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Apr 29, 2026, 3:46 PM

Freedom in the Age of AI

The New Shemot of Consciousness Yesterday, after programming, I started watching an online conference on AI. I listened to several presentations, and something stayed with me. Not because I disagreed with everything. On the contrary: some things were interesting. But precisely...

Mar 5, 2026, 8:30 AM

New York Jews Back the Mayor Whose Imam Prayed for Killing of Infidels

Supported by the people he prayed to destroy won Momdani the day. (image generated with AI)

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat in the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens on February 20, 2026, during Friday prayers on the first day of Ramadan. The imam led a supplication in Arabic invoking the Mahdi with words...

Jan 12, 2026, 10:36 PM

A Good Name — Sh’mot 5786

Last week, I was stopped on the street by a woman who smiled and said hello. I smiled back and said hello. Then she said, “You don’t remember who I am, doooo you? “Of course I do.” I didn’t. She continued, “I...

Jan 12, 2026, 3:52 PM

Man Up! Shemot 5786

As the adopted grandson of Pharaoh saw the Hebrew slave being beaten, we are told that “he turned this way and that way” before striking the taskmaster. The plain read of the text is that Moses was checking to...

Jan 12, 2026, 3:40 PM

Parshat Shemot 5786

In Parshat Shemot we read that “Yosef died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.” Rav Hutner in his Sefer Pachad Yitzchak, Pesach, Maamer 49 notes a unique fact about Yosef - his death is mentioned twice; once at...

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Jan 11, 2026, 6:22 PM

‘Where There Is No One — Be the Person’ — A Lesson for Our Times

“Where There Is No One — Be the Person” — A Lesson for Our Times In Parshas Shemos, Moshe Rabbeinu witnesses an Egyptian striking a Hebrew slave. The Torah says: “ויפן כה וכה וירא כי אין איש” — he looked...

Jan 11, 2026, 10:12 AM

The performance society produces its own Mitzrayim

“The performance society produces its own Mitzrayim.” Not with visible chains, but with induction, exhaustion, and anxiety. And this is precisely why freedom must be reread today: as freedom from induction. Thirty Years: When the World Changed Species An essay on induction,...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Jan 10, 2026, 11:03 PM

Short in Stature – gamad, namuch, gutz, and nanas

Imagine the scene of Moses and Aaron pleading before the most powerful sovereign in the entire world — the Pharaoh of Egypt — saying those fateful words, “Let My people go.” Now, after imagining that scene in your head,...

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Jan 10, 2026, 11:00 PM

The Thorn Bush: Empathy Builds Leaders

Parshas Shemos opens with a difficult time for Klal Yisrael. After Yosef and his generation passed away, the Jewish people multiplied in Egypt, but a new Pharaoh arose who did not know Yosef. He enslaved the Jewish people, imposing...

Jan 10, 2026, 4:53 PM

Parashah Shemot — Existential Lessons

Parashah Shemot — Existential Lessons Oppression does not begin with chains, but with amnesia. A system becomes lethal not when it hates life, but when it forgets why life matters. The erasure of Yosef’s name is not a historical detail;...

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