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AI is already coming for your jobs. Your Passover song parodies may be next.

March 31, 2026March 31, 2026Jesse Orine

The publisher Hachette recently canceled a horror novel, “Shy Girl,” after it was revealed to have been written with the help of AI. OpenAI shut down its social media app Sora after complaints that users were sharing inflammatory deepfake videos of Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mister Rogers, among others. In January, the […]

How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music

November 11, 2024November 11, 2024Jesse Orine

A collection of documents described as a treasure trove of Jewish music has been acquired by the New York Public Library, after being hidden in a cantor’s basement in Yonkers for 40 years. Sheet music, manuscripts and orchestral arrangements for close to 4,000 musical works — including cantorial music, Hasidic melodies, Yiddish theater, klezmer and […]