Israel's Coalition of Contagion

Triage looms as Japan muddles through response over pandemic

The word triage, which derives from the French verb "trier" meaning to sort or select, initially applied to wool and coffee beans. Medical triage,...

Will Biden undo Trump’s last minute legacy?

While the second state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic has expanded in Japan, the incumbent U.S. president faced a second impeachment in...

India: Tractors at the Republic Day Parade?

“Republic Day” is one of the three national holidays celebrated annually in India on January 26, marking the enactment of the country’s...

Whatever gets your pox off: What the press is saying about COVID, shots and Iran

1. Holding steady on the cusp of disaster: The good news in Israel is that the number of new coronavirus cases no longer appears to be rising. The...

Napoved vremena in kratek dan

Nevihtni pojavi ali vsaj plohe (to so »nevihte brez grmenja«) povzročijo tudi precej bolj neenakomerno krajevno razporeditev količine padavin,...

Jay Rosenzweig On His Jewish Background And Passion For Equality

For Canadian investor, entrepreneur, songwriter, equality, and human rights activist, Jay Rosenzweig , the sight and thought of airports and flying...

Speech in exile

Moshe complains to God that since speaking to the Israelites things have only gotten worse. God tells Moshe to return to the people and tell them...

A spiritual lesson from the vaccine

I am grateful to be among the fortunate, country-wise and age-wise, who have received the vaccine against the Corona virus — both doses. The...

Why facts don’t matter anymore

“The downside of higher education is that it gives you the confidence to maintain baseless fantasies in defiance of common sense.” Derek...

The U. S. election and halachic ‘truth’

The Shulchan Aruch, Code of Jewish Law, states that if three identical pieces of meat, one which is unkosher and two which are kosher, become mixed...

Onward to 2021!

Our collective efforts have mitigated the negative financial impact of 2020, and we have embarked on a path toward recovery in 2021. I am...

Israeli humanitarian aid

Israel adopted an official humanitarian aid agenda in 1958, 10 years after its founding. In 54 years, Israel has provided aid to 140 countries,...

What’s in a name?

Yesterday was Rosh Chodesh Shevat, the first day of what we consider to be the month in which we celebrate the new year of the trees in two weeks,...

Lessons learned from an uncertain tree

Scientists or not, we have all turned into exceptional lab rats. Surveys conducted around the world have clearly indicated that people’s perception...

Trump and the Golem

Shortly after the 2016 election, I found myself in Berlin at the Jewish Museum. Upon exiting the museum, I stumbled upon a temporary exhibit titled...

Moshe’s sense of justice

In the shift from Bereshit to Shemot, we see the Jewish people go from a thriving nation to a persecuted people. As quickly as we said “Chazzak...

Los retos del sector turismo: enfoque en la segmentación y estimulación de la demanda

La pandemia global no fue un evento predecible en 2019, pero ha acelerado muchos de los cambios previsibles que esperábamos en el futuro. Es muy...

(POGLED) Dragi Bane! To je pismo poslancu in prijatelju

Dragi Bane! Najbrž ne zameriš, če te naslavljam po vzdevku, s katerim si se mi predstavil pred davnimi leti v tisti pisarni v centru Maribora, kjer...

China’s Debt Grip on Africa

LONDON – The pandemic is confronting highly indebted poor countries with a fateful dilemma. As Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel Peace...

Ya’alon, running solo, skewers former running mates and potential new partners

Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon said Friday he plans to run alone in the upcoming March elections, despite his dire showing in recent...

10 MAGA tactics that can end the COVID-19 pandemic

10 MAGA Tactics That Can End the COVID-19 Pandemic 1. Conspiracy theories. Pssst… Have you heard the morgue, cemetery and funeral industries...

As Iran edges toward a bomb, an Israeli preemptive strike is more likely

The Iranian government  announced  on January 4 that it had resumed enriching uranium to 20 percent, in a significant move that can shorten...

Taking Sex out of the City

Sex and The City is loved by Turkey’s Generation X because it is reminiscent of the times you could have political sex scandals covered in front...

How to Control the Masses by Silencing the Press

2020 was not a good year for journalism in Southeast Asia – nor for the entire Asian region for that matter. But even before COVID-19 entered the...

Americans must come together to rebuild their fallen democracy

The political crisis in the United States has raised serious questions about the future of the country’s democratic system, which is on the brink...

Letters to the Editor: What Rabin's Assassination Teaches Us About Suppressing Trump Supporters

Japan must embrace international cooperation in the age of COVID-19

Since the onset of winter, the rampaging coronavirus has seemed unstoppable. Yet, compared to the Spanish flu of 100 years ago, the number of...

Ten years after the revolution, Tunisia's president is polarising the country

It is ten years since the people of Tunisia took to the streets and started what became known as the Jasmine Revolution which led to the ouster of...

The Pandemic of Fear

Through a new podcast, Vik’s ideas still ‘fly’

Culture. A podcast in six episodes by Samuele Sciarrillo recalls with voices and sounds the young activist and manifesto contributor, ten years...

Nova fiskalna paradigma

Ko je oktobra lani potekalo redno letno srečanje dveh glavnih globalnih institucij, IMF in Svetovne banke, je Financial Times glavna sporočila s...

Perspective on a 2nd Intifada turning point

This week an Israeli district court delivered a verdict, barring the film Jenin Jenin from being screened in Israel, and ordering the film’s...

With ambassadors like this…

“Love him or hate him” began a recent New York Times farewell article about US ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman. And we are left in no...

Sheldon Adelson laid to rest in small funeral service in Jerusalem

Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson was buried Friday in a small funeral on the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City, with...

Sheldon Adelson’s coffin arrives in Israel ahead of funeral in Jerusalem

A coffin carrying Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson arrived in Israel Thursday evening, ahead of the pro-Israel and GOP megadonor’s...

America’s White Liberal Media Is Complicit in Trump’s Rise, and His Insurrection

There was no ‘economic anxiety’ among the pro-Trump mob besieging the Capitol, from CEOs to Olympic champions. There was, though, plenty of...

Capitalism We Can Believe In

BERKELEY – Even before the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the United States and other developed economies, trust in capitalism had eroded around the...

Twitter has found an unlikely enemy in an angry political class that doesn't want to be silenced

Aside from celebrities cautiously expressing varying levels of distaste with Donald Trump being banned from Twitter, another response has come from...

More power for law enforcement would not have stopped Capitol riot, their inherent bias to the right is the REAL problem

In the wake of the recent Capitol riot in the US, coupled with new information from the FBI that suggests all 50 state capitals could soon be under...

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer describes pain at seeing ‘Camp Auschwitz’ T-shirt

JTA — Longtime CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that he was happy that his late parents, survivors of the Holocaust, did not live to witness...

Netanyahu challenger Gideon Sa’ar pledges change to Israeli-US ties with Biden

AP — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top challenger in upcoming elections is promising a tough line toward Iran and the Palestinians, yet...

The dangerous fault line linking Trump cultists to 9/11

What the global war on terror can teach us about handling paranoid conspiracies

From Israel/Palestine to the US, lies lead to violence

The Arab conflict against Israel was built on one huge lie, which is the claim that Jews have no right to self-determination in Palestine....

UN says world facing ‘catastrophic’ warming as 2020 ties record for hottest year

AFP — The world is on course for a “catastrophic” temperature rise this century, the United Nations said Thursday as it confirmed that 2020...

Israel to start vaccinating citizens aged 45+ Sunday

All Israelis over the age of 45 will be eligible to receive the first COVID-19 shot through their health providers starting Sunday as Israel’s...

Essential workers risk their lives to keep our societies running. Don’t just thank them, pay them more

In between the lockdowns and quarantines, the days and months when time dilated into infinity, and the dawning hope of vaccines, there has been one...

Iran holds ballistic missile, drones drill amid tensions

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces on Friday held a military exercise involving ballistic missiles and drones in the country’s...

Plight of the Uyghurs reflects pattern of oppression in China

No one is safe under Xi Jinping’s regime in China: that is the conclusion of a major new report released this week by the Conservative Party...

After nearly 170,000 get second COVID shot, study shows no major side effects

With nearly 170,000 Israelis already receiving the second shot of the coronavirus vaccine by Friday, initial studies indicated that recipients were...