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Pastors are using AI to draft prayers. The pulpit is changing•Putin’s message in Ukraine is fear. The West should stop pretending it is harmless.•When antisemitic claims enter a friendship, the cost is trust.•New York is holding $19.3 million that belongs to a Kentucky order of nuns•The strange new politics of AI. Plus, the old problem of doing nothing.•Dara Horn says antisemitism is about power, not just hatred.•America still has not done justice for 9/11. Twenty-five years later, the accused remain in pretrial limbo.•Tax-exempt nonprofits and the terror problem. The record is public.•Pastors are using AI to draft prayers. The pulpit is changing•Putin’s message in Ukraine is fear. The West should stop pretending it is harmless.•When antisemitic claims enter a friendship, the cost is trust.•New York is holding $19.3 million that belongs to a Kentucky order of nuns•The strange new politics of AI. Plus, the old problem of doing nothing.•Dara Horn says antisemitism is about power, not just hatred.•America still has not done justice for 9/11. Twenty-five years later, the accused remain in pretrial limbo.•Tax-exempt nonprofits and the terror problem. The record is public.•
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