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What Is the Post-Truth Era and Is There Any Truth to It?

What Is the Post-Truth Era and Is There Any Truth to It?

Critically thinking about how we engage informational sources.

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Psychology Today

Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

On Tisha B’Av, Dayenu Offers Jewish Wisdom to Help Us Face a Climate Crisis

This summer, the climate crisis is not an abstract problem somewhere far away. It is showing up in our neighborhoods, our communities and our lives....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

How Does AI Make You Feel?

How Does AI Make You Feel?

Four steps to monitor the influence our AI tools have on our bodies and minds

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Psychology Today

Cornelia C. Walther Ph.d

‘Live Long and Prosper’: Spock’s legacy honors Jewish leaders for fighting hate

The award, inspired by Leonard Nimoy’s iconic Vulcan greeting, recognizes those boldly working to strengthen Jewish life

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Report: Trump wants FIFA chief Infantino to serve as next UN secretary-general

Report: Trump wants FIFA chief Infantino to serve as next UN secretary-general

US president reportedly believes the Swiss soccer boss has the necessary skills to take on the job, but there has been no indication that Infantino is...

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

When a Guy Knows Just What to Say

A few years ago, I was head over heels for Political Guy, a DC man who could talk about foreign policy for hours. He would compliment me, take an...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jessica Ghitis

US embassy urges caution among American citizens in Israel amid uptick in organized crime

US embassy urges caution among American citizens in Israel amid uptick in organized crime

Warning comes in the wake of an escalating conflict between influential crime families in Israel, which sparked a series of attacks at branches of the...

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The Times of Israel

Nava Freiberg

Hungary’s Orban declares ‘resistance’ movement against Magyar government’s ‘tyranny’

Hungary’s Orban declares ‘resistance’ movement against Magyar government’s ‘tyranny’

Ousted leader says new PM has ‘dismantled the rule of law’; objects to new term limits, suspension of public news service and replacement of his...

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The Times of Israel

Justin Spike

Saudi Enrichment Would Trigger a Nuclear Arms Race

Saudi Enrichment Would Trigger a Nuclear Arms Race

Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has condemned the proposed American nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia. In his view, a deal allowing...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Raising Teens Who Choose Healthy Relationships

Raising Teens Who Choose Healthy Relationships

How parents can build connection instead of controlling during dating years.

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Psychology Today

Kristen Cook

On Tisha B’Av, Let the Shared Home Survive the Argument

On Tisha B’Av, Let the Shared Home Survive the Argument

Jewish memory does not ask us to erase disagreement. It warns us not to destroy the bonds and institutions that allow us to survive it. As Tisha...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Seth Eisenberg

EDITORIAL: South China Sea dispute must be settled through rules, dialogue

Ten years have passed since the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) rejected China’s claims to holding historic rights in the South China Sea....

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Oslo on the Strait of Hormuz

Oslo on the Strait of Hormuz

The most successful peace processes are often those that allow the stronger party to continue the war under diplomatic cover. Bombs fall. Ports close....

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Middle East Monitor

Junaid S. Ahmad

Age of Reason: Episode 18

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Benjamin Folkinshteyn

J Street welcomed Hasan Piker. That was a mistake

That was my first reaction to the news that J Street U — the campus organizing arm of J Street, run and staffed directly by the J Street Education...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jeffrey Salkin

A Terminal Illness Sets a Cruel Deadline for the Estranged

A Terminal Illness Sets a Cruel Deadline for the Estranged

The royal family’s divide reveals why a health crisis can reopen old wounds.

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Psychology Today

Fern Schumer Chapman

The Ten Commandments – A Tisha B’Av Marriage Primer

The extraordinary juxtaposition between the segment of this week’s Torah portion of Parshat Va’etchanan for the fourth day pertaining to the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Susan Barth

Crossing the Finish Line When It Is Hard to Forgive

Crossing the Finish Line When It Is Hard to Forgive

Don't be discouraged if you have tried and have not yet forgiven. You can win.

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Psychology Today

Robert Enright Ph.d

Losing ground to nemesis Eisenkot, a desperate Netanyahu plumbs new depths

Losing ground to nemesis Eisenkot, a desperate Netanyahu plumbs new depths

Netanyahu wants to contest the election on the ostensible unsuitability of anyone but him to lead Israel, but his main rival is increasingly seen as a...

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The Times of Israel

David Horovitz

Drought makes Israeli wildflowers change bloom schedule, study finds

Hebrew University team finds timing of water shortages matters more than duration, with fall and spring droughts narrowing flowering season

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The Times of Israel

Sue Surkes

A country I’ve never been to, a war I never fought

There is a country I have never been to. And there is a war I have never fought. Even so, for a reason I searched for a long time to understand, that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Roberto Rachewsky

Israeli e-Commerce’s New AI Agents Frontier

Israeli e-Commerce’s New AI Agents Frontier

Israel has always punched above its weight when it comes to innovation, in business broadly and in tech specifically. For a country of under 10...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Ghelber

The Fourth Clock: Why the West Misunderstands Iran’s Wars

The Fourth Clock: Why the West Misunderstands Iran’s Wars

I begin this article with an odd statement, which is an idea I borrow from Mark Dubowitz, from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who believes...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tim Orr

The Middle East's Great Strategic Realignment Has Begun

The Middle East’s Great Strategic Realignment Has Begun The US–Israeli attacks on Iran have accelerated the Middle East’s transition from a...

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New Eastern Outlook

Abbas Hashemite

Foreign Funding: Is India Judged by Different Lens ?

The new amendments by the Government of India to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act have once again created a stir regarding NGOs, foreign...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gajendra Singh

Featured Post

Featured Post

Any graduate of a respectable Israeli kindergarten has learned that the Second Temple was destroyed “because of baseless hatred.” Every adult...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shuki Friedman

What a Jail Cell Taught Me About Broken Mental Health Care

What a Jail Cell Taught Me About Broken Mental Health Care

Personal Perspective: Our mental health system is containment, not compassion.

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Psychology Today

Patrick William Kelly Ph.d

Print the propaganda: Trump’s new Red Scare

Print the propaganda: Trump’s new Red Scare

Print the propaganda: Trump’s new Red Scare In the Trumpian narrative, the world exists in an endless, ahistorical present where the script is...

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Il Manifesto Global

Luca Celada

Futbal a právo na poéziu

Jedna z najdokonalejších poetických frašiek súčasnosti vznikla v hľadáčiku fotografov dokumentujúcich nedeľné finále majstrovstiev sveta vo futbale:

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Pravda.sk

Silvia Ruppeldtová

Tickling the Tail of the AI Dragon

Tickling the Tail of the AI Dragon

What OpenAI's incident teaches us about thresholds we can't see coming.

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Psychology Today

John Nosta

Veteran news anchor Haim Yavin, Israel’s ‘Mr. Television,’ dies at 93

Veteran news anchor Haim Yavin, Israel’s ‘Mr. Television,’ dies at 93

Yavin, who for decades was country’s only TV news host, coined a new word live on air upon Menachem Begin’s dramatic 1977 election, and announced...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Burnham’s biggest challenge begins after entering Downing Street

Andy Burnham’s rise to Britain’s highest political office may have been swift, but the real challenge of his premiership is only beginning. After...

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Blitz

Damsana Ranadhiran

House farmworker visa bill sparks immigration and Amnesty debate

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the US House of Representatives has introduced legislation that would significantly reshape immigration policy for...

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Blitz

M A Hossain

The Jewish Odyssey of Confronting Antisemitism

Jordan Perry, the manager of Lake Theater & Cafe in Lake Oswego theater in suburban Portland, Oregon, is attempting to defend a cryptic marquee...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steve Wenick

Trump Trapped In A War Of Attrition In Iran

The United States and Iran are enmeshed in a no-war, no-peace deadlock that could easily escalate into an all-out war again should there be no major...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sheldon Kirshner

Strait of Hormuz at the center of a new global power struggle

The Strait of Hormuz has once again become the focal point of one of the world’s most dangerous geopolitical crises, with escalating tensions...

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Blitz

Tajul Islam

If We Decide

Smotrich’s Grammar of Absolute Victory Bezalel Smotrich has defined absolute victory. Not as a general promise to defeat Hamas or as a formula...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

How AI is Changing Election Campaigns

How AI is Changing Election Campaigns

Artificial Intelligence is about to completely transform election campaigns. Not by changing democracy itself, but by changing what campaigns choose...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Javor

Smotrich takes steps to make his major settlement policy shift harder to reverse

Smotrich takes steps to make his major settlement policy shift harder to reverse

Minister strengthens powerful Settlements Administration inside Defense Ministry, claims step will entrench expansion he oversaw, though new...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Cynická obluda: Výchovný efekt

Po takomto treste to Kaliňák určite už nikdy viac nespraví.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

What the New UK Chancellor Means for the UK Economy

What the New UK Chancellor Means for the UK Economy

NEW YORK—The United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, is already sending shockwaves through Westminster. Defying almost every political...

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Project Syndicate

Mohamed A. El-Erian

UK Court Victory for Dual UK Israel IDF Soldier

A dual UK-Israel national recently successfully defeated an attempt to prosecute him for serving in the IDF. In November 2025 a UK organisation called...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lawrence Nowosenetz

Israel’s Monday.com lays off 20% of its employees as AI changes how work gets done

Israel’s Monday.com lays off 20% of its employees as AI changes how work gets done

Work management software firm says move is not intended to replace workers with AI, but is part of restructuring toward a platform in which human...

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Wrobel

A Meditation Before Laying Teflillin

I believe that it has been close to twenty years that I lead a Tisha B’Av pilgrimage reading passages of Lamentations where either Jews or non-Jews...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Arik Ascherman

Agmon Snir and the people they forgot

There’s an article in today’s Haaretz – Ideological Immigration….Hagai Agmon Snir, 7/22/26- about a couple leaving Israel because, as they see...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Goldie Warshawsky Klugman

What Explains a Person's Sense of Entitlement?

What Explains a Person's Sense of Entitlement?

Former kings and queens behave differently from you and me.

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Psychology Today

Ira Israel Lmft

Ruled by Fearthought?

Ruled by Fearthought?

Fears often overrule deliberation and forethought.

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Psychology Today

Peg O'Connor Ph.d

(POLETNE RAZGLEDNICE) Kako sem obupala nad izposojo koles v razpadlem sistemu Picikl Ravne

(POLETNE RAZGLEDNICE) Kako sem obupala nad izposojo koles v razpadlem sistemu Picikl Ravne

Več let sem dajala priložnost kolesom, vmes že povsem odnehala, a si nato znova prizadevala, da bi bila med tistimi, ki javno kolesarsko mrežo...

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Večer

Petra Lesjak Tušek

More Courage Changed My Life

More Courage Changed My Life

Personal Perspective: Courage gave me the motivation to take the first step.

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Psychology Today

Robert Evans Wilson Jr

China-ASEAN cooperation must prevail over South China Sea tensions

As China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) continue to strengthen one of Asia’s most significant strategic partnerships,...

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Blitz

Abul Quashem Joarder