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Dec 18, 2025, 2:17 PM

What Ahmed al Ahmed’s brave act tells us about human nature

Screengrab of Ahmed al Ahmed, 43-year-old fruit store owner, wrestling the weapon from one of the two gunmen who attacked a Hanukkah event at Sydney's Bondi Beach, December 14, 2025. (Footage from X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

A single act of courage punctures the old, worn-out trope that the world is defined by group conflict and self-interest

Mar 19, 2017, 2:44 AM

There is a woman in Portugal who is trying to develop an equation that will calculate “quantity of longing”. I met her last summer. She told me that it is the national sport there. Their whole history is based...

Apr 25, 2016, 12:10 AM

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An earthquake of life-changing magnitude

Blogger Iddo Gefen is one of the young Israelis taking a month-long break from their treks through Asia to help rebuild Nepalese communities devastated one year ago.

About Me

Iddo Gefen is a PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience at Columbia University and author of the novel 'Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory.' His Substack newsletter, Neuron Stories, connects neuroscience insights to human behavior and Jewish identity.