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Oct 14, 2026, 9:36 PM

Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Winner—AI?!

Seven years ago in an article entitled "Tectonic Shifts Adds Champagne to Million Dollar Math Prize, I declared in the Times of Israel (7-15-2019) that I’d gift a $1,000 bottle of champagne—aside from the million dollar prize offered by the...

Oct 14, 2026, 3:08 PM

Ramat Rachel’s Mysterious Waterworks: Two Discoveries in Jerusalem in Six Months

Ramat Rachel’s Water Mystery: Why Two Major Discoveries in Six Months Call for a Systemic Engineering Approach This week, the discovery of a roughly 2,000-year-old aqueduct south of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, was announced. The approximately 300-meter section...

Rafi Addlestone

Oct 9, 2026, 7:07 PM

The Fruit of Knowledge: AI, climate, and our children

In the opening chapters of Bereishit (Genesis), humanity makes a choice that alters the trajectory of existence. Adam and Eve eat from the Etz HaDa'at Tov VaRa—the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In an instant, their...

Rafi Addlestone

Oct 1, 2026, 5:50 PM

What Jonah knew that the climate movement doesn’t

Warnings only work when the fix is cheap, or the moral argument has been won. It's an odd thing to read on the holiest day of the year. Yom Kippur afternoon, the flattest hour, everyone tired and hungry and the...

Richard H. Schwartz

Sep 24, 2026, 10:15 AM

Sukkot: A Universal Holiday with a Message for Humanity

Sukkot commemorates the Israelites dwelling in temporary shelters during their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and is deeply rooted in Jewish history, Scripture, and tradition. Yet it also has an extraordinary universal dimension. Its teachings point beyond...

Sep 18, 2026, 7:07 PM

Baptism 2030: Israel, Jordan and Palestine Unlock Kahlat and the Copper Scroll?

Israel and Jordan Prepare for the 2,000th Anniversary of the Baptism: Could Academic Cooperation Reveal the Secrets of Kahlat and the Copper Scroll? The year 2030 will mark 2,000 years since the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River—an event...

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

Sep 18, 2026, 5:15 AM

You’re invited to join Jewish events at Climate Week NYC

There is something wonderful about New York Climate Week. For one week each year, New York becomes a gathering place for people from around the world who are determined to find solutions to one of the greatest challenges of our...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:30 PM

From Jerusalem to Jericho, Did Gold Classify Water Quality in the Copper Scroll?

From “Waters of Gold” to a Water Registry: The Linguistic Sources of the Copper Scroll The use of “gold” as a metaphor for exceptional quality, purity, and supreme value is familiar in modern Hebrew expressions such as “the golden age,”...

Sep 12, 2026, 5:03 PM

The High Holidays Climate Verdict: Ancient Mediterranean Survival in Warming Era

The High Holidays Climate Verdict

Every autumn, as the Jewish calendar pivots from the solemn introspection of Rosh Hashanah to the open-air vulnerability of Sukkot, tradition introduces a quiet, existential question. According to the Mishnah, it is during Sukkot that the world is judged...

Sep 9, 2026, 2:14 PM

Kahlat and the Hidden Archive of Section 60: Jordan River and Copper Scroll

Geographic Background and Identification Traditions: Ein Samiya versus Ein Kahlat Over the years, research on the Copper Scroll has examined several sites in an attempt to identify the mysterious location called “Kahlat.” Ein Samiya (in the Wadi Yitav system): The largest...

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