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Becoming tefillah educators a curriculum for tefillah, emunah, and moral development
(Yeshiva University, 2021-06)
For many graduates of yeshiva day schools, the most consistent and time consuming aspect of
their religious life is prayer. However, in settings such as schools and camps where adolescents
engage in most of their prayer, ...
The Nature of Antisemitism: Commonalities and Manifestations
(2022-01)
In this thesis, I will elaborate on and expand the construct proposed by Lipstadt that
antisemitism is a typical conspiracy. In doing so, I will demonstrate through a survey of various
forms of antisemitism throughout ...
Treif Grief: Poetry Manuscript
(Yeshiva University, 2022-12)
The pessimistic poems discussed here represent just one perspective through which I
view the complexities of spirituality. In Martin Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim, the author cites the
18th century rabbi, Simcha Bunem who ...
Mathematical stochastic models for DNA
(Yeshiva University, 2023-05)
Kimura’s neutral theory of molecular evolution gave rise to several models by which
to study genetic data. Such models include the infinite alleles model and the infinite
sites model. We studied these models, and present ...
From Naive Bayes to transformers: Evolution of natural language processing models for improved text understanding
(Yeshiva University, 2023-05)
When ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, people quickly came to realize that many
things were about to change. While teachers started to get headaches trying to figure out whether their
students’ essays were ...
Transfer learning in classifying handwritten Hebrew-script letters
(Yeshiva University, 2023-05)
Classification is a fundamental task used in machine learning where the goal is to
predict the category or class of given data points based on certain features. It is widely used
across various fields especially in image ...
A starry night: Shekiah, bein ha-shmashot, and tzeit ha-kochavim
(Yeshiva University, 2023-05)
Since time immemorial, there has been a dispute amongst the Rabbis as to the length of
time between Shekiah and Tzeit Ha-kochavim. Starting from the Talmud, there is a contradiction as to the length of time in mil between ...
Logistic regression and text classification as part of the Yeshiva University Computer Science Capstone Project
(Yeshiva University, 2023-05)
Text classification is a machine-learning task of assigning labels to a given text. The texts
can be categorized based on topics or the sentence’s sentiment like this is a positive or negative
sentence. In my capstone ...
Collaborative filtering machine learning models
(Yeshiva University, 2023-05)
This paper provides an overview of collaborative filtering machine learning models, tracing their history, explaining their fundamentals, and discussing their strengths and limitations. Collaborative filtering is a popular ...
CNN as an approach to handwritten Hebrew letter classification
(Yeshiva University, 2023-05)
One of the most notable milestones in the world of Machine Learning was when models became capable of recognizing handwritten text. The ability to write a number, or an English letter, and have it be accurately recognized ...