Book burning in Jerusalem: City to set up cameras after arson at Reading Station

The Jerusalem municipality on Sunday vowed to quickly rebuild a popular outdoor lending library and set up security cameras after vandals set the...

Toi Staff

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Japan’s full of wind, but China could blow away the competition

HERE COMES THE FILTHI think most people would agree with the observation that the air quality in Hong Kong this year seems to have improved....

Neil Newman

20

Kosher Movies: The Dancer Upstairs

Terrorism is very much a part of the world’s landscape at this point in history. Terrorist attacks occur not only in Israel, but in the United...

Herbert J. Cohen

10

Damage from Trump's trade wars won't heal quickly: analysts

After four years in office, Donald Trump has failed to achieve his promise to eliminate the U.S. trade deficit, and dealt a lasting blow to the...

Japan Today

9

Ahilova peta ustavnega loka

Povsem razumem in podpiram mnoga prizadevanja za spremembo sedanjih razmer, v katerih mediji (po oceni trenutne oblasti seveda pristranski in...

Dragan Petrovec

10

Cabinet appoints high-level committee to rule on future of Haifa Bay area

The cabinet on Sunday appointed a committee of top officials to examine the future of Haifa Bay, long home to some of the country’s worst...

Sue Surkes

10

How Jewish groups are protecting voting access in 2020

JTA — If you’re in Arizona or Florida and a 585 area code pops up on your phone, you might want to answer: It could be a Jewish volunteer in...

Ron Kampeas

10

Did a Lebanese reporter go to jail for talking to me?

The setting was the 1991 Middle East peace conference in Madrid. It was before the Oslo process between Israel and the PLO – the Palestine...

David Zeev Jablinowitz

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An Encounter with a Sudanese Military Official

Many years ago, when I conducted my PhD research on Rwandan foreign policy, I had the fortunate opportunity to visit the Rwandan Peace Academy....

Jonathan R. Beloff

10

Is America Great Enough for You Yet?

For the vast number of American Jews, Donald Trump and his followers have become the repository of bullying, intimidation, racism, anti-semitism,...

Samuel M. Edelman

9

How A Man I Never Met Changed My Life

I seem to find new inspiration every time that I volunteer at the Pina Chama, the Soldiers’ Corner in Gush Etzion. Today, while I was working, I...

Romi Sussman

9

When Christian is Jewish: Living a Jewish life with a non-Jewish name

JTA — Christian Goldenbaum is used to people doing a double-take after he introduces himself. Almost every single day while living abroad in New...

Josefin Dolsten

20

Government extends multi-billion dollar plan for Arab municipalities

The cabinet voted on Sunday to extend by a year a multi-billion dollar program aimed at closing extensive gaps between Jewish and Arab communities...

Aaron Boxerman

10

Naming new cardinals, Pope Francis appoints first Black US prelate

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first...

Frances Demilio

6

Samsung after Lee's death

Chaebol's future relies on transparent governance Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee died Sunday at 78. His death came six years and five months...

Editorial

20

Tobacco nationalism is more toxic than tobacco

Although one in four of all adult Indians use tobacco, the country’s addiction runs far deeper. The government, too, has a toxic dependence....

Andy Mukherjee

30

Socialism is no longer just a specter

WASHINGTON – In 1906, Werner Sombart, the German economist, explained America’s resistance to socialism in five words, “roast beef and apple...

George F. Will

20

COVID-19 accelerated the future of jobs. Here’s how to protect workers.

For years, the technological changes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution have ushered us closer and closer to the future of employment, as emerging...

Saadia Zahidi

20

Clocks in Israel turn back as daylight saving ends

Israel’s winter officially began overnight Saturday-Sunday as clocks turned back one hour, marking the end of daylight saving time. At 2 a.m....

Toi Staff

20

Egypt’s parliamentary vote likely to tighten el-Sissi’s grip over legislature

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians cast ballots Saturday in the first stage of the country’s parliamentary election, a vote which is highly likely to produce...

Samy Magdy

20

Large volunteer sand and sea cleanup planned for Friday

A massive beach and sea cleanup day will take place on Friday to draw policymakers’ attention to the need to better protect marine life. Thousands...

Sue Surkes

20

10,000 Israelis have used 119 cyberhotline to report hacks: Cyber Directorate

Some 10,000 Israeli citizens and organizations have called up the nation’s cybersecurity hotline, 119, in the past year – from September 2019...

Shoshanna Solomon

20

Peace is not about leaders. It is about people.

We stand to witness a potential new era begin here in the Middle East. For centuries, the Middle East has been nothing less than a continuous...

Joshua Brook

20

Google's monopolistic acts

Trustbusters need to put brakes on global tech company Google's "preloading" of its web search engine on smartphones could be tantamount to abuse...

Editorial

10

If elected, Trump will ramp political prosecution of opponents

By Trudy Rubin Not long after federal authorities broke up an extremist plot to kidnap or kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whom President...

Trudy Rubin

10

Deep 'han'

By Mark Peterson My previous article "End of han" generated one of the largest responses of any of my articles. "Han" is something everyone knows...

Mark Peterson

10

Trump less unhinged in 2nd debate, but Biden still scored

More than 47 million Americans already have voted, and it's doubtful that many who still haven't cast a ballot are undecided about whom to choose...

Tribune Service

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Inner reflection amid COVID-19

By Kumar Vikrant Before the COVID-19 pandemic, students who were about to graduate in a year or two had healthy thoughts of being ushered into a...

Kumar Vikrant

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Woman, 46, stabbed and seriously wounded in north; husband arrested

A 46-year-old woman from northern Israel was stabbed and seriously injured Sunday in a suspected case of domestic violence, with her 54-year-old...

Toi Staff

10

COVID-19 hits the Cabinet and German leaders shrug

The health minister tested positive for COVID-19 after meeting with colleagues. Officials implore Germans to stay home for their communities —...

Rosalia Romaniec

10

The imaginary genocide of white South Africa

Analysis. The rhetoric of white genocide has long managed to find allies overseas. In 2018, Australia’s Interior Minister proposed issuing...

Jacopo Lentini

Il Manifesto Global

10

Run Rabbit, Run, Run, Run

The ancient Egyptians had the right idea. Let me run it by you. When a pharaoh had completed his first 30 years in power, he was expected to fulfill...

Roger M. Kaye

10

Finland’s 34-year-old Prime Minister Sanna Marin bares it all to expose misogyny

Yes, it’s true: Finland’s 34-year-old Prime Minister has recently bared it all to expose ”misogyny” in Finland and worldwide. Google the news...

Danny Bloom

10

Trump fools some USrs most of the time, most USrs some of the time, is so losing

2016, conceited Clinton vs. terminator Trump was for many: neither. 2020, Trump vs. Biden is very different. By Trump’s own admission: “What an...

Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

10

Remembering Me

One of the great joys of growing old (in my case growing VERY old), is a pleasure beyond words to hear from people whose lives I have in some way...

Esor Ben-Sorek

10

The Prelude to the Third Daily Blessing for Zion and Jerusalem

Since biblical times religious Jews have recited blessings after each meal. Three times every day they have thanked God for providing the food that...