Deputy FM hints US will hold off on reopening Jerusalem consulate

Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister hinted on Sunday that the US would hold off on the Biden administration’s plan to reopen the US consulate in...

Ex-security official claims MBS once boasted he wanted to kill the Saudi king

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A former senior Saudi security official who helped oversee joint US counterterrorism efforts claimed in an...

A Stain Upon Israel

The government’s declaration of civil society organizations in the West Bank as terrorist organizations is a destructive folly that tarnishes all...

Study finds nature contributes billions to Israel’s economy

A new study estimates that Israel’s rich tapestry of nature and the benefits it provides to society could be worth tens of billions of shekels...

On shemitah and smelting

Part of the third-grade curriculum for my Jewish day school was learning about steel production. Growing up in Pittsburgh in the ’80s, the...

Philippines's COVID-19 situation is improving, ambassador says

AT&T opens new R&D center in Tel Aviv, to focus on cloud solutions

American telecommunications giant announced this week that it would open a new R&D center in Israel and expand its activities to include cloud...

The Sound is Loud and Clear: Will Jews Listen?

The book jacket of David Baddiel’s new must-read Jews Don’t Count reads: “How identity politics failed one particular identity.” In it,...

Asia Pacific must fix its broken vaccine system

Prevailing zero-sum mentality and parochialism need to be overcome

Israeli missiles said to target Syrian forces near Golan Heights border

An Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at Syrian forces based near Israel’s border on the Golan Heights early Monday, Arabic reports said....

Health Ministry says new Delta mutation AY4.2 appears to be 15% more infectious

Israel’s Health Ministry said that the recently discovered subvariant of the Delta coronavirus, known as AY4.2, appears to be 15 percent more...

Prepare for a stock market crash and take stock of a golden opportunity

Among traders, there have through the decades been two bits of perennial advice, “sell in May and go away” after the bulk of the year’s returns...

Woman dies in apparent exorcism; sheikh, doctor and husband arrested

Three people were arrested Monday morning in connection with the death of a young woman during an apparent exorcism. The three suspects were...

12-time All-Star Dolph Schayes voted one of the 75 best players in NBA history

JTA — Twelve-time NBA All-Star Dolph Schayes is the only Jewish player on the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team, a list created by a panel including...

Calls to ban guns on movie sets grow after Baldwin shooting

LOS ANGELES (AFP)  — Calls were growing Sunday to ban the use of firearms in movie-making, as Hollywood struggled to come to terms with Alec...

Sudan general declares state of emergency after coup, says will form government

Sudan’s top general on Monday dissolved the government and announced that the military will run the country after his forces arrested the acting...

Russia’s 30-year vision is realized with Nord Stream 2

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany beneath the Baltic Sea is vilified in the U.S. and parts of Europe as a Russian plot to...

Opinion – Saving Myanmar?

In over three decades at the coalface of United Nations fieldwork, the scenes witnessed by the author during humanitarian service in Myanmar in the...

Telenor in Myanmar: Norway’s Human Rights Reputation Is On the Line

Norway is a global leader when it comes to protecting human rights defenders. It leads related negotiations at the United Nations Human Rights...

Turkish media publishes photos of 15 men arrested as alleged Mossad spies

Turkey’s Sabah daily on Monday published photos of 15 men that the newspaper alleges spied for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and were...

German woman who joined IS faces verdict over murder of Yazidi girl, 5, in Iraq

BERLIN (AFP) — A Munich court will decide on Monday whether a German woman believed to have joined the Islamic State jihadist group is guilty of...

Coalition increasingly split on left-right lines as budget deadline looms

With two weeks remaining until the government must pass a national budget, a series of contentious issues and ministerial decisions are pitting...

Diaries show literary giant Stefan Zweig’s inner turmoil as Nazis stormed Europe

LONDON — “I have just decided to resume keeping a diary after a many-year lapse,” begins Stefan Zweig’s entry for Thursday, October 22, 1931....

Far-right Jewish pundit worries French Jews as he dictates presidential race

PARIS, France (AP) — A survivor of the terrible journey to Auschwitz remembered how the youngest wailed. There were 99 children squeezed among...

Sudan ministers detained in apparent military coup; PM said under house arrest

Sudanese officials said military forces detained at least five senior government officials on Monday, including a number of ministers. The...

Snowden calls Assange ‘political criminal’ ahead of extradition hearing, where the pressure might now be on Biden’s legal team

Assange has a big week coming up. He should learn this week just how far the US government is prepared to go in its bid to extradite him so they...

Pissing on Hitler’s Grave

While watching a World War II documentary on the History Channel, I heard an American soldier say, “When we reached the banks of Rhine River, we...

China must restore growth or face economic uncertainty

BEIJING – China is having an eventful month, marked by proliferating power-supply disruptions and the debt crisis of the country’s...

International rules make US-China conflict more likely

Cross-border principles governing conduct only exist if they are accepted by states

Man killed when hit by truck while changing tire on side of road

A 42-year-old man was killed Monday morning when he was hit by a truck as he changed a tire on his vehicle at the side of the highway. The incident...

Medics back hospital accused of murder on unvaccinated COVID patient’s tombstone

Medical centers across the country on Monday voiced support for a hospital accused of murder in the inscription on the headstone of an unvaccinated...

Antiparty toward contenders

Stop mudslinging and present better policy options More and more people are found to have an unusually higher level of antipathy toward the leading...

Diversify battery portfolio

Time for Korean companies to stave off Chinese offensive Tesla has unveiled a plan to shift to a less expensive battery for its electric vehicles....

‘A cornerstone of repression’: Fresh claims raise fears over Iran prison abuses

PARIS, France (AFP) — A lawyer who is said to have bitten off part of his tongue after being injected with an unknown substance. Videos showing...

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Changing Africa population narrative

By Hippolyte Fofack CAIRO ― Economic policy debates about Africa are too often clouded by calls for population control and lower fertility rates....

Blocking CA forest management risks more climate disasters

In the scramble to evacuate all of South Lake Tahoe in late August, there was a palpable fear among fleeing residents that the destructive Caldor...

Billboards in the UK – a Wake-Up Call to British Jews

The billboards that recently appeared in the UK, emblazoned with the title “NORMAL PEOPLE BOYCOTT Israel,” are a reminder to UK Jews that...

Israel And Russia Strike An Upbeat Note

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Black Sea resort town of Sochi...

My thoughts on 'Thoughts of the Times'

By Sho Chang-young Nov. 1 marks the 71st anniversary of The Korea Times, Korea's longest-running English-language newspaper. As a longtime reader...

Russia's Communist Comeback

MOSCOW – A little over a year ago, while on sabbatical from the American university where I teach, I returned to my hometown, Moscow. I didn’t...

Two American Criminal Prosecutions For Us To Watch

As Willard Ritter stood in an Oyer and Terminer session of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in 1930, Judge Horace Stern had the unenviable task...

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #11, Muslim armies arrive

In this scene our hero meets the Caliph Omar who is leading the Muslim armies as they surge out of Arabia. The Eternal Jew’s Tale Fifth Era, Part 1....

Looking for terror in all the wrong places

Minister of Defense Benny Gantz’s decision to place six Palestinian civil society organizations, including its top human rights groups, on the list...

To love like Avraham Avinu, part 2

“If I am me because I am me, and you are you because you are you, then I am me and you are you. But if I am me because you are you, and you are...

New blood

By Deauwand Myers "Strong government…should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'" - Raghuram Rajan I wrote...

US returns to UN's Human Rights Council

By John J. Metzler The United States has been elected to the United Nations' Human Rights Council, the controversial human rights assembly that the...

Ancient and Unique Uzbekistan: Samarkand region I

Samarkand region is located in the heart of Uzbekistan, and the center of the region is the city of Samarkand, which is included in the UNESCO...

Women in the Armies of the East

Whether a woman can be a soldier or her primary purpose is to care for children and provide comfort at home when their men are at war is still a...

EDITORIAL: Voters should keep Fukushima disaster in mind on energy policy

Japan’s energy policy is at a crossroads. The campaign platforms of all political parties for the Oct. 31 Lower House election agree that more...