Sometimes the Whole World Is Wrong and the Jews Are Right
Ahad Ha’am and the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 12, 2026
The Catholic Church Is Well-Equipped to Deal with the False Prophets of AI
Messianic and apocalyptic cults? They’ve seen them before.
According to Anthropic, which makes the large language model known as Claude, its software could develop “consciousness or moral status.” Anthropic therefore insists on its concern for Claude’s “psychological security, sense of self, and wellbeing.” Claire Lehmann notes the ideological tendencies that have influenced these positions, and the way they tend to point technologists either to messianism or apocalypticism.
October 12, 2026
Israel’s Growing Problem in the Horn of Africa
Egypt, Ethiopia, the Houthis, and the other side of the Red Sea.
Hamas’s Terror Abroad Could Be a Sign of a Change in Direction
The jihadist group has reinvented itself before, and it can again.
The Woman Who Revolutionized Jewish Publishing
The Widow Romm and her Talmud.
The Catholic Church Is Well-Equipped to Deal with the False Prophets of AI
Messianic and apocalyptic cults? They’ve seen them before.