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Canada’s “Crisis Of Antisemitism”

Prime Minister Mark Carney finally delivered a long overdue public statement on the unsettling spike of antisemitic incidents in Canada. On June 1, in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sheldon Kirshner

Neither Military Pressure nor Flattening Southern Lebanon Can Topple Hezbollah

Neither Military Pressure nor Flattening Southern Lebanon Can Topple Hezbollah

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

Ehud Barak

Bat Yam man to be charged with working for Iranian intelligence

Bat Yam man to be charged with working for Iranian intelligence

Police, Shin Bet say suspect in his 30s had been in contact with Iranian agent for five months before his arrest in May; indictment expected in coming...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

Anti-Israel US Senate candidate draws support despite Nazi tattoo, allegations of abuse

Anti-Israel US Senate candidate draws support despite Nazi tattoo, allegations of abuse

Graham Platner, who is expected to win Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Maine, has called accusations of past violence against women untrue; latest...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Zach Witkoff Interview, a fellow visionary and leader of the Nation of Israel

Zach Witkoff Interview, a fellow visionary and leader of the Nation of Israel

I recently had the opportunity to befriend Zach Witkoff, a true shining light for the Jewish people and a fellow leader of our generation. Zach is an...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joseph scutts

Nothing Went Wrong: A Rereading of Eden and the Architecture of the Torah

Nothing Went Wrong: A Rereading of Eden and the Architecture of the Torah

The Threshold, Not the Fall For most of the history of this reading, a single word has quietly poisoned the well: sin. The Hebrew chet means, at...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Richard Diamond

Hospitals move operations underground as Iran fires missiles at Israel

Hospitals move operations underground as Iran fires missiles at Israel

Medical facilities instructed to prepare to discharge patients who can go home, mobilize for emergency status; health fund clinics without shelters...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Trump is unreliable and it is now evident. Israel needs to act now.

Trump is unreliable and it is now evident. Israel needs to act now.

Trump appears so desperate for a deal with Iran that he has managed to turn what seemed to be an imminent military victory into a strategic setback....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Giovanni Giacalone

Who’s standing with you?

Who’s standing with you?

Last week, I wrote about a question many American Jews are quietly asking themselves…do we recognize the signs? As antisemitism becomes normalized,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Anna steinberg

Let’s Stop Assuming Donald Trump Knows What He’s Doing in the Middle East

Trump: I’m calling Netanyahu ‘right now… to tell him not to retaliate’ for Iran’s missile attacks For nearly a decade, Americans have been...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Paul Mendlowitz

Irvin Ungar: Athur Szyk’s John the Baptist

Irvin Ungar, Reviving the Artist Who Fought Hitler: My Life with Arthur Szyk (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2026). “My soul is bound up with...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Berenbaum

Nova eskalacija vojne: Izrael napadel zahodni in osrednji Iran, ta je že odgovoril

Nova eskalacija vojne: Izrael napadel zahodni in osrednji Iran, ta je že odgovoril

Izraelska vojska je izvedla zračne napade na osrednji in zahodni Iran. Ameriški predsednik Donald Trump naj bi izraelskega premierja Netanjahuja...

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Dnevnik

Alp

Dave Matthews Answered My Blog from the Stage. Now Comes the Hard Part

Dave Matthews Answered My Blog from the Stage. Now Comes the Hard Part

He read four minutes off a piece of paper to 20,000 people. It wasn’t perfect. But the people calling it a fraud — on both sides — are missing...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jaclyn s. clark

We Dare Not Close Our Eyes

In Parashat Korach, the Torah tells of a plague that broke out among Bnei Yisrael, claiming the lives of 14,700 human beings. A number like that is...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Judaism Is Our History, Our Messianic Destiny, and Our Personal Morality

The Jewish religion is the outgrowth of the experience of the Jewish people through events to which they ascribe transcendent meaning. Every people...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Allen S. Maller

Iran Should Remember That Samson’s Hair Grew Back

Iran Should Remember That Samson’s Hair Grew Back

“Let me die with the Philistines.” Judges 16:30 On June 7, 2026, Iran fired ten ballistic missiles at northern Israel, hours after Israeli...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Celeo Ramirez

Brenner, Zombies, and What Zionism Is For

Brenner, Zombies, and What Zionism Is For

Amir Harash and Yosef Haim Brenner. Shekhol ve-Khishalon ve-Zombim (Breakdown and Bereavement Zombies). Am Oved, 2025. What would happen if you took...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Noah shoag

Green Hills Yamanoi

Green Hills Yamanoi

—This is my answer to everyone who criticized this project. The press dismissed the idea of bionic towers here, in Yamanoi, but now I can say to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Rosh Pina

2 Umm al-Fahm men shot and killed in apparently separate incidents in northern Arab towns

2 Umm al-Fahm men shot and killed in apparently separate incidents in northern Arab towns

Ibrahim Agbaria killed in his own bakery in Kafr Qara during sirens warning of Iranian missle fire, 4 years after brother was shot dead; Wissam...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Echoes of 1936: Silencing the Canary

Echoes of 1936: Silencing the Canary

In 1936, the American artist Alice Neel painted a scene of a torchlight protest in New York City. The painting is claustrophobic, dominated by dark,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Uri Goldflam

From conflict to crime?

From conflict to crime?

TL;DR: Academic attention to Israel rose sharply after October 7, but the share of publications using severe accusation frames barely moved. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Tell Me About That

Every year I arrive at WWII Weekend, one of the largest World War II commemorative events in the country, held in Reading, Pennsylvania, prepared to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cindy silverman

Misery Metrics: Gaza Edition

Misery Metrics: Gaza Edition

If the situation were not so serious, it would be very funny. Having advocated for Israel for more than a decade, I became very familiar with the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Challah & Gematria: Sacred Symbolism

The braided loaf placed on every Shabbat table the challah is far less simple than it appears. When read through the lens of the Hebrew alphabet and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Hande gençünal

Dear Bennett and Lapid: Forget Eisenkot and Stop Cannibalizing the 'Change Bloc'

Dear Bennett and Lapid: Forget Eisenkot and Stop Cannibalizing the 'Change Bloc'

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Haaretz

Sami Peretz

Pete Hegseth’s dangerous call to arms in Asia

Pete Hegseth’s dangerous call to arms in Asia

BANGKOK – At the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed America’s Asian allies to spend 3.5% of...

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The Japan Times

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Daily Briefing June 8 – Iran fires on Israel, reigniting smoldering war

Daily Briefing June 8 – Iran fires on Israel, reigniting smoldering war

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on renewed tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and Israel, a massive Hezbollah bunker found under Beaufort and the...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

BDS Was Never About Groceries

Two weeks ago, members of the Park Slope Food Coop — a roughly 17,000-member cooperative grocery store in Brooklyn better known for kombucha than...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shai Davidai

Ste videli roparja bencinskega servisa na Zaloški?

Ste videli roparja bencinskega servisa na Zaloški?

Na Zaloški cesti v Ljubljani so v nedeljo okoli 18. ure oropali bencinski servis. Po do sedaj zbranih obvestilih je neznani storilec vstopil v...

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Dnevnik

Jk

A decade after Brexit, the city of London is fine

A decade after Brexit, the city of London is fine

A decade after the Brexit vote, the finance industry at the heart of London is doing... well, fine actually. When Britain opted to quit the European...

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The Japan Times

Paul J. Davies

Breaking and Strengthening at the Same Time: Using Loss as a Motivation

“We are broken.” She looks down, then right at me, sitting thousands of miles away, sorrow etched on her face. “So many people whose children...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Laura Goodman

Filipinci, ki jih je prizadel močan potres, trepetajo še pred cunamijem

Filipinci, ki jih je prizadel močan potres, trepetajo še pred cunamijem

Filpine je danes prizadel potres z močjo 7,8 in središčem južno od obale mesta General Santos na otoku Mindanao. Po dosedanjih podatkih so umrli...

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Dnevnik

Jk

Digital Hormuz: Iran Turns Underwater Cables into a Trump Card Against the US and Israel

Digital Hormuz: Iran Turns Underwater Cables into a Trump Card Against the US and Israel The global economy has yet to grasp the main military secret...

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New Eastern Outlook

Viktor Mikhin

V Kolpi našel moško truplo

V Kolpi našel moško truplo

Občan je v nedeljo nekaj pred poldnevom v reki Kolpi v okolici Dalnjih Njiv v občini Črnomelj opazil truplo.

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Dnevnik

Jk

(REKLI SO) Goran Vojnović: Zelo verjetno je izraelsko prijateljstvo veliko dražje od madžarskega

(REKLI SO) Goran Vojnović: Zelo verjetno je izraelsko prijateljstvo veliko dražje od madžarskega

 "...Ne morem niti nočem razumeti, da v trenutnih razmerah človek, ki ravnokar postaja slovenski predsednik vlade, javno govori o...

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Večer

D.r

Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia: Synagogue of the American Revolution

Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia: Synagogue of the American Revolution

Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, known as the “Synagogue of the American Revolution,” was founded in 1740 and is the oldest continuous...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jay abramson

Liars or Impostors

There was a time when religious opposition to modern Zionism was principled, coherent, and came from a place of genuine love for the Jewish people....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Barry mellinger

The Tzitzit

The Alshich compares the Mitzva of wearing Tzitzit to tying a string around one’s finger, to remind him of something important that he needs to do....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Must Be Israeli

Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Must Be Israeli

On June 6, 2026, Israeli forces struck Beirut’s Dahieh district after Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks on northern Israel. Iran had threatened...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

من ساحة الإعدام إلى ساحة السيادة

يلتقي مفهوم ميشيل فوكو للسلطة مع مفهوم السيادة عند كارل شميت في مقاربة تحليلية...

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العين الإخبارية

حميد المنصوري

Pro-government Iranians rally in Tehran after renewed missile attacks on Israel

Pro-government Iranians rally in Tehran after renewed missile attacks on Israel

Footage published by state media appears to show crowd calling on IRGC air force commander to ‘strike the devil, strike Tel Aviv,’ as volleys...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The Case against Reform Anti-Zionism

In a recent essay published by the American Council for Judaism, Rabbi Andrue Kahn, the organization’s executive director, argues that the alignment...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Matthew kaufman

Iranian Assets Must Serve the Iranian People

Iranian Assets Must Serve the Iranian People

A Crisis Management and Change Leadership Perspective When frozen or restricted Iranian assets are discussed in Western capitals, the conversation...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alan Bostakian

Libya’s Ghost Arsenal and the Sahel Crisis: Lessons from a Failed Intervention

The United Nations has highlighted a persistent challenge rooted in the 2011 Libyan conflict. Weapons looted from Gaddafi-era arsenals continue to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Amine Ayoub

Defying Trump, Israel strikes Iranian military, fuel targets; Iran, Houthis fire missiles at Israel

Defying Trump, Israel strikes Iranian military, fuel targets; Iran, Houthis fire missiles at Israel

All projectiles intercepted, no injuries; settlement homes damaged; strike targets include Iranian air defenses; report: Netanyahu ‘pseudo-agreed’...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

The Sermon I Found in a Hospital Parking Lot

The Sermon I Found in a Hospital Parking Lot

How a License Plate Reading TORAH 613 Became an Unexpected Lesson in Jewish Living. TORAH 613 in the Doctor’s Parking Lot This week, as I walked...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Anchelle Perl

Netanyahu said to agree to delay strikes on Iran after Trump urges against retaliation

Netanyahu said to agree to delay strikes on Iran after Trump urges against retaliation

US official says Israeli response to Tehran is not likely to be ‘imminent’ * Hospitals move underground, schools shut and bus schedule limited...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Updated bill on Oct. 7 probe allows new comptroller to fill spots boycotted by opposition

Updated bill on Oct. 7 probe allows new comptroller to fill spots boycotted by opposition

Michael Rabello, Netanyahu’s former lawyer who argued before High Court against a state commission of inquiry, set to shape politically appointed...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Predor

Predor

Konec tedna sem potoval v Budvo, v črnogorsko primorje, kjer je Narodna knjižnica organizirala festival Knjige pod ribiško svetilko. To sodi med...

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Dnevnik

Ahmed Burić

Pred nasilnim sinom se je branil s solzivcem

Pred nasilnim sinom se je branil s solzivcem

Marko Kuhar je zanikal, da bi staršema grozil z bencinom in zažigom, kakor tudi fizične napade nanju. Zagotovo se ga nobeden od njiju ni bal, kakor...

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Dnevnik

Tamara Krivec