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Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 18, 2026, 4:42 AM

The New Golden Calf – Submitting to AI.

The New Golden Calf: When AI Becomes an Idol The danger of artificial intelligence is not that it becomes human. The greater danger may be that humans begin treating it as something more than human. The Qur’anic story of Moses عليه السلام...

Aug 17, 2026, 7:57 PM

Understanding the Information War

For most of Israel's history, the battle over international opinion was fought within a relatively centralized information environment. Newspapers, broadcast television, wire services, academic publishers, and a limited number of institutions served as the principal gatekeepers of public knowledge....

Rebecca Schiller

Aug 17, 2026, 6:48 PM

Take It or Leave It – Overdraft and All

We’re about to enter the High Holidays. Rosh Hashanah is supposed to be about new beginnings. At least I hope it is. I’ve been thinking a lot about Adam and Eve and that red apple. They were tricked into eating...

Aug 17, 2026, 6:23 PM

In Defense of Ethical AI Use: A Response

Rabbi Rachel Barenblat recently published a thoughtful essay on her blog, Velveteen Rabbi, called “The words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart (or: why I refuse AI)”⁠. She offers seven reasons she chooses not to use...

Aug 17, 2026, 11:48 AM

Will 2,000 years of Jewish survival teach AI how to adapt?

Earlier this month, NVIDIA released the weights of Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial use, putting advanced driving intelligence within reach of more companies. The license permits use, modification, and commercial redistribution without a model-license fee. I thought it might be...

Michael Bresler

Aug 17, 2026, 12:00 AM

What If We Made Jewish Life Easier?

Some of the most meaningful moments in Jewish life come with a surprising amount of logistics. Some could call it painful A bar or bat mitzvah. A wedding. The High Holidays. A family celebration. We want to remember the people, the prayers, the music,...

Aug 16, 2026, 4:45 PM

Quantum Security Is About More Than Encryption

When organizations begin preparing for the Quantum Era, the conversation usually starts in the same place: encryption. And for good reason, much of the digital world depends on cryptographic systems built around mathematical problems that are extremely difficult for today's...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 16, 2026, 7:18 AM

Israel Needs a Drone Army—Before the Next War

At the Combined Resolve exercise in Germany this spring, Ukrainian drone operators faced US forces and reportedly detected and simulated strikes against American troops and armored vehicles so effectively that exercise controllers had to return “destroyed” units to the...

Aug 16, 2026, 12:39 AM

AI and Teaching Jewish Civilization: Is an Enemy Needed?

Teaching Jewish Civilization

The Argument That Needs an Enemy: What happens when you forbid a machine to mention our enemies by Joe Nalven, with Claude Dara Horn reports that most American students, if they learn about Jews at all, learn only that Jews were...

Joseph P. Rhinewine

Aug 15, 2026, 9:42 AM

Roger Waters Was Right About Technology

I have loved Pink Floyd since I was ten years old. At 56, I remain a devotee, especially of the frisson-and-trance-inducing body of work they produced from 1966 through 1975. I love the playful prodromal psychosis of Syd Barrett’s...

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