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Writing
Most of this started as a Facebook post and got a second life here. Every piece carries its date in two calendars.
- 15 June 2026ל׳ בסיוון תשפ״וEssay
AI Is Not the Problem
I use AI all day every day. The leverage it gives me is astounding. The path from ideation to creation to implementation is shorter than it's ever been in my...
- 7 June 2026כ״ב בסיוון תשפ״וEssay
Bodily Autonomy and Down Syndrome
I have met men with Down Syndrome who were wise and empathetic, not to mention mostly self-sufficient. I have met men without Down Syndrome who were foolish and self-centered, not...
- 15 May 2026כ״ח באייר תשפ״וEssay
You Can Not Own Land
"You can not own land." "Yes I can!" "Prove it." "Uhhhh..." (Americans in particular will not like this politically incorrect post 😀) An object can be made or bought from...
- 2 May 2026ט״ו באייר תשפ״וEssay
Hard Conversations With Soldiers
We need to talk about what too many soldiers in the IDF are doing. But imho our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, cousins and childhood friends,...
- 28 April 2026י״א באייר תשפ״וEssay
Two Sides to a Flag
This post is definitely politically incorrect but I'll be honest... I have a problem with the 🇵🇸 flag. For me, it represents a history of exclusionary Pan-Arabism and organized violence...
- 27 April 2026י׳ באייר תשפ״וEssay
AI and the Target List
I use ChatGPT and Claude every day. Claude is better than ChatGPT - both are fascinating and powerful tools - but they both have serious, structural limitations. In its current...
- 19 April 2026ב׳ באייר תשפ״וEssay
Perks of Being a Maimonidean
Come To The Dark Side, Luke While I'm still recovering from the flu and am stuck on the couch with all this extra time to examine my life lol, I...
- 18 April 2026א׳ באייר תשפ״וEssay
Solving the Agunah Crisis
The Agunah Crisis Women Chained to Dead Marriages Is Easily Solved We have so many options: - a clause in the kethuba stipulating binding arbitrage (including divorce, if mandated) in...
- 18 April 2026א׳ באייר תשפ״וEssay
Yom Haatsmaut Amid Missiles
(long but LIFE AFFIRMING 👍) This week we are supposed to celebrate Yom Haatsmaut. A national day of independence. A celebration of the achievement and the miracle that was the...
- 14 April 2026כ״ז בניסן תשפ״וEssay
Comparing to Nazis
I am not persuaded that Israeli soldiers are Nazis. There is so much that separates your average soldier from an actual Nazi, just as there is so much that differentiates...
- 11 April 2026כ״ד בניסן תשפ״וEssay
Doña Gracia, Mother of Israel
Went down the rabbit hole today researching alllllll the links in the chain from the expulsion from Spain in 1492 to the establishment of the state of #Israel in 1948....
- 8 April 2026כ״א בניסן תשפ״וEssay
Proof of the Creator
Can you prove the Creator exists? Here's a modern update to Rambam's argument for the existence of God... Let's say, for the sake of discussion, we make the following eleven...
- 1 April 2026י״ד בניסן תשפ״וEssay
Pesah and Trans Rights
As I wind down from preparing for #Passover, I want to share a politically incorrect musing on a recent development in the American culture war. Based on my understanding of...
- 31 March 2026י״ג בניסן תשפ״וEssay
Mental Slavery
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds" The Creator intervened in biohistory and through the imposition of a higher order, brought the regional empire to...
- 22 March 2026ד׳ בניסן תשפ״וEssay
The Narrow Bridge
I don't want to be an alarmist or pretend that I can predict the future. I hope that my concerns will be proven to be unfounded. But I want my...
- 6 March 2026י״ז באדר תשפ״וEssay
Tucker Targets Chabad
Chabad is a diverse, complex, and trans-dimensional organization. I have personally had great experiences with Chabad rabbis and families. I greatly respect their community building and social work, and I...
- 9 February 2026כ״ב בשבט תשפ״וEssay
Setting the Record Straight
Fun fact: I am allergic to bullies and I detest religious bullies. I also have limited patience for those who evade accountability, especially in the name of winning the American...
- 22 November 2025ב׳ בכסלו תשפ״וEssay
American Fascism Taxonomy
I guess I still got #TDS. After much back and forth with ChatGPT, eliminating Eurocentric biases, ensuring it was operating from an updated knowledge base, and requesting elaboration on points...
- 13 November 2025כ״ב בחשוון תשפ״וEssay
Atheistic Explanation of Jewish Survival
Allahu Akbar. But also: "A strong atheistic explanation has to work without invoking chosenness, providence, metaphysics, or teleology, while still accounting for the extraordinary empirical fact-pattern: a tiny, dispersed, repeatedly...
- 11 November 2025כ׳ בחשוון תשפ״וEssay
Rambam Was a Hasid
Rambam, Maimonides, Abu Imran, or the Ra"m ba"r Maza"l, as he was variously known, was not just a legal scholar and judge, not just a doctor and a philosopher, but...