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Haifa, Jerusalem pizzerias make 50 Top Pizza list for Asia-Pacific region Haifa's NeoPolitan takes 25th spot and new entry of the year award and Jerusalem's La Piedra is at 37 on the prestigious guide

La Piedra is good but Flora is better www.timesofisrael.com/haifa-jerusa...

Antisemitism in the Oval Office A confrontation seen with a historian's eye

I hadn’t thought about it that way, but now I think he’s right. And maybe that’s what I found so disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Contemporary dress code for male Israeli journalists

‘He isn’t dead, he’s in his room’: Ariel Bibas’s 5-year-old friend struggles with his loss Yoav Avital, who grew up with Ariel, asked to invent potion that could bring his friend back, dictated a letter imagining Ariel 'flying over Gaza' to 'fight the bad guys with a bow and arrow'

“Yoav said that maybe [Hamas] love them so much there because Ariel is funny and mischievous and that it’s hard for the terrorists to simply say goodbye to them” 😢 www.timesofisrael.com/he-isnt-dead...

Matti Friedman: The Family That Never Came Home The deaths of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were too unbearable to believe. Israelis couldn’t accept it until we had no other choice.

‘For Israelis, October 7 is a slow-release catastrophe.’

In Israel the inflation is so tangible these days it’s like rising humidity

Shira Haas as Sabra can’t shield us from disappointment in new ‘Captain America’ flick Now in US theaters, Marvel's 35th movie may just be its worst, while featuring -- after no small amount of controversy -- the franchise's first Israeli hero

Aw that's too bad...

We lack the language to describe the pleasures of raising a child. We have plenty of words to describe the hardships, but there’s no very good way to describe the meaning/joy/purpose of day to day parenting.

The gap between the quality of the podcast guests some hosts get and the quality of the mind and questions of those hosts.

Top IDF officer’s warning of Hamas onslaught plans was hidden in Aug. 2023 – report Channel 12 cites 'Maj. Nun' as saying that while IDF was preparing for only four simultaneous incursions from Gaza, Hamas was planning a far more significant raid

This suggests the Oct 7 disaster was not prevented due to intelligence failure to pass up warnings to highest decision-makers. My question is why was Alef so concerned about passing up the dire report of Nun? www.timesofisrael.com/top-idf-offi...

Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious? - Boston Review Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

'In my view, silicon is just as apt as carbon as a substrate for consciousness. What matters is how neurons or silicon chips are hooked up to each other, not what they are made of.'
www.bostonreview.net/articles/cou...

To Whom Does the World Belong? - Boston Review The battle over copyright in the age of ChatGPT.

'It would be worse than ironic to allow the inventors of the technology that has dealt a death blow to the era of Romantic authorship to use its very ideological apparatus—the identification of “authoring” with “owning”—to reap the spoils of what comes next.'
www.bostonreview.net/articles/to-...

Wartime Diaries: Robbie Gringras Grateful for his safety and relative comfort in this war, one man says goodbye to his personal paradise.

When Israeli Patio Man (see David Brooks, 2002) meets Hezbollah rockets www.timesofisrael.com/wartime-diar...

‘What do you think is the strongest tension in Israeli society?’ - from the new Israel Democracy Institute report

The Blogs: Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? It doesn’t matter It is time to shift gears and recognize that the delegitimization of Israel is the greatest threat facing the Jewish people today

'anti-Zionism threatens the historic achievement of American Jewry, which is unconditional acceptance by the non-Jewish mainstream... Anti-Zionists have reintroduced conditionality'

Do bank ATMs in other countries also now offer to take your cash at a loan at usurious rates?

Israeli musician Corinne Allal dies aged 69 * * *

One of the greats in Israeli music. Her memory will certainly be a blessing.

Footage shows Syrian rebels in Damascus vowing: ‘From here to Jerusalem. We’re coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of Gaza’ * * *

Concerning.

Footage shows Syrian rebels in Damascus vowing: 'From here to Jerusalem. We're coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of Gaza'

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

So Karl Ove Knausgaard is learning gemara in his spare time? There's a copy of the Talmud Bavli Yoma on his desk www.washingtonpost.com/books/intera...

@kevinroose.com is right - we need a paperclip maximizer sci-fi film to bring that concern/prediction to life... but 'Afraid' is so badly reviewed that I don't think it'll make it into my queue even

Israel is producing fewer new startups, raising concerns about future tech jobs The past decade has seen the number of newly founded startups plunge 45% and more, creating a potential economic shortfall in the coming years, according to RISE Israel

The flight of tech talent from Israel is a serious issue, I can say from personal experience. Fall in the volume of startups, less so - we prob. had too many that drew talent away from scalable companies. But the trend here is bad and needs serious attention as we hopefully move out of this war.

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

What a wonderful story - ht @dzkalman.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Syrian sources say Assad may have been killed in plane crash during escape * * *

Assad going down in a plane crash sounds a little too convenient
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Niall Ferguson: The Rot In Britain—and the Remedy Lately it seems that mine is a country with a death wish. Can we avoid national suicide?

‘Where are the Thought Police when you really need them?’
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Inspired by Gandhi, white-clad hostage mothers silently scream in protest In a new strategy, the Mishmeret 101 rallies are nonviolent and apolitical, with shifts of protesters revolving around families of those abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on Oct. 7

I joined their powerful gathering on Shabbat. A passerby asked me 'What is this - a demonstration? Or prayer service?' I said 'yeah, I think both'
www.timesofisrael.com/inspired-by-...

Head of MI6 says 'I've never seen the world in a more dangerous state' as he warns Russia would not stop if it wins in Ukraine Sir Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said that if Russia wins in Ukraine, China would "weigh the implications, North Korea would be emboldened, and Iran would become still more dangerous".

MI6 head: "In 37 years in the intelligence profession, I've never seen the world in a more dangerous state."
news.sky.com/story/head-o...

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Perplexity's Chrome extension to replace Google search from within G's own product

Hebrew word that describes the current state of affairs but has no good English translation: מצמרר