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Sep 9, 2026, 9:43 PM

AI or Barbarism: An Answer to Bill Gates, with Harari in Mind

AI-generated, courtesy of Meer Culture. Source: “The Future of Humanity in the Age of AI,” 6 July 2025

The phrase “socialism or barbarism” – which I paraphrase as “AI or barbarism” – is a deliberate provocation. I do not mean AI at any price. Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that the machine on your desk can answer...

Sep 9, 2026, 2:14 PM

Kahlat and the Hidden Archive of Section 60: Jordan River and Copper Scroll

Geographic Background and Identification Traditions: Ein Samiya versus Ein Kahlat Over the years, research on the Copper Scroll has examined several sites in an attempt to identify the mysterious location called “Kahlat.” Ein Samiya (in the Wadi Yitav system): The largest...

Aug 25, 2026, 8:47 PM

Jerusalem: Unknown Reservoirs in Absalom’s Tomb on Pilgrims’ way to Temple Mount

The Hidden Waterworks of the Kidron Valley: Do Sections 48–49 of the Copper Scroll Lead to Absalom’s Tomb and the Tomb of Jehoshaphat? This article explores an attempt to decipher a mysterious and potentially extensive water installation beneath the western...

Alaric DeArment

Aug 23, 2026, 10:40 AM

Guenter Lewy’s Damaging Legacy Cannot Be Ignored

The scholar Guenter Lewy died on March 24, at the age of 102. But despite the adage that one should not speak ill of the dead, the damage he did to the historiography of the Romani genocide cannot be...

Aug 21, 2026, 6:52 PM

Copper Scroll: From the Pool of Siloam to the Jordan River Basin and Qumran

Trying to Decipher Section 47 of the Copper Scroll: A New Hypothesis on the Hidden Engineering of the Pool of Siloam. Following the hydro-archaeological analysis that proposed identifying Section 46 of the Copper Scroll with the mysterious tunnel at Ramat...

Aug 17, 2026, 12:15 AM

Does Copper Scroll Section 46 Describe the Ramat Rachel Mystery Tunnel?

Does Section 46 of the Copper Scroll Describe the Giant Tunnel Discovered at Ramat Rachel in May 2026? Section 46 of the Copper Scroll refers to Beit HaKerem, identified by a number of scholars with present-day Ramat Rachel. Could its...

Aug 16, 2026, 12:39 AM

AI and Teaching Jewish Civilization: Is an Enemy Needed?

Teaching Jewish Civilization

The Argument That Needs an Enemy: What happens when you forbid a machine to mention our enemies by Joe Nalven, with Claude Dara Horn reports that most American students, if they learn about Jews at all, learn only that Jews were...

Aug 11, 2026, 7:53 PM

Judean Desert: Are we Closer to Solving the Mystery of the Copper Scroll?

The Copper Scroll: From a Treasure List to a National Infrastructure Survey? 1. Introduction: The Hydraulic Paradigm Since its discovery at Qumran in 1952, the Copper Scroll (3Q15) has presented scholars with one of the most intriguing puzzles among the Dead...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 7, 2026, 12:08 AM

9th International Congress on Biblical Archaeology Brings Experts to São Paulo

From August 27 to 29, São Paulo will host the 9th edition of the largest international congress on biblical archaeology in Latin America. Organized by the Moriah International Center, with support from the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, the event...

Aug 2, 2026, 9:41 AM

The Strategic Case for an India-Israel Industrial Partnership

India-Israel Beyond Defense - Realising the Next Phase of Strategic Partnership. An AI Illustration.

The India-Israel relationship is conventionally narrated through defense sales, intelligence sharing, and agricultural technology transfer. This framing, while accurate, is incomplete. It obscures a more consequential possibility: that the two countries’ most durable strategic convergence may lie in co-developing...

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