US says Hezbollah storing explosive chemical that caused Beirut blast in Europe

Hezbollah has stored ammonium nitrate, a chemical that can be used to make explosives, in several European countries, a senior US State Department...

On gloomy Rosh Hashana Eve, Israel prepares for second painful national lockdown

Israelis prepared to welcome the Jewish New Year Friday with a new deeply unpopular national coronavirus lockdown, amid expectations of serious...

More manpower for delivery workers

Firms should offer additional workers to sort parcels Some 4,000 parcel delivery workers announced Thursday they would boycott the sorting of...

Haaretz Cartoon

Arab States Need the Palestinians if They Want Real Peace With Israel

PS Events: The Green Recovery (Day 2)

Twilight in the Desert for Saudi and MBS?

It appears as if Saudi de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is on a mission to destroy the world oil giant by one after the other ill-...

Izzivi proračunov v času koronakrize

Priprava proračunov za naslednji dve leti bo pomenila velik izziv za vlado, saj bo potekala v času velike negotovosti in pomanjkanja zanesljivih...

Police announce new limits on protests during three-week lockdown

Israel police announced new regulations limiting the number of people allowed to participate in protests during the three-week lockdown that began...

Politics is visceral

We live in bodies that feel increasingly unsafe. Pandemics, climate change, sexual assault, systemic racism, the pressures of gig-economy jobs, the...

Days of Remembrance (Daf Yomi Eruvin 40)

Embed from Getty Images “One mention of remembrance counts for both this and that.” The new moon, like Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is...

Rosh HaShanah: The Challenge of the Shofar

Something strange happens on Rosh Hashana. We spend hours declaring God’s majesty, using poetic and unique phrases. We refer to Him as the...

5781: New parent, new year, new COVID emptiness

This is not how it was supposed to be. Less than a week before Rosh HaShanah last year, I found out that I was pregnant again after a miscarriage....

When the Shofar is Silenced During a Pandemic

There are many reasons (many!) why this year’s Rosh Hashanah will be different from last year’s Rosh Hashanah. One reason was predictable. Last...

Corona and the New Year

Popular wisdom holds that Bibi’s diplomatic skills balance the Corona Catastrophe. I am not sure. Let’s reconsider: Yesterday, I wrote a blog...

Whole apples, individual honey jars: New York issues health guide for holidays

JTA — Worshipers at services should be 12 feet apart from one another when singing. Sukkahs can be considered outdoor environments, though...

The circles on the water

The Rosh HaShana Torah reading comes from Genesis 21, where the intimate story of one couple’s discovery of God becomes the story of two nations....

Palestinians: man dies of heart attack after IDF stun grenade bursts next to him

A Palestinian man died of a heart attack Friday, apparently caused by an IDF stun grenade exploding next to him during a protest at a West Bank...

Being Together in Our Aloneness

We were meant to be attending a small Rosh Hashana tefila with a few families – keeping to the rules of the lockdown and feeling safe in the fact...

Uman and Jerusalem – When a Pilgrimage Misses the Point

I’m pretty certain that I’m not alone in watching videos, seeing pictures and reading stories of the hundreds of people attempting to reach Uman...

In the Twilight of Netanyahu’s Tenure

Japan After Abe

Art of repurposing

By Hyon O'Brien I grew up in Korea and went through my teenage years in the 1960's in Wonju, Gangwon Province. One of the things I learned from my...

New Attempts at Rekindling the Sino-Indian Conflict

At a recent US-India meetup US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led an American effort to take advantage of recent India-China friction. In a move to...

‘Imuri’ poses questions on par with other manga masterpieces PREMIUM

Online event reconnects Super Sentai ‘Red’ heroes PREMIUM

Corona Lock Down (Seger) Diary – Day 2

It is just past 14.00 and the Lock Down has officially started. The kids and the grandchildren arrived on time by Israeli standards, if arriving...

The Sermon I never Preached

Any fair retrospect will highlight how fortunate we are to live in times shaped by the luxuries of modernity. We enjoy unprecedented healthcare,...

Hillel to Orwell: Israel Distorts the Golden Rule

It was recently reported that Israel plans to bring 2,000 Ethiopian Jews to the Jewish Homeland. This is both too little and too late and yet...

Who is betraying whom?

Embed from Getty Images Twice in the past few days Palestinian leaders have charged fellow Arab states with treachery.  The accusation was taken...

Alibista Matovič

Ľudia majú v živej pamäti, ako na začiatku nového milénia prišli o svoje peniaze, zatiaľ čo politici a rôzni papaláši si stihli vďaka...

A čo ďalej s vírusom

Nuž ale ukázalo sa, že hlásatelia „len takej chrípky“ na svoje silácke reči doplatili medzi prvými. Záchrana zabehnutého ekonomického...

Big Tech and COVID-19 are fueling networked authoritarianism

Growing border industrial complex means that borders will be everywhere and nowhere

Indonesia - the Center of "Humane Piracy"

The Strait of Malacca between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula is a strategic corridor connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans, which maintains...

El respeto por pensar diferente

“Deja que los demás den una opinión, pero jamás renuncies a la tuya”, una reflexión que hoy cobra más sentido que nunca, ya que, en el...

Amid political gridlock, minister extends acting police chief tenure by 6 months

Public Security Minister Amir Ohana notified interim Police Commissioner Motti Cohen on Friday that he plans to extend his tenure as top cop for an...

Days after peace deals, top UAE, Bahraini officials wish Jews happy new year

A senior adviser to the king of Bahrain and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan both tweeted out Rosh Hashanah...

Israel goes silent as it marks Rosh Hashanah with 2nd lockdown

Israel on Friday imposed a new national coronavirus lockdown, the country’s second this year. The closure, marking the first time in the world an...

How Imagination Can Transform Your Life

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” –Zig Ziglar I have written in this blog many times about the value of creative thinking. And I’ve...

Emerging from Disability

In 2020, I am celebrating twelve years of full recovery from schizophrenia. I work, volunteer, and enjoy meaningful relationships. But this was not...

Hearing in trial of Paris Hyper Cacher store killings set for Yom Kippur

(JTA) — A hearing in the trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 Hyper Cacher kosher store attack in Paris that left four people dead was set for...

U’netaneh Tokef: an anti-anxiety meditation for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur

An article by Rabbi Jeff Hoffman “Do Repentance, Prayer and Charity Cancel or Mitigate the Decree?” inspired me to rethink one of the most...

New year, new adventure

We believe that a community needs a local newspaper. We’re not provincial enough to think that’s all it needs. A community needs international...

Hope and Trust in the age of banishment

Rosh HaShannah 5781/2020 The rabbis assigned the twin stories of the expulsion of Hagar and Yishmael, and then the near-demise/expulsion of...

Finding Our Place

Many of us today are in our place, yet strangely not so. Students in university, yet not able to fully enjoy being on campus. Children in school,...

The Enormous Potential of Economic Diplomacy

The recent agreement between Kosovo and Serbia reflects a new chapter in diplomacy, allowing Kosovo and Serbia to focus on economic development,...