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Monday, March 18th 2024 / Monday, March 18th 2024

Editorial Board WSJ, Mar. 14, 2024 “This reflects the political neurosis developing among Democrats, who wish some deus ex machina would allow Israel to “win” the war against Hamas in a way that would minimize the anger of the anti-Israel left in the U.S.” The Israel-Hamas war is melting brains on the Democratic side of the aisle, […]

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Monday, March 18th 2024 / Sunday, March 17th 2024

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Mar. 12, 2024 “… his agenda was to lend assistance to the Biden administration’s tilt away from Israel to curry favor with the Democratic Party’s left-wing Israel-haters.”   In a city packed with cynical opportunists, few people in Washington can match the cynicism and opportunism that are on display when Sen. […]

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Monday, March 18th 2024 / Sunday, March 17th 2024

Norm Coleman The Hill, Mar. 14, 2024 “Ironically, attacking Netanyahu now will only make him stronger politically at home, as he defends Israel from both Hamas and its supporters in the U.S. at the same time.” I’ve known Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) since we were schoolmates at PS 197 and James Madison High School in Brooklyn. The high school […]

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Monday, March 18th 2024 / Sunday, March 17th 2024

John Podhoretz Commentary Magazine, Mar. 14, 2024 “Schumer was being a good soldier too. But a bad Jew.” In an extraordinary speech this morning—and by extraordinary I don’t mean it was good but rather that it was astoundingly abnormal—the majority leader of the U.S. Senate called for the collapse of the legitimately elected government of […]

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Friday, March 15th 2024 / Friday, March 15th 2024

Meir Valman Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2024 “The field of AI faces a considerable shortage of top talent, and companies often need to bring in leading experts from academia to access the best minds.”   Given the current hype surrounding ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence programs, one might have thought that AI was a very new technology […]

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Friday, March 15th 2024 / Friday, March 15th 2024

Rabbi Samantha Natov JTA, Apr. 19, 2023 “… with a bot, there is nothing behind the veil. A vital essence of communication is rendered meaningless; there is no possibility of a soul connection.”   I recently asked ChatGPT, the online chatbot, to write a verse in the style of the Bible about robots taking over […]

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Friday, March 15th 2024

Rabbi Daniel Nevins Jewish Standard, June 22, 2023 “… If machines can generate reasonable speech, can they also make claims to personhood?” Given rapid developments in artificial intelligence, questions about the implications of manufactured minds for Jewish life have grown urgent. Back in 2019 I authored a responsum (rabbinic legal opinion) on this subject for the Rabbinical […]

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Friday, March 15th 2024

Moshe Koppel Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 4, 2024 “Judaism stands to gain a great deal from tools that could render the study of its deepest questions both more intensive and more accessible.”   The industrial revolution brought freedom and prosperity to millions in the 19th century, while also presenting considerable challenges to millions more, perhaps especially […]

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Friday, March 15th 2024 / Thursday, March 21st 2024

Citation de la semaine:  « Calomniez, calomniez, il en restera toujours quelque chose. » Francis Bacon                                      Table Des Matières Sur MSNBC, Joe Biden critique ouvertement Benyamin Netanyahou: MAGALI MARC  Druez.Info, LE 11 Mars 2024 Les critiques américaines […]

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Thursday, March 14th 2024

“DISTRESSING BIAS”   Ahead of Security Council Discussion: FM Katz Sends Strongly Worded Letter to UN Sec-Gen Guterres:  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mar. 3, 2024 — … “Your response to the atrocities committed by Hamas is unacceptable. Your dismissal of the heinous acts as documented in the recent UN report—acts which are still being perpetrated—is not only […]

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Thursday, March 14th 2024 / Thursday, March 14th 2024

Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, Mar. 12, 2024   “If successful in disrupting Congress’s investigation into Penn, the lawsuit could conceal from lawmakers, and thereby the public, evidence indicating that Fakhreddine — who has praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel as a “new way of life” — and other Penn officials involved in organizing […]

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Thursday, March 14th 2024 / Thursday, March 14th 2024

Richard Trank The Hollywood Reporter, Mar. 13, 2024 “Jonathan Glazer took the stage and gave a speech that to many ears, including mine, equated Israel with the Nazi death machine his film was about.”   Twenty-six years ago, I had the great fortune to stand on the stage of the Shrine Auditorium and accept the Oscar for best […]