Using satellites and AI, Israeli climate tech maps out where carbon is hiding

An Israeli company is combining artificial intelligence with satellite data in a potentially game-changing method for measuring carbon absorption...

Man kills himself after ramming US Capitol barrier, firing weapon

WASHINGTON — A man died early Sunday near the US Capitol building after driving his car into a barricade and firing shots into the air before...

Commemorating WWII, Japan renews no-war pledge but omits its wartime aggression

TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida renewed Japan’s no-war pledge at a somber ceremony Monday as his country marked the 77th...

VOX POPULI: Slope for ‘Shinyo’ suicide boats is reminder of pure madness of war

In the final days of the Pacific War 77 years ago, the Imperial Japanese Army was preparing to fight a decisive final battle on Japan’s mainland....

IDF says it foiled Hamas attack tunnel with two branches along northern Gaza border

The Israel Defense Forces on Monday revealed it recently discovered and “foiled” a tunnel dug by the Hamas terror group in the northern Gaza...

Perfecting the art of longing

‘You can smile at the past but longing is for the memory you don’t have yet’ – a rabbi and poet on two years of isolation - by Aeon Video...

The Israeli Left's Condescension

Anyone with an ideological alternative to offer must fight the right wing to the very end. Anyone with better leadership to offer must do...

Israel urges UN chief to cancel ouster of top official who condemned PIJ rocket fire

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday to reverse a decision by one of the...

Making inroads: An unlikely 38-hour drive from Dubai to Jerusalem, via Riyadh

A week ago, Jewish American businessman Bruce Gurfein left his home in Dubai for a long drive. In his SUV and with one of his employees at his...

US lawmakers to meet Taiwan’s president despite China’s rage over Pelosi visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — United States lawmakers were set to meet Taiwan’s president on Monday less than two weeks after China reacted to a...

Three Israeli universities rise in prestigious global rankings

Three Israeli universities made it into the list of 2022’s top 100 academic institutions by the prestigious Shanghai Ranking of World...

Israeli airstrikes in Syria said to hit Iranian targets near Russian naval base

Israeli airstrikes near Russia’s main navy base in the coastal Syrian city of Tartus on Sunday night targeted Iranian sites, an unidentified...

The Shutdown of the Israeli Consciousness

The overriding sense I got throughout the operation in Gaza – and in its aftermath as well – was one of dissociation. Not support, not opposition,...

Palestinian tries to stab undercover cops during home search, is shot dead — police

A Palestinian man was shot dead by undercover Israeli troops early Monday morning after he attempted to stab them during a search of his home in...

China has painted itself into a semiconductor corner

As Washington embarks on a multibillion dollar, decadelong semiconductor development campaign, Beijing is reckoning with its own 20-year effort...

Iran: Nuclear deal close but ‘progress has not fully satisfied our demands’

Iran said on Monday it was possible to return to the 2015 nuclear deal if its conditions were met. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser...

Persistent plagiarism allegations

Kookmin University criticized for currying favor with new government Kookmin University's Faculty Association held an emergency meeting Friday and...

Va’etchanan: The Good and the Just

When I was younger, I visited Boston every so often, especially during the Chagim. When in Boston, I would pray in the Young Israel of Brookline,...

The two different images of the biblical snake

While traveling enroute to the Promised Land – as we continue and read this week Moses’ farewell address to the Israelites in the Ekev Torah...

The heat of August in the Middle East – Can be Political News

What else can be said about issues that are in the field of the environment, in the middle of August, when the general news is in the area of...

Moses blames rebellious Jews for his sinful anger?

We will find four oblique references to the Ninth of Av Many commentators want us to believe that Moses blames rebellious Jews for his sinful...

The Equalizing Myth

In March 2020, a theory emerged that many people loved. By April 2020, it had been completely shot down. I am talking about the idea that...

A Beautiful Song From The Guardians of Zion

What an absolutely beautiful video of the Israeli police singing “A Tribe of Brothers and Sisters.” I was very moved by the Israeli police, who...

Mansour Abbas lends support to Israel's colonial narrative 

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas has exposed how exploitative his role is within the coalition government formed by former Israeli Prime Minister...

School Management Tips and Tools for New Incoming Day School Leadership (Part I)

AN OPEN BLOG TO: NEW INCOMING HEADS OF SCHOOL AND PRINCIPALS OF JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS/YESHIVOT (Part I) Over the past several months, an increasing...

Civil Society: Historical Background

Civil society is a solution backed up by Jewish tradition and history, as seen in the lives of Jewish communities throughout the diaspora since the...

Bystanders No More

EDITORIAL: 77 years after war’s end, fears return of a world where force ruled

A war of aggression continues in Europe, whereas a rivalry of forces across the Taiwan Strait is only deepening. The world is thus shrouded in dark...

Rainbow and values of diversity

By Steven L. Shields According to the Bible, a great flood in ancient times inundated the earth, killing everything in its wake. That is all except...

Turning point for American industrial policy or one-hit wonder?

By Robert D. Atkinson As American politics sinks farther into the hole of partisan vitriol and dysfunctionality, we can be reminded of former George...

Wake-up call for 'Nuke Five'

By Kim Won-soo Over the last five decades, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has served as the bedrock for keeping the...

The issues holding back revival of the Iran nuclear deal 

Iran and the United States are struggling to overcome divisions on three major issues in indirect talks on revival of a 2015 nuclear deal while...

Remembering the fall of Kabul

On this day in 2021, the Taliban reached Kabul as the US-backed regime in Afghanistan crumbled and 20 years of American occupation ended in...

Leave the Filipinos in Israel Alone

The Population and Immigration Authority launched an operation, about a month ago, to encourage the “willing departure” of the Filipino community...

Ruling camp in disarray

Time to stop self-destructive power struggle The Yoon Suk-yeol administration has faced the worst crisis since its May 10 inauguration due mainly...

Police raze illegal settlement outpost for second time in a week

Police and Border Police forces descended on the illegal West Bank outpost of Ramat Migron Sunday night to evacuate the site and raze structures...

Eisenkot Is Right on Primaries

A year and a half ago, I wrote enraged criticism here about the campaign to run the latest general, Gadi Eisenkot, for Knesset. I thought, and...

LGBTQ+ youth need inclusive health care

By Andrew Baldino When I first was outed at age 14, I realized I would have to learn how to navigate a world that didn't fully accept me. Part of...

Redefinition of good and evil

By Zerougui Abdelkader Radicalization in the Middle East is neither the product of American policies in the region nor the Israeli-Palestinian...

Asian companies have more to do to advance sustainability

Boards should recruit climate experts and others with fresh perspectives

Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan: Feedback from the Middle East

The visit of US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan was met with bewilderment and wariness in the Middle East media. This is...

US slams ‘despicable’ Iranian media coverage of Salman Rushdie stabbing

The US State Department slammed the “despicable” incitement against Salman Rushdie by Iranian institutions and the media coverage of the famed...

‘Rushdie insulted sacred matters of Islam’: Iran faults writer for own stabbing

TEHRAN — An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, while also blaming him...

Another and Better Way of Promoting Democracy

As Taipei accuses Beijing of trying to take control of the Taiwan Strait in the wake of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit and...

Kyiv mayor: Huge mistake for Israel to remain neutral, ‘we’re defending Europe’

KYIV — “Shalom!” exclaimed Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko as he bounded into his second-floor office at the city’s municipal building and took...

The Purpose is Kedusha

Shabbat is special. There are many expressions of that reality in Jewish law and custom, but none so clear as in our liturgy. Days, in our...

The end of the EU’s free lunch

MUNICH – Until recently, the European Central Bank could simply throw money at the eurozone’s problems. But that is no longer possible in the face...

A 'Good Girl' and a Rebel, Two Female Arab MKs Unlikely to Make It Back Into the Knesset

Take Ibtisam Mara’ana and Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, for instance – Arab female Knesset members from left-wing Zionist parties, the Labor Party and...