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Cabinet okays Kobi Shabtai as permanent police chief, a job unfilled for 2 years

Cabinet ministers on Sunday approved Kobi Shabtai’s appointment as police commissioner, after the position remained without a permanent appointee...

New US Agenda for Central America

By Daniel F. Runde WASHINGTON, DC ― Most undocumented migrants crossing the United States' southern border come from three small countries: El...

K-Critical Realism

By David Tizzard K-culture is differentiated from Korean culture in a variety of ways. The former is primarily constructed for export, and its...

Strong shekel ‘murdering us,’ exporters complain as BoI banks on buying billions

Marian Cohen, the chairman of Israel’s Mer Group, has overcome many crises in his 36 years at the tech holding firm, from rocket attacks...

Gantz accuses PM of trying to derail permit process for Palestinian construction

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of attempting to go behind his back to block his ministry’s...

Information War Dethrones US President

In the end, it was not the Russian government as anti-Russia propagandists in the West claimed but instead homegrown digital tools that brought...

Election defeat should galvanize Uganda's opposition

A vote marred by state violence and an internet shutdown saw incumbent Yoweri Museveni declared winner. It's frustrating for a young population...

Fake news jolted Kurdistan Region officials, and Kurdish Jewish leadership

This report is part of a series. For several years, the Kurdish Jewish leadership in Israel has tried to build constructively on their historic...

What poet Michael S. Harper heard in John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’

“Trane was searching for a particular tone on his horn; he had what he thought was a perfect embouchure, but his teeth hurt constantly, so he...

Is Social Media Ruining Us?

בס”ד Ain Hara… or Hurtful Words? A recent re-read of one of my favorite books – The Power of Words by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin – has gotten me...

The Dreyfus Case — a study in scapegoating

One particular image of Captain Alfred Dreyfus has stayed with me since childhood. Dreyfus is standing stiffly to attention while the officer...

The Moroccan exception should become an expectation

The decision of my country, Morocco, to engage in full diplomatic and cultural relations with the State of Israel presents the Middle East with...

Am I too worried for my son?

I’m dead-tired of the restrictions by now, they come and go – with new ones having to be learned every other day. While I do understand the...

We have not forgotten you, Mr. Wallenberg

It is quite understandable that so many words have been written about Raoul Wallenberg, one of the most heroic figures of the 20th century. At the...

Sometimes judges get it wrong

Dina kept her head down and raised just her eyes up to the dais as a hush came over the court. She tried to read the expression of the man who was...

The Key Is Unity

The old saying, “united we stand, divided we fall,” conveys a pithy truth; if we knock others down on our path to success, it catches up with us...

Tu BiShvat Seder – 5781 (Covid 19 Edition) part 3 of 5

2.Olive – זית The leader says: We now eat fruits with inedible pits. For example: dates, olives, peaches, plums, cherries. The edible parts of...

It’s the unpredictability that’s exhausting us!

It’s been months.  Hours, days, weeks, months. In fact almost a year has passed. I’m noticing that people are really worn down, Exhausted,...

On Masks, Prayer, and the Human Soul

On Friday night, January 8, 2021, for the first time in my life, I prayed to my Creator. In a vacuum it’s a strange statement to make for me because...

Top Hacks to Open a Jammed Vape Device Tank

If your vape device tank jams, are you going to smash it? Well, this could…

Čas za zamenjavo vlade. Danes rabimo neenotnost

Ena od stalnic slovenske politike je zahteva po združevanju in povezovanju nepovezanih in nasprotujočih si socialnih enot. Ta zahteva se stalno...

The 'Economic Anxiety' Lie: Trump, His Insurrection and His White Liberal Media Enablers

Amid Haredi violations, Gantz says lockdown ‘pointless’ if enforcement selective

Amid more and more reports of large-scale institutional violations of the lockdown rules in the ultra-Orthodox community, Defense Minister Benny...

Thank you, LTI

By Mark Peterson I have two reasons to offer gratitude to the LTI ― the Korean Literature Translation Institute. The first reason for appreciation...

Retrospection good for soul

By Steven L. Shields Last year was unkind on all fronts: health, the economy, politics and climate change. Friends and families have suffered from...

Redevelopment housing project

New method should help cool overheated market The government has selected eight areas in Seoul for a pilot redevelopment project by public builders...

Equitable distribution (Daf Yomi Pesachim 57)

Embed from Getty Images “And the powerful priests among them would take them by force before they could be distributed.” Today’s Daf Yomi...

Why Jews should wave the Black Lives Matter banner

Torah teaches that Black lives matter. Torah Teaches that all lives matter. This truth has resonated around the world with non-Jews and Jews who...

Collective failure: trials of Gabriel Fernandez

Part of risk and integrity is the theme of child abuse, which is one of the least attractive subjects in the public debate. A lot of the times, if...

Trump’s Hollywood ending

“I went because every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our...

Tales of our Homeland #14: To My Land

Notes and further reading: Rachel the Poet holds a place of honor in Israeli history and culture. She was a pioneering kibbutznik, and is...

Could It Happen in Israel? It Already Did!

In the aftermath of the Trump insurrectionists storming Congress, and given Israel’s deep and super-charged political cleavages, reinforced by...

Parting

Neither closing doors to inside of minds nor lengthen roads to into deep hearts. Not a falling star from a vivid memory or a journey to unknown...

France says Iran building nuclear weapons capacity

France’s Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian on Saturday said that Iran was aiming to acquire nuclear weapons capacity with its breaches of the...

With habit of ripping up records, Trump could leave a hole in US history

WASHINGTON (AP) — The public won’t see US President Donald Trump’s White House records for years, but there’s growing concern the collection...

Heavily armed man arrested in DC while trying to access inauguration area

WASHINGTON — A heavily armed man has been arrested in Washington at a security checkpoint near the US Capitol, where he tried to use a phony...

These US Orthodox women bloggers prefer not to be seen, but are very much heard

NEW YORK — Soon after its release, the new cookbook “Dinner Done: Practical Recipes For Your Busy Day” zipped to Amazon’s number one new...

Benjamin Rothschild, prominent French member of the banking family, dies at 57

JTA — Benjamin de Rothschild, a French-Jewish banker who has donated generously to Israel, including $22 million for the country’s effort to...

On 1st day in office, Biden to cancel Muslim travel ban, rejoin climate accord

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions...

Not ‘Apartheid in the West Bank.’ Apartheid

What Is Russia Hiding?

Did Stalin kill him? And why? Until Putin reveals his fate, Raoul Wallenberg is still Russia’s prisoner

Israel nears grim milestone of 4,000 coronavirus deaths

Israel on Sunday neared the grim milestone of 4,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic. The Jewish state recorded its first...

Health official: ‘No choice but to extend the lockdown for another week’

Coronavirus czar Nachman Ash said on Sunday that he believed Israel would have no choice but to extend its third national lockdown, which is...

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau tests positive for coronavirus

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau tested positive for coronavirus, it was announced on Saturday, days after he received the second dose...

Parents fume as BLM campaigners subvert America’s top high schools in the name of diversity & get ‘racist’ entrance exams scrapped

Few expected George Floyd’s killing to lead to a feud over ‘Asian privilege’. But that is the storm that has been waging at America’s top...

Free and fair elections alone cannot solve CAR’s myriad problems

Since hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, much of the...

Jews in Morocco ‘already packing their suitcases’ for direct Israel flights

CASABLANCA (AFP) — Fanny Mergui has no doubt: Moroccan Jews “are already packing their suitcases” to board direct flights to Israel after the...

Hackers attack Atlanta synagogue stream of senator-elect Warnock’s sermon

JTA — Hackers shut down an Atlanta synagogue’s live stream of Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock delivering a sermon to honor Martin Luther King Jr.,...

New Hope’s Sa’ar: If I win, Likud can join me but Netanyahu won’t be a minister

New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar said Saturday that his former party, Likud, could be “a partner” in the government he hopes to form after the...