Netflix cancels ‘Hit and Run’ after just one season

After just one season, Netflix has cancelled “Hit & Run,” the series starring Lior Raz as a man seeking revenge after his wife is killed in a...

Biden looks to turn page on 20 years of war in UN address

NEW YORK (AP) — US President Joe Biden began his first visit to the UN General Assembly ready to make the case to world leaders that after closing...

Seoul Continues to be Hysterical while Tokyo Digs a Fukushima Water Tunnel

On August 25, 2021, South Korea expressed “strong regret” that Japan was unilaterally implementing its plan to release radioactive water from...

Australian Foreign Policy Becomes Even More Closely Wedded to the United States

Australia has just confirmed that its allegiance to the United States exceeds its own interests, and even its relationship with other, previously...

Potrebujemo ministrstvo za preprečevanje pregreh

‘Talibani so danes afganistansko ministrstvo, pristojno za ženske, nadomestili z ministrstvom za preprečevanje pregreh, pristojno za nadzor nad...

A Totalitarianism of Our Time: What Arendt Tells Us About Environmental Injustice

Is environmental injustice so widespread, and are its impacts so damaging, that it can be understood as a totalitarianism of our time? When a child...

Man shot dead in attack at wedding in Arab town, four others wounded

A man was killed Monday and five others were wounded in a shooting that occurred at a wedding in the Arab town of Taibe, in the country’s center....

France hopes for progress in nuclear talks as Iran to meet world powers at UN

Foreign ministers from the countries that are signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran are set to meet with Tehrani officials at the united...

On Abraham Accords anniversary, there is accord on calling it ‘Abraham’

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Wrapping up the feel-good-fest that marked the first anniversary of the Abraham Accords, the normalization agreements between...

Pan-Asianism of Japan in Relations with the Countries of Central Asia

Through assessing the latest developments in Central Asia (CA), one can frequently find a discussion of the region being influenced by Pan-Turkism,...

AUKUS vs China: Inching Toward War

Australia, the UK and the US announced the formation of “AUKUS,” an amalgamation of the three nation’s initials, as a tripartite “defense...

EDITORIAL: LDP candidates need balanced approaches on foreign policy

One key policy question in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race is how to protect Japan’s peace and security as the security...

Poll finds most in US Jewish fraternity and sorority saw antisemitism on campus

JTA — A survey of members of AEPi and AEPhi, the most prominent national Jewish fraternity and sorority, found that large numbers of respondents...

Trudeau’s Liberals win Canada election, but miss majority

TORONTO (AP) — Canadians gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party a victory in Monday’s parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win...

2 injured, 1 critically, after vehicle plows into police checkpoint in north

Police said two officers were injured Tuesday morning when a vehicle drove into them at a checkpoint in the northern city of Nahariya. Police said...

Sudan claims to thwart military coup attempt; many officers said detained

KHARTOUM — An attempted coup in Sudan “failed” early Tuesday, state media reported, without identifying the plotters. “There has been a failed...

The Westgate Mall attack and Kenya’s national amnesia

Eight years ago, on the morning of September 21, four young men, armed with automatic rifles and grenades charged into the Westgate Mall in the...

Reinventing the deliciously female Jessica Rabbit is a step too far from the joyless revisionists who are destroying Disney

Okay, I have to admit to something that’s not exactly cool. Ready? I had a crush on a cartoon character when I was a teenager. It wasn’t Marge...

Shinzo Abe casts a long shadow over LDP leadership race

But contest also reveals limits of longest-serving premier's influence

Discover a fallen poet and WWII heroine at the Hannah Senesh House near Caesarea

In December of 1942, 21-year-old Hannah Senesh wrote a poem beginning with the words, “A voice called. And I went. I went because the voice...

France speaks of ‘crisis of trust’ as it bristles at US submarine deal

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France’s top diplomat declared Monday that there is a “crisis of trust” in the United States after a Pacific defense...

(POGLEDI) Nekoč prijat‘li, zdaj tujci

Eden najpopularnejših slovenskih kantavtorjev Andrej Šifrer si najbrž ni predstavljal, kako preroški bodo verzi njegovega več kot štiri...

Israeli philanthropists, IsraAID help dozens flee Afghanistan for UAE

JTA — Several Israeli philanthropists have helped bring to Abu Dhabi dozens of asylum seekers, including female athletes, fleeing Taliban rule in...

VOX POPULI: How one man’s genius paved the way for more accessible spaces

Tactile paving, a system of textured ground surface indicators that is indispensable to visually impaired pedestrians, is composed of what are...

Living orbs of light

Solving the mystery of how and why fireflies flash in time can illuminate the physics of complex systems - by Orit Peleg Read at Aeon

While you were sleeping

A nocturnal tour of Salt Lake City from the little-seen, often overlooked yet oddly meditative perspective of cleaners - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Netflix renews ‘My Unorthodox Life’ for second season

JTA — Netflix is bringing back “My Unorthodox Life,” the reality series about a formerly Orthodox fashion mogul and her family, the streaming...

Israelis celebrate Sukkot festival, this year with fewer pandemic restrictions

Israelis celebrated the start of the week-long Sukkot holiday on Monday evening, one year after the strict restrictions of Israel’s second...

Peace Prophet: Letter to President Joe Biden

Your Excellency President Joe Biden: It is the highest honor to write you this public letter. As a former soldier in the United States Army and...

Nos Moritamus…Te Salutamus

How does one face fear?  Do you overcome your fears when you get on an elevator?  Elevators get stuck.  Until a technician arrives, until the...

Erdoğan testing Turkey's political opposition with secularism

We are once again seeing President Erdoğan ‘testing’ the political waters. The opposition is being tested with secularism. The CHP failed this...

For Mallorca’s Jews, first ‘public’ sukkah is triumph over Spanish Inquisition

JTA — Before the Spanish Inquisition, the island of Mallorca had a sizeable Jewish community. Every fall, the island became dotted with the leaf-...

Can Xi End China's Gilded Age?

ANN ARBOR – Within the span of a generation, a new super-rich class emerges from a society in which millions of rural migrants toiled away in...

Why France is apoplectic with rage at Australia's submarine betrayal