Michael Millenson, at The Blogs

Michael Millenson

Asker of tough questions, ally of ideals

Sep 14, 2025, 5:00 PM

I Asked AI Chatbots To Make a Jewish New Year’s Card (Oy!)

When it came to making a simple Rosh Hashanah card, AI Rabbi Ari outdid the most famous chatbots in the world

The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT and its various competitors comprise some of the most advanced software ever built. So how hard could it be for a chatbot to produce a Rosh Hashanah card? The answer, it turns out is: really,...

May 6, 2025, 12:08 AM

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My Mom at Hitler’s bunker and other untold stories

What was it like for Charlotte to come face-to-face with the Fuhrer's war minister? What questions was she allowed to ask?

Dec 22, 2021, 1:30 AM

In today’s Israel, could Jesus have stayed Jewish?

There’s a Christmastime question that’s always nagged at me: could we Jews have spared ourselves millennia of tsuris if Jesus and his followers had stayed Jewish? Had Jesus lived in today’s Israel, would he be famous as the charismatic founder...

About Me

Michael L. Millenson has been active in the Jewish community his entire life and spent his junior year abroad at Hebrew University. A former Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter for the Chicago Tribune, he has written on Jewish topics for outlets as diverse as Sh'ma, Present Tense, The Forward, the Chicago Jewish News and HuffPo.

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