AI and Gaza

International leaders have expressed their shock over ostensibly starving children in Gaza. The Hamas ”starvation” campaign is nearly as old as this war and is effective in many countries because it evokes the medieval blood libel accusing Jews of killing non-Jewish children in order to drink their blood. It turned out that depicted children hadContinue reading “AI and Gaza”

My AI Dream

As a second generation Holocaust survivor, it is my dream that super-intelligent AI will at some point invent two advanced machines, one a replicator which can make identical living copies of living organisms, including humans and second a time machine which would allow us to observe the past on a screen without traveling to theContinue reading “My AI Dream”

The Israeli Deep State Needs to Promote a New Rabbinical Consensus on Conversion Reform

The proposal for conversion reform as suggested by the Bennett-Lapid government was insensitive to the very real social concerns of many Diaspora Orthodox rabbis who feared for the very survival of their communities. The apparent concern was that young Orthodox Jews would date and marry non-Jews and then make fictitious Aliyah for the purpose ofContinue reading “The Israeli Deep State Needs to Promote a New Rabbinical Consensus on Conversion Reform”