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Jared Kushner’s brother, ex-CEO of Disney team up to buy LA Lakers for record $12.5B

Jared Kushner’s brother, ex-CEO of Disney team up to buy LA Lakers for record $12.5B

Jewish businessman Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger purchase the storied NBA squad a year after controlling stake was sold for $10B, saying they want it to...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Gurvis

VOX POPULI: Global warming has ushered in an era of ‘climate engineering’

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

How To Apologize Like A Celebrity This Elul

How To Apologize Like A Celebrity This Elul

We are halfway through August, and Elul has just begun. Let’s face it, you have a lot of apologizing to get in before Yom Kippur. When you multiply...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joshua Kail

Democratic incumbent loses Connecticut primary in which Israel not a decisive factor

Democratic incumbent loses Connecticut primary in which Israel not a decisive factor

Luke Bronin, who has said US military aid for Israel shouldn’t be used for offensive weapons but backs ‘defenses for civilians,’ soundly defeats...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

History Has Proven Leibowitz Right

“Every day I check my mailbox, but I have not found a letter from the Almighty confirming it.” That was Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s reply...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yakov Rabkin

CIA reportedly doubted Israeli intel on Iranian threat that led Trump to swap planes

CIA reportedly doubted Israeli intel on Iranian threat that led Trump to swap planes

US spy agency had ‘low confidence’ in report someone may shoot down Air Force One, Washington Post says; official suggests Israel wanted to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The Splinternet and the Startup Nation: Where Does Israel Stand?

When Edward Snowden released thousands of classified NSA documents in June 2013, one detail barely registered in Tel Aviv but should have: a 2009...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Calculated deception: How Israel uses diplomacy to buy time for Gaza’s destruction

Calculated deception: How Israel uses diplomacy to buy time for Gaza’s destruction

Last week’s mass funeral of 112 people—including 44 children from two closely related extended families—was not a new tragedy; it was the...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Reflections on Parashat Shoftim and Elul, the Season of Marriage

Justice and the Limits of Power Shoftim, this week’s parasha, famously begins with the appointment of judges and officials: “You shall appoint...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Naomi Graetz

Parshat Shoftim: The Judge at Your Gate

Parshat Shoftim opens by setting up a court system. שפטים ושטרים תתן לך בכל שעריך. Appoint judges and officers in all your...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stuart Katz

Netanyahu Is Sabotaging Trump's Gaza Plan. Will the President Care?

Netanyahu Is Sabotaging Trump's Gaza Plan. Will the President Care?

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Haaretz

Nimrod Novik

Trump says US to keep up blockade, as Iran vows closed Hormuz until demands met

Trump says US to keep up blockade, as Iran vows closed Hormuz until demands met

Tehran denies reports of ceasefire extension, saying there’s ‘nothing to extend’; 30 countries condemn Islamic Republic’s executions, say...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

New York will regret going into the grocery business

New York will regret going into the grocery business

The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together — sellers, buyers, go-betweens — with different...

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The Japan Times

Allison Schrager

Jack Ukeles, who used data and idealism to shape Jewish communal life, dies at 88

Jack Ukeles, who used data and idealism to shape Jewish communal life, dies at 88

New Yorker turned Jerusalemite was in first graduating class of Bar Ilan University, studied changing face of American Jewry, and spoke out...

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The Times of Israel

Gary Rosenblatt

Putin's Illusions and Ukraine's Reality: Myth vs Westward Integration

Putin's Illusions and Ukraine's Reality: Myth vs Westward Integration

*Originally published in 2024 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As...

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E-International

Alexandros Koutsoukis

Pliny Was Right – Dr. Emma Nalianya on Teaching the Holocaust in Africa

Photo of Dr. Nalianya, Kenya, 2026 When the Republic of Kenya gained independence in 1963 the literacy rate was less than 50%. Today it is over 80%...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Geoffrey Clarfield

The US is now using the ‘terrorist’ label to interfere in Brazil’s election

The US is now using the ‘terrorist’ label to interfere in Brazil’s election

In designating Brazil’s two largest criminal organisations, Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV), as “terrorist” groups,...

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Al Jazeera

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

A Mossad Operation Against Cancer

There is, of course, no Mossad operation against cancer. But there is something about the way Israel approaches complex operations that may offer an...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Adler

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad detained by IDF in West Bank, family says

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad detained by IDF in West Bank, family says

Military doesn’t comment; Palestinian groups say number of detained journalists now 40, pan ‘systematic policy of targeting Palestinian journalists’

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The Times of Israel

Afp

Multiple USS Lincoln sailors tried to go overboard amid dire conditions – reports

Multiple USS Lincoln sailors tried to go overboard amid dire conditions – reports

Carrier rerouted to Mideast ahead of Iran war sets record for deployment length; Democrats demand probe into accounts of food shortages, plumbing...

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The Times of Israel

Afp

Honest Judges

The Torah commanded that there be שופטים ושוטרים, judges and policemen, in all of your gates. They were to judge the people with...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Mamdani dodges question on whether NYPD will go ahead with training in Israel

Mamdani dodges question on whether NYPD will go ahead with training in Israel

New York mayor says decision is in hands of city council, an independent body; footage emerged last year of him blaming Israel for police violence in...

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The Times of Israel

Jta

Shoftim: Why God Began with Shaul

When we think of the kings of Israel, most of us think first of David or Shlomo. David united the kingdom, established Jerusalem, and became the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ben Lazarus

Vest that US-Israeli startup helped make can cut astronauts’ exposure in solar storms, study suggests

Vest that US-Israeli startup helped make can cut astronauts’ exposure in solar storms, study suggests

AstroRad vest, which was developed by StemRad and Lockheed Martin, is now displayed at Florida museum after being put on a manikin named Zohar during...

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The Times of Israel

Marcia Dunn

Backed by Walmart and Cisco, Israel’s Team8 raises $365m to help build AI startups

Backed by Walmart and Cisco, Israel’s Team8 raises $365m to help build AI startups

Venture group plans to use funds for investing in 16 companies that focus on software infrastructure needed for businesses to securely manage AI...

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Wrobel

The Caspian Sea: America's New Eurasian Containment Arena

The Caspian Sea: America’s New Eurasian Containment Arena The Caspian Sea — for thirty years a backwater of great-power politics — has quietly...

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New Eastern Outlook

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Plight of Gaza: Crisis Is Deepening, Yet Overshadowed by Iran Situation

14:59 JST, August 10, 2026 Since the United States and Israeli launched attacks against Iran, attention in the Middle East has now shifted to focus...

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The Japan News

Editorial

An extroaordinary Zionist

In 1290, King Edward I expelled all Jews from the Kingdom of England. After the expulsion, there was no overt Jewish community until the rule of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gloria Ariel

How Did the IDF Become the Army of Wimpish Condemnations?

How Did the IDF Become the Army of Wimpish Condemnations?

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Haaretz

Gideon Levy

900 days after she went missing, Haymanut Kasau’s family demands answers from Shin Bet

900 days after she went missing, Haymanut Kasau’s family demands answers from Shin Bet

Dozens rally outside security agency’s HQ to demand justice for the missing girl, whose father suggests the Shin Bet has ignored his daughter’s...

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The Times of Israel

Noam Lehmann

A Kind of Intelligence That Matters More Than IQ

A Kind of Intelligence That Matters More Than IQ

Not all kinds of intelligence can be measured on standardized tests.

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Psychology Today

Mark Travers Ph.d

How Dare Expat Israelis Come Back Home to Vote? Against Bibi, That Is

How Dare Expat Israelis Come Back Home to Vote? Against Bibi, That Is

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Haaretz

Yoana Gonen

A Vital Message for Elul: Don’t Be Afraid, for G-d is With You!

A Vital Message for Elul: Don’t Be Afraid, for G-d is With You!

“When you go out to battle against your enemy, and you see horse and chariot – a people more numerous than you – you shall not fear them, for...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Pinny Arnon

US slams Katz after he boasts that Israel is ‘here to stay’ in southern Lebanon

US slams Katz after he boasts that Israel is ‘here to stay’ in southern Lebanon

Report says Hegseth and several other close aides joined Trump on decoy flight amid Iranian threat to Air Force One * White House press secretary to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The Back-to-School Parent Trap

The Back-to-School Parent Trap

When wanting the best for your kids starts hurting your family’s finances.

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Psychology Today

Nathan Astle Cft-I

‘Important new chapter’: NYC’s Park East Synagogue partners with local Chabad

‘Important new chapter’: NYC’s Park East Synagogue partners with local Chabad

Collaboration between prominent synagogue and neighborhood Hasidic group hailed as a ‘giant leap forward,’ could offer benefits to both sides

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

Trump Looking for an Off-Ramp

Trump Looking for an Off-Ramp

Declare Victory, Then Exit Stage Right The unfolding crisis around the Strait of Hormuz has entered a phase where political incentives, military...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

William Keenan

Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz: וְלִירוּשָלַיִם עִירְךָ בְּרַחֲמִים תָּשוּב

The fifth Essay Commemorating The Yahrzeit Of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the Third Day of Elul. The pieces were beginning to fit together. And...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Paul Mendlowitz

Jewish Historical Museum of Saint John, New Brunswick Celebrates 40 Years

Jewish Historical Museum of Saint John, New Brunswick Celebrates 40 Years

The Saint John Jewish Historical Museum marked a significant milestone on Sunday, June 28, celebrating its 40th anniversary as a guardian of Jewish...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jay Abramson

Writing Your Own Fanfiction Is Good for You

Writing Your Own Fanfiction Is Good for You

The controversy over using AI in fanfiction and how that lessens its benefit.

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Psychology Today

Lynn Zubernis Ph.d

On the Political Economy of the Worldwide Pogrom

We are witnessing an extraordinary eruption of hostility toward Israel—and toward Jews more generally—global in reach, moralistic in intensity,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lev Deych

Železniški pragovi, premazani s kreozotom, streljaj od stanovanj

Železniški pragovi, premazani s kreozotom, streljaj od stanovanj

Prebivalci Črnuč opažajo, da se z deponiranih železniških pragov vije neprijeten vonj, ki ga nekateri povezujejo tudi z glavoboli ter draženjem...

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Dnevnik

Tamara Čalošević

Israel Using the Judea and Samaria Militia to Enforce Palestinian Expulsion

Israel Using the Judea and Samaria Militia to Enforce Palestinian Expulsion

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Haaretz

Haaretz Editorial

AI Therapists Are Coming (for the Next Generation)

AI Therapists Are Coming (for the Next Generation)

Personal Perspective: Those growing up with AI will have different opinions about it.

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Psychology Today

Matt Bishop Ed.d

Between Tefillin and the Kaaba

Between Tefillin and the Kaaba

A Letter to the Jewish People from a Muslim We do not wish you harm. And when Muslims fail that standard, they fail Islam before they fail you. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ibrahim Mukherjee

US said fuming at Israel for allowing ‘anarchy,’ rampant settler violence in West Bank

US said fuming at Israel for allowing ‘anarchy,’ rampant settler violence in West Bank

Despite reported frustration, Trump refrains from publicly calling out Israel for not cracking down on violent settlers, who he lifted US sanctions...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Fleeing the Terror: The Story of Ariella Pardo Segre

Fleeing the Terror: The Story of Ariella Pardo Segre

São Paulo – In 1943, as Nazi persecution intensified in Italy, the Pardo family risked everything to survive. Guided by a smuggler and sheer...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Silas Anastacio

Kako smo o resnici razmišljali pred googlom

Kako smo o resnici razmišljali pred googlom

Ko sem bila študentka, sem se zaljubila v sliko. Bila je velikega formata, na papirju. Z močnimi barvami in zelo preprostimi potezami je Marko...

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Dnevnik

Uršula Cetinski

Skozi oči nekdanje članice: večina bi spet v EU, politika pa je previdna

Skozi oči nekdanje članice: večina bi spet v EU, politika pa je previdna

Novi britanski premier je svoje najbolj znane besede o EU omilil, ko je dejal, da preklic brexita ni njegova prioriteta, ker ne želi, da bi se...

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Dnevnik

Brane Kastelic