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Jun 4, 2026, 2:24 PM

Is the British Museum Falling Down?

Image developed with the help of Claude and ChatGPT's Glibatree app.

How the British Museum has been quietly erasing Jewish history The British Museum's cancellation (and subsequent postponement) of Paul Collins' talk on the history of ancient Israel has recently made headlines. Less reported is the fact that something much darker has...

Jun 4, 2026, 11:37 AM

Defiance or Daring

Many of our foundational stories serve as introductions to Zionism. Paradoxically, one of the most powerful of these emerges from the aftermath of the spies' mission.The Jews are swayed by the perturbing analysis of ten of the twelve spies,...

Jun 3, 2026, 8:07 PM

After the Sirens Came the AP Exams

Looking back at the nearly six weeks of missile alerts, sleepless nights, and bomb shelters in Israel, the greatest visible anxiety many of our students displayed this spring was not over the war. It was over AP exams. High school students, mostly from...

May 31, 2026, 9:25 AM

The Quiet Weight Israeli Children Are Carrying

In one Beit Shemesh classroom supported by JOIN Israel, an elementary school student tried to explain what the war years had felt like. “There was a war,” he said softly. “And I got scared… a little bit. It was hard....

May 29, 2026, 7:10 PM

What Nobel Laureate Yisrael Aumann Taught Me Beyond Game Theory

A Personal Reflection on the Man Who Taught Me the Meaning of True Mentorship On Sunday, May 17, I attended a workshop at the Center for the Study of Rationality on the Givat Ram campus, held in honor of Professor...

Joseph C. Kaplan

May 28, 2026, 8:46 PM

In Defense of Hissing – Part II

In the early 1980s, I attended two panel discussions on serious and controversial topics — one at the 92nd St. Y, moderated by Rabbi Dr. Arthur Green, and the other at Hebrew Union College, moderated by Rabbi Dr. Eugene...

Jaime Kardontchik

May 26, 2026, 4:21 AM

The land is ours: Jews are dhimmis

The front cover of my new books (Left: English edition, right: Spanish edition

My new book “The land is ours: Jews are dhimmi” is now in print. A Spanish edition, titled “La tierra es nuestra: Los judíos son dhimmis” is available as well. The audience for the book is students at K-12...

May 25, 2026, 3:25 AM

The Longer Repair

(image rendered by Ai- no photography on Shavuot)

There is a midrash that says the Israelites fell asleep the night before they received Torah at Sinai. They had been waiting, and they were tired, and so they slept. In the morning God had to wake them. Tikkun...

May 24, 2026, 11:42 PM

The New AI Command in Knowledge Work: The US-Iran Crisis Illustration

What is the prompt?

By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini This essay continues the exploration of using AI as a knowledge tool, covering a new prompt approach (thesis and inquiry for non-linear problems) and illustrated by applying it to the US-Iran conflict as...

May 20, 2026, 9:15 PM

The Wall That Wasn’t There: Consciousness, Method, and the Zeno Illusion

The Inability to Measure (AI generated image)

Consciousness is a target that the third-person perspective and method cannot face; consciousness is embedded in experience, a first-person perspective from which all targeting occurs. This essay emerged from an extended dialogue between myself and three AI systems. I wrote,...

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