Syria gets vaccines from ‘friendly country’ after Israel said to pay for doses

Syria said Thursday it had received a batch of coronavirus vaccines from a “friendly country,” without specifying where the shots had come...

‘I don’t know’: Top health official casts doubt on Netanyahu’s reopening plan

The head of public health in the Health Ministry, Sharon Alroy-Preis, distanced herself Thursday from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan...

Aussie battle with tech Goliaths could slingshot in favor of tiny Israel’s media

Despite Israel’s small media market and relative lack of clout, it could benefit from moves by larger nations to force Facebook and other social...

A tale of three agunot

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Shushan, and fast for me. […] When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the...

Guatemala’s Poor Come First

(POGLED) Centralizacija države ne jenja ali kako Ljubljana zmaguje

Nedavno tega je v oddaji 24 ur Inšpektor tekla resna razprava o vzdrževanju cest v naši državi. Slovenija po mnenju razpravljavcev sodi med...

IDF chief: ‘Zero tolerance’ for officer-subordinate relationships

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi said on Wednesday that the army has a “zero tolerance” policy when it comes to relationships...

Israel Is Recreating the Nakba, Without Putting Palestinians on Trucks

Pulling Up the Inflation Anchor

CAMBRIDGE – Five decades ago, the United States’ biggest macroeconomic problem was high inflation, which averaged more than 6% in the 1970s and...

Party’s over: What the press is saying about bash-crashing and shot-sharing

1. Party poopers: Israel is preparing Thursday to head back under curfew over fears that Purim holiday celebrations could turn into a superspreader...

Nellie, Camille, Clara, Sava, Jolanda…

Za Američanko Nellie Bly, s pravim imenom Elizabeth Cochran, sem prvič slišala lani, v napovedniku za film Deset dni v norišnici, nekakšni...

Esther’s Choice is our Choice…and our Challenge

Today, I fast because of Esther’s fateful choice. Mordechai presents it to her in stark terms: “Do not imagine that you, among all Jews, will...

Righting a world turned upside down: Purim & Parashat Tetzaveh

Purim 2020 was the last in-person event celebrated by many Jewish communities around the country before the COVID-19 shutdown. Little did we...

Purim Lessons from Addiction Recovery

Working in substance use treatment has unmasked new insight into Purim’s key themes.  Here are two lessons I have gleaned from those in recovery...

Words Have Meaning: Apartheid and Sedition

When words are thrown out to attack a country or person, it is often done without the definition matching the charge. It is easy to use language to...

Bells and Robes

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. -C. S. Lewis “And you shall make holy garments for Aaron, your brother,...

An entire continent, ignored by the media

Commentary. Politics and the media do not focus on this large and, above all, very rich continent, but its riches are a source of exploitation,...

Netanyahu asked Biden to maintain US sanctions on ICC — report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked US President Joe Biden to maintain sanctions on the International Criminal Court that were imposed by the...

Newly elected Jewish Democrat wants Biden to take tougher line on Iran nuke deal

A freshman Democratic Congresswoman who sits on the key House Foreign Affairs Committee has come out against the Biden administration’s plans to...

Bahraini crown prince calls Netanyahu about return of Iran nuclear negotiations

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen. COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A senior World Health Organization official urges...

‘No more mommy’: Cop charged with killing wife in front of tied-up kids

A police officer was charged Thursday with murder for allegedly shooting his wife dead in the West Bank settlement of Na’ale earlier this month....

Israel Is Recreating the Nakba, Without Putting People on Trucks

Why Black Lives REALLY Matter: Corporate America is fueling race war to deflect attention from massive wealth inequality

Ask the average person on Main Street to describe the biggest news story of 2020 and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests will probably take a...

Mobileye teams up with French firms to develop self-driving shuttles by 2023

Intel Corp’s Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based maker of self-driving technologies, has set up a strategic collaboration with two French-based firms to...

Paying the rioters and handcuffing police will only lead to more crime and more victims in minority communities

During 2020, several US cities were beset by riots. Millions upon millions of dollars of damage was done, lives were lost, all the while a chant of...

Israel’s coast is devastated by an oil spill. If only we’d had an emergency plan

A week after almost the entire Israeli Mediterranean coastline was devastated by tar from an oil spill at sea, the Environmental Protection...

Human guinea pigs for Big Pharma and rotten states. The sickening experiments fuelling vaccine scepticism among people of colour

Well done, world. Less than a year into a global pandemic we now have quite the menu of vaccines to choose from, with hundreds of millions of doses...

Vote and swab? Planning unprecedented election, ballot officials get creative

On March 2, 2020, Israel went to the polls with the coronavirus nothing more than a scary, but mostly foreign, curiosity. A total of 10 people in...

When will the government stop riding roughshod over Okinawans?

It's been two years since people in Okinawa Prefecture clearly showed a collective will to reject the government’s plan to build a new U.S....

Swelling household debt

Prepare steps to prevent ticking time bomb from exploding Korea's household debt reached a record high of 1,726 trillion won ($1.55 trillion) as of...

Expedient decision

Authorities should overhaul nuclear phase-out policy The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has decided to extend the expiration period of a...

Games of war and peace

By Donald Kirk PYEONGTAEK ― U.S. soldiers pour out of the walk-in gate of Camp Humphreys on a weekend afternoon, strolling by bars and...

Biden's foreign policy success will depend on how America rebuilds at home

By Trudy Rubin Earlier this month President Joe Biden went to the State Department to pump up a demoralized foreign service corps, and to tell the...

What shall we say about grandmothers?

By Danny Tyree Yes, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since Feb. 20, 1971 ― but it's still hard to believe that Granny Tyree (my...

Restoring economic relationship between two allies

This is the 13th in a "Letter to President Biden" series aimed at conveying policy recommendations through open letters from politicians, scholars...

Turning announcements into action on climate change

By Kim Tae-jong 2020 will be largely remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a lot of meaningful strides were made to tackle...

Israel’s Place in Biden's Agenda

A new old ritual seems to be taking shape in the new President Joe Biden’s White House, beginning with Jen Psaki’s failed briefings, the...

T’tsaweh – Performing w/ Precise Mindful Intention

Of the 12 occurrences of the expression: לכהן לי “for the purpose of performing the priestly functions for me,” half are to be found in...

Can a Person Write a Megillah in English? – Purim, Unity and Diversity

We know that a Sefer Torah must be written in Hebrew. But what about a megillah? The answer to this question is rooted in how we look at Purim. Is...

The Active Faith of Purim

Perhaps the most pivotal moment in the Megillah is the fateful conversation between Esther and Mordechai when the latter tells the former to go to...

Go For It

A man named Toni wants to be a professional actor. That is his biggest dream, and he decides to pursue it. So, he starts with watching videos...

We are all being watched

Some managers of a certain airline which will not be named (but which is popularly known as the flagship airline of Israel) have been boasting to...

The Counterpoint of Leadership (Tetzaveh 5781)

Rabbi Sacks zt’’l prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book  Lessons in Leadership . The Office of Rabbi...