‘No peasants, please’: BoJo’s love-in with Bill Gates on Twitter shows just how broken UK democracy really is

Prime Minister Johnson (or at least the person operating his account), doesn’t respond to ordinary members of the public raising issues with him...

Who are the Proud Boys, the far-right group that got a shoutout from Trump?

JTA — Who are the Proud Boys, the far-right group that US President Donald Trump name-checked at the first 2020 presidential campaign debate? And...

Trump dodges condemnation of white supremacists, takes aim at left instead

US President Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacists at Tuesday evening’s presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden, instead...

A Body Blow to Democracy

‘Clowns’ and ‘fools’ mark a U.S. debate with only ‘lowlights’

Some political debates have highlights. The first U.S. presidential debate this year had only lowlights. Joe Biden called President Donald Trump...

Rescuing US Intelligence

ATLANTA – With the US presidential election barely a month away, former Vice President Joe Biden and his advisers are devising his...

Southeast Asia escaped the worst of Covid-19, but its economic effects could be felt for years to come

Southeast Asia has not suffered as much from the coronavirus pandemic as many other parts of the world. Despite having about 9 per cent of the...

UN nuclear watchdog inspects second site Iran had previously barred access to

The UN’s nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it had gained access to a second site in Iran where undeclared nuclear activity may have take place in...

Anti-Netanyahu protesters attack right-wing TV crew, disrupt broadcast

A TV crew was attacked Tuesday evening by anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv, after which police protection was needed for the broadcast to go...

IDF closes fighter jet squadron, ending 67 years of operations

The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday shuttered a squadron of fighter jets as part of the military’s Momentum Plan, in a bid to free up resources...

Unis risk becoming outliers in failing to deal with antisemitism

The Universities are in danger of becoming the outliers in failing to adopt effective policies and systems to deal with antisemitism. Only 29...

Justice minister cleared

Officials should rise to challenge to set examples Prosecutors have cleared away questions regarding whether Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae exercised...

Minding the Digital Economy’s Narrowing Gaps

MILAN – Informational asymmetries between buyers and sellers have long been known to impair market performance. But thanks to digital technology...

Ain't going home

By Park Moo-jong If not for the stubborn COVID-19 pandemic, people could have been jubilant as is the case every year for their traditional Chuseok...

Europe's digital emergency

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered an upbeat assessment in her first annual policy report ("state of...

Second wave of fascism

By Michael Bergmann Fascism can be defined as a post-monarchical form of authoritarian nationalism, and is usually placed on the far right of the...

Chosun Hotel turns 50

By John C. Stickler Even before annexing Korea in 1910, the Japanese began constructing a railway line from Busan to Seoul and Pyongyang and on to...

I’m recovering from COVID-19, here’s how it’s going

I haven’t left my house in three weeks, save for one afternoon when we had a family outing for COVID-19 tests. Three weeks ago, suddenly, my...

Sukkot: The paradox of joyfulness

Sukkot is called by our sages “The Time of our Joy” ( זמן שמחתינו ).  While other holidays are said to be times of joy as well, Sukkot...

Clock is ticking on announcing specifics for delayed Games

Opening day of the Tokyo Olympics, postponed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, is now less than 300 days away. Still, we cannot tell...

China balks at U.S. efforts for nuclear arms talks

During the Cold War, the nuclear landscape was dominated by the globe-spanning U.S.–Soviet bipolar rivalry. Russia and the United States still...

New world disorder: US demands that planet accept its damaged woke concepts while continuing to lecture on democracy

When we hear discussions today about imperial ‘conquests’ and ‘takeovers,’ the natural assumption is that some form of military aggression is...

Fridays for Future vs. ENI: environmentalists respond to unions’ accusations

Report. After climate activists occupied a biorefinery, Confindustria Veneto and the confederal officials called their protest ‘criminal.’ The...

New tech accelerator seeks to boost startups in construction sector

Israeli workspace sharing firm OpenValley and Israeli construction company Stern Engineering Ltd. have set up a joint accelerator program to foster...

US Jewish principal donates bone marrow to 2-year-old

JTA — Rabbi Yossi Kastan, the head of a Jewish day school in suburban Baltimore, says he’s “always wanted to change the world.” Last week, he...

Michael Oren defies political and artistic convention with book of short stories

JTA — You may know Michael Oren as a cable news commentator on Israel and the Middle East. You may know him as the Israeli ambassador to the...

Interruptions and insults fly as presidential debate turns into donnybrook

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — It started out civil enough, with President Donald Trump striding deliberately to his lectern, and Democrat Joe Biden...

Columbia students pass university’s first-ever Israel boycott referendum

NY Jewish Week via JTA — Students at Columbia University have passed a first-ever referendum to boycott and divest from companies that “profit...

(POGLED) Tujci na drugi strani okenca

Mesto Maribor obožujem. Vem, kje se dobi najboljša kava in kje najboljše pivo, kje lahko naročite najboljši sladoled, v kateri galeriji se...

The new Lord Protector – Puritanical Boris Johnson channels Cromwell as he bans singing and dancing. What’s happening to Britain?

If anyone had said during the last election that the Tory Party was going to ban casual sex, singing and dancing, I think even the most ardent...

Trump-Biden debate put US democracy on display – we’re now little more than the world’s laughing stock armed with nukes

If the transcript of the debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden was submitted to Hollywood as part of a script exploring the state of...

Cepivo proti covidu kot poslovna operacija

Cepljenje je smrtno nevarno. To so sporočali prejšnji teden pred parlamentom ljudje, ki bi jim na pogled prej rekel pričevalci kot protestniki...

Oxford University’s ‘scholarly’ RT hit piece has no room for the mundane reality of how the world’s news organisations work

The Oxford Internet Institute’s new study ‘The Organizational Behavior of RT’ makes the claim that it “advances the scholarship of news...

Schools won’t reopen after lockdown, warns health ministry chief

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they happen. PARIS, France — A loud noise that caused panic in Paris was caused by a...

Knesset passes bill clamping down on protests after all-night session

The Knesset passed a controversial measure to curtail public protests due to coronavirus regulations early Wednesday morning, following an...

Clowns in hazmat suits and a bed for mommy: Hospital opens COVID kids facility

With clowns in hazmat suits and playrooms for the positive, a central Israel hospital is opening a dedicated children’s COVID-19 facility. Some...

Jews Can No Longer Support Trump

Well, it finally happened.  Last night, during the first U.S. Presidential debate, where millions of people in America, as well as in the rest of...

Scandinavian neo-Nazis circulate anti-Semitic flyers on Yom Kippur

JTA — Several incidents involving anti-Semitic hate speech occurred in Scandinavia in what the World Jewish Congress said was a coordinated...

Kid whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral sings at NY synagogue Yom Kippur service

JTA — The first time 6-year-old Bibi Shapiro found out just how widely viewed the video of him singing “Avinu Malkeinu” had been, he was sitting...

Trump, Biden bicker bitterly as crucial first debate gets underway

CLEVELAND, Ohio — US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden squared off Tuesday night in their crucial first debate of the...

Moon's low-key response to NK

President should take stronger stance toward Pyongyang President Moon Jae-in came up with an official response Monday to the death of a South...

Social media and COVID shaming: Fighting a toxic combination

In the spring, Rick Rose drew the wrath of strangers after he practically shouted on Facebook that he wasn’t buying a face mask. Two months later,...

How Harley-Davidson lost its rumble in India

Harley-Davidson Inc. is riding out of India. That’s as much of a problem for the American motorcycle icon as for one of the largest two-wheeler...

If we can’t ban nukes, let’s stigmatize them

There are potential catastrophes so dire, only an approach that blurs the realist and the utopian seems appropriate. Take for example the Treaty on...

Whither Oil?

LONDON – There are no ready solutions to the dilemma of oil. Daily life as most of us know it depends on the production and transportation of oil,...

Two ways to stand against racism and sexism at work

It is astounding to see so many companies taking stands against racism. But mea culpas will ring hollow if they are not followed by real action....

Middle East: Elation in Washington, Indignation in the West Bank

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, signing a peace agreement with the UAE and Bahrain in Washington in the presence of US President...

Work + Family = Blend. La experiencia en Latinoamérica

La crisis del COVID-19 ha provocado un cambio sin precedentes hacia el trabajo remoto y sentará las bases de una nueva modalidad laboral que nos...

Does Water Relax You?

In the warm indoor pool, I focused on how it felt to move through the water. How would I describe the feeling? Floating on a Styrofoam noodle, I...

A Little Good News Couldn’t Hurt (Zechariah 14:1-21)

The prophecy chosen for the first day of Sukkot is eschatological in nature, namely, it expresses Zechariah’s vision of the ultimate redemption...