Lane

Oct 15, 2023, 11:14 PM

The Gaza situation is truly a humanitarian crisis. It has 2.2 million people in an area 10 km wide by 41 km long. The economy is moribund, and the terrible conditions have given rise to a radical leadership. Here...

Jun 11, 2023, 2:07 PM

IsraeliGPT

Most of us have heard about ChatGPT that first came out November 30, 2022. It has taken the world by storm, conversing about any subject with what seems to be a very high level of education and knowledge. Every...

Nov 3, 2022, 9:41 AM

The Cosmic Connection

How Many Dimensions? How many dimensions are there? Until Einstein, people thought there were only 3 dimensions – height, width, and depth. Then Einstein came along and said that Time is a 4th dimension. Therefore, he said we live in...

Apr 20, 2022, 4:57 PM

When the Waters Broke

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This Friday is the seventh day of Pesach when we celebrate the splitting of the Red Sea, when the Jewish people completed their libration from Egypt. The Egyptians that were pursuing them drowned in the Red Sea, and the...

Oct 10, 2021, 12:48 PM

String Theory and the 7 Other Dimensions

For the last 30 years of his life, Albert Einstein tried to come up with a Unified Field Theory, to combine the equations of Gravity and Electromagnetism. Unfortunately, he failed. In 1984, two Jewish theoretical physicists – John Schwartz and...

Jun 11, 2021, 9:24 AM

Gideon Sa’ar’s Gambit

Moshe Milner / Government Press Office (Israel), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Change Government coalition, headed by Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett, has so many powerful vectors pushing and pulling in different directions that it’s hard to see how it can survive for very long. Its disparate members have contradictory...

Apr 22, 2021, 12:12 AM

Goats of Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur is a holy day. We spend the day in synagogue fasting, looking inside ourselves, and trying to repent. The parsha in Achrei Mos describes the service of the High Priest in the Temple on Yom Kippur. At...

Apr 11, 2021, 7:58 AM

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A modest proposal: Solving the elections logjam

Here's my plan for a stable government of at least 73 seats in a governing coalition - in which both Sa'ar and Netanyahu play key roles

About Me

Akiva Lane grew up in New York. He lived in Monsey with his family for 18 years, and made Aliyah to Ramat Beit Shemesh in 2004. He is a computer programmer — mainly connecting Java to mainframes — and is also an inventor, having invented and patented a perpetual calendar and a foldable bookstand - http://thinstand.com/ . He also has some interesting websites https://colwords.com/ , https://eflip.com/ & http://marocsoup.com/. He can be reached at akivalane@gmail.com