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Jun 29, 2026, 5:49 AM

Israel’s AI Just Sped Up the MRI Cancer Scan

An MRI is one of medicine's most powerful cameras, and one of its slowest. A single scan can run half an hour, often too slow for the machine to keep pace with what it is trying to see. Researchers...

Jun 25, 2026, 3:40 AM

Dark Energy and Divine Light: A Hasidic Framework for the Structure of Reality.

The Hidden Light of Darkness: Dark Energy, Chasidut, and Human Struggle. I am going to present, in English, a free translation of a Hasidic discourse delivered by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in 1953. When you read (or...

Jun 23, 2026, 7:43 PM

Why Now is the Time to Invest in Israeli Higher Ed

Bar-Ilan University (Courtesy)

Against the backdrop of prolonged conflict, Israel is navigating a defining moment—one that is reshaping not only its security landscape, but the future of its people and institutions. As Americans looking toward Israel’s future, we have an opportunity to...

Jun 21, 2026, 3:01 PM

One World, Many Realities: How Perspective and Bitachon/Trust Redefine Limits

How two people never see the same rainbow. The idea that a person can shape their own destiny despite external limitations is often dismissed as motivational rhetoric, yet both modern science and classical Jewish thought offer a far deeper and...

Jun 20, 2026, 10:23 AM

The Power of Self-Selection

Perhaps self-selection is one of the most overlooked forces in human history. Photo: Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out for photographer Arthur Sasse after his 72nd birthday party on March 14, 1951. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

The Hidden Force Behind Success Why are Jews disproportionately represented among Nobel Prize winners, scientists, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals? Why did America become the world’s dominant economic and technological power? Why did Israel transform itself from a poor, newly established state into one...

Talyah Ginsberg

Jun 10, 2026, 10:00 PM

I have met the enemy and she is wearing Lycra

Women in Lycra exercising at the gym. (iStock)

There's a lot less of me than there used to be, but now they say I have to exercise and I'm conducting treaty negotiations with myself about a 10-minute walk

Jun 9, 2026, 4:11 AM

Physics of the Mystics: Lowering Your “Spiritual Gravity” to Touch the Infinite

How the Baal Shem Tov Saw 15 Years into the Future There is a beautiful and mind-blowing story from the history of Chassidut that seems almost impossible to believe at first. It sounds like a miracle that defies the rules...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Jun 8, 2026, 10:17 AM

From conflict to crime?

TL;DR: Academic attention to Israel rose sharply after October 7, but the share of publications using severe accusation frames barely moved. The deeper shift was conceptual: legal-moral terms such as genocide, war crimes, collective punishment, and international law gained...

Jun 5, 2026, 6:38 PM

World Cup 2026: More distraction than romance

Why Winning the World Cup Seldom Sparks a Baby Boom Author: Jose (Yossi) Chvaicer, June 2026 ABSTRACT For decades, commentators have repeated a seductive claim: when a nation wins the FIFA World Cup, a baby boom follows nine months later. This study...

Stanley M. Rosenblatt

Jun 4, 2026, 8:15 PM

Jews have saved the lives of millions of Muslims and Christians

Dear Times of Israel readers: I’m sharing with you a full-page public statement that I placed in The New York Times on May 15, 2026. Before doing so, I approached all of the major American Jewish organizations and invited them to...

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