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Even after her husband became the vice president of the United States, Jill Biden continued to teach school. She asked her Secret Service agents to...
Smo v nekakšnem babilonskem trenutku. V Babilonu je bog ljudem zmešal jezik, ker so postali preveč podjetni. In ljudje govorice drug drugega niso...
This report is part of a series. For several years, the Kurdish Jewish leadership in Israel has tried to build constructively on their historic...
The pundits have been out in force giving their customary wraps of the “year that was” and prophecies for the “year that will be”. One of the...
The following is co-authored with Rabbi Stewart Vogel. We write with great concern that one of the fundamental human rites of passage is being...
Še vedno smo pretreseni nad dogajanjem v ZDA. Vendar si ne moremo privoščiti, da bi v šoku pozabili na jutri. Demokracija je krhka, dovzetna za...
The motto of the worldwide Boy Scouts and Girl Guides movement is, “Be Prepared.” It is clear that there were not many Boy Scouts around on...
MUNICH – A storm is raging over the European Union’s failure to have ordered more of the approved COVID-19 vaccines ahead of time. Stephane...
Positive growth belies unresolved structural challenges
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts-based political scientist and author is accused of secretly working for the government of Iran while lobbying US...
Zalman Zirkind, a Chassidic Jew, is scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. District Court, in New York, for having pleaded guilty to laundering drug...
KABBALAH OF MIRACLES MARVELS IN OUR TIMES Rabbi Yakov Saacks, The Chai Center, Dix Hills As a Rabbi, I study many topics of Jewish interest. I have...
The image of a father holding his child’s hand as they walk down the street has always been touching to me. Perhaps it makes me think of my own...
Joe Biden’s presidency will likely have important consequences for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Biden comes into the job with a lot on...
Interview. ‘Once again, he is playing an important role for us, as his moves have always had the effect of bringing us back together,’ says Five...
Since the Capitol insurrection, there’s been a surge of historians rightly identifying fascist elements in Trumpism. So what’s behind the...
JTA — A Delaware rabbi blessed US President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, before they left the state for the presidential inauguration, by...
US President Donald Trump is considering the possibility of launching a new political party as his White House tenure draws to a close, according to...
The Health Ministry on Tuesday advised pregnant women to get the coronavirus vaccine after a number of women expecting a baby fell seriously ill...
US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state Tony Blinken said Tuesday that the incoming administration will consult with Israel...
US President Donald Trump has pardoned his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his...
WASHINGTON (AP) — US President-elect Joe Biden made a sober entrance to the nation’s capital Tuesday, ready to assume power as America reels from...
In late December and early January, U.S. military aircraft repeatedly conducted ultra-low-altitude formation flight training exercises over the...
A new poll released on Tuesday suggested Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party is regaining supporters, while ex-Likud minister Gideon Sa’ar’s...
JTA — US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Eric Lander, a geneticist and professor at MIT and Harvard, as presidential science adviser and...
The innovation that turned Google and Facebook into money-making behemoths wasn’t search or social networking. It was selling advertising space...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has pledged that his country will become carbon neutral by 2050. “Responding to climate change is no longer...
This piece is a guest post written by Naomi Schmulewitz. Holocaust education in American schools is deeply lacking, and it was Elie Weisel who...
JTA — When is it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel? Anti-Semitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Tuesday imposed sanctions on US President Donald Trump and a number of members of his administration over their alleged role...
JTA — Max Rose, the outspoken former congressmen from Staten Island, appears headed to the Pentagon to be a top adviser on the coronavirus...
Well, good riddance — it’s just about over. Four years of unprecedented, tumultuous politics. Here are five things to be learned from Donald...
The message of this week’s haftarah is largely aimed at Egypt. As in last week’s haftarah from the book of Ezekiel, Jeremiah warns the Egyptian...
By Joseph Shin Growing up on housing subsidies for 20 years, I went through childhood conditioning myself to the idea that homeownership was simply...
By Adam Borowski When I was reading the news about North Korea three years ago, I stumbled across an organization most of you are familiar with ―...
US President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences of 70 additional individuals in the final hours of his term on Wednesday....
Increase in poverty just one example of the damage wrought by pandemic
On January 14, 2021, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld former President Park Geun-hye’s 20-year sentence on charges of corruption and abuse of...
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. Langston Hughes (1901-1967) This year marks the tenth anniversary of my writing this regular column...
By Boo Hyeong-wook During the eighth congress of the ruling Workers' Party, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared important development...
Former adviser tapped as foreign minister President Moon Jae-in tapped former national security adviser Chung Eui-yong as his new foreign minister...
Elaborate safeguards needed to help young adults own homes easily The financial authorities have unveiled a plan to introduce mortgages with a...
Voltaire – among others – was fond of making the satirical observation that “G-D created man in His image and, ever since, man has sought to...
The Jewish Home party on Tuesday night for the first time selected a woman as its leader, choosing Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe to head the...
Can a former U.S. president be impeached? Can he be convicted? Those are two different constitutional questions. And U.S. President Donald Trump,...
By Robert Skidelsky LONDON ― On one level, the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union was an unintended consequence of a too-clever...