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Jun 20, 2025, 7:55 PM

What the missiles that hit Weizman could not destroy

It's not the absence of tragedy that distinguishes Israel, but the relentless insistence on rebuilding anyway

Jun 19, 2025, 11:16 PM

Iron Shields and Startup Souls – Thanks to the IDF

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato once said, “necessity is the mother of invention.” Nowhere has that truth echoed louder than in Israel’s journey of survival. In May 1948, just days after declaring independence, David Ben-Gurion—Israel’s first prime minister and a...

Jun 18, 2025, 5:42 AM

Miracles from the Void: Nothingness, Infinity and Quantum Mechanics.

In this article, I quote a portion of The Tanya, written by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), the founder of Chabad Hasidism. The Tanya synthesizes foundational Jewish sources, including the Hebrew Scriptures (Tanakh), the Talmud, and, in particular,...

Jun 12, 2025, 8:37 PM

QM. Tomorrow Impacts Today and The Present Impacts the Past

I may sometimes be quoting complicated rules of Jewish law, and the subject of quantum mechanics isn’t simple. Still, if you stick along for the journey, you will come away more knowledgeable in both fields (a brilliant thing), and,...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 11, 2025, 10:44 PM

Qur’an, Torah, Exoplanets, and God’s Intelligent Lifeforms

When Fermi posed his famous question, "where are they" we hadn't identified a single planet beyond our solar system. The 1995 discovery of the first exoplanet allowed scientists to break the guestion into smaller, more solvable questions: How many stars are...

Jun 9, 2025, 6:53 AM

Does Fine-Tuning Make God Look Unintelligent?

Some skeptics look askance at the fine-tuning argument for God and ask: “If God had to fine-tune the constants of nature so precisely, doesn’t that show He’s not very intelligent? Shouldn’t a truly smart fine-tuner be able to create...

Jun 7, 2025, 4:46 PM

Antisemitism Explodes Across Germany: RIAS 2024 Report

Photo: Stefanie Loos/AFP

The release of the 2024 nationwide RIAS report on antisemitic incidents in Germany presents a deeply troubling picture. While my earlier blog post focused on the alarming surge in Berlin's antisemitic incidents, the federal report confirms that this crisis...

Jun 6, 2025, 2:55 PM

The Divine Census and Quantum Collapse: Lessons in Identity and Potential

As we read the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar), we find ourselves immersed in the Torah’s counting of the Jewish people and all twelve tribes. The Shalo Hakodosh (Rabbi Isaiah (Yeshayahu) Halevi Horowitz) points out that this book is named...

Michael Waxman-Lenz

Jun 4, 2025, 8:48 PM

Technion Trailblazers: Behind the Scenes of the AI Revolution

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology will be instrumental in shaping the way it impacts all facets of our lives, from the cars we drive to how scientists develop medicine. To...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 3, 2025, 3:54 PM

Tawhid says Allah’s Universe Produces Life Everywhere

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The US is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. During Medieval times, Christian theologians accepted the Ptolemaic earth-centered Greek...

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