Halt to flu vaccines

Respond to wake-up call thoroughly The government's free influenza inoculation scheme for 19 million people was suddenly halted Tuesday, after 5...

A Message of Incitement

Proposal for end-of-war declaration

NK, international society should cooperate for peace President Moon Jae-in called for a declaration to the end of the Korea War in a prerecorded...

Which non-violent revolutions will succeed?

By Gwynne Dyer The old calculation was simple and brutal: if you want to overthrow a tyrant, you must use violence. There was an occasional...

Haaretz Cartoon

A better way to help Californians survive wildfires

Firestorms in the West have grown bigger and more destructive in recent years _ and harder to escape. Massive and frenzied, they have overtaken...

Reopening peace factory

By Javier Solana MADRID ― The Sperry Corporation was an American manufacturer of electronic components, information-technology equipment, and...

Coal’s last refuge crumbles with China’s renewables plan

Coal-fired power has been dying everywhere except where it poses the greatest threat. Draw a line down the world around the longitude of the Nile....

It’s time for Palestinians to make their own peace plan

Palestinians are understandably furious at the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for agreeing to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel, but it...

Blacklisting U.S. tech would highlight China’s own weakness

Plans by China to draw up a blacklist of U.S. technology firms might sound great to hardliners as a retaliatory measure against Washington, but...

Samsung, with or without union

By Choi Sung-no Samsung has not allowed any form of union under its roof for 81 years ever since its establishment. It is Samsung's so-called "No...

'Nostalgia'

By Choe Chong-dae Whenever I visit my hometown, it reminds me of the poem "Nostalgia" written by Jeong Ji-yong. Born in Okcheon, North Chungcheong...

Morbidly obtuse: What the press is saying on September 23

1. Infections mushroom: As of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Health Ministry’s coronavirus dashboard, a frustratingly opaque yet singular source for...

The Monster of Melbourne

Six years and seventy-one court hearings and trials, Malka the monster of Melbourne is being prepared for her over-due extradition from Israel to...

The ‘cli-fi’ backlist is now hundreds of novels deep worldwide in 10 languages

Cli-fi shifts readers’ beliefs, but not for long, according to the first empirical test of the effects of reading ”cli-fi,” in which researchers...

Yom Kippur: The Handkerchief at the Train Station

There is a famous folktale about a young man who was traveling on the train through the countryside .  The person sitting next to the young man...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Ultimate Pragmatist

Most commentators eulogize the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her dissenting opinions, rather than for her true legacy. In...

G-d’s Master Plan – XXXVI – A Tribute To RBG – ‘All I Ask Of Our Brethren Is That They Take Their Feet Off Our Necks’

בסייד Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a champion of women’s rights and spent her whole life fighting for what she knew was...

Why Close Synagogues?

One devastating by product of the virus in my opinion has been the controversial role which the synagogue has played in the fight against the...

Recollections of the Yom Kippur War

What would we do without wars there would be fewer casualties of soldiers in the field, but not as many as those killed on our roads! So today on...

Physics of Tzimtzum II—Collapse of the Wave Function

In the previous post “Physics of Tzimtzum I—The Quantum Leap”, we gave a general overview of the mystical doctrine of tzimtzum—the cornerstone...

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

United. The first known use of ‘united’ was around 1552. The dictionary tells us that it means being in agreement. As the world tries to unite...

To Friends Who Are Parents

What some of you now experience for the first time is the other end from what I experienced basically every day from the time I was 8 until I was...

Follow The Money And Then Run From It With Herschel Walker

Usually I lace my blogs with dry humor, and I’ve tried for this one…I‘ve really tried. The problem is that, despite my wishes that it weren’t...

For the Palestinians, a Time of Reckoning

The old adage says that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. For decades, their maximalist intransigence has led them...

Fervent Wishes

Democrats are turning the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg into Evita. Within hours of Justice Ginsburg’s demise on...

Cancer patients may have heightened COVID-fighting ability – Israeli scientists

Cancer patients, treated as an “at-risk” group throughout the pandemic, may actually have a heightened ability to fight the coronavirus, according...

Gonzo Judaism

Over the past few weeks, Israelis have watched as the country has gone from a staggeringly high coronavirus case number, around 2,000 just a few...

(POGLED) Arabska izdaja Palestine

Običajno je, da države, ki imajo velika nesoglasja, kljub temu ohranjajo diplomatske in trgovinske odnose. A obstajajo tudi okoliščine, ki tega...

Think you’re no good at judging others’ emotions? Join the club

Author Ramo Nakajima (1952-2004) gave tongue-in-cheek answers to questions from readers in “Akarui Nayami Sodanshitsu” (Upbeat counseling room...

Is Dahlan really being lined up by the US to replace Abbas?

The Palestinian Authority was not pleased to hear US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman tell Israel Hayom that Washington is considering Mohammed...

Settlers suspected of attacking police at flashpoint settlement

The tires of a police vehicle were slashed overnight Tuesday during operations in the flashpoint West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, police said, just...

Top Israeli officials head to Bahrain to hammer out peace treaty

A delegation of Israeli officials flew to Bahrain on Wednesday for talks meant to hammer out the details of the two countries’ formal peace...

GOP Senate candidate defends controversial Ginsburg abortion meme

DOVER, Delaware (AP) — Republican US Senate candidate Lauren Witzke on Tuesday defended a controversial meme in a Facebook post by her campaign...

Jerusalem, Rome finalize defense trade: Italian choppers for Israeli missiles

Israel and Italy finalized a major exchange of military hardware on Wednesday in which Jerusalem agreed to sell Spike anti-tank guided missiles and...

The two-way street of that sexy shofar

When we pray, we talk to G^d. The verb to pray in Hebrew is reflexive. While it’s obvious that G^d hears our prayers, it’s crucial that we...

How Erdogan's Turkey Has Failed the Palestinians

China Is Paying a High Price for Provoking India

NEW DELHI – China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently declared that aggression and expansionism have never been in the Chinese nation’s...

Avoiding a ‘climate lockdown’

LONDON – As COVID-19 spread earlier this year, governments introduced lockdowns in order to prevent a public-health emergency from spinning out...

Europe’s Digital Emergency

STOCKHOLM – EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered an upbeat assessment in her first annual policy report (“state of the union”...

Celebrating 75 years of the United Nations

NEW YORK – As the United Nations marks its 75th anniversary, the world is in turmoil. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in nearly one million...

Opinion — The Unintended Consequences of Foreign Aid Bypass

Many scholars and policy makers alike agree that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are powerful actors in international relations. Larger...

Online platforms urged to remove French rapper’s songs on Hitler, Jews and money

JTA — France’s oldest anti-racism watchdog group called on internet giants to remove from their platforms newly released hit rap songs that...

Navalny released from hospital after 32 days, doctors say full recovery possible

BERLIN (AP) — The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning said Wednesday that his condition improved...

Our broken-hearted planet (Daf Yomi 45)

Embed from Getty Images “The entire world drinks from the waters of the ocean.” Today’s Daf Yomi text continues the discussion on walking...

Florida to offer license plate that shows support for Israel

JTA — Florida drivers can now show their support for Israel on their license plates. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation that authorizes the...

[VIDEO] U’Netaneh Tokef: Living Our Prayers (Yom Kippur)

TRANSCRIPT With all that is happening around the world, the prayer that continues to hold more meaning for me than any other is U’Netaneh Tokef,...

Three steps forward for Abraham Accords’ West Bank detractors

Last week’s historic Abraham Accords were nothing short of a diplomatic earthquake that has already begun to reshape the Middle East’s...

Ringing in the New Year solo

When I made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) last week with Nefesh B’Nefesh, I knew I was going to have to spend the high holidays isolated in...