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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...