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UK Jews turning to veterans from elite British units to guard community sites – report

UK Jews turning to veterans from elite British units to guard community sites – report

Report says organizations, including CST security group, are hiring former members of Royal Marines and Parachute Regiment; institutions dipping into...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Meta is making workers train their AI replacements

Meta is making workers train their AI replacements

Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, feeling like the admiral of the good ship Meta Platforms, sent a memo to employees encouraging them to refer to...

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The Japan Times

Mark Gongloff

G-d’s Unconditional Love

The Torah portion we read this week is not easy to absorb. It is one of two places in the Torah where G-d describes the severe consequences of sin....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lazer Gurkow

The Second Letter

The Second Letter

A wealthy man, known for his vast holdings and lifelong pursuit of more, left behind two letters before his death. He instructed his family that the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Cohen

Israel approves purchase of 2 more squadrons of F-35I and F-15IA fighter jets from US

Israel approves purchase of 2 more squadrons of F-35I and F-15IA fighter jets from US

Defense minister says procurement follows lessons learned from recent Iran war; shipments carrying 6,500 tons of military gear arrive in Israel

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Man shot dead in Shfaram in 100th violent killing of 2026 in Arab community

Man shot dead in Shfaram in 100th violent killing of 2026 in Arab community

Victim named as Hadi Su’ad, 28; report says his father and brother were killed in past year, in apparent gangland feud between families that has...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Thai police raid illegal school run by Iranian couple, find 89 Israeli kids enrolled

Thai police raid illegal school run by Iranian couple, find 89 Israeli kids enrolled

Thai security agency says raid came after complaints of ‘foreigners operating businesses that could threaten national security’; 2 Iranians and a...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Trump says US to withdraw significantly more than 5,000 troops from Germany

Trump says US to withdraw significantly more than 5,000 troops from Germany

‘We’re going to cut way down,’ US president says, amid rift with NATO over Iran war; troop pullout plan faces bipartisan resistance

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The Times of Israel

Kirsten Grieshaber

The High Cost of Raising “Kings and Queens”

The High Cost of Raising “Kings and Queens”

What I Noticed in Israel: Children Are Sacred, but That Comes With a Cost During my time observing life in Israel, one thing became impossible to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

On the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Indian Kashmir; context of the current situation in the Middle East

On the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Indian Kashmir; context of the current situation in the Middle East

On the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Indian Kashmir; context of the current situation in the Middle East On 22 April, India marked the...

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New Eastern Outlook

Vladimir Terehov

Sanctifying G-d’s Name

One of the more difficult Mitzvot to observe is the commandment not to desecrate the Name of G-d. What goes hand in hand with this Mitzva, is that we...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

We Are All Israelis

You don’t see Russians being attacked on the streets just for being Russian, or Chinese people for being Chinese, or so on. Only Jews have the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ari M. Berman

Cracked but Unbroken: How a Jewish Story Shaped America’s Liberty Bell

Cracked but Unbroken: How a Jewish Story Shaped America’s Liberty Bell

A 250‑year American symbol with a 3,000‑year Jewish soul; carried to these shores by Jewish hands and inscribed with the moral code of ancient...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eliezer avraham

The US War for Energy Dominance Seeks Dominance Over Europe and Asia

The US War for Energy Dominance Seeks Dominance Over Europe and Asia

The US War for Energy Dominance Seeks Dominance Over Europe and Asia ƒDespite apparent military setbacks, the U.S. war against Iran may represent a...

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New Eastern Outlook

Brian Berletic

Two arrested for allegedly shooting at anti-government protesters with airsoft gun

Two arrested for allegedly shooting at anti-government protesters with airsoft gun

Suspects said to have fired from car as they circled Beersheba rally, hitting participants but causing no injuries; in Tel Aviv, protesters demand...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

Sustainability has left the AI chat

Sustainability has left the AI chat

I was chatting with a friend over coffee the other afternoon about nothing in particular, and inevitably the topic turned to AI. After all, I...

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The Japan Times

Jerome silla

Ancient Alliance: What Jewish & Persian Students Know

Not all distance is the same. There is the distance of genuine conflict — of peoples whose interests are irreconcilable, whose histories are defined...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven C. Wernick

Soldier seriously wounded during hazing ritual, 4 comrades indicted

Soldier seriously wounded during hazing ritual, 4 comrades indicted

IDF says abuse ‘unacceptable’ after violent initiation leaves combat soldier hospitalized with a punctured lung, in latest incident of extreme hazing

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

The Abraham Accords Go Eurasian — And Kazakhstan Leads the Shift

The Abraham Accords Go Eurasian — And Kazakhstan Leads the Shift

The recent state visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Astana, while encompassing standard diplomatic engagements such as leader-level...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Junaid Qaiser

Lag B’Omer, Turn On Your Love Light!

One of my favorite songs that the Grateful Dead used to cover is “Turn On Your Love Light,” written by Joe Scott and recorded by Bobby Bland in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Kalb

Asia’s economic diplomacy for tumultuous times

Asia’s economic diplomacy for tumultuous times

LONDON – For decades, global development efforts reflected the assumption that international cooperation, however imperfect, was ultimately guided...

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The Japan Times

Ashok lavasa — roli asthana

One Who Increases, One Who Decreases

Siyum on Masechet Menachot – Seudah Shlishit – Shabbat Emor 5786 – Maimonides Kehillah, Brookline, MA Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev was...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jesse Hefter

Riding the rails through a fractured land, young people reflect on real life, today

Riding the rails through a fractured land, young people reflect on real life, today

Along a journey from Nahariya on the Lebanese border to the southern city of Beersheba, six interviewees discuss 30 months of war, society, Israeli...

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The Times of Israel

Sue Surkes

Trump: There’s a possibility we could renew strikes on Iran ‘if they misbehave’

Trump: There’s a possibility we could renew strikes on Iran ‘if they misbehave’

President says reviewing new Iranian proposal to end war but ‘can’t imagine’ it will be acceptable * Jordan carries out strikes on drug, weapons...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

NYC’s New School rejects student senate’s vote to defund and cut ties with Hillel

NYC’s New School rejects student senate’s vote to defund and cut ties with Hillel

Vote appears to be first by a student government to cut off Hillel, long the central address for US campus Jewish life, but school says senate...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

71-year-old Palestinian woman said injured in settler attack near Hebron

71-year-old Palestinian woman said injured in settler attack near Hebron

Three others reportedly injured in same incident, after settlers descended on village of Jabel Jales, sparking confrontation with residents

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The Times of Israel

Nurit Yohanan

Can an Australian Pension Scholar Help Israel About Growing Old Without Poverty?

Israel has a pension problem hiding in plain sight. The country’s market-income poverty rate among the elderly is the lowest in the developed world...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #214, Messiahs, 9

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #214, Messiahs, 9

In this episode… first let me apologize for the delay in posting this Eternal Jew episode. This montage about Isaac Luria needed a complete rewrite....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Berer

Trust Is Built in the Follow-Through

Meetings can make people feel heard. But what happens afterward determines whether that trust grows or fades. Follow-through is where leadership...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Bresler

AI in Jewish Schools: Starting with Purpose

Most Jewish schools don’t need a full AI strategy. They need a thoughtful place to begin. Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard from many school...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Bresler

Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power

Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power

When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the...

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Japan Today

Sudhin thanawala

Airlines rush to help stranded Spirit passengers after budget carrier collapses

Airlines rush to help stranded Spirit passengers after budget carrier collapses

Competitors stand to gain from Spirit’s shutdown even as they continue to feel the sting of rising fuel costs in the wake of the US-Israel war with...

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The Times of Israel

David Shepardson

Parshat Emor 5786

Like Father, Like Son — and the Boundaries of Identity On Shabbos Morning we read about the following in the Parsha “And the son of an Israelite...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Boruch Rizel

150 Years of Jewish Life in Panama

Rabbi Dennis C. Sasso The Jewish community of Panama, the oldest in Central America, celebrates this month the 150th Anniversary of its founding. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dennis C. Sasso

Why Japan-China ties can benefit from promoting people-to-people exchanges

Japan and China are Asian powerhouses that should collaborate responsibly for the peace and prosperity of the region. However, bilateral relations...

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South China Morning Post

Akio takahara

War, speculation and profit: The rest of us pay so a few can cash in

War, speculation and profit: The rest of us pay so a few can cash in

War, speculation and profit: The rest of us pay so a few can cash in The result is a reverse redistribution: from consumers and public finances to the...

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Il Manifesto Global

Luigi Pandolfi