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Jun 22, 2026, 12:14 PM

Angels and Astronauts: The Extraterrestrial Extinction of Jewish Law

Following the lunar landing on 20 July 1969, Rabbi Benzion Firer (1914-1988) addressed the following question: “In the last days, after man has succeeded in setting foot on the Moon, no longer do people laugh at the possibility of creating...

Bruce D. Forman

Jun 14, 2026, 9:36 PM

Would It Frighten You? What Spielberg’s New Alien Film Gets Backwards

Steven Spielberg's new film, Disclosure Day, opened this past weekend, and every trailer for it circles back to the same question: if proof arrived tomorrow that humanity is not alone in the universe, would it terrify you? It's a good...

Jun 9, 2026, 10:04 AM

A Giant Leap: Lunar Landing and Legal Impossibility

Hatzofe, Friday 25 July 1969 (Historical Jewish Press, https://www.nli.org.il/he/discover/newspapers/jpress)

On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module successfully landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong, followed by Buzz Aldrin, became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. As Armstrong stepped out of the spacecraft, he famously...

Jun 4, 2026, 8:03 PM

The Heavenly Horizon: A Spaceman’s Shabbat

Rabbi David Shloush, 2008 (Wikipedia, https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Rabi_david_shloush.jpeg, Public Domain)

On 1 April 2026 – the eve of Passover 5786 – NASA launched a crewed spacecraft on a flyby trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. This was the first crewed flight near the Moon since Apollo 17...

Jun 1, 2026, 4:25 AM

The Indispensable Dyad: India, Israel, and the Architecture of Durable Order

India-Israel - The Indispensable Dyad. AI Image (Credit: ChatGPT)

India-Israel bilateral partnership constitutes the dyad around which any genuinely wartime-resilient Eurasian economic corridor must organize. This is not a diplomatic preference. It is a structural conclusion. Every serious analyst of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) has asked the...

May 28, 2026, 8:50 PM

From Lebanon’s Drones to AI, Robotics and Moon Missions: The Fiber Optic Age

From Israblog to the Battlefield: Israel’s Fiber Optic Revolution. As Israel now faces drones connected by fiber-optic cables — a technology capable of challenging even the “Startup Nation” — I was reminded of something I wrote nearly 20 years ago. In...

May 21, 2026, 9:21 AM

What Jewish Education Looks Like from 90,000 Feet

Eleven students in the Leffell Space Program climbed onto a school bus loaded with antennas, laptops, radios, tools, and tracking systems and headed off to launch and (hopefully) recover the program's first high-altitude weather balloon and payload on the...

May 17, 2026, 1:28 PM

From Lab to Life: Cancer Breakthroughs in Space

Depositphotos.com The latest Science Friday podcast reports that “an upcoming resupply mission will carry tumor samples to the International Space Station for research. Experiments in microgravity have yielded shocking results: Some tumors triple in size in just 10 days—the...

May 9, 2026, 7:37 PM

UAP: Trump, Congress, Pentagon Push NASA and Science Toward AI and Fuzzy Logic

Image: Trump UFO Files Released. Historical FBI composite image of a reported UFO sighting released by the U.S. Department of War.Source: U.S. Government Archives.

Turning Anomalies Into Science The release of UAP documents by the Pentagon and the White House could transform the discussion around unidentified phenomena from a debate driven by belief and skepticism into a research field based on AI, fuzzy logic,...

May 7, 2026, 8:42 PM

From 3I/ATLAS to Hormuz: Iran’s War Reshapes OPEC, Energy, Corridors and Space

Environmental protest installation outside the Santa Marta Climate Conference in Santa Marta, Colombia. Global energy and trade disruptions are accelerating the search for alternatives — from green energy to the future space economy. (Ivan Valencia / AP)

From Hormuz to Space: How the US-Iran War Is Reshaping the Future of Energy. The United States–Iran conflict is not merely a regional security crisis. It is exposing how deeply the global economy still depends on fossil fuels, vulnerable maritime...

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