Tell It Like It Is

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Teshuva season we find ourselves in, is that when you check the Rambam’s Laws of Repentance you find...

Likud legal adviser tells Netanyahu he can’t use party funds to promote his new book

Opposition leader and Likud party chief Benjamin Netanyahu was told by Likud’s legal adviser that he cannot use party funds to promote his new...

Mayim Bialik, Max Greenfield tell of shofar blowing on ‘Late Late Show’

Mayim Bialik and actor Max Greenfield showed “The Late Late Show” host James Corden how to blow the shofar in last week’s episode following...

When truth is distorted: The dramatic story of Lithuanian duplicity

Grant Arthur Gochin’s recent article on these pages reminds us of the longstanding efforts of the Lithuanian government to deny its national...

Ukraine war creates interesting alliances

Arms and weapons are like water, they often find the shortest route to conflict areas. Pakistan has become the new channel for supply of weapons...

From Muhammad Al-Durra to Rayan Suleiman my heart grieves for Palestinian children

It has been 22 years since the start of the Second (Al-Aqsa) Intifada when Ariel Sharon stormed and desecrated the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in...

Major Iran university suspends classes after security forces clash with students

TEHRAN, Iran — Classes were suspended and moved online Monday at Iran’s leading technology university in Tehran after clashes erupted...

Lapid: Netanyahu aiding Hezbollah by criticizing Lebanon maritime deal

Prime Minister Yair Lapid accused opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of aiding Hezbollah terror group propaganda efforts with his...

Thousands in France march in support of Iranian women

PARIS, France — Thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday to show their support for Iranian protesters standing up to their leadership over...

(KOMENTAR) Predsedniške volitve in njihov vpliv na razmere v strankah in razmerja med njimi

- Volitve za predsednika republike niso strankarski spopad v klasičnem pomenu, kot to velja najprej za parlamentarne volitve, v pomembni meri pa...

The Miami Boys Choir churned out generations of child stars. Where are they now?

The Miami Boys Choir’s first album was released as a vinyl record. The Jewish singing group later moved on to cassettes, then CDs, mp3s, streaming...

Dozens of gold coins discovered in secret cache dating from Muslim conquest

Forty-four pure gold coins were recently found hidden in a wall during excavations at the Banias archaeological site within the Hermon River nature...

Religious students report sexual abuse at twice rate of secular school peers – study

Students who attend religious schools are more than twice as likely to have reported being sexually abused than those in secular public schools,...

Iran’s Khamenei accuses US, Israel of engineering ongoing ‘riots’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold. The High Court rejects a petition calling to criminally investigate the Likud...

The Real Escalation Is the Destruction of Palestinian Space

The frenetic elections that take place with Italian frequency stands in contrast to the stability of Israeli policy in the West Bank (including...

Dirty Diamonds: How Israel Helps Russia Fund Its War on Ukraine

Realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific

TOKYO – The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has drastically changed the global security environment and posed serious challenges to Japan’s...

Is There Any Clearer Hypocrisy Than Yesh Atid’s Petition?

Is there greater hypocrisy than Yesh Atid’s petition to the Central Elections Committee to have Channel 14 television immediately declared “an...

US rejects Iranian link between frozen funds and release of detained citizens

WASHINGTON — The United States on Sunday rejected Iranian reports that Tehran’s release of two detained Americans will lead to the unfreezing...

Safari Sarajevo, 2.

Se je v dobrem stoletju, odkar je Zola napisal znameniti roman Človek zver, kaj posebnega spremenilo v človeški naravi, da bi z večjim optimizmom...

EU’s top diplomat presses Lapid on Palestinians, at opening of Brussels meeting

Prime Minister Yair Lapid and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell adopted contrasting tones in their remarks at the start of the long-frozen EU-...

Lebanon denies it will pay royalties to Israel as part of maritime deal

Lebanon on Monday denied a US-brokered maritime deal with Israel would see Beirut pay royalties to the Jewish state in exchange for access to...

All the King’s Games

Jus­tice for war crimes in Ukraine must not be de­layed

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, the number of war crimes that prosecutors in Ukraine have investigated has risen...

Brazil: Palestine favourite Lula and friend of Israel Bolsonaro head for presidential runoff

All eyes were on Brazil yesterday as the people went to the polls to elect a president at one of the most pivotal moments in the country's history....

Mob boss Benny Shlomo gunned down at gas station near Tel Aviv in broad daylight

The head of a major crime family was killed and another man seriously injured Monday in a suspected underworld hit near Tel Aviv. Benny Shlomo, 42,...

Environment minister urges charity instead of ‘kapparot’ for Yom Kippur

The Environmental Protection Ministry on Monday issued a fresh call for religious Jews who practice the “kapparot” ceremony to instead donate...

Ex-minister who was onetime Keren Hayesod chair convicted in ‘submarine affair’

Former government minister and onetime Keren Hayesod chief Eliezer Zandberg was convicted Monday for breach of trust, as part of a plea bargain in...

The future of American Jews on campus

What’s going on at Havard? When I refer to Harvard, it is shorthand for the American campus in general, especially those with the most glittering...

What Malke Gilis witnessed

Eighty percent (80%) of Jews in Lithuania had been murdered (almost entirely by Lithuanians not Nazis) prior to the formulation of the “Final...

Saving the Jewish State in Yom Kippur 1973

This week the State of Israel marks forty-nine years since the Yom Kippur War.  Israeli intelligence and strategic planners were caught by surprise...

A Shocking Ten Days for the UK

How to Build the European Political Community

How the Eu­ro­pean far right coopt­ed an Ara­bic let­ter

After her right-wing coalition won the September 25 elections in Italy, Giorgia Meloni is set to become the country’s next prime minister. In the...

Las sanciones por la guerra en Ucrania: cómo llegamos aquí

¿Por qué el gobierno ruso subestimó la respuesta de la OTAN ante su invasión de Ucrania y, en particular, la magnitud de las sanciones que los...

Características de las operaciones de venture capital en Colombia

A punto de empezar el último trimestre de este 2022, el número de operaciones de fusiones y adquisiciones (M&A) y la inversión en Colombia...

The Real Difference Between Netanyahu and Lapid

For many years the ultra-Orthodox, the Haredim, have refused to teach their children the core curriculum. The issue took on a political twist when...

Global necessity of American democracy

By Javier Solana MADRID ― In his prophetic 1838 Lyceum Address, a generation before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln predicted that the fall of the...

Climate change is nudging us toward next pandemic

By Arjun V.K. Sharma The threat of climate change conjures certain scenes: Smoke billowing from a forest aflame. Smothering heat clinging to the...

Go Vote for Ben-Gvir and Smotrich!

The recommendation in the headline, calling to vote for the extreme right of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, sounds odd and discordant to the...

An unresolved slavery past still hurts US labor relations, society, and Whites

Oppressing also hurts the oppressors, but they don’t become the victims I met working-class Americans. I saw them on US public transportation,...

The US is preparing the heir of Israel's security partner Abbas

The Palestinian Authority's Minister of Civilian Affairs and PLO Executive Committee Secretary-General Hussein Al-Sheikh is heading to Washington...

Dating in metaverse offers vast array of possibilities

By Chyung Eun-ju and Joel Cho Chyung Eun-ju Joel Cho Imagine a first date with someone who lives thousands of miles away that starts with a few...

VOX POPULI: New way to cook pasta that saves energy stirs debate in Italy

Heat a pot of water until it boils and put pasta into it. Keep heating the pot for two more minutes and shut off the heat. Lastly, put a lid on the...

EDITORIAL: Japan should help stop Putin’s appalling attack on basic values

Russia has forcefully wrestled territories from a neighboring country and justified the move by fabricating public consent. This goes far beyond a...

Crazy Fakes as a Sign of “Cartoon Reality”

More recently, we have been looking at a fake story about North Korea supplying arms to Russia, which the author believes to have originated from a...

Is the South Caucasus a new battleground for India and Pakistan? 

The South Caucasus is no stranger to outside powers competing for influence and advancing their own interests. During the Cold War, for example,...

Turkey's monetary experiment holds lessons for Asia's central banks

Blindly following the Federal Reserve's rate moves brings risks to region

Joining wave of institutions, London museum drops Sackler name from exhibits

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has removed the Sackler name from exhibitions amid mounting pressure to cut ties with family members tied to...

Truth or bluff? Why Putin's nuclear warnings have the West worried

Russian President Vladimir Putin's latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a...