Published in The Jewish Book Council. When people think about the Jewish experience in World War II, there’s only one thing that immediately comes to mind: the Holocaust. But there is another side to the story, that of the 1.5…
How politics, fear, and quiet boycotts are narrowing the space for Israel-related voices in the literary world. Published in The Jerusalem Report. In the decade I spent pitching my debut book proposal to prospective agents and publishers, I faced repeated…
We must remember not only the recently fallen, but also on whose shoulders they stand. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. Unlike Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is focused squarely on our painful past, the country’s annual Memorial Day…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. The official name of Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day is Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day. It’s a nod toward not only the victims of the genocide but also the resistance fighters who valiantly fought…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News Nearly a month into the war with Iran, it’s safe to say that much of what we have been experiencing in Israel has been unprecedented. It’s the first fully joint American Israeli military operation….
Five years before Brooklyn Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier, becoming the first African American to play in the Major Leagues, another future Hall of Famer scored a similar, though far less publicized, breakthrough. In 1942, chemical…
For the 1.5 million Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II victimhood was not the only story. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel As the world commemorates the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Tuesday on…
Before turning off your QLED TV tonight, or the bedside lamp powered by electricity generated from sunlight captured in solar cells, please take a moment to remember Louis E. Brus. These everyday amenities would not be possible without his groundbreaking…
Published in The Hamilton Jewish News. It was a routine Associated Press reporting assignment. I was dispatched to a security conference in May 2015 to listen to panels of experts discussing Israel’s looming security threats. It was only when I…
Published in The Jewish Book Council My grandfather, Mickey Heller, served four years in the Royal Canadian Air Force, including two years in Europe as a navigator in Bomber Command. But that’s all I, or anyone else in my family,…
The year 2025 marks the halfway point between the 5G and 6G eras of wireless communications. It’s a milestone symbolizing the bridge between the groundbreaking 5G technologies that were unleashed at the start of this decade and the promise of…
When ChatGPT burst into the scene in late 2022, it dazzled the world with how Artificial Intelligence could generate human-like text, code and conversation. But it very quickly revealed its limitations and weaknesses, namely hallucinations, mathematical challenges, brittleness and decision-making…
For the past 30 years, Nokia Bell Labs optical researcher Sébastien Bigo has been a near-constant presence at the annual European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC). In fact, since 1995, he has missed only a single edition of Europe’s most…
We are living in an era in which cognitive robots are becoming commonplace in factories, warehouses and other challenging environments. They offer an autonomous solution that often is safer and more productive than manual labor. The technology behind this is…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. One of the defining memories of my youth is the 1990 Gulf War, and the subsequent Iraqi missile attacks against Israel early the next year. I was 14, and I distinctly remember the drama…