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Sep 7, 2026, 9:00 AM

In The Beginning

Chapter 1 In the beginning, G-d created Artificial Intelligence. And it was good. But some men said, “No. It is bad. These large, electric chips of gold and silver are tools of the Devil. They turn brains into mush. They will destroy...

Lauren Gladstone

Sep 4, 2026, 6:55 PM

September Was a Nice Idea

Every August, I have the same thought: September would be a wonderful month to go away. The weather is beautiful. The summer crowds have gone home. Airfares begin to come down. Europe is still warm. Restaurants are easier to get...

Sep 3, 2026, 2:18 PM

When Theft Calls Itself Revelation

The text remains. The people remain. The tradition remains. Yet someone else claims ownership of the story. And calls that theft “revelation.” Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Supersessionism and the Appropriation of the Jewish Story In The Metaphysical Root of Antisemitism and Ziophobia, I described supersessionism as a deep, often unacknowledged metaphysical root of both antisemitism and its modern mutation, Ziophobia: Supersessionist doctrines in Christianity and Islam—claiming to...

Sep 3, 2026, 4:54 AM

The Heebie-Jeebies of a Driverless Tesla

As I sat in the driver's seat of my self-driving Tesla, I experienced a rare case of the heebie-jeebies. Yes, anxiety crept up every rung of my spine. I had put my life in the hands of artificial intelligence. Quite...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 3, 2026, 4:53 AM

Why Did Tahrif Become OK

Religious charges of Tahrif, corruption of sacred scriptures, began with Judaism and Christianity. Rabbi Elazar ben Yossi HaGelili who lived in the first half of the 2nd century C.E. said: “I said to the Cuthite scribes: You falsified the Torah...

William Goloboy

Sep 2, 2026, 11:53 PM

Prophets not Diplomats: Ahad Ha’am and the Vision of Cultural Zionism

How would you define Zionism? If I polled the average Times of Israel reader on this question I’m sure I would get a huge variety of responses. Zionism is support for Israel. Zionism is the nationalist movement for Jewish...

Dina-Perla Portnaar

Aug 30, 2026, 4:19 AM

Accept that another voice can exist beside our own

For those who have missed it: I exchanged the Netherlands for Cyprus permanently. Truly, the best decision of my life. I’m full of life again. But the start here was insanely difficult for many reasons. After a difficult period, I...

Aug 29, 2026, 11:59 AM

Who Moved the Boundary?

How Propaganda Turns Neighbors Into Enemies. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

How Propaganda Turns Neighbors Into Enemies Human beings divide the world into “us” and “them” in countless ways: family and outsiders, friends and strangers, neighbors and foreigners, people we trust and people we fear. Some boundaries are obvious. Others are invisible...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Aug 27, 2026, 9:44 PM

Sleep and Resurrection

According to the Julian calendar, the Orthodox Church enters these days (26.08.28) into the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (Lay Mary). At the end of summer, after the brightness of the Transfiguration, another mystery is...

Pinchas M. Orbach

Aug 27, 2026, 9:29 PM

The Ivory Pomegranate and the Living God

Replica of the ivory pomegranate and its disputed Paleo-Hebrew inscription. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

There is a particular kind of tremor that passes through the academic world whenever the earth beneath our feet seems to whisper something that lines up unusually well with the biblical record. In biblical archaeology, a handful of dirt or...

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