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Internal Family Systems and the Predictive Brain

Internal Family Systems and the Predictive Brain

The brain navigates the present with a map of the past. What could go wrong?

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Psychology Today

Martha Sweezy Ph.d

India Invests in Brazilian Oil: BRICS Energy Partnership Strengthens the Multipolar World

India Invests in Brazilian Oil: BRICS Energy Partnership Strengthens the Multipolar World

India Invests in Brazilian Oil: BRICS Energy Partnership Strengthens the Multipolar World Major Indian investments in Brazil’s energy sector...

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New Eastern Outlook

Phil Butler

New mental health law would change hospitalization rules. Experts say people’s rights could suffer

New mental health law would change hospitalization rules. Experts say people’s rights could suffer

The government has filed a bill aimed at reforming Argentina’s 2010 mental health law. The proposal includes a provision aimed at loosening norms...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Martina Jaureguy

Kids Can Feel AI Hurting Them, They Have to Use It Anyway

Kids Can Feel AI Hurting Them, They Have to Use It Anyway

Adults are telling children two things about AI; children try to hold both.

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Psychology Today

Timothy Cook M.ed

Humanity's Report Card: How Bad Is It, Really?

Humanity's Report Card: How Bad Is It, Really?

When humans and AI graded our species, they converged on the same diagnosis.

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Psychology Today

Mike Brooks Ph.d

From Crisis to Continuity: The Human Impact of Workplace Disruption

From Crisis to Continuity: The Human Impact of Workplace Disruption

Organizational resilience depends on people at least as much as pereparedness.

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Psychology Today

Mike Verano Lpc

How we forced Britain to face the IRGC

How we forced Britain to face the IRGC

There are moments in public life when a government finally agrees to call a thing by its proper name. Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to bring the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

What Does It Really Mean to Belong in Love?

What Does It Really Mean to Belong in Love?

Why closeness should not mean control.

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Psychology Today

Aaron Ben-Zeév Ph.d

Israel’s Most Dangerous Enemy May Be Internal

Israel’s Most Dangerous Enemy May Be Internal

The Frame That Houses Arguments: Israel’s Most Dangerous Enemy May Be Internal Jewish civilization has a trick, and Israel inherited it. The trick...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Richard Diamond

Israel sent Iron Dome and troops to help defend UAE during Iran war – report

Israel sent Iron Dome and troops to help defend UAE during Iran war – report

Move is first time the missile defense system has been deployed outside Israel and the US, according to Axios, which says UAE-Israel ties closer than...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

Daily Briefing April 26 – As both sides keep striking, is there still a Lebanon ceasefire?

Daily Briefing April 26 – As both sides keep striking, is there still a Lebanon ceasefire?

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian discusses the IDF’s readiness with regard to Iran, a fragile ceasefire with Lebanon, and two IAF technicians...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Father, six-year-old son found dead in suspected murder-suicide

Father, six-year-old son found dead in suspected murder-suicide

Officers suspect man used his father-in-law’s gun; separately, teen stabbed to death in north; police chief says cops can only do so much against...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

Cabinet approves ex-UK envoy Hotovely to lead National Public Diplomacy Directorate

Cabinet approves ex-UK envoy Hotovely to lead National Public Diplomacy Directorate

Former envoy will fill diplomacy position that has been vacant for two years; ministers also okay Doron Cohen as civil service commissioner

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

What People Remember After the Meeting Ends

Meetings are where decisions are discussed, but they are also where culture is revealed. Long after the agenda is complete, people remember whether...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Bresler

(POGLED) Kolumna Darinke Pavlič Kamien: Imamo izid, nimamo pa odgovora. Še bolj nevarno je, da se na to počasi navajamo

(POGLED) Kolumna Darinke Pavlič Kamien: Imamo izid, nimamo pa odgovora. Še bolj nevarno je, da se na to počasi navajamo

Po vsakih volitvah bi moralo biti jasno vsaj nekaj: kdo je dobil zaupanje, kdo ga je izgubil, kdo bo prevzel odgovornost in kdo bo vodil državo. Pri...

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Večer

Darinka Pavlič Kamien

Gepards for Ukraine via Elbit: Russia Can’t Fully Cut Israel Off

Gepards for Ukraine via Elbit: Russia Can’t Fully Cut Israel Off

According to Militarnyi on April 22, 2026, Belgium’s Ministry of Defense was advancing a plan to acquire 15 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexander lutsenko

Rebuffing Netanyahu’s pardon request, at least for now, Herzog calls for new plea deal talks

Rebuffing Netanyahu’s pardon request, at least for now, Herzog calls for new plea deal talks

President’s office confirms New York Times report that he wants to mediate arbitration in prime minister’s corruption trial, pitting attorney...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Strategic Silence: How Quiet Diplomacy is Reshaping Global Alliances

Strategic Silence: How Quiet Diplomacy is Reshaping Global Alliances

In global politics, what is not said often matters more than what is publicly declared. While headlines highlight summits and official speeches, the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed abdi idiris

Liberation Day, Without the Jews Who Fought For It

Liberation Day, Without the Jews Who Fought For It

In Milan, on April 25, 2026, during the celebrations for Liberation Day, a crowd screamed “siete saponette mancate” at Jews marching in the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Simone chiusa

For Israel to win in AI it must play a different game

For Israel to win in AI it must play a different game

The public image of the AI race is now a physical one: giant data centers popping up in remote farmland, utilities fielding power requests 100x larger...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jj Ben-Joseph

When “All You Need Is Love” Meets Reality

For much of the postwar era, the West operated on a quiet but powerful assumption: that shared humanity would, over time, bridge even the deepest...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe Manheim

Beyond Uranium: The Ghost of the AMIA Bombing

Beyond Uranium: The Ghost of the AMIA Bombing

The dust may have settled after the latest exchange of fire, but the silence is deceptive. The prevailing sentiment in Israel today is that the war...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Matias Sakkal

Social Support Helps Mental Health If It Matches Our Needs

Social Support Helps Mental Health If It Matches Our Needs

There is no such thing as all-purpose social support.

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Psychology Today

Mary McNaughton-Cassill Ph.d

Tunisia’s Democratic Collapse Is a Warning Washington Cannot Afford to Ignore

When the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, it was celebrated as proof that the Arab Spring had produced at...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Amine Ayoub

Hezbollah claims to have launched 2 attacks on IDF troops in south Lebanon’s Taybeh

Hezbollah claims to have launched 2 attacks on IDF troops in south Lebanon’s Taybeh

Herzog relieved Trump unharmed in ‘heinous’ shooting, Netanyahu ‘shocked by attempted assassination’ * Father and son, 6, dead in suspected...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The Theater of Mediation: Credibility Crisis in US–Iran Talks

Pakistan’s latest attempt to position itself at the center of US–Iran diplomacy is beginning to look less like statecraft and more like...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sergio Restelli

Smashing Foreheads

Smashing Foreheads

From a Russian Proverb to Piety, Performance—and Policy There is a Russian proverb that wastes no time on politeness: Now consider the phenomenon...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ivan Bassov

Indonesia–Saudi power play: Why ACWA–Danantara must move beyond the MoU

Indonesia–Saudi power play: Why ACWA–Danantara must move beyond the MoU

When ACWA Power and Danantara signed a $10 billion agreement in Jeddah, it marked more than a bilateral milestone. It signaled growing confidence...

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Middle East Monitor

Bhima Yudhistira

Jedwabne, Alabama…Both Rewriting History

Before anyone corrects my geography, please note that I am well aware that Jedwabne is in Poland, and not Alabama, although both communities are in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sherwin Pomerantz

Social science’s low replication rate is not a crisis

Social science’s low replication rate is not a crisis

Let’s say you do a job that involves making predictions about human behavior — you manage money, you sell things, you write opinion columns. Just...

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The Japan Times

Justin Fox

Environmental activists threaten High Court petition over data wipe

Environmental activists threaten High Court petition over data wipe

Environmental Protection Ministry pulled all pollution permits data from website due to emergency request citing Iran’s efforts to target industrial...

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The Times of Israel

Sue Surkes

From Listening to Silence: NGOs’ Antisemitism Gap

From Listening to Silence: NGOs’ Antisemitism Gap

After the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements erupted, Human Rights Watch held internal “listening sessions” to mull its failures and hear the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Danielle Haas

The Italian Liberation Day fiasco: Jews excluded from celebrations

The Italian Liberation Day fiasco: Jews excluded from celebrations

On April 25, representatives of the historical Jewish Brigade, a unit of Jewish volunteers from British Mandatory Palestine who served in the British...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Giovanni Giacalone

Can One Sleep Trick Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay?

Can One Sleep Trick Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay?

Does slow-wave sleep really prevent Alzheimer's disease?

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Psychology Today

Frederick L. Coolidge Ph.d

The True Meaning of Friendship in a Social-Networked World

The True Meaning of Friendship in a Social-Networked World

Connecting authentically with others in a world of digital connections.

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Psychology Today

Alex Pattakos Ph.d

Iran diplomacy stalls as Hormuz becomes focal point of mediation efforts

Iran diplomacy stalls as Hormuz becomes focal point of mediation efforts

Trump says although Iran ‘offered a lot’ in most recent proposal, it was still ‘not enough;’ Tehran tries persuading Oman to support mechanism...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

The Buffer Zone: The New Israeli Strategy

For years, Israel relied on deterrence, intelligence, and rapid response to defend its borders. But repeated attacks from Gaza and the north have...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Maoz Druskin

Trump has made the case for international law

Trump has made the case for international law

As the tragic consequences of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran continue to accumulate, one hears a cry of desperation: Are...

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The Japan Times

James A. Goldston

(POGLED) 85 let od obiska Hitlerja v Mariboru

(POGLED) 85 let od obiska Hitlerja v Mariboru

Svet se nahaja v krizi, je misel, ki jo v preteklih mesecih ali celo letih slišimo zelo pogosto. Pojavlja se v različnih kontekstih: ekoloških,...

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Večer

Mihael Toš

High Court orders government to impose financial sanctions on Haredi draft evaders

High Court orders government to impose financial sanctions on Haredi draft evaders

In unanimous decision, court says government has failed to implement previous rulings, calls police refusal to arrest ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers an...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

When politics needs enemies, something has already broken

Veni, vidi… did I understand!? When politics needs enemies It doesn’t start with violence. It starts with words. And when those words stop making...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nestor daniel scherman

Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People – a great book

Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People, published in July 2025 by Zvi Grumet, is a thoughtful and engaging study of the biblical book of Exodus that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Israel Drazin

Featured Post

Featured Post

My 13-year-old son Koby and his friend Yosef Ish Ran were murdered by terrorists on May 8, 2001. It’s the yahrtzeit this week. A silver anniversary....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sherri Mandell

Power, justice, and the decolonization of the global order

Power, justice, and the decolonization of the global order

The end of the unipolar illusion Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the global order that emerged in its aftermath is visibly fraying. What...

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Middle East Monitor

Ranjan Solomon

From One Message on a Sneaker, 300 Voices

From One Message on a Sneaker, 300 Voices

Creating unexpected moments of Jewish and Zionist strength has become a guiding instinct in work my wife Heather and I have been developing, including...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Zev ziegler

Iran war is a renewable energy wake-up call

Iran war is a renewable energy wake-up call

Two months into the war in Iran, energy markets are still in turmoil — and nowhere has felt the havoc more acutely than Asia. Nearly 90% of the oil...

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The Japan Times

Sonia dunlop - takeaki masukawa

We Thought It Was Different There (fiction)

(The following is a work of speculative fiction, set in 2031. Events and characters after April 2026 are imagined.) The two FBI agents who came to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nick lees

What Women Say They Hate About Porn

What Women Say They Hate About Porn

Blaming legitimate relationship complaints on porn won't resolve them.

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Psychology Today

Marty Klein Ph.d

Wormwood, and the Unanswered Body

I was there not long after the explosion. Not in the first hours, when everything was still unnamed, when even those closest did not yet understood...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Israel Prize Awarded to Prof. Reshef Tenne – Honouring a Genius

During the celebrations of Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, on April 22, 2026 at Jerusalem, a short traditional state ceremony was held to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jatinder Yakhmi