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Sep 27, 2026, 10:40 PM

A Critique of Demis Hassabis on AI and Creativity in Visual Art

Considering the future

By Joe Nalven. Initial critique by ChatGPT; review and drafting by Claude. Demis Hassabis runs Google DeepMind and shared a Nobel Prize for work on protein structure. Accepting the Royal Society of Arts' Albert Medal on September 11, 2026, introduced...

Mitchell Slepian

Sep 23, 2026, 6:21 PM

Getting Ready for the Holy Land—With Excitement

In a few months, I will be visiting Israel. I have been there many times. This time it is for a destination wedding. I was there a little over two decades ago for the chatan’s (groom’s) Bar Mitzvah; time...

Sep 22, 2026, 2:34 AM

Kapparot in Jerusalem

My wife and I walked northwards across Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road just as Shabbat ended. It was the last Saturday before Yom Kippur, and we were out to find kapparot. This ritual involves the recitation of prayers as one swings...

Aug 29, 2026, 9:26 AM

Constructing Peace / Constructing Images: AI and Human Endeavors

Constructing Peace

By Joe Nalven + ChatGPT + Claude What follows is a catalogue essay for an exhibition that was never mounted. It places an AI-generated image of Gaza reconstruction beside the Board of Peace, a body with a charter, a chairman,...

May 24, 2026, 12:27 AM

Elizabeth Heyert’s THE UNBORN – what we are all like before we enter the world

Elizabet Heyert’s striking new series Premieres at the Venice Bienalle, continuing the artist’s decades’ long exploration of the human experience. The Unborn consists of nine photographs of pre-natal subjects who were conceived in the first half of the 20th...

May 22, 2026, 5:39 PM

Treasure Trove: The Original Selfie Machine Turns 100

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photo taken in a photo both at Montreal's Expo 67.

The original selfie machine turns 100 this year. The photo booth made its first appearance in September 1926 on Broadway in New York City. It was the invention of Anatol Josepho (1894-1980, born Josephewitz), and first called the Photomaton. Siberian born,...

May 18, 2026, 6:55 PM

Future Rescue Technology: Live AI-Dog Systems for Battlefields and Earthquakes

When a Dog Becomes a Living Sensor System in the Age of AI. From the Tragedy in Shejaiya to a New Vision of Human-Animal-Machine Interfaces. In December 2023, Pank, a dog from the Oketz Unit, was sent on an operational mission...

Eugene J. Levin

Apr 23, 2026, 9:56 AM

Delfi Chose the Kippah

I direct documentaries. Before a single word of narration is written, decisions have already been made that tell the audience how to feel about the person on screen. The shot. The frame. The costume. The background. The light. By...

Ariel Jerozolimski

Apr 16, 2026, 9:50 PM

Photo: © Ariel Jerozolimski

What I enjoy photographing most are scenes of daily life, especially on the streets, as they reflect the country’s character. In Israel, there are truly scenes that splendidly illustrate the personality and nature of the Israeli reality—full of contrasts, informal...

Michael Feldstein

Mar 8, 2026, 11:39 PM

Waiting for the Pictures

Credit: ChatGPT

A few weeks ago, we celebrated our granddaughter Sarit’s bat mitzvah. It was a wonderful simcha. Sarit delivered a beautiful dvar Torah that focused on a mishnah in Pirkei Avot that she had studied with me. There was dancing,...

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