The end of the Saudi era

As we approach the second anniversary of the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia continues its retreat,...

UAE’s first-ever kosher restaurant launches in world’s tallest building

Following the United Arab Emirates’ signing of a normalization accord with Israel last week, the UAE’s first-ever certified kosher restaurant...

He Wants a Visa to Europe? Let Him Do Research in Gaza

In refusing to extend New START, the US puts the world on the path of collective suicide

In a fable attributed to the Ancient Greek fabulist and storyteller Aesop, a scorpion and a frog meet at the bank of a river. The scorpion asks the...

From camp ‘rabbi’ to pursuing justice: How Judaism animated Ruth Bader Ginsburg

(JTA) — In its obituary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Guardian wrote that the late Jewish Supreme Court justice “abandoned her religion.” That...

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President's fairness

Vow to establish fairness should not ring hollow Hosting the nation's first Youth Day ceremony and the global K-pop sensation BTS at the...

Corrupt politicians

Law to prevent "conflict of interest" should be legislated Korean lawmakers have continued to be the target of criticism for their stubborn...

Trump EPA deals another blow to environment

To help some of the country's dirtiest electric-power plants save a little money, the Environmental Protection Agency is willing to imperil the...

Fundraising for Israeli terrorist exposes deep-rooted anti-Palestinian racism

Deep-rooted anti-Palestinian racism is endemic across large segments of Israeli society. This was demonstrated yet again when an Israeli...

A zaplatia to zasa občania

Dôvody sú „zaujímavé“. Recyklačné poplatky sú u nás nízke, jedny z najnižších v Európe, a preto ich treba zvýšiť, dorovnať....

Bar Refaeli and mother Tzipi begin serving tax evasion sentences

Tzipi Refaeli, the mother of supermodel Bar Refaeli, began serving a 16-month prison term for tax evasion on Monday morning. She will serve out her...

¿Dónde está el producto que quiere comprar?

Debemos partir de la premisa que el consumidor quiere conseguir siempre lo que busca en el retailer, de acuerdo con el momento, marca, tamaño y...

Nobel Peace Prize ceremony scaled back due to virus

The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in December will be scaled back this year because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the head of the Nobel...

Losing the Calendar: Corona and the Jewish Year

One of the paradoxes of human nature is the simultaneous yearning for freedom and the need for structure. People look forward to retirement but...

I hate the word “Lockdown”

Words during the Ten days of Repentance that we are now commemorating between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are so powerful and create images that...

Fortifying the human wall (Daf Yomi Eruvin 44)

Embed from Getty Images “Establish a human partition for him.” Today we are presented with a story of how a group of people came to the aid of...

Does the time of death of RBG prove that G^d ruled her a fully righteous person?

Much speculation has been circulating on the timing of US Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on/close to the Eve of the Jewish New Year....

The Death of Gedaliah

Most Jews do not know who Gedaliah was nor why, the day after Rosh Hashanah, a day of Fasting in his name is observed. It is one of those tragic...

The Palestinians Perpetuate A Malicious Myth

Azzam Al-Ahmad, a senior Palestinian official, recently told Qatar’s Al-Araby television network that Israel aspires to expand its borders from...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Longtime US Supreme Court Justice

She was diminutive in stature, but larger than life in all other respects. As a Supreme Court Justice her fiery dissenting opinions earned her the...

RBG z”l v. Trump & McConnell: honor v. hypocrisy

Ramming through a replacement before the election might be a Pyrrhic victory for Republicans. Ruth Bader Ginsburg made me, like countless others,...

Lo Ba Li – Raising Kids in Israel

Anyone who has raised a child in Israel is familiar with the phrase, “Lo ba li”. It literally means, “Not coming to me,” in Hebrew and is like...

EU tells UK to ‘stop playing games’ on Brexit

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Senior EU and British officials will meet urgently next week on the Brexit withdrawal agreement, which has been...

Seeking a Viable Alternative to Indonesia’s Blasphemy Laws

As a self-proclaimed model of how democracy and Islam can flourish hand-in-hand, Indonesia’s exemplary role in the protection of religious...

Corona and values

Endless discussions. Synagogues, theatres, restaurants, parks, schools, flights… etc etc… For each rule, for each prohibition, a hundred...

“Ayecha?” –  “איכה?” – “Where are you?”

This was my first Rosh Hashana in Israel in over 30 years. We headed right into a closure. It was not different because of the closure, it was...

The Language Trap

Human vocabulary is constantly evolving, incorporating new terms and definitions to describe novel ideas, innovations, and phenomena. These...

Housekeeping

A good hearted young friend, working a phone bank for Biden, to gauge voter preferences, was very frightened by a disgustingly extremist reply. She...

What Is Different This Year Than Other Years

Rosh Hashanah, a day noted also as Yom Hazikaron, is normally translated, and considered in Israel to be Memorial Day. Yet Rosh Hashanah is not...

Setting the Record Straight on RBG

There’s a much to learn from the late supreme court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her tenacity, her work ethic, her courage in soldiering on into...

The Physical, The Spiritual, The Balance

At our core is a seemingly contradictory duality, a duality that poses challenges and created tensions in nearly every waking moment. We possess a...

A second UK Covid-19 lockdown is doomed to fail: Brits have no faith in their leaders anymore and won’t comply

A looming second lockdown in the UK, as part of the Government’s haphazard approach to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, is destined to fail...

Israeli instant COVID gargle test set to deploy in European airports

A new made-in-Israel gargle test for coronavirus is being deployed in European airports, after a leading aviation security company threw its weight...

Pandemic brings out value of ‘mujin’ spirit of mutual support

Unless you are from Yamanashi Prefecture, you probably don’t know what “furo mujin” means. It denotes an arrangement whereby homeowners take...

Is the world ready for a Trump re-election?

“Their eyes fixed on the ballots to be counted starting Nov. 3,” wrote Sylvie Kauffmann of Le Monde for The New York Times, “Western European...

International law under assault — from unexpected directions

The promise (and premise) of international law is that of a global order based on principles, rationality and the peaceful resolution of disputes....

Don’t give up on recycling plastics

Is plastics recycling a lie? That’s the question at the heart of a new investigation into whether Americans have been filling up their blue bins...

International law and political necessity

By Robert Skidelsky LONDON ― Whenever the great and the good unite in approval or condemnation of something, my impulse is to break ranks. So, I...

Poet for good life

By Bernard Rowan My column concerns the newly published volume of poems by Professor Choi Yearn-Hong, entitled "Snows of Kilimanjaro." I came to...

Sedition laws are the last resort of weak governments

U.S. Attorney General William Barr can’t seem to get out of the headlines. Maybe he doesn’t want to. Just last week, the Wall Street Journal...