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Tony D. Senatore

Oct 18, 2026, 5:16 PM

Nine Books that Shaped Who I Am

At one time, books like these formed the backbone of serious intellectual debate. They challenged assumptions, demanded critical thinking, and forced us to confront ideas that shaped the modern world. They weren't simply books to read; they were arguments...

Oct 15, 2026, 10:51 PM

Paleolithic Minds, Algorithmic World: What Pulp Sci-Fi Teaches Us About AI

Beware The AI Spin

By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini Oct 15, 2026 Why am I writing this essay? I’ve been annoyed with the doom and boom discussions of AI technology. As if we can separate what it does from what we are doing...

Lisa M. Pollack

Oct 15, 2026, 10:42 PM

Neve Hanna: Books. Bread. Brighter Futures.

Neve Hanna Children's Home, Israel.
Photo: AFNH staff. March 2025.

Learning Today. Building Brighter Futures. Two different classrooms. One shared purpose. At Neve Hanna Children's Home, education isn't limited to the classroom. Some of life's most important lessons are learned by doing—discovering new abilities, developing practical skills, taking responsibility, and gaining the...

Michael Laitman

Oct 15, 2026, 10:32 PM

Abraham’s Wisdom of Happiness

“The greatest among giants.” This is how Abraham is described by the sages. What insights did he attain in his lifetime? What did he discover that we still fail to grasp today? Animals have no questions. They act instinctively. As...

Jonathan Muskat

Oct 15, 2026, 7:58 PM

When Torah Challenges Our Moral Intuitions

A student recently wrote to me about something she had learned in class. She was studying Yehoshua’s conquest of Eretz Yisrael and was troubled by the Torah’s command to destroy the Canaanite nations, including women and children. When she...

Oct 15, 2026, 7:40 PM

Confronting A Destroyed World

The door of the ark opens to a new world. Noach emerges with his family. God makes a covenant with Man, promising that he will never wreak such destruction upon the world again. The rainbow in the sky symbolises...

Tony D. Senatore

Oct 15, 2026, 3:21 PM

The Value of Honest Conversation in a World Afraid to Speak

I’ve always appreciated it when someone reaches out to me privately to talk through something that’s on their mind. It might be a philosophical question, a political disagreement, a personal dilemma, or just an everyday problem. I don’t take...

Michael McCloskey

Oct 15, 2026, 2:37 AM

Cohen’s Neighborhood: Creativity and Atonement

Recently, in the spirit of continuing education and renewal, I enrolled in a course at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York that I was unable to fit in as a rabbinical student, but had always yearned to...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 5, 2026, 11:25 PM

99 Names Of Allah and 70 Aspects Of YHVH God

Islam's 99 Names traditionally emphasizes Allah’s 99 beautiful names to help humans understand and relate to the one and only God. Judaism's one Name centers on the four-letter tetragrammaton (YHVH), which represents God's ongoing dynamic presence that became too holy...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:55 AM

In Harmony with Creation: How Jewish Physicists Unlocked Bereshit’s Timeline

NASA’s Webb Reveals Cosmic Cliffs, Glittering Landscape of Star Birth.

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

The Jewish Physicists Behind the Big Bang and the Cosmic Clock of Genesis In his 1978 Nobel Banquet speech, Jewish-American astrophysicist Arno Penzias remarked: “Curiosity is a precious gift which comes so naturally to us that we sometimes fail to...

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