Regrettable ruling

Prosecution must do its utmost to seize ex-president's residence fully A Seoul court has put the brakes on the prosecution's move to seize former...

Confusion over Go To drive due to poor ability to communicate

The government decided Nov. 21 to scale down “Go To” state subsidy programs aimed at propping up the hospitality industry pummeled by the new...

Chinese FM's visit

Seoul, Beijing should cerement ties for peace Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi plans to visit Seoul from Nov. 25 to 27 for talks with his South...

Haaretz Cartoon

Heed CDC on holidays. Not the radiologist

In the three months since President Donald Trump made Dr. Scott Atlas ― a radiologist, not an epidemiologist or specialist in infectious diseases...

China reshaping regional order

By Andrew Hammond China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and more than 10 other Asia-Pacific countries signed on Nov. 15 the Regional Comprehensive...

Actress Yun In-ja, a flower of Korea

By Choe Chong-dae Yun In-ja (1923-2012) is better known as an actress who appeared in many films than she is for her real-life role in supporting...

Is Eric Cantona an existentialist?

The most infamous kick of the French footballer Eric Cantona’s accomplished career wasn’t a game-winning goal, but rather an airborne attack on a...

Choosing the light (Daf Yomi Pesachim 2)

Embed from Getty Images “Goodness is manifest in the sense of security one feels when it is light.” I entered the Pesachim Tractate today with...

Happiness is the Thanksgiving that’s possible

Does your family have a ‘don’t-miss it’ holiday? Ours does. It’s Thanksgiving, and we look forward to it all year. Our home has been...

Trump Is More Dangerous Now Than Ever Before

There is little doubt that US President Donald Trump is a dangerous man. Dr. Bandy Lee, the courageous Yale psychiatrist who drew the world’s...

Chapter 24: The Return

The Sabbath, a temple in time, a palace of memory. Of the heart, of soul. An historical artifact, an observance, a wormhole through Space-time. The...

Asian states divide into pro-Trump and pro-Biden camps 

The 2020 presidential election has not only divided Americans into the pro-Trump and pro-Biden camps, but this division has extended to the Asia-...

G-d’s Master Plan – LV(55) – 57th  Anniversary Of JFK’s Assassination – Investigating Lawmaker Fraud

בסייד On December 10th last year I began my Blog as follows- On December 7th this past week, John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline  christened...

Speaking Over the Jewish Community

An upcoming political event regarding discussing anti-Semitism is hosted by four controversial members, only one of which is Jewish and all of whom...

Abbas was smart to abandon Hamas prior to Biden’s arrival

When the Abraham Accords were finalized on the White House lawn in mid-September, The Palestinian Authority swiftly condemned the peace. Abbas and...

Me, my fake Facebook identity, and the future of humanity

Marc Kaufman was not surprised that 70% or more of Republican voters thought the US elections were fraudulent. Nor was he surprised when public...

Building Jewish Family Culture

At the conclusion of this week’s ECJC Conference, I sit here in awe. It was a tremendous (albeit online) conference that felt so real, that the...

Cindy’s Corners: Thanksgiving Is Just Another Shabbos Prep For Many Of Us

For many of my non-Jewish or less religious friends, Thanksgiving is a time of frustration. How can I prepare so many courses, make a table pretty,...

Who will steer our ship?

CNN’s Van Jones put it perfectly, commenting on the then just-released election results. “I can’t breathe,” he said, which were George...

Drunks and democrats

Upon arriving at a Maryland tavern in 1744, Dr Alexander Hamilton (not to be confused with the more famous secretary of the treasury) found himself...

Israel Police Are Throttling the Protests

Pakistani minister says France treating Muslims like Nazis treated Jews

A Pakistani minister compared French President Emmanuel Macron’s behavior toward Muslims to the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews during the...

Germany says Iran violating nuclear deal systematically, as European FMs meet

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s developments as they unfold. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial today on charges...

Ethiopia’s prime minister trades his Nobel Peace Prize for civil war

We may be long past holding laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize to its lofty standards — the cruel cynicism of Henry Kissinger and open bigotry of...

The EU suffered a major loss in Nagorno-Karabakh

Earlier this month Russian President Vladimir Putin huddled with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev,...

Technology is the new border enforcer, and it discriminates

Across the globe, an unprecedented number of people are on the move due to conflict, instability, environmental disasters, and poverty. As a...

The problem with ‘Hunger Games’ photographs of the Thai protests

What began as high school and university demonstrations against Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha have transformed into a fully fledged...

Markets are pricing a ‘normal’ US. Just wait for the Trump-Harris White House

VOTEBUSTERS!If you thought we would be done with the US presidential election on November 3 and you could move on from the circus, think again. It...

Israel-UK teams to use AI to help flag patients at risk for osteoporosis

Israeli startup Zebra Medical Vision and Scottish consultancy Storm ID will join forces to develop ways to detect people at risk of developing...

Germany accuses Iran of systematically breaking nuke deal, as top diplomats meet

BERLIN, Germany  — The German, French and British foreign ministers were meeting Monday to discuss the future of the international agreement on...

Trump campaign denies lawyer Powell actually representing them

WASHINGTON (AP) — Perhaps Sidney Powell has gone too far for even Rudy Giuliani this time. The Trump campaign’s legal team moved to distance...

With submarine probe, a cornered Gantz shows he’s willing to sink the coalition

Defense Minister Benny Gantz had a rollercoaster of a day Sunday. In the morning, his embarrassing deal with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Warnock and Israel: Setting the Record Straight

Control of the Senate depends on two Georgia Senate races . If Democrats win both seats on January 5, the Senate will be tied 50-50, and Kamala...

The State of America’s Disunion

MILAN/PALO ALTO – In the US presidential election this year, President-elect Joe Biden received 79.8 million (51%) votes, Donald Trump received...

Crafting a Diplomacy-First US Foreign Policy

WASHINGTON, DC – US President-elect Joe Biden has made it clear that diplomacy will be at the center of his administration’s foreign policy. Biden...

A Tale of Two Chinese Cities

SHANGHAI – On October 14, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the southern city of Shenzhen, where he delivered a speech celebrating 40 years of...

The IHRA definition will not help fight anti-Semitism

Following in the footsteps of various European and North American local and national governments, the Legislative Assembly of Canada’s Ontario...

In threat to Iran, US sends heavy bombers to Middle East via Israel

The United States this week rapidly deployed several heavy bombers to the Middle East this week in an apparent threat to Iran, amid swirling...

US House progressives urge Pompeo to decry Israel’s razing of Palestinian hamlet

NEW YORK — Forty progressive Democrats in the US House of Representatives signed a letter last week urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to...

Saudis constantly weighing normalization with Israel, visiting US official says

Saudi Arabia is constantly weighing whether to normalize relations with Israel, a senior US official visiting Israel said Sunday, arguing that the...

Bergen-Belsen: All The Horrors Of War

Hugh Llewelyn Glyn Hughes, a British army doctor, and Rachel (Ruth) Genuth, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, never met, but their paths crossed in...

It’s a matter of common decency

“The plague had swallowed up everything and everyone. No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and...

The False Messiah

Those who have tried to paint America’s 45th president as Hitler have been misguided. He’s been a wretched despot, but he has been no Adolph....

Analyzing the Palestinian’s reaction to the “Abraham Accords”

Notice: This article was created prior to The Palestinian Authority’s re-rapprochement of Israel. On September 15th, 2020 Israel and the United...

Afghanistan’s Progress Was Made Possible With International Support

Since 2001, the international community’s financial support has been the bedrock of progress in Afghanistan — delivering some of the fastest...

Enemies of the Future: Killed Students Were Upcoming Leaders

Since the Western intervention in Afghanistan, which came after decades of civil war and the dark years of the Taliban regime, Afghan children have...

Mnogo hrupa za nič: Razuzdana opozicija polemizirala z Njegovo nesvetostjo

Predstava sama po sebi ne bi bila drama, če je vlada in opozicija ter nasprotniki in navijači vlade in opozicije ne bi križem-kražem pumpali...