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Ibrahim MukherjeeThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
The New Golden Calf: When AI Becomes an Idol The danger of artificial intelligence is not that it becomes human. The greater danger may be that humans...
A Call Beyond Sectarianism, Back to God שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָד Shema Yisrael,...
Ritual, Rhythm, and the Mind: Nadal, the Five Prayers, and the Architecture of Inner Stability There is a moment before every Rafael Nadal serve that...
A Letter to the Jewish People from a Muslim We do not wish you harm. And when Muslims fail that standard, they fail Islam before they fail you. The...
A child’s hand reaches through the rubble. We know nothing about the child. No nationality. No religion. No politics. Can I play with my toys? No....
When God Taught Adam the Names of All Things Before the first city, before the first library, before Aristotle drew up his categories, before a...
Unravelling the Creation of God Through Biomimicry There is something wonderfully humbling about Velcro. In 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestral...
Josef Mengele, Eugenics and What Happens When Science Loses Its Moral Conscience There is something unsettling about photographs of Josef Mengele. He...
Discernment in the Age of Artificial Reason What the Torah, the Qur’an and the Prophets Teach Us About AI, Conscience and True Judgement There is a...
Amalek, Halakhah and the Courage of Rabbinic Leadership Few passages in the Hebrew Bible have provoked more argument, discomfort and serious...
One year after the date George Orwell imagined would come to define the modern fear of surveillance. Although Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in...
1. Peace is the normal state; war is an exception Both traditions treat peace as something to be sought, even while recognising that conflict may...
One of the oldest questions humanity has ever asked is also one of the most personal. Are human beings fundamentally good? Or fundamentally violent?...
Every civilisation celebrates strength. It is easy to admire. Yet the Hebrew Bible and the Quran both arrive at a profoundly counterintuitive...
Every civilisation eventually asks the same question. Where does morality come from? Is it imposed by law? Learned from parents? Inherited through...
Falsehood is impatient. It rushes to judgement. It demands immediate certainty. It mistakes confidence for wisdom and volume for truth. Truth moves...
The greatest threat to a democracy is not disagreement. It is the moment disagreement becomes impossible. History has shown that nations rarely...
Every nation at war faces a moment when it must ask not only whether it can prevail, but what kind of nation it wishes to be when the fighting ends. ...