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Thinking about AI

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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What Artificial Intelligence Has in Store for Judaism

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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Biden lâche les gants contre Netanyahu et les véritables causes de la crise humanitaire à Gaza

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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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Daily Briefing: EXPOSING ANTISEMITISM

“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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University of Pennsylvania Faculty Anti-Zionist Group Files Lawsuit to Stop Antisemitism Investigation

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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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I Produced an Oscar-Winning Holocaust Film. Here Is Why Jonathan Glazer’s Speech Was So Offensive

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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 […]

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7 October and the Miseducation of the Palestinian Child

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Jonathan Myers Fathom Journal, March 2024   “The children who consumed those initial shows are of an age to be the terrorists of today.”   BROUGHT UP TO GLORIFY ‘MARTYRS’ Palestinian Media Watch has drawn attention to how the environment of Gaza and West Bank children contains dozens of schools, sports events, and summer camps, […]

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FM Katz Addresses Special Discussion of the United Nations Security Council

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mar. 11, 2024 “The United Nations has been silent regarding on the actions of Hamas for too long.”   Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz participated this evening (Monday, 11 March 2024) in the special emergency discussion at the UN Security Council on the report on Hamas’ sexual crimes during the […]

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Daily Briefing: CANADA’S MORAL DECLINE: THEN AND NOW

SAVAGE WINDS NDP Faces Backlash Over Opposition Motion Calling for Recognition of Palestinian Statehood:  Isaac Lamoureux, True North, Mar. 12, 2024 — The NDP is calling on the Canadian government to recognize Palestine as a state. The call comes in an opposition motion the socialist party plans to introduce when the House of Commons returns next week. […]

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Ottawa’s New Restrictions on Kosher Slaughter in Canada Violate Jews’ Charter Rights:  Lawsuit

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Bryan Passifiume National Post, Mar. 12, 2024 “Over the past few months, we have produced several reports from experts demonstrating that following shechita, animals rapidly transition to immediate and irreversible insensibility and as a result do not experience any pain,” the statement read. “Regrettably, the CFIA has ignored the basic science, relying on inaccurate and flawed, […]

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Allowing Protests to Escalate Unchecked Risks Creating a New Normal in Canada

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Howard Levitt Financial Post, Mar. 8, 2024 “Our criminal code already prevents demonstrators from donning masks to conceal their identities when the demonstration causes others to reasonably believe that the peace will be disturbed, as it was in all of these instances, and they could be arrested too, if there was only the will to do so from […]

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How Canada Became a Cauldron of Authoritarianism

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  Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Mar. 10, 2024  “It really is possible it will be ideas, not just blind hatred, that will be punished under C-63.” It seems Justin Trudeau isn’t only a dick – he also gets his ideas from one. Philip K Dick, to be precise. Trudeau’s government has proposed a new law that […]

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