Jordanian FM pushes for 2-state solution in meeting with Ashkenazi at border

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi met with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi on Tuesday at the Allenby Crossing between the West Bank and...

Jewish fraternity AEPi official, controversially tied to pro-Trump group, quits

JTA — Andy Borans, the longtime executive of AEPi whose affiliation with Turning Point USA sparked controversy at the Jewish fraternity, is...

Video creation startup Kaltura files prospectus for long-expected Nasdaq IPO

Israeli-founded video software startup Kaltura Inc has filed a prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a bid to raise at least...

Why ‘Burma’ should remain the country’s name

The brutal takeover by the military, renews the debate about how the country should be addressed, Burma or Myanmar. In the past, the country’s...

The joint list debate for the Palestinian elections is growing

The features of the electoral lists competing in the upcoming Palestinian Legislative Council election are not yet clear. The only certain thing is...

US sanctions Russia over poisoning of opposition leader Navalny

AP — The Biden administration announced sanctions of Russian officials and businesses Tuesday for a nearly fatal nerve-agent attack upon...

Ministers to debate plan to reopen airport ahead of elections

Ministers on Tuesday will discuss a plan to gradually reopen Ben-Gurion Airport ahead of the national elections later this month, following a five-...

The Most Severe Side Effect of the Coronavirus

Ready to work with Netanyahu: Mansour Abbas splinters Arab vote in Israel

At a glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and ideological...

Ultra-Orthodox MK: Women who convert to Judaism through IDF are ‘shiksas’

An ultra-Orthodox lawmaker said women who convert to Judaism through the Israel Defense Forces’ conversion program are considered shiksas, using...

Calls mount to take name of Mexican diplomat accused of rape off Israeli street

There were calls Tuesday for the city of Ramat Gan to redub a street that had been named in honor of a former Mexican diplomat who is now facing a...

In Arabic, 'Work Meeting,' in Hebrew, 'Return to Gaza': An Israeli Underhanded Trick

Israeli and Palestinian Men Are Uniting – to Destroy This Arab Woman’s Political Career

In Israel’s election, one woman wants to hold men to account for their apathy towards and even defense of gender-based violence. No wonder the...

Spanish gag law: The original sin and ongoing penance

Since mid-February, there have been protests in a number of Spanish cities against the jailing of Pablo Hasél, a rapper of Catalan descent. Hasél...

Frontier accused of kicking Hasidic family off flight due to unmasked toddler

JTA — Frontier Airlines is facing accusations of anti-Semitism after videos circulated online of the airline kicking a Hasidic family off a plane...

Shira Haas to play Golda Meir in American TV series

JTA — Israeli actress Shira Haas, best known internationally for her star turn in Netflix’s “Unorthodox,” will portray Israel’s only female...

A long time coming: Reform, Conservative movements laud Israel conversion ruling

The Reform and Conservative religious movements celebrated Monday’s High Court of Justice ruling that legitimized non-Orthodox conversions in...

Myanmar's monthlong 'phony war' is over

International community must rapidly engage with the country's military leadership

China’s sweeping reforms will finally spell the end of Britain’s legacy in Hong Kong

As China’s ruling party prepares to meet for its annual ‘two sessions’ on Friday, the biggest and most important political gathering of the...

One man’s lead on a fight to save Jewish history

Mattan Segev-Frank is a man with a mission. And while he has singlehandedly already begun making an impact, he knows that the issues he is...

PODCAST: Daily Briefing Mar. 2 – Reform/Conservative conversion makes legal Jews

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing: Your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish...

Protecting democracy in a free and open Indo-Pacific

Will 2021 be marked as a turning point for the decline of democracy, or will it prevail over an authoritarian regime? For democracy to prevail in...

The COVID Bubble

NEW YORK – The US economy’s K-shaped recovery is underway. Those with stable full-time jobs, benefits, and a financial cushion are faring well...

Preaching to the converted: What the press is saying about an unorthodox ruling

1. Symbolic bombshell: A High Court ruling that people who convert to Judaism in Israel through the Reform and Conservative movements must be...

6 Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published over racist images

BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being...

Zaka emergency group co-founder awarded Israel Prize for contribution to society

A co-founder and chairman of the Zaka volunteer emergency response group was declared Tuesday a winner of the Israel Prize’s life achievement...

Amazon alters app icon after Hitler mustache comparisons

Amazon has quietly updated the icon on its app after a recently revamped version was said by some to bear a resemblance to Nazi leader Adolf...

Building back together

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN ― Human beings are creatures of habit. We tend to envisage a future much the same as the past, so we cling to familiar...

North Korea lost in translation

By Lee Seong-hyon There are only a handful people in the world who have personally sat down with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and discussed...

North Korea's cyber kleptomania is threat to capitalism

Sometimes missed on North Korea's voluminous list of human rights abuses are its serial cyber kleptomania and global criminal schemes to rip off...

Kindness gap: Prude's death should spur wholesale change in mental health care and policing

Read all of New York Attorney General Tish James' report on Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died last March in Rochester police custody....

The Green Shoots of COVID Solidarity

OXFORD – In a recent letter to her G20 colleagues, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen argued that a truly global COVID-19 vaccination program...

PA admits some 1st vaccines went to government officials, soccer players, Jordan

After public pressure and calls for greater transparency, the Palestinian Authority acknowledged Tuesday that some of the few COVID-19 vaccines in...

Hope in uncertain times

By Moonbin Jeong More than ever, the world economy is suffering from severe recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During this situation, we must...

Hamas under the hold of the PA, Israel in the occupied West Bank

Security services of the Palestinian Authority (PA) have arrested several Hamas members and activists in the occupied West Bank and put them in Al-...

Story of Israeli, Iranian judokas’ friendship on its way to TV

The story of the friendship between Israeli and Iranian judo world champions Sagi Muki and Saeid Mollaei is being developed for television by...

US activists are cynically politicizing a double murder to terrify the LGBT community into voting a certain way

On Monday, February 22, Krisinda Ann Bright walked into her 22-year-old daughter’s room and shot her in the head as she lay in bed. Following the...

A multitude of blessings (Daf Yomi Pesachim 101)

Embed from Getty Images “A change of place requires a blessing.” As we head toward the end of this Tractate, each day’s reading is becoming...

How Top Sr. Scientists beat isolation and stay fit

A year has gone by under the dark clouds of the pandemic. Covid-19 situation in UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany and USA turned worrisome again...

Where does your money go?

In North America, umbrella organizations exist to collect funds for local charities. These may be called the United Way or United Fund or some...

To My Daughters’ Principal

To the Principal of My Daughters’ School In the Hareidi world there are not many like you. You are a rarity. You are rare in your perspective on...

Israel’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ is a scandal, not Michael Che’s ‘SNL’ joke

JTA — Michael Che of “Saturday Night Live” made a joke last week during the show’s “Weekend Update” segment saying that “Israel is...

I can’t fast for Jewish holidays without being reminded of our toxic diet culture

This essay originally appeared on Alma, 70 Faces Media’s feminist Jewish culture site. At 10 years old, I decided it was time for me to start...

Biden Digs Up the Hatchet

Just one month has passed since the newly elected, 46th US President started his tenure in the White House, and he has clearly shown that his...

The Sutton Hoo helmet

The early Anglo-Saxon artefact known as the Sutton Hoo helmet has, since its origins in the 7th century, passed through many incarnations,...

The Rise and Rise of AR in Israel: Why AR is Thriving in The Startup Nation

Israel may be known as the startup nation, but after a series of acquisitions in the field of augmented reality, could the world’s most compact...

Parenting from the Parsha- Parshat Ki Tisa- Balancing Self-Esteem and Humility

It is amazing how the Torah sometimes subtly relays multiple messages- often even contradictory messages-at once, in order to convey a nuanced...

My Jewish upbringing has conditioned me for hope!

It has been a whole year of lost connection. It has also been a whole year of way too much connection. I am talking about the kind of connection...

Wine of the Week: Rose’ du Castel 2020 (Judean Hills)

Alexandria, Egypt is one of the world’s fabled cities. Located originally on the Mediterranean island of Pharos and then connected to the...

European hypocrisy: War crimes that no one will investigate

The hypocrisy of the European Union’s support for an “investigation” into Israeli  “war crimes” by the International Criminal Court is...