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Jerusalem Reform synagogue pelted with eggs on Rosh Hashanah

Jerusalem Reform synagogue pelted with eggs on Rosh Hashanah

Security camera footage shows youths in Jewish religious garb verbally harassing congregants, then throwing eggs at them; police given footage, but no...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Repentance and Atonement in Islam and Judaism

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Allen S. Maller

‘The First Atomic Layers’: Yom Kippur 5787

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ari Sacher

Bombing Iran Can Destroy Targets, Not Political Memory

Bombing Iran Can Destroy Targets, Not Political Memory

Military damage can be measured quickly. Strategic success depends on whether force changes Tehran’s political calculations rather than reinforcing...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr. Sara Neumann

‘Red line’: Houthis accused of targeting Mecca for first time in current flare-up

‘Red line’: Houthis accused of targeting Mecca for first time in current flare-up

Iran-backed Yemeni rebels deny claim of drone attack on Islam’s holiest city; Muslim umbrella body denounces ‘heinous’ attack, as fighting goes...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

America’s Iran war forgot about nukes

America’s Iran war forgot about nukes

When was the last time you heard a meaningful proposal to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal? There’s been nothing on the subject since...

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The Japan Times

Marc Champion

Pakistan’s Security Divide: Police Bear the Cost of Expanding Militancy

The killing of 27 police officers near Mangi Dam in Pakistan’s Balochistan province has exposed serious weaknesses in the country’s...

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Khaama Press

Thiemo Rickenstorf

What Exactly Were You Applauding?

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Chava Kadoche

EDITORIAL: World cannot abandon climate change target in Paris Agreement

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

The Weight of Light

The Weight of Light

This D’var was inspired by an insight shared by Daniel Nassimi. The Jewish year begins beneath a hidden moon. The Gemara reads this in the words of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Cohen

Don’t hold your breath for AI agreements or arms control

Don’t hold your breath for AI agreements or arms control

Ours is an era of great power competition. The United States acknowledges as much in its official national security documents; China concedes that is...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

It's Trump's war, not Seoul's

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The Korea Times

Shim Jae-Yun

Three Thousand Years Later, I Borrow His Words

Three Thousand Years Later, I Borrow His Words

Three thousand years later, millions of people, including me, still turn to King David’s words for comfort, prayer and hope. Tehillim (Psalms) are...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ben Lazarus

The Film No One Saw

Last week, my country reopened the season for a genre of film criticism boasting over 20 years of repertoire: the review written by someone who never...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gil Mildar

AI Is Only as Trustworthy as the Internet

AI Is Only as Trustworthy as the Internet

RESTON, VIRGINIA—World leaders will gather in New York this month for the 81st United Nations General Assembly under the theme “Restoring Trust,...

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Project Syndicate

Sally Wentworth

Pakistan: Munir Consolidates Control Over Armed Forces Through New Defence Laws

Pakistan has completed another stage in the consolidation of military authority around Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir — this time not through a coup...

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Khaama Press

Thiemo Rickenstorf

The Ballot and the Blackout: How Islamabad Controls Elections in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir

The 2026 Legislative Assembly elections in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir have once again exposed the widening gap between Islamabad’s promise...

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Khaama Press

Thiemo Rickenstorf

Trump’s North Korea outreach is about U.S. politics

Trump’s North Korea outreach is about U.S. politics

U.S. President Donald Trump’s mid-August declaration that he would downsize American participation in joint drills with South Korea due to his...

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The Japan Times

Rob York

The Houthis of Yemen bring Riyadh to its knees, traumatize Trump, and mortgage Suez

The Houthis of Yemen bring Riyadh to its knees, traumatize Trump, and mortgage Suez Even as Americans commemorate the pain of the September 11...

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New Eastern Outlook

Mohamed Lamine Kaba

Ed Sheeran, Bill Maher, and the People Who Know Everything Except the History

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Bruce D. Forman

Pozitíva, nedostatky a riziká Vízie Slovensko 2040

V januári 2025 vyšiel v Pravde môj článok Slovensko – krajina bez vízie. V júni 2025 prezident Slovenskej republiky v Správe o stave...

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Pravda.sk

Ľubomír Jemala

AI Demands Simpler Financial Regulation

AI Demands Simpler Financial Regulation

STANFORD—The theme of last month’s annual gathering of central bankers and economists in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was “financial innovation.”...

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Project Syndicate

Amit Seru

America’s Hidden Weapon in Orbit

America’s Hidden Weapon in Orbit
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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Brosh Momi

Gaza-bound technocrats draw up 71 rebuilding projects, which hinge on Israeli approval

Gaza-bound technocrats draw up 71 rebuilding projects, which hinge on Israeli approval

Board of Peace-overseen committee tasked with replacing Hamas has detailed plans for first 6 months of work, but there’s no guarantee they’ll be...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Daily Briefing Sept. 16 – From Mecca to Mokha: Houthis flex as Saudis flail

Daily Briefing Sept. 16 – From Mecca to Mokha: Houthis flex as Saudis flail

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on how the Yemeni rebels are increasingly strangling the Bab el-Mandeb shipping lane and why the region is still...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Vance: We cannot let our Mideast foreign policy be subservient to Israel

Vance: We cannot let our Mideast foreign policy be subservient to Israel

Muslim bloc decries ‘heinous’ Houthi drone attack on Mecca, which Saudis say was thwarted * Jewish National Fund said to order removal of outpost...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Trump Wants to RENAME Everything: How about “The Trump Quagmire”?

Trump Wants to RENAME Everything: How about “The Trump Quagmire”? As American troops face renewed danger in the Middle East, with Iran striking...

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New Eastern Outlook

Seth Ferris

NBC news helicopter crashes in Los Angeles, killing at least 3

NBC news helicopter crashes in Los Angeles, killing at least 3

Aircraft goes down while covering fatal bus collision; station says 2 people aboard the chopper dead, along with at least 1 victim on ground

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The Times of Israel

Ashley Duong

The problem with slowing down AI: No one wants to cede the frontier

The problem with slowing down AI: No one wants to cede the frontier

Experts say meaningful safeguards will require rivals to cooperate, even as US-China competition pushes both countries to accelerate development

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The Times of Israel

Kaitlyn Huamani

Jewish Supremacist Manufacturing a Civilizational Threat to License Bigotry

Jewish Supremacist Manufacturing a Civilizational Threat to License Bigotry

Jewish hatred is real and must be condemned without qualification. But it cannot be fought by propagating hatred against the followers of another...

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Middle East Monitor

Jamal Kanj

NAZA and the Reality Outside the Frame

NAZA and the Reality Outside the Frame

“So much is being done to…as to not look at reality,” Yuval Abraham said in Venice. His words provide a useful starting point for examining the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lev Topor

My Religious Experience on Rosh Hashana

My Religious Experience on Rosh Hashana

For me, the Jewish holidays are much more about tradition than about halacha and prayers. When I was a kid, Rosh Hashana signified the start of fall...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Emily Kirschenbaum

Far-right minister panned for opposing IDF combat duty for anti-government protesters

Far-right minister panned for opposing IDF combat duty for anti-government protesters

‘In the end they won’t storm into battle,’ Amichay Eliyahu warns; bereaved fathers whose fallen sons attended Kaplan rallies bash him, as do...

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The Times of Israel

Michael Bachner

Amazon’s AWS unable to restore access at some Mideast data centers after Iran war damage

Amazon’s AWS unable to restore access at some Mideast data centers after Iran war damage

Cloud computing unit says it’s working to help customers reestablish operations in other regions after facilities in Bahrain, UAE were damaged

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The Times of Israel

Feras Dalatey

(REKLI SO) Franc Grad: Na lokalnih volitvah ne bi smelo biti važno, kdo je všeč levici ali desnici. Pa še en problem je

(REKLI SO) Franc Grad: Na lokalnih volitvah ne bi smelo biti važno, kdo je všeč levici ali desnici. Pa še en problem je

"Govorili so o približno devetih do 12 pokrajinah, kar naj bi bilo še smiselno in racionalno. Toda vedno, ko se je o vzpostavitvi pokrajin...

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Večer

Dr

Why Do I Keep Replaying Conversations in My Head?

Why Do I Keep Replaying Conversations in My Head?

What we are trying to figure out after the conversation is already over.

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Psychology Today

Carolyn Karoll Lcsw-C

The Fiedler Dare: Germany’s politicians never lie, they say

The Fiedler Dare: Germany’s politicians never lie, they say

Berlin’s Moscow accusation rests on credibility Germany’s leaders don’t have

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RT.com

Tarik Cyril Amar

Gas, Gold and the Missing: What Mahrang Baloch’s Life Sentence Reveals About Balochistan

By Anika NazirResearcher | Community Development Professional | Women’s Wing Head, SYSF | J&K, India On June 22, 2026, an anti-terrorism court in...

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Khaama Press

Anika Nazir

Gaza terrorists heard joking during Oct. 7 attack in newly released intercepted calls

Gaza terrorists heard joking during Oct. 7 attack in newly released intercepted calls

US federal prosecutors file phone transcripts in case against alleged terrorist, in which attackers are heard laughing about the onslaught and the...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

The meaning of fake marble

The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Ed Sheeran’s Americas tour in trouble as opening acts quit over Macklemore’s removal

Ed Sheeran’s Americas tour in trouble as opening acts quit over Macklemore’s removal

Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, Danish band Lukas Graham and Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas drop out in solidarity with rapper who was ousted for...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Not Heroes, but Allies: As Palestinians, We Cannot Dismiss anti-Zionist Israelis

Not Heroes, but Allies: As Palestinians, We Cannot Dismiss anti-Zionist Israelis

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Hanin Majadli

Likud threatens to sue Winter after he says its MKs seek to ‘destroy’ him, alleges PIs sent after him

Likud threatens to sue Winter after he says its MKs seek to ‘destroy’ him, alleges PIs sent after him

People of Israel party leader denies saying it was Netanyahu’s party that had private detectives track him, decries right-wing attacks on his party...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

If Your Therapist Gets Sick, Do You Want to Know?

If Your Therapist Gets Sick, Do You Want to Know?

When the therapist gets a serious health diagnosis, what should they disclose?

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Psychology Today

Martha Sweezy Ph.d

Dario Amodei Understands Why the Internet Could Be AI’s Holy Grail

Dario Amodei Understands Why the Internet Could Be AI’s Holy Grail
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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Celeo Ramirez

USPI Part 2 – Mind as a Public Good and Pathways.

USPI Part 2 – Mind as a Public Good and Pathways.
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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Only in America: Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

Only in America: Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is the only museum in the nation dedicated exclusively to telling the American...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jay Abramson

How October 7 Altered My Work: A Conversation with the Middle East Forum

How October 7 Altered My Work: A Conversation with the Middle East Forum

Dexter Van Zile, managing editor of Focus on Western Islamism, recently interviewed me about how my work changed after October 7, 2023. The interview...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tim Orr