Blinken hosts 4-way Zoom call with Israeli, Indian and UAE foreign ministers

US Secretary of State State Antony Blinken held a Zoom meeting late Monday with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam...

The man who’s seen almost every Holocaust movie ever made has some takeaways

JTA — At least 440 narrative films have been made about the Holocaust — and Rich Brownstein has seen just about every single one of them. As a...

Stoudemire adds ‘farmer’ to list of post-NBA careers

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — On an unusually hot day in mid-October, Amar’e Stoudemire stopped by the Union Square Greenmarket to meet New...

18 Remarkable Facts of the Land of Israel

View from Mount Tavor, Lower Galilee, Israel. © Brandon Marlon Hula Nature Reserve, Hula Valley, Upper Galilee, Israel. © Brandon Marlon Brandon...

In Denying Healthcare to Asylum Seekers, Shaked Hits a New Low

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked believes her nationalist moves will make rightist voters forget that she formed a government together with the left...

(POGLED) Oprostite, grešila sem

Oprostite mi, grešila sem. Bi najbrž morala povedati, če bi podpornikom pohoda za življenje v nameri prepovedati splav uspelo. Pred tremi leti...

Speculating on 'Squid Game'

This undated photo released by Netflix shows cast members, from left, Park Hae-soo, Lee Jung-jae and Anupam Tripathi in a scene from "Squid Game."...

Duty to our ideas calls for unity and governance, not just putting up a logo

Commentary. Electoral dispersion is the greatest gift one could give to the Democratic Party: thanks to these ‘lost’ votes at the polls, the PD...

Bennett expands Green Classroom plan as COVID numbers continue to drop

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday authorized the expansion of the Green Classroom pilot program that reduces quarantine times for students...

6.0 magnitude quake hits under Mediterranean, rattling Israeli coast

An earthquake underneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea close to the island of Crete on Tuesday morning was felt in parts of central Israel and the...

Trump files lawsuit to keep Jan. 6 documents from Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former US president Donald Trump on Monday sought to block the release of documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to...

Spain’s proposed anti-Francoist law faces an uphill battle

Analysis. The new text aims to prohibit exaltations of Francoism, including the Francisco Franco Foundation, which exists for that purpose. But it...

3 more arrested over cold case murders from ’80s, ’90s tied to Hasidic cult

Police said Tuesday that they arrested three more suspects in connection with the unsolved suspected murder of a teenage boy and the murder of a...

UK Jewish toddler Alta Fixsler, 2, dies after being removed from life support

A two-year-old Jewish toddler Alta Fixsler died Monday after her life support was turned off following an extensive, but ultimately futile, legal...

Boldly Taking on God

Avraham is renowned in the Western traditions as an exemplar of faith par excellence, but Judaism places equal emphasis on Avraham’s role as an...

At 95, Mel Brooks to finally deliver ‘History of the World: Part II’

JTA — You couldn’t Torquemada it: Mel Brooks is making a sequel to “History of the World: Part I,” the 1981 revue that delighted and/or...

Amid efforts to revive diplomacy, North Korea fires ballistic missile into sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile into the sea on Tuesday in a continuation of its recent weapons tests...

 Children are the most vulnerable victims of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to have serious effects worldwide long after the crisis has passed. Pediatricians and public health experts...

Democrats Must Play Hardball with their Party’s Antisemites and Enablers

Alcoholics first acknowledge they have a disease before recovery begins.  Democrats must now do the same with antisemitism in their Party. There...

The Iran Nuclear Saga: US-Israel Hammer Out a “Plan B”

Even though the presidential candidate Joe Biden had vowed to “move quickly” to re-join the Iran nuclear deal, this has not happened. The Biden...

Man dies in fall from hot air balloon onto moving car

A man in his 20s died on Tuesday morning when he fell from a hot air balloon and landed on top of a moving car. The incident occurred on Route 60...

Haaretz Cartoon

Israel Is Approaching the Next Nakba

“You’re here by mistake, because [Israel’s first Prime Minister David] Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and throw you out in 1948,” lawmaker...

Israel, not US, has plan B on Iranian nukes

By Eli Lake It appears that President Joe Biden's administration is finally taking "no" for an answer from Iran. Since the summer, Secretary of...

It’s About Time to Kick Back Google and the Rest

It’s hardly a secret that we were happier consumers before the big boys in America propped up the most mediocre of emerging video channels. And I...

VOX POPULI: Young celebrities’ ‘#I’m voting, too’ reminds me how I wasted my vote

Japan's first Lower House election was held in 1890 amid tremendous popular enthusiasm. A cholera epidemic was raging that year, but the race was...

Washington’s Withdrawal from Syria is Inevitable

The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in August 2021 demonstrated to the international community that Washington’s sphere of influence is...

Pod okupacijo primitivcev

‘Razumemo ljudi, razumemo njihovo jezo, razumemo, da smo vsi skupaj v času vseh koronskih ukrepov siti, utrujeni, naveličani. A za tovrstne ukrepe...

Ex-Nazi death camp secretary, 96, who fled trial, to finally face court

FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who absconded before her trial was set to begin is due to appear...

CCTV footage shows suspect in slaying of British MP Amess hours before stabbing

Security camera footage emerged Monday showing the man suspected of killing a British lawmaker strolling down a London street hours before he...

Failure to reveal truth

National Assembly audit turns into political battle The National Assembly's audit of the Gyeonggi provincial government turned into a political...

Washington going too far

Demands for semiconductor info could harm Korea The Moon Jae-in administration has announced its position regarding the controversial U.S. demands...

Man gunned down in Umm al-Fahm as Arab community passes 100 homicides for year

A man was shot dead in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm on Tuesday morning, just a day after Israel passed the grim landmark of 100 murders in the...

Abraham Accords don't address Israel's most existential problem

By Trudy Rubin Just over a year ago, a deal was signed on the White House lawn between Israel and two tiny Arab Gulf countries. It was billed as a...

Using facial recognition on kids paying for school lunches is proof that Britain’s surveillance creep has gone too far

Just because we have the technology to turn an image of a face into a digital signature really doesn’t mean we should applaud the latest...

Too little, too late for climate change

By Cho Hee-kyoung With just half a year remaining until next year's presidential election, the primary races for the major political parties are in...

China poses growing threat on Taiwan

By Kim Sang-woo For many decades, Taiwan has been the most serious political-military flashpoint in U.S.-China relations, and in recent weeks and...

What makes us happy and healthy

By Shin Freedman The sixties' adage, loneliness in a crowd, has reappeared during the COVID-19 pandemic and spread of the subsequent Delta Variant....

Saturation CCTV coverage further marginalizes India's Muslims

Imperfect technology tramples upon citizens' rights

EDITORIAL: Lower House poll can help cure political woes caused by LDP

The official campaign period for the first Lower House election in four years started on Oct. 19. This general election is about choosing either...

Enough of MLK and Heschel: Israel outreach in Chicago aims to form new narrative

CHICAGO — The Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago is not exactly where one would expect to see an Israeli ambassador to the...

From Freedom of Expression to License to Incite

Twenty-six years have passed since the horrific murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The gaping wound that shook an entire nation has only grown...

Battling injustice, Gal Gadot takes Elle front cover

Israel movie star Gal Gadot has been given a place of honor on the front cover of the November issue of Elle Magazine, which is dedicated to “Women...

The Possibility of Polexit

WARSAW – After the Soviet Union collapsed, Poland’s greatest dream was to join the European Union and NATO. Scarred by Nazism and then...

Who gains from a sectarian war in Afghanistan?

The surge in atrocities comes at a challenging time for the new Taliban government which is trying to establish international recognition as the...

Israeli, German air chiefs exchange medals after Jerusalem flyover

The commanders of the Israeli and German air forces exchanged medals of appreciation this week, following a joint flyby over Jerusalem on Sunday....

An Interview With Jan-Werner Mueller