Nobel Laureate Professor Robert John Aumann talks game theory, a bit of politics and much more with 2NJB.
Dr. Robert J. Aumann is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1938, Professor Aumann immigrated with his family to the United States from Germany, barely escaping the Nazis and the Holocaust.
Crazy as it might sound, it all started with the Dodgers, and how they won back-to-back World Series in 2024 and 2025.
American malaise involves gloomy thoughts about spiking gas prices, or depressing flashbacks to previous wars where days stretched into decades. Israeli malaise is accompanied by gloomy thoughts about the Americans.
Canines’ renowned loyalty was a natural representation of the “loyal transmission of the divine mandate from generation to generation.”
Even those self-described human rights groups that are strongly biased in favor of the Palestinian Arab cause acknowledge the PA’s systemic mistreatment of women.
Jews today do have a voice. For the moment. But we have not used it where it counts – in the mainstream media, the halls of power, on campuses, on school boards, in the public square.
After years of terrorizing Israelis with existential threats, the Islamic regime is now worried about its own existence. In a region where the projection of power is everything, that is humiliation.
Congress has already established this principle for corporate America; it must apply the same standard to education, where vulnerability and the risk of exploitation are high.
The generation that built these schools believed Jewish life in America had a future worth institutionalizing. Are we willing to invest, sacrifice and build accordingly?
There is a golden opportunity to expose the intellectual bankruptcy of antisemitism based on current identity politics discourse, and to credibly argue that the current struggle is a global confrontation between the forces of terror and oppression and the Free World.
On a recent Shabbat, Sinai celebrated the Ladino tradition and invited me to tell my story.
Public gestures matter. When someone in a position of influence treats atrocity as liberation, the signal travels far beyond a social media post.
Newsom’s machinations are a warning that the current difficulties for American politicians facing rising voter unhappiness with Israel will only become harder.
Oh, how I have waited for this day.
According to the two men, three individuals who were standing behind them suddenly began punching them without saying a word.
The event — which combines a film screening with live comedy, music and nosh— offers audiences a chance to experience the pair’s distinctive blend of storytelling, cultural exploration and Jewish humor.
American Jews have always understood a key lesson of life: even if your victimhood is justified, if you wear it it will kill you.
A Ghetto Under Siege: From Oppression to Resistance
