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Dear Reader, As you can imagine, more people are reading The Jerusalem Post than ever before. Nevertheless, traditional business models are no longer sustainable and high-quality publications, like ours, are being forced to look for new ways to keep going. Unlike many other news organizations, we…

As synthetic media spreads, even real images will invite skepticism. Illustration by Javier Jaén; photograph by Svetikd / Getty In 2011, Hany Farid, a photo-forensics expert, received an e-mail from a bereaved father. Three years earlier, the man’s son had found himself on the side of the road with…

Obviously, it’s good for colleges and universities to encourage inclusivity and equality, and it is extremely important that they change campus culture so that sexual assault is considered unacceptable by all students and staff. But in the process, institutions of higher education need to remember…

Each year, when Hanukkah rolls around, I feel a certain sense of unease. Hmmm. A battle between Jewish zealots and Jews who wanted to partake of the richness of the Greek world around them. I have a feeling I’m on the wrong side of this, Hanukkah-wise. “You like wine?” my friend John, who is of…

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At the same time the rate of intermarriage among non-Orthodox Jews continues to rise, so does the percentage of such couples who are raising their children as Jews, according to Jewish population surveys conducted in recent years. The latest community to confirm this trend is South Palm Beach…

Raymond So excelled in high school, so much so that he got into Harvard. Still, there was one area where he struggled: getting enough sleep. In high school, his rest was haphazard and never enough, and he knew that wouldn’t cut it in college. It was almost out of necessity, then, that So signed up…

Credit Illustrations by Ben Wiseman By Opinion Columnist We overwhelm teenagers with advice about choosing a college. Go big. Go small. Put prestige above cost. Do the opposite. We inundate them with tips for getting in. Spend summers this way. Write essays that way. Play a niche sport. Play an…

Craig Cutler 1. The Aristocracy Is Dead … For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America’s fading aristocracies. Sometimes around Christmas, more often on the Fourth of July, my family would take up residence at one of my grandparents’ country clubs in Chicago, Palm…

Losing Earth Prologue Part One Part Two Epilogue Thirty years ago, we had a chance to save the planet. The science of climate change was settled. The world was ready to act. Almost nothing stood in our way — except ourselves. Editor’s Note This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history,…

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No more ugly tutorials projects ! No more fictional brands examples! Today I am going to show you how to build a real world beautiful weather app that is production ready from scratch starting from design to development all the way to deployment using Adobe XD, Angular 6 & Firebase! Why? I am sick…

Want to receive exclusive insights from The Atlantic—while supporting a sustainable future for independent journalism? Join our new membership program, The Masthead . $6.4 billion. That’s how much candidates, political parties, and interest groups spent on federal elections in 2016, according to the…

Children sitting at the Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation in New York City, March 3, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) NEW YORK ( JTA ) — The Orthodox Jewish world is even more fragmented than you think. That’s the key takeaway from a study published Thursday of Modern Orthodox…

The general consensus is humans have six basic emotions, but within those recognized emotive states lie a few (usually nameless until now) inbetweeners. Defining emotions and moods have a history of being something we have had issues with over the years, a downside to being an emotionally complex…

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Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Recode by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and editor at large of Recode . This is my last weekly column for The Verge and Recode — the last weekly column I plan to write anywhere . I’ve…

Bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the country. The desecration of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. For Christian Picciolini, these recent incidents are not necessarily surprising. He’s at the forefront of warning Americans against the growing threat from…

LEXINGTON, KY - JANUARY 12: John Calipari the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats gives insturctions to his team against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Rupp Arena on January 12, 2016 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) As he described his latest motivational tactic during…

Get 15 free days of knowing your data is safe by using this link with Backblaze: http://backblaze.com/wendover “What if Russia Never Existed” by AlternateHistoryHub: https://youtu.be/gU6UBXOHhDw “What if the Soviet Union Reunited” by RealLifeLore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-TFE... This video…

March 21, 2017 When LEGO is not enough fun, or even too easy with its prefabricated pieces, dump it … You can build your own hydraulic arm from scratch!! What do I need ? In fact it’s not that much, and most of the bits and pieces you may have at home. All you need is cardboard, eight syringes with…

Records tied Most games won by a player: 5, Tom Brady Most touchdowns in a single Super Bowl: 3, James White Most two-point conversions in single Super Bowl: 1, James White and Danny Amendola Most sacks in a single Super Bowl (since 1982): 3, Grady Jarrett Most two-point conversions in a single…

Smartphone #goals from the future vs what we have now! Bezelless iPhone concept: https://www.behance.net/gallery/30141... ) Xiaomi Mi Mix: https://youtu.be/m7plA1ALkQw Logic - The Incredible True Story: https://open.spotify.com/album/5dOpbg... Video Gear I use:…

Four years ago, Alexis Noel , a new doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, approached a dissection class with a strange request. When they were done cutting up their frogs, she asked, could she have the tongues? They said yes. Noel has always loved frogs, so when she later joined…

When I read about the incredibly active first week of the Trump administration, I struggle with two competing narratives about what’s really going on. The first story is simple: the administration is just doing what it said it would do, literally keeping its campaign promises. Lots of people won’t…

Donald Trump ’s long-awaited Muslim ban became a reality today. No, you might say, it’s not actually the proposal he outlined during the campaign. True, the ban doesn’t cover every Muslim globally, just a set of Muslims from countries Trump perceives, rather arbitrarily, to be dangerous. But today’s…

When he takes the oath of office on Friday, President Trump will inherit a far different country than President Obama did eight years ago. It's a nation that is far more solid in some ways (economics) and shakier in others (terrorist attacks). We have gathered together dozens of statistics to show…

I listened with rapt attention to your speech today on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I did so as someone who has yearned for an end to this conflict for decades, who grasps that the essential Jewish mission has always been the all-too-elusive quest for peace, and whose organization, AJC, has…

Hillary Clinton — former first lady, senator, secretary of state and now Democratic presidential candidate — speaks to a packed room of supporters at the Sheraton Hotel in midtown Manhattan after she won New York’s Democratic primary election on April 19, 2016. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)…

DECEMBER 14, 2016 By As the year ends, The New York Times asked reporters who have focused on climate change, global warming and the environment to choose the news they reported on that was the most memorable. These are their selections, ranging from sea level rise to the phenomenon of “rolling…

An example ranked choice voting ballot. Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images We all know who won the presidential election according to the Electoral College: Donald Trump. And we all know who won the presidential election by popular vote: Hillary Clinton. But who would have won if…

After Jon Stewart left "The Daily Show" last summer, much of the presidential campaign went on without his unique and satirical point of view. Charlie Rose met with Stewart to discuss his new book about the more than 16 years he spent at the Comedy Central program. Stewart was quick to give his…

Lucas Zarebinski for TIME The Levitating Lightbulb Flyte / $349 Shop it Since he was a child, Simon Morris has been obsessed with making objects float in midair. At one point he even managed to turn a skateboard into a hoverboard, though as he recalls it, “I couldn’t ride on it.” Now he’s applying…