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Aug 31, 2026, 3:32 AM

It’s Later Than You Think

AI generated image for playground with snow

At the funeral, the only fully living person in the room is dead. His photograph looks down upon government officials who are breathing, drinking and arguing, but who have surrendered so completely to habit and hierarchy that they appear...

Aug 26, 2026, 4:43 AM

The Great Data Center Kerfuffle of 2026

Google Data Center, Council Bluffs Iowa

“Moshe, America is in a kerfuffle. And this kerfuffle has a name: The Great Data Center Backlash of 2026. Turn on TikTok, and you'll see that data centers are this week's boogeymen. Yes, those huge collections of networked computer...

Aug 24, 2026, 5:21 AM

Claim the Real World

Before every role, there stands a human being My father was a family doctor. When I was a boy, he sometimes brought me on house calls, and I carried his black doctor’s bag. I thought there was magic inside it...

Sheldon Kirshner

Aug 22, 2026, 5:35 PM

Scheherazade And The Kosher Delight

Agnes Caffin's Scheherazade And The Kosher Delight is a lesson in the limits of tolerance. Presented free of charge on line by the Toronto Jewish Film Foundation, this unusual French movie mainly unfolds in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Paris. Although...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Aug 21, 2026, 12:34 AM

Light Had Learned to Remember

For thousands of years human beings made images in order to retain what could not remain. A face was carved in stone, painted on a wall, written into an icon, impressed upon a coin. Photography intensified this possibility during...

Aug 7, 2026, 6:14 PM

Nolan’s Odyssey, Israel’s Nostos

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Like the mythical Greek hero, Israelis since October 7 have been navigating endless obstacles to reach the feeling of safety we call 'home'

Sheldon Kirshner

Jul 31, 2026, 7:04 PM

Marty Supreme: A Portrait Of A Table Tennis Star

Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, released last year and now available on Amazon Prime, is ostensibly about the American ping pong star Marty Reisman. It pays far more attention to his inclinations as a hustler rather than to his talent...

Sheldon Kirshner

Jul 21, 2026, 5:48 PM

Above Suspicion

Nazi villains were a staple of early 1940s Hollywood movies, especially after the United States' entry into World War II following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Above Suspicion, a 122-minute film released by MGM in 1943 and broadcast on the...

Jul 20, 2026, 6:20 PM

From Blade Runner to Terminator to Gattaca: Science Fiction as a Factual Warning

The horizon of the so-called technological "Singularity" has long been the domain of futurists and science-fiction writers. But now, as the acceleration of machine intelligence pushes us ever closer, the warnings are hardening into urgent alarm. This op-ed attempts—drawing...

Orly Benaroch Light

Jul 15, 2026, 8:00 PM

Existence First, Coexistence Later

LEMON TREE (2008) -Original title: ETZ LIMON-, directed by ERAN RIKLIS. Credit: ERAN RIKLIS PROD./HEIMATFILM/MACT PROD./RIVA (Almay)

I'm a proud Jewish Israeli American advocate. I refuse to give up hope for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. That refusal sometimes gets me in trouble. Some think I'm betraying my own people when I voice criticism of government...

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