Israel, U.S. formally launch talks on ‘new security cooperation framework’

The Bot Mitzvah moment

Today's Daily Kickoff covers allegations against Graham Platner, AI's role in Jewish study, House rejections of Lebanon resolutions, and concerns over a Saudi-U.S. civilian nuclear deal.

Have Graham Platner's scandals finally caught up with him?

The New York Times’ detailed exposé about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s history of toxic, alcohol-laden and occasionally physically threatening relationships with three former girlfriends landed Thursday afternoon — with Platner’s campaign hoping to limit the fallout amid signs his campaign is losing support. In an interview with MS NOW’s Chris Hayes Thursday evening, Platner... <a href="">Read More</a>

In Altneu art exhibit, artists grapple with the end of American Jewry’s ‘Golden Age’

Four friends gather around a table as a waiter serves a tray of pastrami sandwiches; a Torah scroll is passed from grandfather to father and son, marking a bar mitzvah; three grandmothers sit on lawn chairs outside of a brownstone, watching passersby on a summer night. These candid glimpses of ordinary American Jewish life, part... <a href="">Read More</a>

Lawmakers raise concerns as Trump prepares civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia

As the Trump administration prepares to submit a proposed civil nuclear pact with Saudi Arabia to Congress, U.S. lawmakers are raising concerns about the potential agreement while nonproliferation experts and former Trump administration officials are sounding the alarm, warning that the pact abandons traditional safeguards and could ignite a nuclear arms race in the Middle... <a href="">Read More</a>

Leading rabbis, Jewish thinkers urge moral guardrails when utilizing AI

When Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, an Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn, stepped up to the microphone in April to share his perspective on what Judaism has to say about artificial intelligence, his remarks resembled a sermon he might deliver on the bimah.&nbsp; Except the audience for this talk was not congregants. It was interfaith religious leaders, and... <a href="">Read More</a>