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Jun 16, 2026, 6:45 PM

Dybbooks: When Possessions Possess Dusty Dreams

Like a modern lyrical Cassandra, the songstress Marina Diamandis sings: "If you are not very careful Your possessions will possess you TV taught me how to feel Now real life has no appeal (Lyrics from Marina and The Diamonds – Oh No!) And as I...

Golan Altman-Shafer

Jun 16, 2026, 6:20 PM

When Pluralism Picks a Side

Before the last century, young Jews were never afforded the opportunity to establish diverse communities. There was limited room to experiment between living in a Shtetl and shedding Judaism to become secular. Today, the narrative in North America is...

Jun 16, 2026, 8:46 AM

Truths and Constructed Myths Regarding the Jewish Presence in Albania

The tendency to produce, package, and instrumentalize myths for specific purposes—whether individual, collective, historical, or political—is considered “normal” in the Balkan Peninsula. It suffices that such actions yield the desired effect or outcome for those who construct, package, or...

Richard H. Schwartz

Jun 16, 2026, 5:11 AM

World Cup: As The World Burns, There is a Solution

This article was co-authored by Rabbi Shammai Enngelmayer The World Cup kicked off on June 11, and climatologists are warning that at least a quarter of its 104 matches may be played in temperatures of at least 90°F (33.2C), with...

Bruce D. Forman

Jun 14, 2026, 9:36 PM

Would It Frighten You? What Spielberg’s New Alien Film Gets Backwards

Steven Spielberg's new film, Disclosure Day, opened this past weekend, and every trailer for it circles back to the same question: if proof arrived tomorrow that humanity is not alone in the universe, would it terrify you? It's a good...

Daphne Lazar Price

Jun 14, 2026, 6:28 PM

Chabad’s Lesson for the AI Age

As the 3rd of Tammuz approaches, marking the yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson z”l, I have been thinking not only about the Rebbe’s teachings, but about one of the defining features of the movement he built: Chabad-Lubavitch understood...

Barry Mellinger

Jun 14, 2026, 5:41 PM

There is a particular audacity to the statistics being waved around right now. J Street commissions a poll. Haaretz runs the headline. Peter Beinart writes the bestseller. The conclusion is always the same: young American Jews are detaching from...

Jun 14, 2026, 5:36 PM

Killing in the Name of God

The science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke suggested that killing in the name of God might be a fairly good definition of insanity. Sounds reasonable. If God created the world, then we are all His creations. And the idea that God...

Andy Blumenthal

Jun 14, 2026, 10:08 AM

Be Bold and Settle Our Entire Land of Israel

This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government moved forward with one of the most significant Zionist initiatives in decades, allocating over $350 million to authorize and establish 61 new Jewish communities in the ancestral heartland of Judea and Samaria....

Jun 13, 2026, 10:18 AM

Religions as Blockchains, Part III

Many branches. One evolving network. The challenge is preserving shared reality through convergence rather than origin. Photo of a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) © Teslaton, 2008. Licensed under CC BY 3.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Blockchains as Religions: The Other Side of the Analogy In Part I and Part II of Religions as Blockchains, we explored how religious traditions and blockchain systems mirror each other in structure: genesis events, forks, schisms, competing claims of legitimacy,...

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