https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/A blog by Jacob Shore about genealogy, language learning, faith, and software — tracing family history, studying Arabic, and thinking carefully about things that matter.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/how-hard-is-face-detection/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/how-hard-is-face-detection/ 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.]]>https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/sam-shores-82-yahrzeit-a-tale-of-a-spear-and-emigration/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:11:34 +0300Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/sam-shores-82-yahrzeit-a-tale-of-a-spear-and-emigration/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/post/sam-shores-82-yahrzeit-a-tale-of-a-spear-and-emigration/sam-shore-naturalization-1.jpg" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>A story about Shmariahu (Sam) Shore, his father, and a spear kept for self-defense in the Pale of Settlement.https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/the-saranduk-/-shore-family-an-overview/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0300Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/the-saranduk-/-shore-family-an-overview/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/post/the-saranduk-/-shore-family-an-overview/papercut.jpg" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>A findings-focused guide to three years of Saranduk / Shore family research — what we now know, what was newly discovered, and what remains open.https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/categorically-wrong/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:53:25 +0200Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/categorically-wrong/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/post/categorically-wrong/tel-yarmut.jpg" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>A jog up Tel Yarmut sparks a reflection on the tension between halachic categories and the lived reality of Jewish destiny.https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/what-duolingo-doesnt-teach-you-about-turkish/Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:24:40 +0200Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/what-duolingo-doesnt-teach-you-about-turkish/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/post/what-duolingo-doesnt-teach-you-about-turkish/istanbul-airport.jpg" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>A beginner-friendly Turkish phrase list with IPA cues, early pronunciation notes, and why Duolingo basics miss what you actually need first.https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/fred-green-and-the-rambach-photograph/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:13:45 +0200Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/fred-green-and-the-rambach-photograph/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/post/fred-green-and-the-rambach-photograph/featured.jpg" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>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.https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/fredrick-philip-green/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/fredrick-philip-green/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/post/fredrick-philip-green/fred-green-logo.jpg" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>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.https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/kabbalah-and-the-boundaries-of-tradition/Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:01:36 +0200Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/kabbalah-and-the-boundaries-of-tradition/ 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]]>https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/from-insight-to-verdict/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:16:41 +0200Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/from-insight-to-verdict/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/post/from-insight-to-verdict/klonimus.jpeg" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>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.”https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/judeo-arabic-signage-in-djerba/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:08:10 +0200Jacob Shorehttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/judeo-arabic-signage-in-djerba/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/post/judeo-arabic-signage-in-djerba/img/interior-el-ghriba.jpg" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>Some signage from my recent trip to Djerba