How Haki’s Arabic audio went from browser text-to-speech to generated MP3s, dialect-specific fallbacks, and a still-imperfect pronunciation system.

I wanted to see how hard face detection is in 2026. I tested Haar cascades, MediaPipe’s BlazeFace, and YOLO on real images. The short answer: it depends entirely on whether your subject is wearing sunglasses.

A story about Shmariahu (Sam) Shore, his father, and a spear kept for self-defense in the Pale of Settlement.

A findings-focused guide to three years of Saranduk / Shore family research — what we now know, what was newly discovered, and what remains open.

A jog up Tel Yarmut sparks a reflection on the tension between halachic categories and the lived reality of Jewish destiny.

A beginner-friendly Turkish phrase list with IPA cues, early pronunciation notes, and why Duolingo basics miss what you actually need first.

Family recollections about a missing Rambach portrait by Fred Green, his early work with Boston police photography, and his boxing ties, recorded as oral history pending documentation.

A genealogical and family-history note on Fredrick Philip Green (Shraga Feivel), tracing his origins from Lithuania to Sweden and the United States, and distinguishing between documented records and family memory.

How Kabbalah became woven into normative Judaism despite disputed origins, and why disciplined restraint beats revisionist erasure.

Featured image by Roy Lindman, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A critique of Elon Gilad’s confident pop-Judaism: how narrow philological claims about sufganiyot, meat-and-milk, and Mishnah variants get inflated into sweeping takedowns while ignoring broader sources and transmission. The piece argues for proportion—respecting evidence, the weight of commentary, and oral tradition instead of cherry-picked “gotchas.”