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May 15, 2026, 6:50 PM

Navy Whaleboat: From Port Jefferson and New Bedford to Israel’s Exodus Legacy

From the Palyam to Hadassah Neurim: The Whaleboat Returns to Israel. Quietly, inside the Hadassah Neurim youth village along Israel’s coastal highway, an unusual maritime project is taking shape these days: the first authentic historical whaleboat ever to be built...

May 9, 2026, 7:37 PM

UAP: Trump, Congress, Pentagon Push NASA and Science Toward AI and Fuzzy Logic

Image: Trump UFO Files Released. Historical FBI composite image of a reported UFO sighting released by the U.S. Department of War.Source: U.S. Government Archives.

Turning Anomalies Into Science The release of UAP documents by the Pentagon and the White House could transform the discussion around unidentified phenomena from a debate driven by belief and skepticism into a research field based on AI, fuzzy logic,...

May 6, 2026, 12:58 AM

Why I Chose to Build My Future in Israel’s South

A poster created by Koby Levy and his fellow soldiers, featuring the faces of their platoon members who were killed on October 7th. Photo courtesy of Koby Levy.

On the morning of October 7th, 2023, I woke up at an IDF base near the Gaza border expecting an ordinary day. Within minutes, that illusion shattered. I was serving in the 7th Armored Brigade, stationed between Kibbutz Nahal Oz and...

Mar 22, 2026, 12:06 AM

Noa Argamani in London

Noa Argamani in London (c) Yoav Picherski

Close to a thousand people packed London’s St John’s Wood Synagogue this week to hear Noa Argamani speak. On October 7th 2023, Noa and her boyfriend Avinatan Or were at the Nova music festival in Israel’s western Negev when Hamas...

Mar 10, 2026, 7:02 PM

A Mother and Daughter’s Century of Jewish Communal Service

Eden Aaronson (left) and Claire Winick at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva. Photo courtesy of Claire Winick.

The following essay is a reflection, from the joint perspective of my daughter and I, on our combined 100 years of service in the Jewish community. When we recently sat down to compare notes—not accomplishments, not titles, just years—we paused,...

Jan 27, 2026, 10:14 AM

Repairing Israel And The World: One Body At A Time

Long ago, a king owned a beautiful diamond. One day, his deeply cherished gem crashed to the ground and suffered a deep crack. He searched desperately throughout his kingdom for someone who could restore the gem. A beggar stepped...

Theodore Sheskin

Jan 16, 2026, 11:39 AM

Choose Negev for Settlers Removed from West Bank

If Israel, exhausted by war, is ever to replace the fragile ceasefire in Gaza with a lasting peace with the Palestinians, then Israel must accept the urgency of negotiating a two-state solution, and begin preparations to achieve one. This...

Jan 7, 2026, 3:08 PM

Rethinking Crohn’s Care: Prevent the Fire Early

Crohn’s disease is a companion no one chooses. It is chronic, unpredictable, and often invisible-until the moment it erupts. For the more than 10 million people worldwide living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the greatest burden is not only...

Nov 23, 2025, 1:08 AM

NASA Watch as EU (ESA) Moves First in the 3I/ATLAS Planetary Defense Drill

Image: captured by NASA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The frame shows the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS passing above Mars in early October, appearing as a blurred white sphere due to extreme motion during exposure.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (Public Domain).

In early October, NASA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a rare and puzzling sight: the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS passing above Mars. The raw frame shows a heavily blurred “white sphere,” distorted by extreme motion during exposure...

Nov 19, 2025, 7:19 AM

Israel’s Space Power, Commercial Gap

Ofek 19 proves Israel’s edge. Now it must build a civilian engine worthy of it I felt that familiar quickening in the chest when the news broke: Ofek 19 had not only reached orbit, it had begun whispering back its...

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