Gil POTUS’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is a very, very bad idea. It’s immoral, illegal, impractical, and ineffective in securing Israel. Israeli leaders should be distancing themselves from this dumpster fire of a suggestion as emphatically as possible without triggering the petty ire of POTUS. It’s a tough line to walk but these are the … Read more
I was concerned about the welfare of American Jewish communities when the level of antisemitism was holding at semi-random vandalism, physical assaults, and widespread bloodlibels about Israel. The people at the top occasionally repeated some of those bloodlibels, it’s true, but at least it was clear that they weren’t going to oversee the mass disenfranchisement … Read more
An elderly man gets on the bus with a vase of flowers, meowing as he places the vase on the seat. Still meowing, he looks around, as if daring someone to contradict him. I sit silently and look on. He’s not saying anything I haven’t heard before.
In a world obsessed with hierarchies and the supremacy of some people over other people, one small nation stands alone as a horizontal society. Flawed, imperfect, very much a divine work in progress over thousands of years – with a tumultuous human history of being seduced by the allure of power over others – but … Read more
Culture and values. People talk a lot about culture and values. Almost always from a collectivist viewpoint – almost never in regards to the personal culture, the subjective values, of the human individual. And to a certain extent, this is understandable. Culture is something most of us experience socially, as a group; most of us … Read more
Meanwhile here in the Land: “Israel is about to free 110 Palestinian prisoners, including major terror convicts, nobody knows where they are going” (h/t Times of Israel) But hey, we’re getting three hostages back! After over a year of reducing Gaza to rubble! Leaving Hamas funded, armed, and in power! This deal, bro. This. Deal. … Read more
Every day is Holocaust remembrance day. We live in an indelibly post-Auschwitz world. There is no going back. Auschwitz proved the depths to which man may sink if he rejects the image of God in his fellow man. Revealed the abyss that gapes under the vaulted ceilings of modern civilizational achievement. Demonstrated that the raucous … Read more
Restoring a meritocracy by re-allowing discrimination across federal departments, organizations, and contractors? Hwut 🧐 For some political groups (that have now united under POTUS and his party), complaints about the allegedly anti-meritocratic nature of DEI (and before it affirmative action) were always just a smokescreen for the real problem: the advancement of non-white, non-Christian minorities … Read more
The Rock and the Tree: An Ethical Debate of Structures and Survival Tree: “I am a living, breathing organism, composed of countless cells that work together in harmony. My vascular system transports water and nutrients, my leaves absorb sunlight to create energy through photosynthesis, and my roots stabilize the soil. My very existence supports countless … Read more
In case you too were wondering… “Quantum states can be mapped to a spectrum model, depending on the context and the way the quantum system is described. In quantum mechanics, the state of a system is represented by a vector in a Hilbert space, and measurable quantities (observables) are represented by operators acting on this … Read more