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Sep 16, 2026, 3:19 PM

Young Faces. Infinite Ripples.

* The original photograph of one of the venues was converted into a pencil drawing, with facial features intentionally softened to preserve the anonymity of the individuals pictured.

Over the past week, I have had the privilege of speaking with more than 2400 students about September 11. I entered each room believing I was there to share something with them. I left each one realizing that, in...

Chaim Y. Botwinick

Sep 15, 2026, 6:32 PM

The Real Value of AI in Education: Returning Teachers to Teaching

For the last 20 years, every conversation about technology in education followed the same script: A new tool arrives, we fear it will replace teachers, we ban it, and then we slowly adopt it as a glorified textbook. Artificial Intelligence...

Sep 15, 2026, 3:17 AM

Truth and Fiction about AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement

Self-improvement

And what a story about an alien zoo reveals about recursive self-improvement By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini Argument about recursive self-improvement is loud, and very little of it is about evidence. It is about process. Everyone in the argument...

Sep 15, 2026, 12:37 AM

For the last four years, Roger, Mark, and I have been meeting at 9:00 am on Friday mornings for our chevrutah learning. Our shared study has sought to find meaning in an array of texts. Learning is not an exact...

Silas Anastacio

Sep 13, 2026, 11:49 PM

Exclusive: Laura Feldman on CIP’s 90-Year Legacy and Future Vision

Laura Feldman, President of the Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP), reflects on the challenges of preserving Jewish identity in a changing world, the importance of dialogue, and the legacy her generation hopes to leave as the institution approaches its centennial. Founded...

Sep 13, 2026, 9:26 PM

The End of the Startup Nation?

The Soviet Union, formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a country composed of 15 units known as republics. Among these republics was Russia, which was the largest, most populous, and most dominant of the...

Sep 12, 2026, 11:32 AM

The report card no one sees

Personal archive

In Israel, I learned to measure my children’s education not only by their grades, but also by how they navigate the country, cook a meal – and deal with war

Orly Lavi Travish

Sep 12, 2026, 11:01 AM

Between memory and history

9/11

My Hebrew students weren’t alive on September 11, 2001. If memory is to survive as more than a date in a textbook, I have to teach them the vocabulary to pass it on

Charles E. Savenor

Sep 11, 2026, 1:25 AM

Standing Up for Each Other

Rosh Hashanah poses a question that is at once deeply personal and profoundly communal: Can we change? The holiday’s prayers and our selichot insist that we can. We are not prisoners of habit, reputation, or past mistakes. Yet the Torah...

Daniel R. Weiss

Sep 9, 2026, 6:21 AM

Who Will Teach Our Children?

Photo Credit: Zachary Orsborn, Director of Marketing and Communication, Bornblum Jewish Community Schoo

Who will teach our children Torah? I do not ask that as a complaint, or at least I am trying not to. I ask it as the most stubborn, practical question that lands on my desk, usually in late spring...

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