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US Treasury removes anti-Israel UN envoy Francesca Albanese from sanctions list

US Treasury removes anti-Israel UN envoy Francesca Albanese from sanctions list

A week after federal judge nixed Trump administration’s sanctions on firebrand UN special rapporteur on free speech grounds, she is quietly taken...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

"Misbaha for a Kleptocracy": Why Iraq Chose an Oligarch and What It Means for the U.S. and Iran

“Misbaha for a Kleptocracy”: Why Iraq Chose an Oligarch and What It Means for the U.S. and Iran In the quiet backwater of Iraq’s political...

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New Eastern Outlook

Viktor Mikhin

The Genocide Industry and the People It Cannot See

Mthwakazi faces a reported death threat from a head of state. The anti-Israel genocide machinery has nothing to say. There is a genocide industry. By...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

VOX POPULI: Booker Prize winner ‘Taiwan Travelogue’ is especially timely

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

AOC, leading Dems condemn Texas candidate who said she’d put ‘Zionists’ in ICE jail

AOC, leading Dems condemn Texas candidate who said she’d put ‘Zionists’ in ICE jail

Maureen Galindo, running in Democratic primary to represent San Antonio in DC, says most ‘American Zionists’ are probably pedophiles; PAC backing...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

(POGLED) Kolumna Dejana Verčiča: Kdo vlada? Kdorkoli zmore. Za destigmatizacijo in deidiotizacijo politike

(POGLED) Kolumna Dejana Verčiča: Kdo vlada? Kdorkoli zmore. Za destigmatizacijo in deidiotizacijo politike

Politika ni bolezen demokracije. Brez politike ni mogoče usklajevati interesov, sprejemati skupnih odločitev, razporejati omejenih virov ali...

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Večer

Dejan Verčič

Iran said recovering military abilities faster than expected, producing drones again

Iran said recovering military abilities faster than expected, producing drones again

China and Russia helped Islamic Republic blow past US intelligence community predictions, sources tell CNN; Pakistani field marshal in Tehran, as...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Ambassador Leiter was right about J Street

Ambassador Leiter was right about J Street

Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter’s public condemnation of J Street this week has garnered significant attention. Citing the group’s support for...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jeremy Barras

Shavuos: Transition from Maamad to Mishkan

The concept of the *Mishkan* (Tabernacle) is frequently misunderstood as a purely functional ritual facility, a cosmic spiritual factory where...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gedalia Walls

Down an alley past police barricades, visitors throng to London’s unsettling Nova exhibition

Down an alley past police barricades, visitors throng to London’s unsettling Nova exhibition

At Wednesday’s opening of Oct. 7 memorial display, locals come to bear witness despite — and because of — security fears and a hostile climate...

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The Times of Israel

Lianne Kolirin

Shavuot, Marriage and the Together Forever Formula

The topic of marriage has become a dominant theme in this week’s holiday observance of Shavuot as well as this week’s Torah portion of Naso and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Susan Barth

Take care of you and it is not up to you

Repeat after me: MY SUCCESS IS INEVITABLE We are living in miraculous times. In the blink of an eye life happens, and all we can do is keep riding the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

Eurovision and tunnel vision

Eurovision and tunnel vision

As I watched Noam Bettan belt his way to second place in Vienna last week, I thought about the gulf between his real self and the avatar of the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lynda ben-menashe

Maps of a vanished world: The myth of containing Iran

Maps of a vanished world: The myth of containing Iran

Despite decades of maximum pressure, crippling sanctions, and diplomatic isolation, the geopolitical reality of the Middle East suggests a profound...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The Lie That Followed the Massacre

The Lie That Followed the Massacre

When Truth Becomes Optional: Israel, October 7, and the Collapse of Moral Clarity Something has shifted in the world, and not in a subtle way. It is...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

The Court That Already Disqualified the Witness

Lithuania used procedure to shield LGGRTC from review. It cannot now use the same institution as certified proof against Artur Fridman. In 2020,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

How China and U.S. navigate the Strait of Hormuz stranglehold

How China and U.S. navigate the Strait of Hormuz stranglehold

When U.S. President Donald Trump declared aboard Air Force One last week that Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed the Strait of Hormuz “must reopen,”...

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The Japan Times

Imran Khalid

The loss of home

On civilisational fatigue, multicultural universalism, and the disappearance of cultural loyalty in the Netherlands The Netherlands no longer seems to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gabrielle bartelse

Putin's Beijing Stopover and the Alliance Trump Couldn't Crack

Putin’s Beijing Stopover and the Alliance Trump Couldn’t Crack The back-to-back summits in Beijing revealed not only China’s growing diplomatic...

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New Eastern Outlook

Salman Rafi Sheikh

‘ZOG’: Antisemitic graffiti at Arsenal stadium after UK team unveils Israeli-founded sponsor

‘ZOG’: Antisemitic graffiti at Arsenal stadium after UK team unveils Israeli-founded sponsor

Vandals use ‘Zionist Occupied Government’ conspiracy theory in targeting US company Deel, founded by a French-Israeli, after soccer club clinches...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Antisemitism in Germany ‘worse than any time since the Holocaust,’ annual figures show

Antisemitism in Germany ‘worse than any time since the Holocaust,’ annual figures show

The number of attacks fell 13% in Berlin in 2025, but a ‘societal climate’ of attacks on Jews pervades in the country, government report finds

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Should We Change the Torah Reading Cycle (Again)?

What does the holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost) symbolize? There’s no clear answer because its “meaning” has undergone change over time. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Cynická obluda: Koaličný Kulový blesk

Toto bude vyžadovať obrovskú dávku neexistujúcej vzájomnej dôvery.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Shavuos: The Strength to Overcome All Challenge

Shavuos: The Strength to Overcome All Challenge

It is no secret that Jews in both Israel and around the world are facing tremendous challenges at this time. And addressing these challenges demands...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Pinny Arnon

What Counts? (Naso, Covenant & Conversation)

What Counts? (Naso, Covenant & Conversation)

This week’s sedra begins with a continuation of the census begun in last week’s – the act that gives the entire book its English name: the book...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Sacks

To be a light

What does it mean – to be a light? To illuminate the world. The spiritual and metaphysical meaning : Acting as a beacon of hope, kindness, and truth...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ayala Weinberg

Allyship won’t flirt with you from across the bar

Spanish Guy and I walked out of a bar on Valencia Street, hands brushing, almost holding. I like a guy to make the first move. The sounds of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jessica ghitis

Featured Post

Featured Post

“And it was in the days of the judging of the judges…” (Ruth 1:1) The opening words of the Book of Ruth seem merely to tell us that these events...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ilana Sober Elzufon

San Diego mosque shooters, who met online, called for genocide of Jews and Muslims

San Diego mosque shooters, who met online, called for genocide of Jews and Muslims

Holocaust-denying teens praised Hitler, called all women ‘evil,’ in violent writings; terrorists killed beloved security guard Amin Abdullah as he...

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The Times of Israel

Ap

Aloha ʻāina

Decoding ancestral knowledge Slingshots of the oceanic She never dances alone Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Please avoid the way of Ayatollahs in Israel

The article 301 of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s penal code states that if a non-Muslim kills a Muslim, the punishment will be death, but if the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ali Deilami

Enduring Jewish Roots in Greece

At the approaching holiday of Shavuot, we will read the beautiful words of Ruth, spoken after the death of her husband, to her mother-in-law, Naomi:...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gideon Taylor

Daily Briefing May 21 – Royal Commission: Antisemitism soars across Australia

Daily Briefing May 21 – Royal Commission: Antisemitism soars across Australia

Nomi Kaltmann weighs in from Melbourne on Australia’s emotional, ongoing Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion

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The Times of Israel

Nomi Kaltmann

Asymetria extrémov alebo prečo je krajná ľavica nebezpečnejšia než pravica?

Kto by chcel za suseda fašistu? U ľavičiarov to ale neprekáža...

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SME.sk

Aktuálně.cz

A Commencement Address for Us All: Shavuot 5786

This is the season of commencement addresses. Across the country, graduates are putting on caps and gowns, there is one person in the family taking...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Aaron Starr

The Option Britain Burned

On May 13, 2026, the British government used the King’s Speech to announce the Energy Independence Bill — legislation that will permanently ban...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

STVR je slúžkou vládnej moci

Vedenie vedome ponecháva politikom pocit, že relácie sú ich majetkom.

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SME.sk

Ján k. balázs

The crises caused by the Iran war will hit the world in four waves

The crises caused by the Iran war will hit the world in four waves

If tomorrow Iran, the United States and Israel were to announce a peace deal and the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen, the war would not be over. Wars...

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Al Jazeera

Umair waqas

China’s messaging is as important as its policy

China’s messaging is as important as its policy

After the first day of meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, a supporter of the U.S. president was...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

Why the Trump-Xi summit ended in an impasse

Why the Trump-Xi summit ended in an impasse

The main outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing last week was stalemate, as both men declined to...

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The Japan Times

Matthew Fulco

Trump's Beijing visit: Strategic pause in US-China relationship

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The Korea Times

Kim Won-Soo

The Myth of the Deserving Billionaire

The Myth of the Deserving Billionaire

TEMPE—In 1981, President Ronald Reagan wanted to cut funding for children’s nutrition programs as part of broader spending cuts that were billed...

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Project Syndicate

Teresa Ghilarducci

Living Alone Made Me Dangerous

Somewhere between heartbreak, solitude and survival, I stopped confusing male attention with emotional safety. At 11:43 on a Tuesday night, a married...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Talyah Ginsberg

Hviezda vlády: zo sociálneho bytu na luxusné dovolenky

Andrej Babiš sa za ministerku zatiaľ postavil.

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SME.sk

Jindřich Šídlo

The Beauty of Torah

The beauty of the Torah is not only the profound wisdom and truth contained in it, but it is also an ongoing set of laws, waiting to be uncovered. It...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Can Judaism Be Saved

Arthur Green, Can Judaism Be Saved: Its Future After Gaza (Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025) pp. 139. It seems that the Israeli election will be...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Berenbaum

Ako má Európa hovoriť s Putinom

Európa by mala byť pripravená na rokovania s Ruskom.

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SME.sk

Radovan Geist

It Will Clear

There are days when consciousness turns on itself and what it finds is not comforting. These are not feelings. They are observations. And it is that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gil Mildar

Make immigration boring

Make immigration boring The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs by...

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Aeon

Alan manning

Containing Ebola is hard. The U.S. made it worse

Containing Ebola is hard. The U.S. made it worse

A rapidly unfolding Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a reminder of the value of maintaining robust global disease surveillance and...

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The Japan Times

Lisa Jarvis