Science and Technology
The View Through Big-Data: An Initial Analysis of 15 Million Tweets by AIPAC and J Street Followers
Main Findings Twitter followers of AIPAC and J Street are equally likely to have bios that contain the word “Jewish”, while AIPAC supporters are significantly more likely to have “Israel” in their bios. Around the same percent of AIPAC followers (48.1%) and J Street followers (39.5%) mention Israel at least once in their previous 200 tweets. J Street followers are…
New Subjects in the Field
Background Papers
Background Papers
On Genetics and Jewish History
Conference on Genomics – From Disease Prevention to Treatment, Population, Medicine and Society, Haifa, Technion and Clalit Health Fund, 2-5 Oct. 2018 During the first international conference on this subject, which took place in Haifa in 2016, I deplored the gap between the fast advancing genetic sciences and Jewish historiography. Historians should have discovered the human genome as a new…
2017 Conference on Shifting Trends
2017 Conference on Shifting Trends
Op-Ed: Intel, Mobileye, and the Coming Technological Revolution
Published by The Times of Israel The purchase of Mobileye by Intel is evidence of an approaching technological revolution that the government of Israel, Jewish community leaders, and policy makers should be cognizant of and make appropriate decisions and investments to stay ahead of a rapidly changing world. Earlier this month the Jewish People Policy Institute held a conference to…