Major tech firm Skai said set to pull funds from Israel due to judicial plans

The Israeli-founded marketing tech firm Skai will pull funding from Israel due to the government’s plans to implement sweeping changes to the...

‘Ultra’ podcast depicts little-known Nazi-funded plot to topple US government

By the time William Dudley Pelley called for the forced sterilization of all Jewish males in 1939, the American white supremacist’s “Brown...

The Rights of the Ecosystem and Future Generations as Tools for Implementing Environmental Law

This is an excerpt from Global Climate Justice: Theory and Practice. You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations. The...

Minor earthquake hits near West Bank settlement of Ariel

The Israeli military’s Home Front Command confirmed that a minor earthquake hit Israel Tuesday night, with tremors reported in Jerusalem and in...

Joe Rogan: ‘The idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous’

(JTA) — It’s “ridiculous” to doubt that Jews like money, popular podcaster Joe Rogan said on his show on Saturday. Rogan was discussing the...

America’s democracy is ‘unbowed and unbroken,’ says Biden in State of Union address

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Joe Biden called on Republicans in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to work with him to “finish the...

Israel's AG Is in Danger - Not Netanyahu

As always, Benjamin Netanyahu sees no one but himself. At the government meeting on Sunday he said, shocked, that “there is a clear threat to murder...

Aid to quake-hit Syria slowed by sanctions, war divisions

BEIRUT (AP) — Even before Monday’s devastating earthquake, getting aid to all parts of war-battered Syria was fraught with daunting political...

Rare 1,600-year-old gold bead found by teenager in Jerusalem’s City of David

A rare gold bead made by hand in Jerusalem some 1,600 years ago was recently discovered by an 18-year-old volunteer in the City of David, not far...

Initial Takeaways from the Disastrous Earthquake

As the scale of devastation from the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and Syria becomes clearer and more horrifying by the minute, initial...

Antisemitism: A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew

Everyday in the news we hear about new cases where Jews are being targeted by hate crimes. As Jews we need to stop dividing ourselves into...

Health funds should charge less when we live well

This goes way beyond just drinking less sugar Your pay less for car insurance when you drive damage-free long enough. Not only do you use more...

We Must End the Shameful Practice of Using Private Prisons

The very first thing we learn from the Torah about human beings is that we’re made in the image of God. We’re taught in the first chapter of the...

‘Waiting for our dead’: Turkey’s slow quake response leaves victims out in the cold

GAZIANTEP, Turkey (AFP) — With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened...

EDITORIAL: Forced expansion of My Number Card usage will never work

The government is taking steps to expand the use of the Individual Number Card, commonly known as the My Number Card, and get more people to...

Child Abuse Prevention: Erasing Titles

“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli  Embed from Getty Images Unfortunately, it happens.  A...

Next Gen Search Make a Difference with Every Click

It’s not often that we’re left feeling excited after just 10 minutes of searching the web, but that’s exactly what happened to me with the...

President caught in quarrel with lawmaker

By Kang Hyun-kyung Winning the March 8 convention to select the ruling People Power Party's (PPP's) new chairman is part of Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo's...

Over Decades, Democracy for Israelis Has Been a Military Junta for Palestinians

The present government is dangerous to many Jews, also those who voted for the parties in the government coalition. But first and foremost it is...

Woman found dead outside her home in Lod; neighbor arrested on suspicion of murder

A woman in her 30s was found dead outside her apartment Wednesday morning in a residential building in the central city of Lod, with a male...

Top Democrat Adam Schiff fears judicial shakeup will ‘make Israel less democratic’

JTA — Rep. Adam Schiff, the Jewish Democrat from California who recently announced a run for the Senate, said that he was “very concerned”...

Global conflicts grow

Is South Korea ready for another war among great powers? The last time the world's three great powers clashed, directly or indirectly, was the...

UK Labour Party is pro-Israel again, says chair of its visiting friendship group

As their party continues to combat antisemitism within its ranks, a group of Labour Party lawmakers embarked on a five-day visit to Israel this...

Generations

Sometimes I think that part of the reason I choose to work with older adults is that I missed having the experience of older adults in my own...

(POGLED) Kolumna Marka Crnkoviča: Tresla se je gora, rodila se je Sapramiška

Pesnico, nagrajenko leta 2000, sta na oder pospremila Boris A. Novak in Jaša Jenull. Robert Balen Kakšen ekskluzivistični fanatizem to mora biti,...

Clown noses, tears, and joy

Buttercup is dead. In all my years in the Rabbinate, I have never cried at a funeral — until now. I think it was looking out at the congregation...

LeBron James breaks NBA all-time scoring record, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

AP — LeBron James is the NBA’s new career scoring leader. With a stepback jump shot with 10.9 seconds left in the third quarter in the Los...

Japan's strategic imperative

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE ― Last December, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the most ambitious expansion of military power...

Year of the Rabbit? Or Year of NewJeans?

By Kevin Kim As 2023, the Year of the Rabbit, began, Korean music charts were filled with the cartoon character of a black rabbit and a blue rabbit...

Honoring a US rabbi who went down with his torpedoed warship 80 years ago this month

JTA — Mark Auerbach was not yet 5 years old when he noticed an unusual postage stamp in his father’s dresser. The well-worn three-cent stamp...

VOX POPULI: Perhaps for the 13-year-old go champion, time passed slowly

I got up in the morning, played, laughed and was scolded. The days were long when I was a child. But now, they just race away. All clocks mark the...

How does US-China relationship continue after the spy balloon saga?

By Daniel DePetris If you thought the Chinese spy balloon saga would deflate as fast as the balloon did over the Atlantic Ocean, you're sadly...

US forces strike at extremism in Africa

By Arthur I. Cyr Bilal al-Sudani is not exactly a household name, which is all the more reason to highlight the fact that this dangerous terrorist...

Does the World Know?

This week, I viewed a video released by The Hallelu Foundation. It began by the narrator admitting that he has had moments of feeling sorry for the...

On the matter of North Korean spies in South Korea

The conservatives’ offensive against the opposition is partly carried out under the slogans of searching for pro-Pyongyang NGOs and North Korean...

Balloon highlights risk of unintentional U.S.-China clash

CEOs should prepare for U.S. congressional grilling on China

New congressional body likely to hold hearings on Hollywood, NBA, AI and TikTok

Western Missionaries in Mongolia: Faith Today, Socio-Political Agenda Tomorrow

In the 1990s, Mongolia created a new legal basis for the activities of foreign religious organizations: The law allowed free missionary and...

Reflections from a journey to Poland with my yeshiva

On Monday, January 23rd, I along with 44 fellow students and two rabbis from Yeshivat Orayta, touched down in a very cold and cloudy Warsaw,...

Dollar Relief in 2023