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AI burns books? Tech giants are buying, shredding books to train smarter chatbots
AI Tech giants have been working on a secret project to buy millions of books and destroy them to feed their new models.
'Reclaiming Redemption Vol. II': Tracing Jewish survival from exile to war - book review
'The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel': Groundbreaking way to explore the Book of Samuel - review
PJ Library founder Harold Grinspoon still reinventing himself at 97
'A Life of the Mind': New biography reexamines the mind of Hannah Arendt - review
Recently discovered archival material and underutilized sources in German to illuminate her experiences and ideas, about antisemitism and Zionism as well as philosophy.
'A Life': Mark Oppenheimer captures the iconic life and legacy of Judy Blume - review
The prolific Blume, still alive and well at age 88, has sold over 80 million copies of her books worldwide.
'Faith in a Turbulent World': Lamentations teaches us how to endure grief - review
Yael Ziegler shows how the structure, rhythm and shifting voices of Lamentations hold grief, accusation and faith within the same biblical text.
'Out of the Sky': The Jewish parachutists who jumped into Nazi-occupied Europe - review
Matti Friedman uncovers the forgotten stories behind the Jewish parachutists who risked everything to return to Nazi-occupied Europe.
'Digging Deep': The lost Jewish football greats who once shaped European soccer - review
"Digging Deep" reconstructs a lost Jewish sporting world and the remarkable careers of 11 players whose stories were nearly forgotten.
'Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions': Jerusalem and its names - review
The book offers a perspective on how language itself shapes the identity, and holiness of Jerusalem.
The unique book project created for the Israel National Trail
Thanks to a hiker who missed reading something while walking the entire Israel National Trail, a nationwide initiative of dozens of free libraries along the national trail was born.
'Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land': America’s relationship with the Torah - review
The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the story it keeps retelling. We are still here to see how it ends.
'Stalin’s Apostles': The Cambridge Five and the lost world of Jewish Communism - review
From elite universities to Soviet handlers, the Cambridge Five helped Stalin penetrate Britain’s security and decision-making core.
Israeli author Amir Tibon wins Sami Rohr Prize for Oct. 7 memoir
“It is an incredible honor to receive the Sami Rohr Prize and join the esteemed list of writers who have won this award over the past two decades,” Tibon said in the Sami Rohr Prize press release.