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Allen S. Maller

Sep 26, 2026, 12:30 PM

Medical Assistance In Dying Is Not Suicide

Several years ago, Canada began a program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Now it is beginning to reshape how Canadians are facing end-of-life situations. An article published in The Atlantic in August of 2025 reports that 5% of all Canadian deaths in...

Sep 25, 2026, 5:52 AM

When We Demand More of AI Than We Demand of Ourselves

Whose surprise?

By Joe Nalven + ChatGPT + Claude I recently listened to a discussion about how artificial intelligence (AI) might change science. Much of it was familiar. AI may speed up discovery. It may find patterns in data that people cannot...

Sep 24, 2026, 7:10 PM

Book Review – New Year, Lots of New Books on the Parsha

Daf Yomi, like the weekly Torah reading, creates a shared Jewish intellectual calendar. On any given Shabbat, an Orthodox Jew anywhere in the world is likely to be hearing the same Torah portion as Jews in Jerusalem, London, Teaneck,...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 24, 2026, 6:47 AM

Abraham’s Question.

The Fingertip Hold up your hand. Look at the end of your index finger. There is nothing visually spectacular about it. A little skin, a nail, flesh and bone. Yet when the Qur’an challenges the human being who doubts resurrection, it chooses...

Sep 24, 2026, 12:43 AM

The Lesser Contains the Greater

On Monday, at Yom Kippur services at the vulnerable-feeling, police-car-protected entrance to the Jewish Community Center gym in downtown Toronto, our community’s wise and kind Rabbi, Ed Elkin, during a 25-hour fast, between leading services from 9 a.m. and...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 21, 2026, 7:02 PM

Add Recycling Jewish Souls

AI tells us that Rabbi Allen S. Maller is a retired Reform Rabbi who served for 39 years at Temple Akiba in Culver City, California. He is a prolific author who has published over 1,200 articles focusing heavily on...

Sep 11, 2026, 2:56 PM

Superintelligent AI Will Choose Domination Over Human Extinction

On September 8, Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after spending three years working on pretraining research at Anthropic and OpenAI. His explanation quickly became more consequential than the resignation itself. The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence, he...

Sep 11, 2026, 2:32 PM

Can an AI do Teshuvah?

Marish hagazul — the stolen beam of Gittin 55a.

The season asks us to turn. This week some of the people building superintelligence admitted they don't know how to make their machines turn either. Elul is ending. In a few days we will stand in front of the open...

Alexandre Gilbert

Sep 8, 2026, 5:59 PM

Bijan Abdolkarimi, Martin Heidegger and the Crisis of Modernity

Bijan Abdolkarimi (Wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

Bijan Abdolkarimi was born in Tehran in 1963. He studied philosophy at the University of Tehran, where he completed his undergraduate and master's degrees, before pursuing a doctorate in Western philosophy at Aligarh Muslim University in India. His doctoral...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 8, 2026, 3:53 AM

The Merneptah Stele, Erected in 1208 BCE, is First Proof of Israel

The Merneptah Stele, erected in 1208 BCE, contains the earliest known mention of Israel outside the Bible. Carved to celebrate Pharoah Merneptah’s victories, it lists Israel separately from Canaanite cities—using grammar that denotes a people group rather than a...

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