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ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution:

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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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Communiqué: Pessah, fête de la liberté!

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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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Prophetic Fervor and the Jewish Writer

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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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Orthodox High School Musical

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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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The Vanishing

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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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American Jewry’s Stunted Sons

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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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Daily Briefing: THE VANISHING AMERICAN JEWS

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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. […]

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Communique: Suspension de la réforme judiciaire controversée: Israël, toujours à la recherche du juste équilibre dans la séparation des pouvoirs

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Citation de la semaine: “La tendance la plus profonde de toute activité humaine est la marche vers l’équilibre. ” Jean Piaget Six études de psychologie Table des Matières Israël : Benjamin Netanyahou annonce la suspension du projet de réforme judiciaire                               […]

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On The 80th Anniversary Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The Words Of An Eyewitness

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By Moshe Phillips As we approach the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising there can be no doubt that the mainstream media will cover the occasion. For example, CNN is asking “Was your family affected by the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943? Leave CNN a voicemail” (source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/was-your-family-affected-by-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-in-1943-leave-cnn-a-voicemail/ar-AA18R4rv). Whatever CNN and other news outlets may produce this year, […]

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Daily Briefing: SHOULD ISRAEL BECOME A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY?

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UNDERSTANDING BARAK’S VISION Aharon Barak’s Revolution:  Hillel Neuer, Azure on Line, Winter 5758/1998, no. 3 — In recent years, the state of Israel has undergone a constitutional revolution that has remarkably escaped the notice of most Israelis. With the 1992 passage of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, the power of the […]

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Israel and the Debate Over the Role of the Judiciary in Democratic Government

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Elliot Abrams Council on Foreign Relations, Mar. 16, 2023 “As courts consider whether to override decisions of elected officials, they must also rely on some standard by which to judge those actions. Where there is a written constitution, it provides the standard.”   Israel’s current—and deeply divisive—debate over changes in the role of its Supreme […]

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Israel Could Become a Constitutional Democracy

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Daniel J. Arbess WSJ, Mar. 17, 2023 “Israel could consider reforming the structure of its constitution from the British parliamentary mode to an American-style separation of powers that would be adapted for Israel’s unique needs.”   Street demonstrations and political drama over Israel’s judicial-reform debate have some people wondering whether the end of Israeli democracy is […]

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