US says Hezbollah storing explosive chemical that caused Beirut blast in Europe

Hezbollah has stored ammonium nitrate, a chemical that can be used to make explosives, in several European countries, a senior US State Department...

More manpower for delivery workers

Firms should offer additional workers to sort parcels Some 4,000 parcel delivery workers announced Thursday they would boycott the sorting of...

Haaretz Cartoon

Arab States Need the Palestinians if They Want Real Peace With Israel

PS Events: The Green Recovery (Day 2)

Twilight in the Desert for Saudi and MBS?

It appears as if Saudi de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is on a mission to destroy the world oil giant by one after the other ill-...

Izzivi proračunov v času koronakrize

Priprava proračunov za naslednji dve leti bo pomenila velik izziv za vlado, saj bo potekala v času velike negotovosti in pomanjkanja zanesljivih...

Police announce new limits on protests during three-week lockdown

Israel police announced new regulations limiting the number of people allowed to participate in protests during the three-week lockdown that began...

As lockdown goes into effect, virus death toll jumps to 1,196

Israel’s death toll from the coronavirus jumped to 1,196 on Friday as a second national lockdown went into effect, one of the largest single-day...

Politics is visceral

We live in bodies that feel increasingly unsafe. Pandemics, climate change, sexual assault, systemic racism, the pressures of gig-economy jobs, the...

Days of Remembrance (Daf Yomi Eruvin 40)

Embed from Getty Images “One mention of remembrance counts for both this and that.” The new moon, like Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is...

Rosh HaShanah: The Challenge of the Shofar

Something strange happens on Rosh Hashana. We spend hours declaring God’s majesty, using poetic and unique phrases. We refer to Him as the...

5781: New parent, new year, new COVID emptiness

This is not how it was supposed to be. Less than a week before Rosh HaShanah last year, I found out that I was pregnant again after a miscarriage....

When the Shofar is Silenced During a Pandemic

There are many reasons (many!) why this year’s Rosh Hashanah will be different from last year’s Rosh Hashanah. One reason was predictable. Last...

Whole apples, individual honey jars: New York issues health guide for holidays

JTA — Worshipers at services should be 12 feet apart from one another when singing. Sukkahs can be considered outdoor environments, though...

The circles on the water

The Rosh HaShana Torah reading comes from Genesis 21, where the intimate story of one couple’s discovery of God becomes the story of two nations....

Palestinians: man dies of heart attack after IDF stun grenade bursts next to him

A Palestinian man died of a heart attack Friday, apparently caused by an IDF stun grenade exploding next to him during a protest at a West Bank...

Being Together in Our Aloneness

We were meant to be attending a small Rosh Hashana tefila with a few families – keeping to the rules of the lockdown and feeling safe in the fact...

Uman and Jerusalem – When a Pilgrimage Misses the Point

I’m pretty certain that I’m not alone in watching videos, seeing pictures and reading stories of the hundreds of people attempting to reach Uman...

In the Twilight of Netanyahu’s Tenure

Japan After Abe

Art of repurposing

By Hyon O'Brien I grew up in Korea and went through my teenage years in the 1960's in Wonju, Gangwon Province. One of the things I learned from my...

New Attempts at Rekindling the Sino-Indian Conflict

At a recent US-India meetup US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led an American effort to take advantage of recent India-China friction. In a move to...

Online event reconnects Super Sentai ‘Red’ heroes PREMIUM

‘Imuri’ poses questions on par with other manga masterpieces PREMIUM

Corona and the New Year

Popular wisdom holds that Bibi’s diplomatic skills balance the Corona Catastrophe. I am not sure. Let’s reconsider: Yesterday, I wrote a blog...

Corona Lock Down (Seger) Diary – Day 2

It is just past 14.00 and the Lock Down has officially started. The kids and the grandchildren arrived on time by Israeli standards, if arriving...

Hillel to Orwell: Israel Distorts the Golden Rule

It was recently reported that Israel plans to bring 2,000 Ethiopian Jews to the Jewish Homeland. This is both too little and too late and yet...

The Sermon I never Preached

Any fair retrospect will highlight how fortunate we are to live in times shaped by the luxuries of modernity. We enjoy unprecedented healthcare,...

Who is betraying whom?

Embed from Getty Images Twice in the past few days Palestinian leaders have charged fellow Arab states with treachery.  The accusation was taken...

A Moment of Truth in the Pandemic

GENEVA – Now almost in its tenth month, the COVID-19 pandemic is still wreaking havoc on economies and lives around the world. But while the end...

Fighting the COVID Infodemic

PARIS/KUALA LUMPUR – The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not only led to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but also fueled an accompanying...

We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer 

The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was...

It’s all S**T! American politics has literally turned crap, with fights over November’s election descending into defecation wars

It seems that anytime I look into politics as a topic for an op-ed, I find more and more ridiculous stories each time. Every once in a while, you...

Thousands of Palestinian homes face demolition as Israel refuses building permits

In the early 1990s, Wael Al-Tahan submitted an application to the Israeli authorities for a permit to build a house on his land at Jabal Mukaber in...

Forget the US, Japan’s Yoshihide Suga should visit South Korea first to mend ties

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who this week replaced Shinzo Abe, may want to take a leaf out of one of his predecessors’ playbooks by...

Somalia goes for indirect elections again - for the sixth time 

The Federal Government of Somalia and its member states have agreed after lengthy discussions and consultations, to an indirect electoral formula...

Qatar won’t normalize with Israel before 2-state solution reached, envoy says

Qatar has no problem with normalizing relations with Israel but will not do so before a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is...

Cabinet eases movement restriction to allow travel 1 kilometer from home

Government officials loosened restrictions on movement during the new nationwide coronavirus lockdown, saying on Thursday night that people will be...

Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv against new virus lockdown

Hundreds of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv late Thursday against a second nationwide lockdown to combat Israel’s surging coronavirus outbreak....

Journalist reckons with Israeli blame for 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre

Recollections of the final harrowing chapter of Israel’s Beirut adventure in 1982 always begin for me with the ambience of Jerusalem’s Great...

How to toot your horn: Health Ministry issues shofar-blowing guidelines

The Health Ministry on Thursday issued guidelines for shofar-blowing over the High Holidays, urging precautions to prevent the ceremonial ram’s...

Hungarian Jews to celebrate Rosh Hashanah on a boat as coronavirus cases surge

JTA — When Rosh Hashanah begins on Friday night, none of Hungary’s 100,000 Jews will be in a synagogue. Instead, they’ll be on a boat in the...

High Holiday content goes online for the Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashanah brings apples and honey and wishes for a sweet new year, but for some, actual hope and spiritual meaning may be hard to come by....

Dip the lockdown in the loophole: What the press is saying on September 18

1. High Holey Days: Israel is locking down nationally for a second time starting Friday, but if you are reading this, you probably already knew...

Why the Philippines’ Sabah claim against Malaysia isn’t a land grab

Sabah has been a sticking point in Malaysia-Philippines relations ever since the Federation of Malaysia formally came into being in 1963. Manila...

With the Israel-UAE-Bahrain deals, ‘undeniable Palestinan truths’ no longer hold

One of the first things that the historic agreements between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain will do is bring the word tatbie, normalization, into...

The Post-Pandemic Recovery’s Missing Link

PARIS – Trust will be key to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. Yet over the past ten years, people’s trust in governments,...

Egypt: will the state allow rapists to act with impunity after the ‘Fairmont Crime’?

Even the most optimistic of observers did not expect the Egyptian government to pay attention to the Fairmont Crime, the gang rape scandal in...

Police draw guns on man running roadblock as Israel enters 2nd sweeping lockdown

Police were forced to draw their guns and smash the car windscreen of an Israeli man who tried to run a roadblock set up as a new national...