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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

EDWARD ROTHSTEIN  Sapir Journal, Vol. 7, Autumn 2022 In our era of cancellations and topplings, censorious declarations and virtue signaling, recantations and exorcisms, it’s almost possible to feel nostalgic for the days when PoMo reigned supreme. PoMo? Yes, or more formally, postmodernism — a set of suppositions about the world that once inspired the academic priesthood and […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century:  Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023 Tablet’s Grand Opus on the Anti-Disinformation Complex:  Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023 Disinformation In the Age of ChatGPT:  Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution:  Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, WSJ, Feb. 24, […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023 Years ago, when I first began to have doubts about the Trump-Russia story, I struggled to come up with a word to articulate my suspicions. If the story was wrong, and Trump wasn’t a Russian spy, there wasn’t a word for what was being perpetrated. This was a […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023 PROLOGUE: THE INFORMATION WAR In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

 Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 If you spend any time on social media, listen to podcasts, or generally pay attention to the news, chances are you’ve heard of ChatGPT. The chatbot, launched by OpenAI in November, can write code, draft business proposals, pass exams, and generate guides on making Molotov cocktails. It […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher,WSJ, Feb. 24, 2023 A new technology bids to transform the human cognitive process as it has not been shaken up since the invention of printing. The technology that printed the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 made abstract human thought communicable generally and rapidly. But new technology today reverses that process. Whereas the […]

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Sunday, April 2nd 2023 / Sunday, April 2nd 2023

Citation de la semaine:  « En quoi cette nuit est-elle différente des autres? » Mishna Pessa’him 10:4 ________________________________________________ Table des Matières Extrait de Sept années à Jérusalem pp. 141-142 (Julien Bauer, 2012, Éditions du Marais) PESSA’H, LA FÊTE JUIVE QUI CÉLÈBRE LA RÉSILIENCE FACE À L’ADVERSITÉ  Erin Blakemore National Geographic, 19 avril 2022 Une immigrante ukrainienne […]

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Friday, March 31st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Howard Jacobson Sapir Journal, Vol. 8, Winter 2023 “… it is enough that the covenant enjoins a disinterested seriousness of purpose on the Jewish people and that Jewish artists and writers have found in it a spur for work of the highest order.” The decline and fall of everything is our daily dread, we are […]

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Friday, March 31st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Hannah Rubin Tablet, Mar. 20, 2023 “In the traditional world Bais Yaakov inhabits, romantic love is considered sacred and deeply private, so productions eschew it wholesale. Most don’t contain so much as a shidduch date.” A cart wrapped in wood contact paper trundles on stage, pushed by a figure in an overcoat and downy beard. Emblazoned on […]

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Friday, March 31st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Jacob Savage Tablet, Feb. 28, 2023 “… fancying ourselves to be high caste members of a beneficent elite, we pretend not to notice that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is a cudgel used to exclude certain groups of Americans, including Asians and Jews.” Suddenly, everywhere you look, the Jews are disappearing. You feel it like a […]

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Friday, March 31st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Ruth R. Wisse Mosaic Magazine, June 16, 2022 “… where Judaism is targeted by political correctness, I am affirming the right of Jews to maintain their Judaism.”   From the Hebrew Bible through the Netanyahu family, the survival and flourishing of Jewish civilization has depended on what could be called a series of profiles in […]

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Friday, March 31st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING Understanding Sacrifice: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, Tzav 5776, 5783 —   One of the most difficult elements of the Torah and the way of life it prescribes is the phenomenon of animal sacrifices – for obvious reasons. First, Jews and Judaism have survived without them for almost two thousand years. […]