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Ibrahim Mukherjee

Oct 30, 2026, 5:29 PM

Most important productivity hack – PAUSE Protocol.

The Most Valuable Advice for Modern Life Slow down. Reprioritize. Think clearly. What neuroscience teaches us about managing stress, protecting working memory, and making better decisions. Imagine an ordinary working morning. You open your laptop. There are 43 unread emails, seven messages...

Oct 27, 2026, 4:23 PM

My Second Week Of Teaching Hebrew In Laqiya: Elections

Teaching material

Since we teach at the junior high school in Laqiya on Mondays, our lesson this week took place yesterday, the day before the general election. Since we have no common language, either literally or symbolically, it is hard to...

Oct 26, 2026, 6:55 PM

The Jews American Screens Never Show

A few nights before my wedding, my mom painted my palms with henna. I wore the keswa el kbira, the “great dress,” a deep burgundy skirt and bodice made of velvet, heavy with gold embroidery. Jews expelled from Spain carried...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Oct 23, 2026, 11:37 AM

Ignorance Is Not Strength: The Dangerous State of History Education

I'm a historian trained at Saint Mary's College, The University of Notre Dame, and the University of Edinburgh. My areas of expertise are modern Europe, including colonialism and Irish history as well as the Holocaust. My research often explores...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 23, 2026, 8:18 AM

In a few days Israel holds its elections. I’m not one for hyperbole, but this promises/threatens to be the most fateful election in the country’s history. That’s not just me saying this: my academic colleagues (and numerous non-academic individuals...

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Oct 22, 2026, 9:28 PM

My First Patient: My Worst Impression

"First impressions are the most important."- (18th century proverb) She was never really my patient. I never learned her name; I didn't diagnose her or treat her. I barely spoke to her. But it was my first day of medical school...

Sheldon Kirshner

Oct 21, 2026, 8:53 PM

New Syrian School Textbooks Demonize Jews, Israel

Syria was thrust into a new era toward the end of December in 2024 with the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's secular Baathist regime and his replacement by an Islamist political order led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former...

Oct 21, 2026, 8:03 PM

The First Week of Teaching Hebrew In Laquia

Inside the school

Since the orientation meeting at the school in Laqiya, I had been apprehensive about my upcoming assignment to speak Hebrew with students in 7th and 8th grades once a week. During the previous week, I kept thinking about ways...

Robert Lichtman

Oct 20, 2026, 6:48 PM

The Federations we need now

Credit: Robert Lichtman

Dear Federations, I have known you for most of my adult life. One of my first interactions with you was in the mid-1970s when my friends and I would drive from Queens College into Brooklyn to operate a storefront on...

Oct 19, 2026, 12:21 AM

Figuring Out AI: Two Axes, Two Systems, Two Environments

Illuminating AI

By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini A Note for Those Asking What AI Is People who ask "What is AI?" usually expect a single answer. There is no single answer. "AI" is a name for a family of computer systems...

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