‘Anne Frank, Superstar’? A satirical musical reimagines the Holocaust victim as a symbol of wokeness.

What exactly is “Slam Frank,” the purported hip-hop musical that reimagines the Holocaust’s most famous victim as a pansexual Latinx girl today? Is it a real show with real actors and real songs constructing a real story for real audiences? Or is it an elaborate social media prank designed to pillory the left and rage-bait […]

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Sally Rooney says she’ll donate to Palestine Action despite risking terrorism charges

Bestselling Irish author Sally Rooney has pledged to donate the proceeds from BBC productions of her novels to Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian activist group in the United Kingdom that was designated as a terrorist organization in July. “I too support Palestine Action,” wrote Rooney in an op-ed published in The Irish Times on Saturday. “If […]

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Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk banned from teaching at Omega Institute over ‘antisemitic comments’

For decades, Bessel van der Kolk, a psychiatrist whose ideas about how the body records pain helped millions find language for their suffering, has been regarded as the world’s leading expert in the study of trauma. His 2014 best-selling book, “The Body Keeps the Score,” turned him into an unlikely celebrity, a household name among […]

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How AI and ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ played essential roles in this Chinese immigrant’s journey to Judaism

When Liangda Hu first tried doing Daf Yomi, the practice of studying a page of Talmud per day, he struggled to read it. Hu found the language of English Talmud translations uniquely archaic and, as someone who speaks English as a second language, difficult to understand.  So he turned to artificial intelligence. Now, Hu uses […]

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