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“Khosrow-e avaz-e Iran par keshid!” “The prince of Persian music flew to heavens!” Iran is in mourning. Mohammad Reza Shajarian has passed...
One of the more annoying aspects of the 2016 presidential election was the constant yapping from celebrities about leaving the country if the...
Yamina MK Bezalel Smotrich vowed Monday to oppose granting gay couples the same rights as heterosexual ones, days after Yamina leader Naftali...
Over 40 of the best scholars and archaeologists in the field of Ancient Israel are coming together — virtually — from October 25 to October 28 in...
Recent polls show that Israelis strongly prefer President Trump to his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. The reason for this is...
On a dusty plain in the Golan Heights, a golden-lettered sign with Israeli and American flags stands before a rusty wire fence as the gateway to...
Environmental groups in Japan recently urged the Japanese government to focus more on creating a society that produces and consumes much less...
What a difference seven short years makes when it comes to Cabinet policies. After reading Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s major policy speech on...
NEW YORK – This month, delegates from governments around the world are meeting (virtually) for a crucial, albeit under-the-radar, climate summit...
GENEVA – A recent poll found that one in three Americans would not be willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, while anti-vaxxers have reportedly...
The 13-year arms embargo imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council expired on Sunday in accordance with Resolution 2231 of the Joint Comprehensive...
ORTHODOX JEWS VS. CUOMO. WHO IS RIGHT? If you have been listening to the news as of late, you are well aware of the public relations war between...
Countermeasures needed to prevent deaths caused by overwork There have been a series of heartbreaking deaths of parcel delivery workers recently,...
Minister should not try to control prosecution Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae has triggered controversy over her "apparent" attempts to control the...
Psychologist Philip Tetlock’s warning that “the average expert is roughly as accurate as a dart-throwing chimpanzee” has assumed Talmudic weight...
STOCKHOLM – Whether we are heading for a future of cooperation or of increasing confrontation in the Arctic remains to be seen. But it is already...
A year and a half since protesters took to the streets of Caracas, and President Donald Trump warned that "all options are on the table" if...
By Bernard Rowan Recently, I listened again to the song "Broken Wings", recorded in the 1980s by Mr. Mister, an American group. The song is a...
Perhaps no part of the economy has a more uncertain future right now than office buildings. The pace of workers coming back into offices is more of...
By Josef Joffe HAMBURG ― For decades, France and Germany have been known as Europe's ruling "tandem" or "couple," even its "engine." Together,...
Earlier this month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres registered the Turkey-Libya deal on the delimitation of maritime jurisdiction in the...
A man was indicted on Tuesday for vandalizing the offices of the left-wing daily Haaretz last week and threatening a journalist. The man, named by...
Government coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu will recommend to ministers that they ease lockdown restrictions in several ultra-Orthodox areas that were...
An indictment was filed Tuesday against a man accused of pepper-spraying anti-government protesters during a rally in Ramat Gan earlier this year....
All world news agencies have already reported that in the capital of South Sudan, Juba, the leaders of the country’s armed groups and the...
‘What is called this year “evil” and whatever, next year may constitute the blessing of the human race.’ Throughout much of the 20th century...
Embed from Getty Images “The fact that they are in the same building does not render them one unified group.” Today’s Daf Yomi reading considers...
Let me share with you a powerful lesson about treating animals with respect. The Torah states, “You shall not plough with an ox and a donkey...
President Trump has announced a move to take Sudan off the state sponsors of terrorism list. “Great news!” Trump tweeted. “New government of...
The below will not be pretty. No gory details but neither a rosy picture. And, we’ll talk in generalities. Exceptions exist — to confirm the...
As both the parent of two high school students and a veteran online educator, I find myself unbelievably frustrated by the current state of our...
One of my very favorite moments in the entire Bible comes in the third chapter of the Book of Kings. Solomon, still a young man, has just succeeded...
With the passing of the Abraham Accord, many Israeli businesses across all manner of sectors are now actively looking at how best to enter the UAE...
How much did your shoes cost? Sixty-four dollars? A nightshift, or two? Ten days of overtime? Perhaps- a bus ride? You see- My shoes were free;...
Recently, while walking the wide halls of Home Depot, I found myself admiring some of the higher end cabinets they had available. My daughter,...
Barack Mandela, who served in both the United States Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was personally healed by Judaism. (Courtesy) This...
Embed from Getty Images On October 14, Israeli and Lebanese working-level delegations met at UNIFIL headquarters in Naqura for one hour to begin...
It has been 3 years since a very special moment occurred in my life. In October 2017, WeWork held its Creator Awards in Tel Aviv. In the event, I...
The parsha, Noach, actually begins somewhat in the middle of the story of Noah, in Genesis chapter 6, verse 9, whereas the story of Noah seems to...
What can one offer as a bat mitzvah model as an Israeli American young girl of twelve that speaks to her at her modern Jewish day school...
In Abraham ibn Ezra’s masterpiece, the twelve chapters of “Sefer Yesod Mora Ve-Sod Ha-Torah,” Treatise on the Foundation of Awe and The Secret...
I have become pretty immune to the depths that anti-Israel activists can sink in defaming anything related to Jews or Israel. But even so, I had to...
There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the policies a Biden-Harris administration would pursue in the Middle East, particularly with...
I’m sitting at my desk, writing letters to strangers in Florida, explaining why I vote. I’m not telling them whom they should vote for, just...
In March 2019, we planted a garden full of monsters outside the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (ASU). Their limbs rise out of the...
In the fight against COVID-19, success has so far been defined by responses in Asia and the Pacific. Many countries in our region have been hailed...
While the Spanish flu raged in autumn 1918, author Naoya Shiga (1883-1971) repeatedly ordered his family and servants to avoid crowds and refrain...
By Lee Sun-ho In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the second stage of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development...
There has been a series of contacts and meetings between Hamas and Russia this year to discuss developments in the Palestinian issue. These...
MIAMI, Florida (AFP) — Florida voters converged on early polling stations Monday in a pivotal state fought over relentlessly by US President...
Dr Muhammad Naeem Wardak is the Spokesperson for Taliban political office in Doha. Political talks are undergoing between Afghan government and...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Al Gross commands a fishing boat as a narrator describes him prospecting for gold and killing a grizzly bear in self-defense...
We’re making Aliyah! My wife and I are leaving behind our life in New York, three kids, three grandchildren, siblings, parents and countless...
Last week a TV reporter asked a chassid on the streets of Mea Shearim why he was flagrantly ignoring Corona restrictions. His answer was immediate,...
It has become increasingly clear that the massive rise in infection preceding Israel’s second lockdown had much less to do with young...
In recent days there has been something of an ‘explosion’ in some sections of the media (social and mainstream) when it was announced that Gal...
As Covid-19 continues to impact the world, it becomes possible to examine how different political and social structures responded to this horrific...
The weight on my shoulders was immense. The president of the United States was on the other end of the phone line. On the other hand, it felt very...
Despite having the largest prison population – both per capita and by sheer numbers – in the world, the US still unironically calls itself the...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s developments as they unfold. The official meet and greet on the tarmac is to be followed by...
US President Donald Trump went after top government scientist Anthony Fauci in a call with campaign staffers on Monday, suggesting the hugely...
In another major milestone for Israel-Gulf relations, a delegation of senior United Arab Emirates officials arrived in Tel Aviv on Tuesday for a...
TORONTO — Canadian writer Michael Posner is on a mission to track down and speak with anyone who knew iconic troubadour Leonard Cohen. The first...
V zadnjih tednih se je na družbenih omrežjih in v Večeru razplamtela polemika glede nove ureditve Glavnega trga in Koroške ceste od tržnice do...
The UN’s non-binding and generalised Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have provided a diversion in current EU and Palestinian politics. On...
The Israeli military on Tuesday announced it had uncovered a “terror tunnel” dug from the Gaza Strip that ran dozens of meters into Israeli...
Viewers were gripped Monday night by the first episode of “Valley of Tears,” or “She’at Neilah” in Hebrew, a fictionalized retelling of...
By Choi Sung-jin There seems to be nothing in common between Korean Ambassador to the U.S. Lee Soo-hyuck and the world-famous boy band, BTS. For...
MADRID/MONTREAL – Today, as our economic and social lives increasingly move online owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital and physical...
Ministers were set to meet on Tuesday ahead of the second stage of Israel’s lockdown exit strategy, with discussions to be held on switching the...
At a ceremony to welcome the first official ministerial delegation from the United Arab Emirates to Israel, the United States announced on Tuesday...
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri reportedly told ultra-Orthodox leaders that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Public Security Minister Amir Ohana...
NEW YORK (AP) — US Holocaust survivors Ruth Brandspiegel and Israel “Sasha” Eisenberg call their reunion a miracle that began on the holiest day...
The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it wished to facilitate the reciprocal opening of embassies in Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi “as soon as...
Seven years ago, when Tre Peart was in the third grade, he was assigned to read a classic young-adult novel, “The War With Grandpa,” by Robert...
1. Leave home without it: Normalization is on the radar with a UAE delegation making its way to Israel, where members will apparently sign a deal...
Last week, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri made a terse statement in a Knesset meeting that spoke volumes about his motives for pushing the government...
The return from Babylonian exile was fraught with challenges and the people were in great need of inspiration. In this context, God promised the...
A man was convicted on Tuesday at the Tel Aviv District Court of the rape and premeditated murder almost two years ago of his former wife’s...
Little evidence presented to discredit low-cost language instruction
Intel Ignite, a program to foster and grow startups set up by tech giant Intel Corp., said Tuesday that Ranny Nachmias has been appointed managing...
JTA – Jews around the world are rightfully celebrating the historic and euphoric peace agreement between Israel and the UAE – and so are the...
Hoci testovať sa má začať už o pár dní, nezodpovedaných otázok je stále mnoho. Pochybnosti vyjadrila dokonca aj prezidentka Zuzana...
Those in Nigeria’s halls of power must have been flummoxed when protests erupted in response to Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu’s...
At first glance, the ultra-Orthodox protest held Monday in the southern city of Arad was no different from many other recent mass events held by...
Toľko sa hovorí o ozelenení ekonomiky, o oživení upadajúcej výroby potravín, a keď dôjde na lámanie chleba, zostanú mimo zorného poľa...
The head of the largest labor union in the UK and Ireland, and a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, told a former UK cabinet...
Premiér najviac postihnutej Českej republiky Andrej Babiš najprv pripustil, že sa nemalo zrušiť nosenie rúšok, ale neskôr povedal, že má...
Singapore is a thriving island city-state located in Southeast Asia next to Indonesia and Malaysia. A bit fewer than 6 million people live in the...
PARIS, France (AFP) — Scientists have called for urgent action to improve public trust in immunization as research suggested sizable minorities...
Si realizamos una rápida radiografía de la situación financiera de Chile, podemos entender por qué la nueva Ley de Portabilidad Financiera fue...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Tuesday reported its highest single-day toll of new confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic with...
Prof. Yehoshua Blau, a giant in the field of Semitic languages, died in Jerusalem on October 20, 2020 at the age of 101. The Israel Prize winner...
From an allegorical point of view, Noach is an archetype, a representation of our desire to take a rest from the challenges of life. When his...
The rescue of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries is an oft-repeated story in Holocaust literature. Max Wallace’s impassioned book, In The Name of...
As a kid, I loved to get free things. Well, who doesn’t? But, I was particularly obsessed. Anytime there was an offer for something free, I...
Had I not read professor, historian, philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s previous books, which sold over twenty-seven million copies, I would have...
In the wake of President Trump’s refusal to disavow white supremacy at last month’s first presidential debate, the Jewish Democratic Council...
In this post, I will be exploring practical methodologies and tools coming from the startup world that can help all of us be more productive at...
Any day during coronavirus. You feel a tickle in the back of your nose, and then a sneeze comes, and then another. You swallow and check; does it...
Many in North America, even those who usually follow developments in Israel, are barely aware of the growing demonstrations against Prime Minister...
Last thing the country needs is business as usual
Last month, amid reports that Sudan could soon normalize relations with Israel, the northeast African Arab country’s leading governmental agency...
Israeli airline Arkia on Tuesday announced direct flights to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, starting at $149 for a one-way ticket. Arkia said...
Please join us this Wednesday, October 21, for a special Behind the Headlines interview, exclusively for the ToI Community. This week’s guest is...
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s 1973 meeting with then-Israeli prime minister Golda Meir is a tale he often recounts when speaking...
Trump has zeroed in on Khartoum for another diplomatic ‘win’ before November. But his maximum pressure campaign is a disaster in the making –...
In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US...
More than a hundred years after the Balfour Declaration, and the tragedies that befell the Palestinian people under the British Mandate government...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates are set to sign a visa exemption treaty Tuesday, in what will be the Jewish state’s first such agreement with...
Da je policijsko uro uvedel ravno Janez Janša - ta sociopat, ta general z mentaliteto kaplarja, ta križanec med agnostičnim farjem in...
Even as AFP tried to depict a recent United Nations human rights meeting as a landmark stand against what it claims are human rights abuses by...
After years of delays, Israel transferred control over three power substations to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank over the past month,...
BERLIN (AP) — A prominent European Jewish organization slammed a Munich auction house’s decision to sell several of Nazi dictator Adolf...
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket toward Israel on Tuesday evening, the military said. The rocket was intercepted by the Iron...
I previously wrote an article about the Jew-hatred within the Black Lives Matter Movement . Even more previously, I wrote an article denoting the...
Photos: Courtesy It seems as if Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio have been studying the policies of Nazi Germany. Yes, certain areas...
For Jews, the expression goes, many things are often reduced to the question directly posed by the title. Should Jews so often decide that a...
The accounting of what took place at the Tower of Babel is quite perplexing. However, many hints are strewn about in the preceding verses that can...
The Middle East’s shining light for democracy has evolved from a startup nation to a scale-up nation, without compromising on its pursuit to...
With the 2020 Presidential Election days away, many friends of Israel insist they are not one-issue voters. They declare America’s “reckoning...
Less than two weeks before it meets for a full-scale review, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money-laundering watchdog, had...
As Israel lifts restrictions on all-but-one of the country’s virus hotspots, citing dropping coronavirus cases, a top doctor has said it’s acting...
Chris Pratt made a name for himself getting chased by dinosaurs in the Jurassic World franchise films, but the woke are now out to get him for...
Fake Kazakh journalist Borat has blamed Israel and the Jews for the coronavirus. The bumbling reporter is played by Jewish comedian Sacha Baron...
Global Internet governance is a rising and relatively new subject. Although an extensive literature has already discussed processes such as the...
WASHINGTON — The US Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday they will mute the microphones of President Donald Trump and his...
Facebook said Tuesday it has started to test a new, lightweight version of its popular Instagram App, with improved speed, performance, and...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Six Russian military intelligence officers have been charged in the United States with carrying out cyberattacks on Ukraine’s...
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said the government will launch a study on racism within the police force after all. It appears the interior...
Zanima me, ali bodo pozivi zdravnikov, medicinskih sester in drugega zdravstvenega osebja k spoštovanju ukrepov proti širitvi koronavirusa...
Skôr sa zdá, že Igor Matovič nevie, kam z konopí a potreboval publiku rýchlo predhodiť nejakú „zázračnú zbraň“ – tou má byť...
Burgeoning tensions within the ruling coalition flared Monday as Blue and White’s leadership said that new elections would be held if a state...
A technical glitch was reportedly to blame for suspicions that Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel lied to contact tracers about...
Less than a week after the Knesset voted to approve historic normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, a high-level...
Knesset members on Monday assailed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as Israel began exiting a weeks-...
The Health Ministry on Monday evening said 896 new coronavirus cases were recorded during the day, raising the number of infections since the...
Balerina, Balerina, roman Marka Sosiča, je ena mojih najljubših slovenskih knjig vseh časov. Spomin na trenutek, ko sem jo prvič prebrala, je tako...
Many had believed that the coronavirus pandemic was largely under control in Germany. The current spike in infections has proved them wrong. Now,...
In the pre-election throes for the presidency, the White House is actively looking for a possible area of focus to showcase “its successes” to...
Francisco de Quevedo escribió que "cuando decimos que todo tiempo pasado fue mejor, condenamos el porvenir sin conocerlo". El pasado no siempre...
NEW YORK — US President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would be removing Sudan from the State Department’s list of state terror sponsors...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday night announced that Israel’s Institute for Biological Research would begin testing a coronavirus vaccine...
JTA — The latest political candidate to take aim at George Soros, the Jewish billionaire Democratic megadonor, is Jewish himself. Eric Early, a...
One in seven Bnei Brak residents has been infected with the coronavirus, according to a new antibody survey, prompting some experts to say it is...
In this remarkable shiur, the rabbi consolidates ideas from recent lectures making the powerful case for the trajectory of history moving evermore...
ATHENS, Greece — A prosecutor on Monday recommended that all former lawmakers of Greece’s extreme-right Golden Dawn party who have been convicted...
LONDON (AP) — The chair of Britain’s Hay literary festival said Sunday the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festival’s...
PARIS (AFP) — French police on Monday launched a series of raids targeting Islamist networks three days after the beheading of a history teacher...
In her semi-autobiographical book, Postcards from the Edge , the late Carrie Fisher gives us a window into the punishing repercussions of drug...
Jam-packed with anger, frustration, and mutual abhorrence avidly cultivated over weeks of closure, the residents of the State of Israel are...
One of the most sensational trials in American history got underway in Chicago on September 26, 1969 and dragged on for 151 days. It was...
The beginning of Israel’s exit from its second lockdown has been beyond chaotic. Even if adjustments are made in the next few days, it would be...
Recently Donald Trump said the following: If I lose the election “maybe I’ll have to leave the country”. Was this simply a slip of tongue? Was...
Tech2Peace, a grassroots NGO that brings together Israelis and Palestinians together for training in tech and for promoting peace and coexistence,...
With the end of the first month of the Jewish calendar, you can feel new beginnings in the air. Last week, the Israeli cabinet voted unanimously in...
My mom calls it blah blahing. The four hours I spend each day talking on my cell phone. My husband says that the subtext of my life has been my...
Ministers on Monday voted to ease lockdown measures in a northern ultra-Orthodox town in line with most of the rest of the country — measures that...
Recent behind-the-scenes developments between Israel and Arab countries in the Middle East once again demonstrate how diplomacy and secret...
I would like nothing better than to believe that, after the disaster unfolding daily before our eyes in open Haredi establishment rebellion against...
My Weekly D’var Torah 24 October 2020 : Parasha Noach נח …. Gd grows up! When we think of Noah we, for obvious reasons, think of the great...
Chag Sameach! Shmini Atzeret is an unusual holiday. It may feel like a part of Sukkot – in the same way that the last two days of Pesach, at least...
Cyberangels of Peace fly from the Israel Museum to the Bahrain Museum of Contemporary Art I am launching Rembrandt-inspired cyberangels of peace on...
A few weeks ago, I implemented #Challenge18 – 18 days of Sustainability & Leadership Challenge. Following the virality of this move, and in...
There are two wicked trends commonly implemented in the divorce process. It behooves us to find a way to wipe them out of existence. The first is...
Protests took place in major cities across the world on October 1 – China’s National Day – to highlight the repressive activities of the...
As normalization sweeps the Gulf, Israeli anti-occupation activists advocating for Palestinian rights face a new fight for relevance and influence...
If you are anything like me, you’ll have been losing copious amounts of sleep worrying that the content warning for racism that Disney runs...
The national tally of active coronavirus cases dipped below 30,000 on Monday morning for the first time since September 8, according to figures...
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein admitted that authorities were falling short in their mission to keep schools from operating in ultra-Orthodox...
They say from every crisis, a lesson can be learned and undoubtedly, the coronavirus pandemic – a global crisis the likes of which has not been...
Despite all odds, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), the party of former President Evo Morales, appears to have won Bolivia’s election outright in...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s developments as they unfold. The United Nations says it will stockpile one billion syringes around...
AP — An Israeli man hospitalized with the coronavirus has been granted the rare chance to take part in his son’s wedding after the Jerusalem...
Even as the Knesset voted to approve historic normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday night, an economic...
JTA — US Jewish voters are set to vote 75 percent to 22% for Joe Biden, according to a poll by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) published...
Israel’s education system could be forced to shut down soon after its reopening if the country has a bad flu season, according to a senior doctor....
The U.S. president himself just supplied what may be the best argument for making the effort to vote this time. Against him
The future that the US has planned for Palestine is already determined, no matter whether President Donald Trump is re-elected or Joe Biden...
Rent-seeking policies end up slashing disposable income and capping demand
A Russian fighter jet reportedly came with a mile of an Israeli passenger aircraft before being warned off by Cypriot air controllers, the Ynet...
Chinese companies have tended to conduct investments in Southeast Asia through subsidiaries in Singapore, leveraging the city state’s advantage as...
Likud MK David Amsalem, the cabinet minister in charge of digital services, was angry on Saturday night. “Guess which privileged public shows...
Media reports on ultra-Orthodox Jews often describe them as a cohesive community with homogeneous religious practices, voting patterns, and...
Public support is crucial for any agreement between Japan and the United States on Tokyo’s financial contribution to the U.S. forces stationed here,...
From time to time in late autumn, people spot circular heaps of woven branches left on tree trunks. They are handcrafted by wild bears. As they...
By Tong Kim While North Korea's nuclear arsenal is being advanced, South Korea struggles to keep the cohesion of its alliance with the United...
Vladimir Putin has long sought to portray himself as strong statesman and guarantor of stability, at home and abroad. Now the Russian president is...
The leader of the fight against the coronavirus urged decision-makers Monday to not rush the opening of schools, warning that pupils could bring...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday brushed off surging support in the polls for his right-wing rival Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party,...
Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu reportedly wants to ease lockdown restrictions in several ultra-Orthodox areas that were previously flagged as...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran recorded its worst day of new deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with 337 confirmed dead on Monday. The...
Fresh Paint, known as Israel’s largest art and design fair, will launch digitally on October 28, after being postponed from its usual slot in the...
I know how Trumpian that title sounds. Believe me, it’s not! Giving all due respect to the scourge is what we do, the man and I, and what we’ve...
What a stupid question! But, wait, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, seems to think so. He told a group of European lawmakers...
Suga deserves criticism for sending offering to shrine Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has infuriated South Korea and China again, this time...
Time-worn labor laws should be revised to boost job creation The country's unemployment situation is getting worse, increasingly being affected by...
Time-worn labor laws should be revised to boost job creation The country's unemployment situation is getting worse, increasingly being affected by...
The pandemic has prompted European citizens to accept changes in social behavior that would have seemed impossible only a year ago. People have...
LONDON – With the global trading system under severe pressure, international cooperation to strengthen a rules-based order is vital. Now, perhaps...
Despite a 1994 ceasefire and 28 years of diplomatic efforts led by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group,...
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh is neither eternal, nor based on ancient hatreds. The two peoples lived together...
By Michael Bergmann Watching the opening debate between former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and his opponent was painful. Even more upsetting...
By Dick Polman Maybe you remember this Trump gem from 2016: "I think (Hillary) was out there with classified information. She was giving it to...
We have lived to see Arabs enter Al-Aqsa Mosque under Israeli protection. It is shameful. Is there any real difference between an Arab delegation...
An overarching “Taiwan problem” continues to gravitate toward the center of the entire system of relations between the two leading world powers,...
While the Abraham Accords may have made Israel a friend of the UAE and Bahrain, kicking off a ‘peace process’ that may ultimately include other...
Just over a week into protests to dissolve Nigeria’s notorious special anti-robbery squad (SARS), Nigerian demonstrators have vowed on social media...
Dva prizora iz filma bosanske režiserke Jasmile Žbanić Quo vadis Aida?, ki so ga premierno prikazali na letošnjem festivalu v Benetkah, se...
Is there a foolproof way to announce our existence to other intelligent life-forms? It’s a brainteaser with vast potential consequences, and one...
To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2020 in October, Israeli women’s weekly magazine LaIsha is featuring performing artist Eylon Nuphar, a...
The story of the Tower of Babel is an etiological story brought, in part, to explain why people are spread throughout the world and why it is that...
In all the places we can choose Poor Finland has but 1500 Jews. 1200 in Helsinki, 200 in Turku, but those who like fresh air Will settle with the...
Embed from Getty Images “Turn toward the high-quality ones.” Today’s Daf Yomi discussion of interconnected households extends the considerations...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — US President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden went on offense Sunday, with each campaigning in states they are trying...
WILMINGTON, Delaware (AFP) — A rosary around his wrist, Joe Biden often speaks of the great comfort his Catholic faith has brought him in...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has pushed nearly all Middle East nations into the throes of an economic recession...
Having watched most of the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett I am impressed by her credentials, scholarship and that she is an...
In these difficult times, Israel finds itself facing a fresh scandal on an almost daily basis. The latest was the bold statement made by the...
There are currently around fifty countries in the world that are ruled by a dictator. The unfortunate citizens of these countries have little, or...
Margaret Atwood has always been a strong critic of repression of speech. She and New Yorker magazine editor Jia Tolentino talked about this...
Leah, a former client who has been grumbling for months about her daughters not paying enough attention to her, “especially now that I am stuck...
Random reader: You may or may not believe this, but I, the faithful collator of this work of uncategorizable literature, most ardently wish that I...
Telepsychology, sometimes called Telemedicine, has exponentially grown as a way to get psychotherapy since the onset of COVID-19. In fact, more...
In this remarkable shiur, the rabbi consolidates ideas from recent lectures making the powerful case for the trajectory of history moving evermore...
The first decision you need to make is determining which business entity you will use because the type of business structure you choose determines...
The public outrage following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbury earlier this year flooded bookstores in the United...
Washington – It’s been a month and a half since Shinzo Abe’s abrupt resignation, and Washington’s attention quickly shifted to successor...
TEL AVIV – When the Jewish new year began late last month, Israel was enduring its second nationwide lockdown, after daily per capita COVID-19...
A politician who has just suffered an electoral drubbing, lost his seat, his future and his direction in life is someone many media experts would...
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Monday announced that there would not be a criminal probe into Environmental Protection Minister Gila...
Commentary. This is the true face of our Europe: rich and powerful, but increasingly selfish, closed in on itself and intent on building walls....
On 13 October 2020 the directors of NASA and seven other national space agencies signed the Artemis Accords, a document purporting to articulate...
The Israel Defense Forces is not fully prepared to handle and operate during a chemical weapons attack, according to a state comptroller report...
NEW YORK (AP) — After entire nations were shut down during the first surge of the coronavirus earlier this year, some countries and US states are...
It has been announced that Ben Gurion Airport will be reopened as part of the loosening of Lockdown 2.0. While I welcome the decision, I feel...
A merchant once sold a barrel of wine with oil floating on top. The purchaser believed that it was a barrel of oil, and invited guests to share...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Central African Republic (CAR), a former French colony based on an exploitative divide-and-rule system, is a textbook example...
BERKELEY – The US recovery is losing momentum. Job growth is slowing, the economy is still down 10.7 million jobs since February, and 36% of...
Speculation that China may be seeking to lower the temperature in its fractious dealings with Australia appears to be premature. This follows...
LONDON – An old Zen Buddhist saying cautions, “Do not mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon.” By focusing too much on the means,...
A US-based former Olympic swimming medalist secretly escaped Israel last week after testing positive for COVID-19, breaking the law and resulting...
Writing these Monday columns, I have the feeling of living a Groundhog Day over and over. When the meaningless action for the sake of action...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, the largest American Jewish weekly west of New York, has ceased print production as of its...
The Israel Defense Forces put up a series of barricades on highways and roads near the southern Gaza Strip on Monday as it performed an unspecified...
Israel’s decision-makers are not listening to expert advice on the health crisis, a veteran of several Knesset sessions has charged, accusing...
When Amsterdam’s Liberal Jewish community moved into a modern new synagogue in the southern part of the city in 2004, tensions between Dutch Jews...
Whoever wins the 2020 election will be immediately confronted with a full plate of thorny political issues, from impossible national debt to...
WACKY RACESIf politics wasn’t racy enough right now with a space race, an arms race and a tech race taking place between the Chinese and the...
Several lawmakers on Sunday condemned a decision to admit senior PLO official Saeb Erekat to a Jerusalem hospital for COVID-19 treatment, saying...
The irrelevance of Soft Power stems not from its theoretical dimension, but from a changing global landscape. The 21st century will be...
I write this as an Emirati who has been following, studying, and researching political and strategic issues for years. Based on my daily...
Suddenly and without prior notice, Nabih Berri announced recently that Lebanon and Israel have reached an agreement under American auspices to...
Two women were found dead at their homes on Monday in suspected murders by their partners. In the southern city of Beersheba, police were called to...
The Health Ministry has sent the Education Ministry its guidelines for reopening schools after the country’s second national lockdown, sparking...
NovaQuest Capital Management LLC, an investor in life sciences and healthcare, said Monday it has invested $20 million in Israeli biopharmaceutical...
Rev. Dr. Gary Mason knows what it means to advocate for peace and reconciliation. He’s been doing it for years in Northern Ireland through his ...
In a few days, Jewish-Americans are going to take part in an inexplicable assault on themselves—their culture and heritage, their religion and...
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat was downgraded to critical condition Monday morning at a Jerusalem hospital where he was moved for treatment...
A flight lauded as the first commercial shuttle from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed at Ben-Gurion airport Monday morning, a hopeful...
US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has begun manufacturing hundreds of thousands of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine ahead of its expected approval next...
The father of a student and the head of an Islamist pro-Hamas group urged the killing of a French teacher who was beheaded for showing pupils...
Trump llegó al gobierno con un discurso de aristas autoritarias. Por ejemplo, cuando dijo de Xi Jinping que “es ahora presidente vitalicio, (…) y...
The number of Holocaust survivors in Israel requiring financial assistance has risen in recent years, according to a report released by the...
Last thing the country needs is business as usual
The world faces the very real prospect of a nuclear war. That this can be said after a century of world and regional wars, most of them begun or...
JTA — The de facto leader of a disputed region claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan accused Israel of assisting in a genocide against his people....
LONDON, UK — Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to build the first cellular communications network on the moon. The Finnish telecommunications...
I’m sitting at my desk writing letters to strangers in Florida, explaining why I vote. I’m not telling them whom they should vote for, just...
There is a distinct number of Members of Knesset who will jump at every chance to spew their hatred for one group or person or the other. The...
In my New Jersey day school’s 5th grade religious studies class, Rabbi W. always kept our attention, mostly through an energized flow of bible...
There was a reality show where women went to places like the bathroom or the shower or a cafe and ended up giving birth, when they didn’t even...
For too many, 2020 has been an a nnus horribilis , filed with pain, disease, and heartbreak. The coronavirus has killed more than a million the...
Last Sunday, I opened my phone to see a notification that my friend from midrasha had suddenly lost her father to corona. I watched the funeral via...
By Jason Lim The Korea Society's Annual Gala Dinner held Oct. 7 was the organization's premier event of the year, held to mark the U.S.-Korea...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the alternate prime minister, was briefly hospitalized Sunday morning after “not feeling well,” his office said in...
The Employment Service announced on Sunday that over 260,000 people were added to the unemployment rolls over the past month — since the Jewish...
Three writers, Scott Burns, Amitav Ghosh, and Elizabeth Kolbert will discuss on October 20 how the art of storytelling has failed to take on the...
Back in April 2016, the Wall Street Journal published an interesting article entitled “CERN Is Seeking Secrets of the Universe, or Maybe Opening...
When Vice President Joe Biden landed in Israel in 2010, he was greeted by the announcement of plans to build 1,600 housing units for Jewish...
I'm so tired of struggling. You know, I was doing well for a really long time. I was happy. Every day. And this happens, every couple years, where...
Donald Trump’s personality is inseparable from his policies. Our Republican friends want us to think of Trump as a lovable bigot who means well,...
Without meaning any offence in any form to the good people of Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, the suggestion that, after 45 years of EU membership,...
PARIS, France (AFP) — Millions of Europeans faced tough new coronavirus restrictions on Saturday as governments stepped up efforts to slow a surge...
More than 200 Israeli startups are expected to participate in a virtual conference later this month in a bid to lead European companies to greater...
The first conference of the “Popular Initiative for Normalization with Israel” was held today in Khartoum, in another sign that the Sudanese...
CONFLAN-SAINTE-HONORINE, France (AFP) — Thousands of people across France are expected to join rallies Sunday in a show of solidarity and...
JTA — It wasn’t until I started converting to Judaism that I realized that anti-Semitism is very much alive and well — and it’s only getting...
Was that headline too aggressive for you? Trust me, I’m beyond caring. It took Israel five months to hit 1,000 fatalities. Then five weeks to hit...
By Robert Skidelsky LONDON ― On Oct. 6, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a tweet claiming that the common flu sometimes kills "over 100,000"...
Steven L. Shields I am an American. I am a Christian. I am a Democrat. I am voting for the Democratic Party candidates in the election this fall....
Over the coming decade, Japan will get economic tailwinds from a force never before experienced in economic history anywhere on this scale: the...
Economists like to think of themselves as mathematicians — or, if feeling momentarily humbler, as physicists. This year’s winners of the Nobel...
By Kim Ae-ran Talking much about the countermeasures for the pandemic, some religious leaders point out the importance of living in brotherhood or...
Red paint covers a statue of Christopher Columbus on Oct. 14, 2019, in Providence, Rhode Island, after the statue was vandalized on the day named...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected the notion that political considerations played a part in the drawing up of an exit plan from...
The standoff taking place in the Eastern Mediterranean, despite attempts on the part of the international community to reduce its intensity, is...
Reportage. The difference between the Libyan camps and the smugglers is hope. The boss knows this well, and in order to keep it alive, he uses a...
1. Spelunking with the Haredim: There are a few ways to look at Israel’s opening gambol out of a month-long nationwide lockdown, and specifically...
In a major victory for environmental activists, and particularly for the organization Adam Teva V’Din, which has lead a years-long campaign,...
The government decided on Sunday to set a goal for women to fill half of the country’s senior civil service positions within two years, and to...
In a recent article that I wrote, I went over the results of a US survey made with the millennials and Gen Z community. The results were...
Attached is a statement from the Office of Rabbi Sacks. A text version can be read on the thread below. pic.twitter.com/cNUYKDDdQr — Rabbi Sacks...
“And it came to pass, when men multiplied on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them…” ויהי כי החל האדם לרב על...
Did you think that your thoughts build or ruin the world around you? They do; they are our desire’s “brain” that designs the world we live in....
Last week, I urged Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives to re-impeach President Trump on newly documented corruption charges. I...
“Let us make a name for ourselves,” was the motto of the building campaign for the tower of Babel. It was several hundred years after the great...
I invite you to join me for an unusual and extraordinary theater experience. As we enter the room, there are no house lights, no playbills. ...
New mobility venture should not repeat Tada failure SK Telecom said Friday that it would jump into the domestic mobility service market by forming...
Japan should not dump irradiated water into sea Japan is likely to release contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
Trump has proven to be an unreliable, moody, short-sighted and overly transactional ally for India. On critical issues like China and Iran, trade...
I had just signed off my radio show on Kol Yisrael-English. It was 12:45 pm on Friday, October 14, 2016. On any Friday, I’d be rushing off after...
In Nottingham, where I live, people are angry and upset by the recent restrictions that have seen the city and the surrounding county placed into...
MK Ayman Odeh, head of the majority-Arab Joint List Knesset faction, has said Israel’s normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and...
Japan occupies an unusual space in the global imagination. At once a futuristic nation of innovation and robotics, and simultaneously, for those on...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen. CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have released a comedian, who was working for...
After axing its Fulbright exchange programme with China in July, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now wants the China government-run Confucius...
Outside of the Jewish town Yitzhar, a red warning sign was put up and quickly taken down last week. On the sign was a warning to Arabs. The sign...
Thousands of people rallied in central Paris Sunday in a defiant show of solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the...
Blue and White has reportedly warned that should the dysfunction in the coalition continue and a state budget for 2021 fail to advance in the...
Fewer coronavirus headlines? Yes please! argues DW's Cristina Burack. The situation is too serious to risk the information we really need getting...
What: Israel and Hamas conduct a prisoner exchange following the Gilad Shalit deal struck a week earlier, releasing over 1,000 Palestinian...
A woman holds a sign at the Unity March Against Racism in Chicago, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. AP By Scott Shepherd Racial tensions in America are...
Almost one-quarter of Israeli university students are considering quitting their academic studies due to financial stress, with over half having...
Defying the law, a leading ultra-Orthodox legislator told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the community would not agree to close down...
Interview. Philosopher and economist Philippe Van Parijs is one of the leading basic income theorists in the world. We spoke with him about the ‘...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The latest première at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A decade-long UN arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired...
Most of what’s appeared in the media leading up to the Zionist Congress convening this week has to do with the intrigue of negotiations revolving...
It is Not Good for Persons to be Alone – Fully Accepting LGBTQ Jews As much of the western world has come to better understand human sexuality,...
In the past decade, the proliferation of new infrastructure and connectivity projects the Indo-Pacific region has resembled Jagdish Baghwati’s 1995...
Israel and Bahrain on Sunday formally declared that they have made peace and have established formal diplomatic relations, only the fourth such...
New Jersey’s Holy Name Medical Center is joining forces with Israel’s Sheba Medical Center to develop new solutions in digital health and...
MUSKEGON, Michigan (AFP) — US President Donald Trump campaigned at a frenetic pace Saturday in a three-state trip that started with a Michigan...
Earlier this week, the American public watched carefully the congressional hearings of President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Amy...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed Sunday to enable 28 weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi and Dubai, following the normalization...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday vowed to take “whatever measures necessary” to prevent Iran from purchasing weapons after a United Nations...
“Normalization” is possibly the most understated word to describe the seismic changes triggered by the signings of the Abraham Accords. Israel,...
I am a proud General Zionist. A General Zionist? What is that? We are an international group of Zionists who believe that the World Zionist...
Horrendous calamities can bring clarity to things that in normal times can be fudged. The corona crisis, from the beginning but especially in its...
Back in the naive days of March, when lockdowns were starting to begin in earnest in most of the country, many of us were hopeful that after...
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox elementary schools with tens of thousands of students opened Sunday morning in open defiance of government restrictions....
US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun’s visit to Dhaka this past week was seen as part of Washington’s attempt to raise its visibility in...
Israel began to emerge Sunday from its month-long coronavirus lockdown, the second this year. As of Sunday, Israelis can once again travel more...
Fewer than 400 new coronavirus cases were confirmed Saturday in the country, the lowest figure in months, as Israel’s second COVID-19 wave appeared...
The indefinite postponement of a major retrospective to honour the Jewish artist Philip Guston has sparked fury in the art world. The exhibition,...
Authorities in New York ordered the cancellation of a wedding that could have brought together more than 10,000 people in violation of rules to...
Senior Palestinian Liberation Organization official Saeb Erekat, who was recently diagnosed with COVID-19, is reportedly being taken to Hadassah...
A joint US-Israel delegation is headed to Bahrain Sunday morning to sign a series of bilateral agreements between Jerusalem and Manama, including a...
For months, experts have repeatedly told us that no one is safe from coronavirus until we are all safe. If that is true, we should be going all out...
A joint US-Israeli delegation arrived in Bahrain Sunday afternoon to sign a series of bilateral agreements between Jerusalem and Manama, including...
Ten, kto videl vyčíňanie vagabundov vydávajúcich sa za športových fanúšikov, musel byť v šoku. Z tej luzy išiel strach. Oni...
Criticizing the monarchy was not a factor during previous periods of social unrest
O tomto vo svete bezprecedentnom akte sa tajne radil s najbližším okruhom ľudí. Dokonca sa o tom neunúval informovať ani hlavu štátu....
With the easing of the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, Israelis are expected to once again converge on the country’s beaches and national parks....
Embed from Getty Images “An heir is like his father’s foot.” The discussion continues (and continues) on renouncing rights to a courtyard for...
Israeli actress and former Miss Israel Gal Gadot recently announced that she will portray Cleopatra in a forthcoming Paramount Pictures movie. In a...
בסייד Thomas Friedman and I both graduated from St. Louis Park High School, four years apart, with the year I graduated, 1967, and our suburb,...
A wealthy individual once took a business trip with his assistant, leaving his pregnant wife at home. While overseas, the businessman died. The...
You are a film wizard; Capable of black magic. With your fingertips, You have the power to distort. With your postmodern spells, And your...
Following the signing of the Abraham Peace Accords, the new business horizons opening between Israel and the UAE have been the subject of countless...
Crisis is an opportunity for innovation. How can your business make the best of this situation and come out stronger than ever? As the economy...
Happy end of the lockdown! Another one is behind us! Now can we also, please, stop zooming before turning into zo(o)mbies? So we can go out of...
At a weekend rally in Michigan, President Trump sarcastically intoned the name of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the woman who had the audacity to...
Most Israelis believe political considerations are the leading factor in the government decision-making process as it seeks to bring the country...
Three advisers to the government’s coronavirus czar, Ronni Gamzu, have threatened to resign in outrage over the illegal opening of hundreds of...
MONACO (JTA) — This tiny wealthy country on France’s southeastern coast is famous for its beautiful beaches, coastal mansions, and splendid...
Max Kruse started for Union Berlin against Schalke on Sunday, despite breaching the DFL's (German Football League) hygiene protocol. Failing to...
What a long strange trip it’s been. Sunday, Israel’s environmental minister Gila Gamliel finally completed an important regulatory mission for...
The state prosecution told the High Court of Justice on Sunday that it believes there is no justification to open a criminal probe into Prime...
Japanese management gurus are big on the benefits of communication. A major reason Japanese companies have so many meetings, after-hours drinking...
The Israeli Left – which in this environment points an amorphous, yet large sector of the public who wish for peace through dialogue and call for...
It is not the first time that Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a leading halachic authority in the Israeli charedi community, has issued rulings that their...
In a very recent question, Donald Trump asked “What would I do if I lose the election?” and one of his own replies stunned the American public’s...
Whatever you think of Candidate for VP, Kamala Harris, she was interrupted 11 times to Mike Pence’s five during their debate. Again, no matter...
Following the fateful story of the Garden of Eden, “Hashem, God, made for Adam and his wife, leather garments, and he clothed them.” What is...
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