Hamas’s Man in Gaza
Who is Ali al-Amoudi?
October 21, 2026
Is AI a Fulfillment of Human Potential, or a Modern Tower of Babel?
Rabbinic thought can help us navigate the great technological shifts in our time.
Last Shabbat, synagogues read the story of the Tower of Babel, which seems a natural metaphor for the potential overreach of modern technological progress. Today, the technology that people are wrestling with most is artificial intelligence. Gil Student draws on rabbinic literature and analytical methods to offer one way to approach the dangers and possibilities now presenting themselves to humanity:
October 21, 2026
The Intifada Comes to Paris
How “Palestine” conquered France.
How Israel Broke Pan-Arabism
And can defeat its successors too.
A Rare Manuscript of a Medieval Rabbinic Commentary Discovered
Verifying the text of Nachmanides’s biblical exegesis.
Is AI a Fulfillment of Human Potential, or a Modern Tower of Babel?
Rabbinic thought can help us navigate the great technological shifts in our time.