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Oct 17, 2026, 5:36 PM

The Biobomb: The New Strategic Frontier

From Washington to Jerusalem, from the Gulf to Europe, biological threats and the vulnerability of critical infrastructure are reshaping defense doctrines. Between surveillance, resilience, and preemption, how far can governments go to prevent a catastrophe? Biological warfare once conjured up...

Bruce D. Forman

Oct 16, 2026, 11:54 PM

The Death Penalty: What Judaism Knows About Justice and the Power of Restraint

The recent controversy surrounding the suggestion of a public execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, has renewed interest in capital punishment. The Trump administration’s proposal to livestream...

Oct 16, 2026, 6:15 PM

From Lab to Life: How Earth Sustained Its Oxygen

Life on Earth exists, because there is oxygen in the atmosphere. We know how it began. Cyanobacteria figured out how to crack CO2 into carbon and oxygen, using sunlight, and single cells figured out how to ‘swallow’ cyanobacteria and...

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...

Oct 14, 2026, 9:36 PM

Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Winner—AI?!

Seven years ago in an article entitled "Tectonic Shifts Adds Champagne to Million Dollar Math Prize, I declared in the Times of Israel (7-15-2019) that I’d gift a $1,000 bottle of champagne—aside from the million dollar prize offered by the...

Oct 14, 2026, 3:08 PM

Ramat Rachel’s Mysterious Waterworks: Two Discoveries in Jerusalem in Six Months

Ramat Rachel’s Water Mystery: Why Two Major Discoveries in Six Months Call for a Systemic Engineering Approach This week, the discovery of a roughly 2,000-year-old aqueduct south of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, was announced. The approximately 300-meter section...

Oct 13, 2026, 7:59 AM

Seeing Red: Hubris and the Halakha of Space Flight

Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch, photo: Nadav Efrati / Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nahum_Eliezer_Rabinovitch

Vladimir Menshikov, Boga Nyet! [There is no God!], 1975. State Museum of the History of Religion in Saint Petersburg. Scaled-down, low-resolution image permitted under fair use clause, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82_1975.jpg

In 1961, as humans reached Space, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch (1902-1994) wrote a private letter in which he declared that Space travel was permitted according to Jewish law. The Lubavitcher Rebbe offered a broad, affirmative framework for...

Oct 12, 2026, 6:15 PM

From Lab to Life: New Approach to Repair Corneas

From Lab to Life: New Approach to Repair Corneas By Shlomo Maital Source: Depositphotos.com A new study by a Technion biologist reveals that mature cells can be made to revert to stem cells – in the context of repairing damaged corneas. “Eyes...

Mohamed Chtatou

Oct 9, 2026, 5:48 PM

The Marrakech Air Show 2026

The Marrakech Air Show 2026: Israel’s Defense Industry in Morocco and the Strategic Transformation of Moroccan–Israeli Relations Introduction Israel’s official participation in the Marrakech Air Show, held from 7 to 10 October 2026 at the Royal Moroccan Air Force base in...

Vincent James Hooper

Oct 9, 2026, 8:48 AM

A Page and a Half

On Tuesday the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Nobel Prize in Physics. It will be the first announcement since François Englert died in June, and so the first at which neither laureate of 2013 is alive to be...

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