Iran’s supreme leader says women in cartoons must wear hijabs

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently declared that women depicted in cartoons or animated films must wear the hijab head...

The fuss over Palestine at Bristol University just proves how bourgeois and out of touch academia is with real Britain

Cards on the table, I am an advocate of free speech and I don’t buy the recent rhetoric from sections of the left that the new public and...

PODCAST: Author Micah Goodman on Israelis’ ongoing search for Jewish identity

This week on Times Will Tell, the Times of Israel’s weekly podcast, we’re speaking with popular Israeli philosopher Dr. Micah Goodman, whose book...

Ten implications behind the Egyptian minister's visit to Israel

The visit of Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla to Israel carried many political and economic implications. The...

The Jewish world’s biggest donor to disability inclusion is pulling its funding

JTA — To many in the Jewish world, the Ruderman Family Foundation is synonymous with efforts to increase inclusion for Jews with disabilities....

Security Cooperation as Remote Warfare: The US in the Horn of Africa

This is an excerpt from Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Get your free download from E-International Relations. Speaking in 2007, US...

How Many Are Unemployed in Israel?

Conscientious objectors and alternative service

Government agency allows alternative service for objector based on nonreligious reasons The Military Manpower Administration (MMA) made an...

Top court ruling underscores the separation of church and state

The Supreme Court on Feb. 24 ruled that the Naha city government violated the constitutional separation of politics and religion by allowing a...

Wildfires pose challenges even against modern firefighting

Whether it's a bonfire or a portable camping stove, there is something magical and deliciously warm about any fire that is lit in the mountains....

Mori’s resignation highlights changing gender norms

During an online executive meeting on Feb. 3, former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, in his capacity as president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics...

Australia’s face-off with Facebook is of global import

After a face-off between the Australian government and Facebook, in an outcome that has global import, Big Tech will begin paying for using news...

Can America Escape the Stimulus Trap?

NEW YORK – As US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package works its way through Congress, former Treasury...

UK Supreme Court’s Uber decision is a victory for all gig workers

For the past few years, the “gig economy” business model – in which workers are classified as independent contractors and therefore not given...

How We Can Stop Substance Abuse

Nearly 50 years ago, on June 18, 1971, then president Richard Nixon declared that drug abuse was “public enemy number one.” But half a century...

Has South Korea been Passing Military Technology to Islamic Terrorists?

Some time ago, the author had a discussion with a famous political scientist from the ROK who was keen on proving the following hypothesis. The...

Biden Fine-Tunes the Saudi Trombone

No one doubts today that Biden is not a promising politician, but his one-term administration. As such, he is not making any far-reaching plans,...

Carry a Big Stick

I find myself wrestling with a new problem; in these uncharted days of coronavirus, can I defend myself against a person not wearing a mask?...

Lets have no martyrs in Cloud Cuckoo Land   

Is Bristol University going to make Professor David Miller a martyr? Is it going to fire him because he sees Jewish conspirators under every pro-...

Clothes make the man

You may have noticed that every year that is not a leap year, Parshat Tetzaveh is read the Shabbat before Purim (or you may not have noticed; these...

Give me people with heart!

What do you look for in people? What’s the most important thing for you when selecting a good friend, a good neighbour, a good worker? The kind...

‘For he had told him that he was a Jew’

In this year’s more peaceful and quieter Purim, I found a particular passage that struck me: ‘For he had told him that he was a Jew’ (Esther,...

Russia’s History of Poisonings

On 20th August 2020, Alexei Navalny –  a prominent Russian opposition leader a huge critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin began to have...

Why must Biden engage Iran?

The Iran Nuclear Deal (officially, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action/ JCPOA) was not a foolproof or infallible document. It contained many...

Australia's Big Tech crackdown is no model to emulate

Australia's decision to make Google and Facebook pay for news has been hailed by many as a triumph for journalism. The reality is a bit more...

Toplotni rekordi v februarju

No, pri vremenu pa se dogaja ravno to – prav nič se ne trudimo zanje, v času kolikor toliko natančnih vremenskih napovedi nas pravzaprav niti...

The problem with how some ultra-Orthodox factions approach COVID

Several ultra-Orthodox factions have adamantly refused to cooperate with COVID prevention protocols. Many have refused to wear masks and have...

Knowledge of the heart, knowledge of the hands

When I was 9 years old, my mother tried to teach me to knit. I say tried because, while she was a fine teacher, I was a terrible student. Truth be...

Quarantine Convos: David Sarfati

All throughout quarantine, I spent the time reaching out to a variety of people to learn about their backgrounds and experiences. I wanted to take...

Purim on Coney Island

If there is one paradise in the world in which the beauty of the Lithuanian Yeshiva and Hasidic worlds synthesize and coalesce with intoxicating...

Parshat Tetzaveh – Knit together

A short blog this week in memory of my mother, Judy Sedley (Yehudit bat Yitzchak), who passed away last week. There are many legends about how...

How Do You Think The Year Is Going?

So what do you think? Is 2021 going to be a good year? What does the future hold? Most of us are still dealing with a hangover from 2020. Covid-19...

In This Time of Isolation, Connecting With Others Is Vital

During the long months of the pandemic, I have been diligent about getting out for walks in my suburban neighborhood.   Periodically, I stop at...

US airstrike said to target Iran-backed fighters in Syria

The United States on Thursday reportedly carried out an airstrike against Iran-backed forces in Syria, in a raid approved by US President Joe...

Israel said very pleased with US strikes in Syria: ‘Biden is not Obama’

Israel is highly pleased with Thursday night’s US airstrikes against an Iranian-backed militia base on the Syrian-Iraqi border, Israeli officials...

2 Israeli men in their 20s die of COVID-19 in a day

Two Israeli men in their twenties with no preexisting health conditions died of COVID-19 within hours of each other on Thursday. Ghazi Zoabi, 23,...

A right royal own goal: Queen oversteps the mark with vaccine comments

It’s arguably the biggest faux-pas in the 69-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Whatever people’s feelings about the monarchy in general, it’s...

An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation

Dear Mr. President, The world has welcomed your election and commitment to restore diplomatic engagement with the international community to the...

In footage, ex-PM adviser tells cops: ‘Bibi and Sara are people who love gifts’

Shaya Segal, a former close adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told investigators that the premier and his wife Sara Netanyahu are...

Holý bez hanby

Keď túto otázku v diskusnej relácii Na telo začiatkom januára položil divák predsedovi parlamentu, Boris Kollár sa vyhovoril na nový...

Evolution, Not Revolution, in Economics

LONDON – While they stare quietly at their models, macroeconomists are hearing the distant rumble of revolt. A year ago, the Nobel laureate...

The Female Voice

Twitter’s moment in the sun won’t last

Twitter shares have surged more than 40% this month — and even briefly touched an all-time high — on optimism that the social-media platform...

A new excellent Torah commentary for Va’era

Rather than following the usual practice of writing a single book on one or more volumes of the Five Books of Moses with the authors ideas...

To the core

‘Don’t show off! Don’t pretend to be, be!’ The piercing voice of my stern ballet teacher with the stick and the square glasses still echoes in...

Israel under night curfew again to curb Purim festivities amid fresh virus fears

The second of three nighttime curfews went into effect across the entire country Friday evening as police struggled to clamp down on dozens of...

EU seeks to take advantage of must-not-miss chance to revive Iran nuclear deal

BRUSSELS — The top European Union diplomat supervising the international agreement aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions called Friday for...

The US airstrike on Syria: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and the boss before that

President Biden ordered US military aircraft to strike targets on Syrian soil that the US claims were affiliated with two pro-Iranian militias,...

Britain’s shameful refusal to take responsibility for jihadi bride Shamima Begum is a battle it can’t be allowed to win

Britain has once again proved it’s in denial and doesn’t want to face its own issues. In February 2015, Shamima Begum left London for Syria aged...