Netanyahu’s Economic Violence

Ex-Homeland Security official reveals himself as ‘Anonymous’ anti-Trump author

WASHINGTON — A former Trump administration official who penned a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous” revealed...

Tom Wolfe, Donald Trump, and the Pissing Monkey Presidency

Fiction sometimes defines the reality we find ourselves in. It’s truer now than at any time in memory. Right now it seems like a brew of Bizarro...

Suga’s responses to Diet grilling offer little hope for proper debate

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s responses to opposition questions about his policy speech offered no reason to expect him to deliver on his promise...

Take all possible means

Concern grows over another wave of infections Many large clubs and bars in Seoul have decided to cooperate with the health authorities' efforts to...

Trump versus Biden

By Donald Kirk Odds-makers have no doubt fine-tuned the chances of Donald Trump or Joe Biden winning next Tuesday's presidential election. I might...

To retire rich, don’t leave too much to your kids

Like self-improvement books, the purpose of pension adequacy surveys is to make us feel lousy about ourselves. Lousy and scared: We haven’t saved...

Global framework to ban nuclear arms marks significant step

Sivo razpoloženje

Pravzaprav ne vem, zakaj tudi ženske ne bi mogle biti šarmantne s srebrnimi nitmi v laseh, pa ne samo z nitmi, tudi z rjavimi ali črnimi… nitmi...

Admitting That Maybe I’m Wrong: A Supremely Jewish Value

A few weeks ago, I delivered a drasha expressing my unpopular position that whatever my political views are, I am probably more open than most...

Screaming our prayers

Within ten minutes of receiving my BDS Blog, two non Jewish friends -one Catholic and one Protestant who both worry that Christianity is in peril-...

Men, stop blaming women

Do we really still need to explain that when we misstep and fall, the ground is not evil for hitting us? Do we really still need to explain that...

Gaza woman’s disinfect-o-mat aims to kick COVID to the curb

Entering a Gaza City restaurant, customers are welcomed by a multi-tasking disinfection machine designed by a Palestinian businesswoman to curb the...

Noah’s Ark — Three Layers of Reality

A light shalt thou make to the ark…with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. (Genesis 6:16) We mentioned in the previous posts...

Abraham: Nationalist or Globalist?

Franky, it is a tough call. There seems to be a debate raging throughout the world as to what’s next, what direction do we need to pursue, what...

Standing For Something

“If you stand for nothing Burr, what’ll you fall for” I’m back to thinking about Hamilton this week, although truth be told I never stopped....

Trick or Tractate?

Embed from Getty Images What COVID-19 will do to Halloween this year remains to be seen, although the ubiquitous Internet availability of masks and...

The art of survival

In 1969, when the design guru, futurist and consummate bullshit artist Buckminster Fuller’s new book about the future prospects for humanity came...

Disunited by Genocide: How Armenia’s Relations With Israel Have Come to a Dead End

Common wisdom asserts that Jews and Armenians are natural allies, bound by a ‘covenant of fate.’ But that's not at all how Israel sees its...

The Lincoln Project Wants to Save America From Trump. It’s Working

Charlie Hebdo’s anti-Islamic jokes are getting old and the attention seeking and scandal-mongering is neither big nor clever

They’re back at it. The men and women of Charlie Hebdo have delivered yet another trademark cover. This one has Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

How independent Singapore’s ‘Chinese-ness’ helped shape China’s great revival

The following is part one of an article first published in ThinkChina.sg by George Yeo, a former Singapore minister for foreign affairs, who is now...

Just the Facts FAQ: Trump/Biden on Israel

My students (American teenagers) have prepared this document in order to help clarify both candidates for the American פresidency’s position on...

Surgeon who tried to save Rabin: Nobody had the guts to declare him dead

The surgeon who tried to save Yitzhak Rabin when he was shot at a Tel Aviv peace rally in 1995, has spoken for the first time about the events of...

China and the US risk accidental war over Taiwan

Need for both sides to show resolve could lead to a conflict nobody really wants

Domestic workers are essential workers and their rights need to be protected.

On June 22, Mirtes Renata Santana, a domestic worker, brought her five-year-old son Miguel with her to work in an affluent neighbourhood outside of...

Meet the 11 Jewish Democrats vying in 2020 to join Congress for first time

JTA — Of the 34 Jewish Democrats running for the US House of Representatives, 11 would be new to Congress if they won. A number of them have...

Happily ever after? Electing Biden won’t make protesters’ problems disappear, but it might make them even angrier

The anti-Trump protest movement – which began in November 2016 before the president was even in office and climaxed in violent unrest as the...

UK probe finds Labour guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination

A UK government investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party found that equality laws were broken and the party was “responsible for...

Lebanon reportedly demanding control of 2 Israeli gas fields in maritime talks

A Lebanese demand for full control of two Israeli gas prospects in the Meditteranean Sea reportedly sparked a heated argument between the countries...

Synagogue, store openings on agenda as ministers to meet on lockdown exit plan

The so-called coronavirus cabinet was set to meet Thursday morning to continue mapping Israel’s exit from its second national lockdown with...

Top Biden foreign policy advisor ‘concerned’ over planned F-35 sale to UAE

NEW YORK — Joe Biden’s top foreign policy adviser said Wednesday that the Democratic presidential candidate was unsettled by Trump...

France locks down, Germany closes down, as virus cases hit record

ARIS (AFP) — France announced a new month-long national lockdown and Germany imposed drastic new curbs on people’s daily lives as the EU’s...

25 years after Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, a reminder

Twenty-five years ago next week, the State of Israel was shaken to its foundations by the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Having...

The GOP is Singing the Wrong Tune on Anti-Semitism

Since World War II, both political parties have avoided using anti-Semitism in their discourse.  From time to time, certain isolated exceptions...

In 2,000-year-old Apollo seal, a sunny glimpse of pluralism in ancient Jerusalem

Discovery of a rare 2,000-year-old signet ring engraved with the Greek sun god Apollo gives new evidence of a pluralistic Jewry walking the streets...

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for Libya?

In just two months, the situation in Libya has shifted dramatically, creating hope that a solution to the ongoing crisis might be around the...

Biden says ‘no false promises’ of ending COVID, as Trump vows to ‘vanquish’ it

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Joe Biden vowed Wednesday not to campaign “on the false promises of being able to end this pandemic by flipping a...

WATCH: Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, ‘US Judaism needs to be Netflix, not Blockbuster’

Two years after the massacre at Pittsburgh, deep in the throes of the coronavirus crisis, and just ahead of a polarizing United States presidential...

Israel losing ‘Startup Nation’ image, needs rebranding, study shows

The 2009 book “Start-Up Nation,” authored by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, depicted Israel to the world as a hotbed of go-getter entrepreneurs...

A deferred rupture between Turkey and US

My first piece that appeared at Gazete Duvar on July 11, 2019 was titled “A crisis apt for continuous postponement.” I had written this article...

Israel-UAE: a short haul across Silicon Beach

I just returned from what I hope will be my last long-haul trip from Israel to the United Arab Emirates. Tel Aviv and Dubai are only three hours...

Kam so šli vsi komunisti?

Ali je mogoče razumeti to nenavadno obnašanje ljudi, ki so na vrhu državnih institucij in političnega aparata? Seveda je mogoče. Niso...

From Florida to Pennsylvania: Trump’s possible paths to victory

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Democrat Joe Biden leads US President Donald Trump in the polls with less than a week to go before the US election. The debates...

Senior Satmar rabbi denounces Brooklyn anti-lockdown rallies

JTA — A leader of a major Hasidic sect denounced protests earlier this month where local Orthodox Jews voiced their anger at lockdown measures...

The Economic Incompetence of Republican Presidents

BERKELEY – One hears many strange things nowadays, not least because “they” (a complicated term) are flooding the zone with misinformation....

Knesset holds ceremony marking 25 years since Rabin assassination

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen. LONDON — The leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour party apologizes...

With typical hyperbole, Trump paints apocalyptic portrait of life under Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — The suburbs wouldn’t be the suburbs anymore, the economy would sink into its worst depression ever and police departments...

Holocaust survivor and Olympian Sir Ben Helfgott wins Pride of Britain award

LONDON (Jewish News) — Holocaust survivor and British weightlifting hero Sir Ben Helfgott has been honored with a Pride of Britain award for five...

These new totalitarians now want to police what we say around the dinner table. This is Soviet-style denunciation, 2020-style

It seems that one of the aims of the government run by the Scottish National Party is to eradicate the distinction between people’s private lives...