Robert Low

2 months ago | thejc.com | Robert Low |John Nathan |Nicole Lampert |Elisa Bray

Drawn to the Promised Land: A Cartoon History of Britain, Palestine and the Jews: 1917-1949By Tim BensonHalban Publishers, £14.99 The Israel-Palestine conflict has never been much of a laughing matter, and particularly since October 7 last year. So you might think a cartoon history charting the four decades of the British Mandate leading up to the birth of Israel in 1948 would not be a very inviting prospect. You couldn’t be more wrong.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Robert Low |Shalom Lappin |John Nathan |Nicole Lampert

​ If 2024 should be dubbed the Year of Global Antisemitism, can we expect 2025 to be any better? Most Jews, in Britain and elsewhere, will probably join me in fearing that it won’t. In which case, a new study of the unwelcome new surge in antisemitism is well-timed. Its author, Shalom Lappin, is not an expert in the field but in artificial intelligence: he is professor of natural language processing at Queen Mary University of London and previously held a similar position at King’s College London.

Jan 10, 2025 | thejc.com | Shalom Lappin |Robert Low

​ If 2024 should be dubbed the Year of Global Antisemitism, can we expect 2025 to be any better? Most Jews, in Britain and elsewhere, will probably join me in fearing that it won’t. In which case, a new study of the unwelcome new surge in antisemitism is well-timed. Its author, Shalom Lappin, is not an expert in the field but in artificial intelligence: he is professor of natural language processing at Queen Mary University of London and previously held a similar position at King’s College London.

Aug 15, 2024 | science.org | Fabian Ripka |Harald Kübler |Robert Low |Tilman Pfau

Fabian Ripka, Harald Kübler, [...] , Robert Löw, and Tilman Pfau +1 authors fewerAuthors Info & AffiliationsOn 26 October 2018, Science published the Report “A room-temperature singlephoton source based on strongly interacting Rydberg atoms” by F. Ripka et al. (1). During a recent internal reevaluation of the data (unrelated to the Erratum posted in 2020), the authors detected mistakes in data filtering and the calculation of the size of the error bars in Fig. 3.

Aug 14, 2024 | thejc.com | Uwe Neumahr |Robert Low

The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg By Uwe Neumahr Pushkin Press, £25 The Nuremberg Trials, which efficiently brought to swift justice Nazi Germany’s surviving leaders at the end of the Second World War, were inevitably covered by some of the biggest names in world journalism, as well as others who would go on to prominence in different fields.