France’s Republicans pick Valérie Pécresse as presidential candidate

PARIS — Valérie Pécresse, the head of the Paris region and a former conservative minister, has been chosen to run in France’s presidential race...

Poll shows 1 in 3 Israeli parents do not want kids to study with the disabled

A new poll of Israelis shows one in three parents do not want their children to study with kids with disabilities. The poll, conducted among 553...

9-year-old girl dies a day after West Bank car crash that killed her brother

A nine-year-old girl died of her injuries Saturday, a day after she and her family were involved in a West Bank car crash that killed her...

France’s Macron meets Saudi crown prince in Gulf tour focused on Iran, Lebanon

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday for the final leg of a...

Dirty Gold Destroys Lives and the Environment

Since before Cleopatra, gold jewelry has been a prized gift. But gold can also be a curse. “Dirty gold” is gold produced using poor...

Zemmour Trying To Outflank Le Pen

Eric Zemmour, a journalist who belongs to no political party and has never held public office, is running as an outsider for the presidency of...

Jewish Unity – OK; Responsibility – No Way!

An email I received regarding one of my op-ed columns on Times of Israel read as follows: “I think you are 100% correct that the biggest problem...

My will.i.am fantasy… he tells the world the truth about Israel

I love the Black-Eyed Peas – that is, I love their music. I especially love “I got a Feeling” with that unexpected, staccato “Mazeltov” in...

Anti-vaxxers have made me lose faith in the political right

Conspiratorial thinking has led to Covid-19 vaccines being politicised to a dangerous level which not only alienates people – like me – who...

My “Homeless Christmas”

Kolumna Marka Tomaša: Podnajemnik

​Dež je nemilosten do časa, ki mi je podarjen. Tolažim se, toda zunaj se nič ne dogaja niti ob lepem vremenu. Ko dežuje, so možnosti, da bom...

Larry David has never been more Jewish than in this season’s ‘Curb’

JTA — “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has always been a Jewy show, but this season it is downright Jewish. On the HBO sitcom, now in its 11th season,...

Chanukah and Canada’s Religious Freedom Problem

Chanukah celebrates the victory of the Maccabees, a renewal of Jewish Government in the land of Israel, and religious freedom in the face of...

Social justice should not be controversial

There is a crisis today in our public schools: in many classrooms across the country, truth is being deemed treif, unfit for consumption....

Two Fake Stories about the DPRK in November 2021

Anti-Pyongyang propaganda periodically delights the world with horror stories in the DPRK, which circulate well in the media and which now must be...

EDITORIAL: About-face on airline bookings deepens distrust in government

The government’s retraction of its request to airlines to stop accepting reservations for international flights to Japan is worthy of harsh...

Israel’s Illegal Occupation of the Golan Heights Remains an Obstacle to Peace

During the period of the last Labor government in Australia, the general policy of that government, which was in power for six years from 2008 to...

Central Asian and Middle Eastern Countries Step Up Cooperation

On November 28, the 15th Summit of the Leaders of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Member-States was held in Ashgabat, the capital of...

VOX POPULI: Prince Shotoku a man for all seasons, and ordinary, too

Next year marks the 1,400th anniversary of the death of Prince Umayado, better known as Prince Shotoku, who had at least four wives. Anecdotes...

Who decides that omicron is a 'South African' variant?

Blaming South Africa for the new COVID-19 variant is wrong. A global crisis needs a global response, says DW's Sertan Sanderson. Instead of finger-...

Blast reported in vicinity of nuclear site in Natanz, Iran

A blast was reported Saturday in the vicinity of a nuclear site in Natanz, Iran, according to preliminary reports, which did not provide further...

Herzog, in first call with UAE leader, talks free trade and Mideast stability

President Isaac Herzog spoke with the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates for the first time over the weekend, his office said Saturday....

Anti-vaccine ad by Orthodox group briefly takes over Crown Heights bus stop

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Compared to the rest of New York City, the residents of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood have both been...

Police search for parents of US school shooter after manslaughter charge

WASHINGTON — The parents of a 15-year-old who shot dead four students at a US high school with a gun bought by his father were preparing Friday...

Twitter rollout of new picture rules marred by ‘errors’ amid far-right abuse

Washington (AFP) — Twitter’s new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said Friday that...

Jerusalem’s Train Theater takes a short ride to a new playhouse

When Jerusalem’s Train Theater opened in 1981, the puppet playhouse was held in a repurposed railroad carriage stationed in Liberty Bell Park, a...

Sialkot: when religious fanaticism goes too far…

Almost 19 hours ago, a Sri Lankan factory manager was stoned, tortured and set alight in Sialkot, Pakistan. His crime? He tore down an Islamist...

Police capture, arrest US school shooter’s parents on manslaughter charges

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a teen accused of killing four students in a shooting at a Michigan high school were caught early Saturday,...

British rapper Wiley kicked off Twitter, Instagram over antisemitic posts – again

British rapper Wiley was suspended from Instagram and Twitter, for the second time, on Friday over a series of antisemitic posts including one about...

Man stabbed near Jerusalem’s Old City in suspected terror; assailant shot dead

A young Israeli man was stabbed in Jerusalem Saturday afternoon, in what authorities said was a suspected terror attack. The Haredi man, aged...

Three young men killed in car crash in the Lower Galilee

Three young men from Haifa were killed Friday night in a car crash in the Lower Galilee. The three victims’ car overturned near Tamra, east of...

ADL: Holocaust denial remains prevalent on Facebook despite ban

The Anti-Defamation League has said that, a year after Facebook banned Holocaust denial from the platform, there remain “cracks in enforcement”...

France’s Macron in Saudi to talk regional stability with crown prince

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron met Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler in Jeddah Saturday to discuss regional stability,...

To grasp modern Israeli-Palestinian melting pot, author advises: Tribe, tribe again

They say that if you really want to get to know a place, speak to the locals. This is the premise of author Ethan Michaeli’s new book “Twelve...

US intelligence finds Russia making plans for Ukraine offensive

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pledged on Friday to make it “very, very difficult” for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to take military action...

Biden's decision to be petty with his democracy summit is going to backfire

There’s always a sense of satisfaction when you see a bully get his comeuppance. You know, when the underdog knocks out the champion boxer, or...

Sudan military leader says ties with Israel ‘may eventually take a natural form’

Sudan’s top general, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has said that “Sudan’s relationship with Israel may eventually take a natural form.” In an...

Kolumna Svetlane Slapšak: Osji med

Ose ne izdelujejo medu; to sliko sem uporabila kot metaforo za nekaj neobstoječega, kar pa je povezano z nečim skrajno problematičnim in nevarnim:...

Tree that survived the Holocaust gains new life in New York City

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In January of 1943, Irma Lauscher, a teacher at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, smuggled...

Fresno State Uni to consider renaming library honoring Nazi sympathizer

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Administrators at California State University, Fresno, announced this week they would...

At least 30 killed in suspected jihadist attack in central Mali

BAMAKO, Mali — Suspected jihadists in central Mali killed at least 30 civilians in an attack on a passenger vehicle in the volatile central town...

‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 4 set for release in February

JTA — It’s official: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Season 4 will be dropping on February 18, 2022, on Amazon Prime. We’ve been waiting for...

Arab masses will always oppose the existence of racist Israel

Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated in the capital of Amman last week against the regime's latest deal with the Israeli enemy. Despite the fact...

Why rising ultra-left nationalism is the biggest danger to China’s development

The period of the Great Leap Forward, the People’s Communes and the Anti-Rightist Campaign from 1957 to 1962 may be a bygone era the Chinese...

'We had a choice - war or diplomacy' - MEMO speaks to Emad Kiyaei

On Monday, 29 November, 2021, delegates and diplomats from the US, China, the UK, France, Russia, Germany and Iran restarted negotiations on...

Could Taiwan’s Political Left Reconsider Nuclear Power?

Modern Taiwan is reinventing itself. From shifts in electoral politics to recognition of complicated historical legacies to reconsideration of the...

For Jews of the Grand Canyon and rural Arizona, religious life requires dedication

Jewish News of Greater Phoenix via JTA — Stan Coffield and his wife were pretty open-minded when deciding where they would retire. “I wanted...

Aid cut-off may kill more Afghans than war

Three months after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes. Poverty and malnutrition are...

A quest to recreate Davidic Jerusalem carves a valley of shadow Palestinians

One of Jerusalem’s newest attractions is an educational farm where visitors can learn about traditional agriculture. Guests to the site, on land...

Robots are now able to replicate. What does this mean for humanity?

A team of scientists at the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and Harvard University have created ‘living robots’ (called Xenobots) that...