Advent of battery biz

LG Chem's spinoff battery unit should mark first step LG Chem decided to spin off its battery business in a board meeting last Thursday. The...

Good and cheap Chinese eatery in Ginza falls victim to virus crisis

Four factors--quick, cheap, tasty and plentiful--define an ideal dish for me, a person with a big appetite. This type of fare was typically served...

Staying home for Chuseok?

By David Tizzard The National Museum of Korea has created an exhibit entitled "Fighting Epidemics in the Joseon Dynasty" to provide a sense of...

Villanueva best ad for sheriff oversight

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission and Inspector Gen. Max Huntsman would have enough work on their plates if all they did...

tretji človek in/ali Tuđman 21. stoletja?

Če predpostavka, da o neki stvari največ pove njen konec, drži, potem nimamo kaj razpravljati, ko govorimo o Jugoslaviji. Država, ki je izgorela...

Failed political solutions to healthcare problems

During the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic, physician named Dr. Craig Spencer, who had recently returned to New York from treating Ebola patients in...

Zoom shul-goers: a field guide

Many shuls struggled with the question of whether to stream High Holiday services or use the interactive approach of a Zoom session in which...

Look who’s spreading Jew hatred

Like many supporters of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, Pink Floyd co-founder, Roger Waters, claims he does...

Global ‘climate clock’ poorly designed to peer into future before it’s too late

A new so-called “Climate Clock” set up in New York City behind the vision of two climate activists,  one with a new-born child in his dreams, is...

The Music of Silence

The following was given as a sermon on the first day of Rosh Hashana 5781: On a late summer day in 1952, the pianist David Tudor took the stage of...

Game of Thrones: Fire and Ice in Israel

I sometimes identify Israel’s struggle with characters from the TV series “Game of Thrones”. Specifically, Israel’s military might and...

‘Social Distancing’?! Or Physical Distancing?

A Contemporary Interpretation of The Law of Four Cubits in Judaism Since early March, one of the most ubiquitous terms has been “social...

It’s one strange, strange Rosh Hashanah!

It’s got to be the strangest Rosh Hashana you will ever experience – locked out of shule, locked-down at home. No shofar to blast you out of...

A Rosh Hashanah unlike any other

Every year I attend two days of services for Rosh Hashanah, and usually my parents and I compare notes on the sermons we heard. When I was growing...

Haaretz Cartoon

International Law and Political Necessity

LONDON – Whenever the great and the good unite in approval or condemnation of something, my impulse is to break ranks. So, I find it hard to join...

What the death of a Bollywood star says about life in Modi's India

New forms of dissent are emerging to challenge the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party

Netanyahu aide spotted appearing to break quarantine to film anti-PM protest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s social media adviser was accused of breaking quarantine after he was spotted Sunday evening scoping out a...

Jewish Education – More Crucial Today than Ever 

C.S. Lewis was almost prophetic when he wrote, “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of...

Specter of militarism

Abe's shrine visit opens wounds of war victims Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised the specter of Japan's past militarism by visiting...

The rise of Covidnomics

ITHACA, New York – Boundaries between academic disciplines are always artificial creations intended to facilitate analysis, given our limitations....

Japan-U.K. trade deal: Cheer amidst the gloom

London – Amidst continuing gloom over the pandemic and uncertainty over the post-Brexit transition, a ray of light and optimism comes shining...

Calling out youth of 1987

By Jason Lim Jang Hye-young is a first-term National Assemblywoman from the Justice Party. She was born in 1987 when South Korea overcame...

The post-pandemic recovery’s missing link is trust

PARIS – Trust will be key to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. Yet over the past ten years, people’s trust in governments,...

Registering feedback

By Seo Eun-mi I have been teaching at a tertiary school for more than three decades. Teaching is my profession which I enjoy and to which I have...

Pandemic paranoia contrasts with 9/11

By John J. Metzler Viewing the sorrowful September 11 commemorations, I was instantly transported back 19 years to the terrorist attacks on...

Witnessing Deutsche Bank's tailspin

No matter how dodgy the deal, profits are everything. That was clearly the motto at Deutsche Bank — and attempts to justify the wrongdoing...

Driver who sped toward anti-PM rally denies attack; mental fitness questioned

A lawyer for a man arrested after he accelerated his car toward anti-government protesters in Jerusalem Sunday night denied that he intended to ram...

Israel Needs A National Unity Government

No one in their right mind actually believes that we have a National Unity Government, even if Bibi and Ganz protest to the contrary. One can fling...

Alternative tourism in the time of COVID and Sky Heritage Pictures as response.

Tourism in the age of Coronavirus resembled the seven stages of grief. March was about shock and denial. Observing the next and next countries...

Popular or Unpopular

The TIMES OF ISRAEL posts, with every edition, the names of the popular bloggers. Almost always, the same names appear on the daily lists. I assume...

Should Jews try to help prevent sainthood for WW II Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII?

The RC Church is in the (lengthy) process of investigating if Pope Pius XII could be elevated to sainthood. This especially in the light of the...

11 arrested at first major anti-Netanyahu protest since start of new lockdown

Police arrested 11 anti-government demonstrators in Jerusalem on Sunday night during the first major protest since Israel started its second...

Re-Arm-ed: Nvidia’s move on UK chip giant sets up US-China tech war showdown

FROM LITTLE ACORNSFour years ago, right after the Brexit referendum in Britain, I was shocked and dismayed to learn that one of Britain’s top...

Police checkpoints jam roads as Israelis go back to work under lockdown

Israel’s roads saw major congestion Monday morning as many commuters returned to work following the holiday weekend despite a nationwide...

Honduras to move embassy to Jerusalem by end of 2020, Israel says

Honduras will move its embassy to Jerusalem this year, and Israel will open an embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, the Prime...

Court rules accused sex abuser Leifer to be extradited back to Australia

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday ruled in favor of extraditing Malka Leifer to Australia where the former ultra-Orthodox girls’ high school...

Netanyahu on Ginsburg: ‘The Jewish people will always be proud of her’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he mourned the death of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I join the American people...

Ginsburg’s impact on women spanned age groups, backgrounds

NEW YORK (AP) — Sure, there were the RBG bobbleheads, the Halloween getups, the lace collars, the workout videos. The “I dissent” T-shirts,...

Coronavirus may force Israeli tech sector out of ‘white boys club,’ VC guru says

The spread of the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the deep social disparities that have evolved in Israel over the years, and has brought to...

A Paean to Liberalism and Human Rights

Realizing Second Lockdown Ruined Their Future, Liberal Israelis Will Flee the Country

Anyone but Nafatli Bennett

Bold is better than ambitious

“Un ambitieux incapable”, thus chose to translate French official news agency AFP President Erdoğan’s flattering words about his counterpart...

Biden to Republican senators: Don’t jam through Ginsburg replacement

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Biden on Sunday slammed US President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to jam through a replacement...

How Turkey Has Failed the Palestinians

The real problem Erdogan has with the UAE and Bahrain’s normalization deals with Israel is how little Turkey now matters

The League of Shame (Part 2)

The rejection of the Palestinian draft resolution by the Arab League was not a self-inflicted coup de grâce, but rather the last nail in its...

Leak: Israel aerospace giant paid $155m to opaque firms linked to Azeri elites

Israel’s largest aerospace and aviation manufacturer transferred at least $155 million to two companies that were reportedly used as a secret...

Leifer accusers express relief at long-awaited extradition ruling

Accusers of child sex offender Malka Leifer hailed a ruling by a Jerusalem court that she should be extradited to Australia to face charges Monday,...

Mitzpe Ramon woman stable after weekend stabbing attack 

A woman who was stabbed several times Friday night in a suspected domestic abuse incident regained consciousness and was in stable condition,...