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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle stormed the Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran’s capital Friday, killing...
There are patriots, and there are parasites. Parasites cannot exist without suckers, and patriots cannot live without democracy. It’s hard to be...
Konec avgusta 1982 sem se po počitnicah vrnil na šolo. Dobra volja me je hitro minila, ko me je obstopila skupina starejših učiteljev in rekla:...
The governing coalition’s controversial judicial overhaul plan will not pass without lawmakers holding talks and compromising on it, Likud...
This week on Times Will Tell, host Amanda Borschel-Dan takes you with her to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem for a first-time viewing of seven new...
There was a tense calm on the Gaza border on Friday after a night of rocket fire from Palestinian terror groups and Israeli retaliatory air strikes...
Far-right MK Almog Cohen was temporarily suspended from Twitter on Friday after tweeting his support for a deadly IDF raid and urging them to...
UNITED NATIONS — Gene Simmons, the bass player and co-lead singer of the iconic rock band Kiss, called for widening identification with the...
Report. Two machines for making shells, passed off as a lathe, were seized at the port of Genoa. The Weapon Watch observatory analyzed the arms...
Some 200 leading Israeli musicians have signed a petition against the government’s plans to shutter the public broadcasting authority, promising...
BRUSSELS, Belgium — President Isaac Herzog on Thursday urged the NATO military alliance to toughen its approach to Iran, citing Tehran’s supplies...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday the Nazis tried to rob millions of Jews of their names before killing them...
The UN Security Council will convene for an emergency session on Friday afternoon to discuss an Israeli raid in Jenin in which nine Palestinians...
If I had a dollar for every time that I have heard the Pakistani people called “resilient”, I could probably single-handedly bridge our current...
In early January, a boat with 185 Rohingya refugees washed ashore on the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province. They had spent weeks at sea in...
Efforts to support Ukraine show what can be done in a crisis
As a Uyghur, it is deeply meaningful for me to honor the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Together with individuals of...
The northern city of Harish canceled the screening of a Holocaust documentary that was meant to be held in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on...
Israeli scientists have developed a substance that overcomes antibiotic resistance by “poking bacteria to death,” researchers at Ben Gurion...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Seven decades after an artist proposed a monument inscribed with 100,000 individual names for each Dutch Jew murdered in...
Israeli bakery chain Roladin recently opened a gourmet doughnut shop in the heart of London’s tourist district, offering the eatery’s famous...
"Mnogi ljudje pravijo, da jim je zima všeč, ampak v resnici jim je všeč to, da so pred njo na varnem. Nobenih težav nimajo glede tega, kaj bodo...
BERLIN (AFP) — The German parliament will for the first time on Friday focus its annual Holocaust memorial commemorations on people persecuted...
It took me years to put my finger on why I find the teachings of the Hasidic master Rabbi Mordechai Yosef of Ishbitz (1800-1854) so compelling. In...
The municipal cemetery of Tapachula in the Mexican state of Chiapas is a sprawling expanse overflowing with graves in colourful disrepair....
On January 19, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that she would not seek re-election and would resign by no later than February...
I watched the recent discussion between Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinart with great interest. Friedman, a New York Times columnist and arguably...
In July 2022, the Home Office of the United Kingdom published a white paper titled Swift, Certain, Tough: New Consequences for Drug Possession,...
Her empathy, self-awareness and deft handling of crises in the face of rampant sexism and hatred made New Zealand’s former prime minister an...
Many Singaporeans are shunning traditional Lunar New Year’s customs like visiting family, and are instead choosing to travel to ‘escape’ seeing...
CIA director Bill Burns is visiting Israel and the West Bank where he will hold meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and intelligence...
Israeli warplanes carried out retaliatory strikes in the Gaza Strip and fresh rocket alarms sounded in Israeli communities bordering the...
Israeli research has given US health policymakers a “window to the future” that helped shape policy on COVID shots and “convinced everybody...
Lawmakers, rabbis and activists debated the Law of Return and the government’s plans to restrict it on Wednesday night, with even supporters of...
TEREZIN, Czech Republic — Half a mile from the center of the former Theresienstadt ghetto and concentration camp, over 100 European diplomats,...
Earlier this week in the Hague, in an act that made America’s right-wing politicians look like paragons of religious tolerance, Edwin Wagensveid,...
Major political issues tend to raise profound questions of political philosophy. The current, ongoing controversy in Israel over “judicial reform”...
With a new ultra-orthodox, super nationalist government officially empowered in Israel, millions of Israelis feel liberal democracy is dangerously...
Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to reflect on the past, and how modern-day circumstances prove that the ominous specter of antisemitism...
A scrap of paper bearing written instructions for a drug deal is folded multiple times and wrapped with tape. It is then taken to a local bakery,...
The coldest winter snap of the season triggered transportation chaos across much of Japan, resulting in massive road, rail and other delays....
Straight talk is meant to be core to credible economic strategy. To be effective in steering the ship, central banks want great store to be placed...
A decade ago, high achievers would boast of how little sleep they got as if it were a sign of courage and stamina. That flipped on its head in...
The recent announcement that the United States will be sending at least 31 M1 Abrams tanks along with a growing number of German Leopard 2 main...
There is one point that stands out recently, and that is the cessation of the demands to end the division or the demands to seek reconciliation....
The Republic of Indonesia does not actively participate in the present geopolitical game being played on the world stage and strives to maintain...
Although there are widespread predictions that house prices will fall in the course of 2023, the most recent market data (from October to November...
As we begin studying Masechet Nazir in the daf yomi cycle this week, many of us are confronted with the very basic question of the Torah’s stance...