Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist much in the news of late, has issued a warning about artificial intelligence that echoes the lesson of an ancient Jewish legend, writes a Yeshiva University Talmud professor.
In a rock opera inspired by the biblical story of Elisha, the versatile Rabins presents the Ponzi schemer through the eyes of seven disparate characters.
Every culture has its superstitions and its supermen: the German imp, the South African giant Abiyoyo, the golem of Jewish lore, and the jinni of Arabic mythology. What if, during one of America’s great waves of immigration, 2 of these mythic creatures collided? That’s what happens in The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker‘s compulsively readable debut novel. At the junction of 19th-century […]
