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Military Police will not open an investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin last week, despite suspicions...
New York Jewish Week — Over the years, there’s been no shortage of funny Jews who’ve performed at the Comedy Cellar, New York’s premier comedy...
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — A Russian soldier pleaded guilty on Wednesday to killing a Ukrainian civilian in the opening stages of Moscow’s invasion...
Commentary. The Russian army alone has razed a number of urban and production centers, inflicted enormous damage on cities and towns, gutted...
Rocket alert sirens were activated Thursday morning in Israel’s Upper Galilee region along the border with Lebanon, after troops accidentally...
JTA – The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, an annual award that comes with $100,000, this year went to Menachem Kaiser for his nonfiction book...
It’s easy to say that we’re all B’tselem Elokim (created in the image of G-d) but to feel it and to live it is a whole other story. I feel that...
On May 13, in what may have been a significant shift in Russia’s policy, Russian forces manning an S-300 air defence system opened fire on...
As we come to the end of Leviticus, we read about shmitat karka’ot, agriculture Shmitah of releasing the land and letting it rest. For two...
Japan accepted a record number of refugees last year but its refugee admissions program is still a far cry from international standards. Japan has...
Israeli officials have expressed “enthusiasm” to their American counterparts over the Biden administration’s restoring of aid to the...
JTA — Shuly Rubin Schwartz began her work as the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary nearly two years ago. But it wasn’t until this...
NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of people, including top Israeli and American politicians, will march in Sunday’s Celebrate Israel Parade in New...
Staff at a hospital in northern Israel were attacked Wednesday by angry family members of a deceased patient, the latest in a string of incidents...
A branch of the Reform Movement in Israel is suing a popular ultra-Orthodox news website in Jerusalem over its policy of blurring the faces of...
A Beersheba resident has been sentenced on appeal to 13 months in prison for tweets threatening to kill former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Buffalo. Ten dead. A young white man targeting Black people in a Black neighborhood. Military gear. Racist and antisemitic rantings. The "n word."...
A pallbearer beaten by police during the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last week has been arrested, according to his lawyer. Khaldoon...
Likud party leader and opposition chief Benjamin Netanyahu is facing rare, open rebellion from within his party over his decision not to support a...
At the funeral of Noam Raz of blessed memory, an officer in the Yamam police counterterrorism unit who was killed in the Jenin area, his son spoke...
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday criticized the state’s conduct regarding construction work being carried out on the Prime Minister’s...
Acting on an initiative from the Biden Administration, by November 2022, conveniently at the onset of the next flu season in the northern...
To besedilo je nastalo samo zaradi naslova. Bivši predsednik vlade. Kako milozvočno je slišati te tri besede. Melodija iz starih časov, ko so...
JTA — Imagine a village full of Borats, and you’re close to realizing the absurdity of Chelm. The real-life Polish shtetl, a popular subject of...
My Russia-Ukraine series of articles is approaching its conclusion. So let’s summarise: In the first article, I delved into the history of this...
On March 6, 2020, Purim morning, a Friday, my husband Barak Ben Ami stabbed my two little daughters and myself with a kitchen knife. He stabbed all...
By Robert D. Atkinson The last decade has made it clear that China did not move toward open trade, freer markets, or political liberalization as so...
Social and other media was busy blaming Israel for wrongdoing this past May 15th, the so-called “Nakba Day,” which commemorates and laments the...
By Donald Kirk Comparisons between South Korea and the Philippines can be tempting. I can't help but succumb to the temptation after covering last...
By Sho Chang-young June 1 is the eighth Nationwide Simultaneous Local Elections Day of South Korea. According to the National Election Commission...
By Chen Shih-chung Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 510 million confirmed cases and more than 6.25 million deaths have been reported...
In a single move, President Joe Biden just gave Cuba's aging, creaky regime new oxygen to continue to exist, living on to oppress those who oppose...
Our sages advise us to make good use of this holy day, Lag B’Omer. In a letter to his followers, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi writes, “Rejoice on...
Last Friday was Nakba Day, the day set aside to remember the Nakba, which means catastrophe in Arabic. The term refers to the Arab experience in...
The demographic profile of Israel has been periodically celebrated by the retired Israeli Ambassador Yora Ettinger. He published his latest...
Embed from Getty Images As the news unfolded about the horrific massacre at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, NY, and the 10 beautiful lives...
People like to gather. We do so for all sorts of purposes – sporting events, concerts, arts festivals, farmers’ markets etc. – and in each of...
A student of mine told me that 30 years ago, a sheikh from the extremist Palestinian Hamas movement predicted that in 2022, between the month of...
By John J. Metzler It's often said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a brilliant chess player. Various geopolitical analysts and think tank...
According to the Anti-Defamation League, 2021 was a low point in the history of American antisemitism. The organization tallied 2,717 antisemitic...
In the fictitious nation of Tomainia, its dictatorial ruler, Adenoid Hynkel, is in his palace fiddling with a supersize balloon that mimics a...
Report. With the tourist season already underway, the entire southern coast of Sardinia and both the southern stretches of the east and west coasts...
From security to economy, technology President Yoon Suk-yeol will hold his first summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in Seoul on Saturday, raising...
State prosecutors will appeal the controversial decision to grant an early release to jailed serial sex offender Alon Kastiel. Prosecutors in the...
Revived probe team should deal with fund scandal first The prosecution has reinstated the Financial and Securities Crime Joint Investigation Team...
The release of the name of the Druze officer Lt. Col. Mahmoud Kheir a-Din, who was killed in Gaza and received a posthumous commendation for valor,...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in the White House and thanked him for the Biden...