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Editorial: The Strike Zone Goes Digital
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (555+ words) On opening day, Major League Baseball quietly brought artificial intelligence onto the field. For more than a century, arguing balls and strikes was forbidden, because the home plate umpire's judgment was final. No appeals. No second chances. No higher authority....
Opinion: From Sderot to Tehran: Unmasking the Architects of the ‘Double War Crime’
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (1180+ words) Opinion: From Sderot to Tehran: Unmasking the Architects of the "Double War Crime'Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Opinion: From Sderot to Tehran: Unmasking the Architects of the "Double War Crime" Countless pieces of evidence from the current conflict show Iranian ballistic missiles…...
Opinion: The Fantasy Factory: Why People Post Lies About Israel
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (569+ words) Something strange is happening online. "Tel Aviv has been leveled." "Bibi has been killed." "Chabad orchestrated the war with Iran." "Israel is destroying Al-Aqsa." Tens of thousands of posts, millions of views, but it is all total fiction. Anyone with…...
Editorial: Haaretz’s Judgment, Blinded by Religious Bias
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (245+ words) That might be defensible if the argument was serious. It isn't. Haaretz, long aligned with Israel's secular liberal intelligentsia, has made a habit of treating religious institutions " and the voters who support them " as suspect. Here, it goes further, effectively…...
Opinion: Chants of Death Should Alarm Everyone, Everywhere
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (481+ words) In Manhattan's Washington Square Park recently, chants of "Death to Israel!" and "Death to America!" were shouted during a vigil for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Demonstrators held signs of his face and waved flags of the Islamic Republic. Standing on American…...
Editorial: Next Year in Jerusalem
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (247+ words) Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the Seder table to tell an ancient story that refuses to stay in the past. The Haggadah does not present the Exodus as distant history, but as lived experience: "In every generation, each…...
Editorial: Kudos to Cornell’s Kotlikoff
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (471+ words) At most universities today, the script is predictable. Students pass a sweeping political resolution. Administrators respond with vague talk of "dialogue" and "listening." No one leads. Nothing is resolved. At Cornell, President Michael I. Kotlikoff did something different. He said no....
Opinion: Winning the Narrative Before the Argument Begins
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (695+ words) Walk across a college campus today and you will see phrases that would have been unfamiliar to most Americans a generation ago: settler colonialism, decolonization, resistance. They now appear on protest signs, in student manifestos and in mainstream language, each…...
D'var Torah: Who Is the Hero of the Exodus Story?
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (805+ words) Rabbi George Stern The Torah reading for Shabbat Chol HaMoed Pesach is Exodus 33:12 " 34:26 When we think of the Exodus story, most of us probably think immediately of Moses: the stories of his upbringing in Pharaoh's palace, his flight to the…...
Fall Prevention and Home Safety Talk
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (81+ words) Fall Prevention and Home Safety Talk'Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Fall Prevention and Home Safety Talk Jen Kuehl (Left), Physical Therapist and Rehab Manager, Outpatient Rehab at Ann's Choice and Emily Groarke (Right), Occupational Therapist, spoke about fall prevention and home safety…...