(POGLED) Arabska izdaja Palestine

Običajno je, da države, ki imajo velika nesoglasja, kljub temu ohranjajo diplomatske in trgovinske odnose. A obstajajo tudi okoliščine, ki tega...

A Message of Incitement

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Yom Kippur: The Handkerchief at the Train Station

There is a famous folktale about a young man who was traveling on the train through the countryside .  The person sitting next to the young man...

The Monster of Melbourne

Six years and seventy-one court hearings and trials, Malka the monster of Melbourne is being prepared for her over-due extradition from Israel to...

The ‘cli-fi’ backlist is now hundreds of novels deep worldwide in 10 languages

Cli-fi shifts readers’ beliefs, but not for long, according to the first empirical test of the effects of reading ”cli-fi,” in which researchers...

The two-way street of that sexy shofar

When we pray, we talk to G^d. The verb to pray in Hebrew is reflexive. While it’s obvious that G^d hears our prayers, it’s crucial that we...

Physics of Tzimtzum II—Collapse of the Wave Function

In the previous post “Physics of Tzimtzum I—The Quantum Leap”, we gave a general overview of the mystical doctrine of tzimtzum—the cornerstone...

G-d’s Master Plan – XXXVI – A Tribute To RBG – ‘All I Ask Of Our Brethren Is That They Take Their Feet Off Our Necks’

בסייד Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a champion of women’s rights and spent her whole life fighting for what she knew was...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Ultimate Pragmatist

Most commentators eulogize the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her dissenting opinions, rather than for her true legacy. In...

To Friends Who Are Parents

What some of you now experience for the first time is the other end from what I experienced basically every day from the time I was 8 until I was...

A better way to help Californians survive wildfires

Firestorms in the West have grown bigger and more destructive in recent years _ and harder to escape. Massive and frenzied, they have overtaken...

Reopening peace factory

By Javier Solana MADRID ― The Sperry Corporation was an American manufacturer of electronic components, information-technology equipment, and...

Japan's new leader has narrow window to advance South Korea ties

Relationship with Seoul will be one of Suga's biggest foreign policy challenges

Burial societies gird for wave of coronavirus deaths

Amid warnings of an expected spike in deaths from the coronavirus, Israel’s burial services, the Hevra Kadisha, are preparing for a flood of...

Settlers suspected of attacking police at flashpoint settlement

The tires of a police vehicle were slashed overnight Tuesday during operations in the flashpoint West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, police said, just...

No deal with Israel, but Saudi Arabia pushes outreach to Jews

AFP — From scrubbing hate-filled school textbooks to a taboo-defying religious sermon, Saudi Arabia is pushing for another kind of normalization...

Recollections of the Yom Kippur War

What would we do without wars there would be fewer casualties of soldiers in the field, but not as many as those killed on our roads! So today on...

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

United. The first known use of ‘united’ was around 1552. The dictionary tells us that it means being in agreement. As the world tries to unite...

Follow The Money And Then Run From It With Herschel Walker

Usually I lace my blogs with dry humor, and I’ve tried for this one…I‘ve really tried. The problem is that, despite my wishes that it weren’t...

Fervent Wishes

Democrats are turning the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg into Evita. Within hours of Justice Ginsburg’s demise on...

For the Palestinians, a Time of Reckoning

The old adage says that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. For decades, their maximalist intransigence has led them...

Gonzo Judaism

Over the past few weeks, Israelis have watched as the country has gone from a staggeringly high coronavirus case number, around 2,000 just a few...

Spotify employees flexing muscles to CENSOR Joe Rogan are getting their revenge, even if it means killing their cash cow

Rogan issued a groveling apology via Instagram last week for claiming during a conversation with British conservative commentator Douglas Murray...

Pentagon head tells Gantz US will protect Israeli edge, as F-35 sale zooms ahead

The top US defense official told his Israeli counterpart that Washington was committed to maintaining Israel’s military edge in the region Tuesday,...

NYC authorities raise alarm as new virus outbreaks spotted in Orthodox areas

JTA — Six heavily Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens are currently contributing 20% of all new COVID-19 cases in New York City, and...

When promoting Christian family values & querying LGBT lessons gets you fired, it’s clear the Bible is woke militia’s new target

Negotiating life in modern woke culture requires real dexterity. Sometimes a person slips up, finding it impossible to hold their tongue about how...

Zoom said to cancel event with Palestinian terrorist hijacker Leila Khaled

A planned speech by a Palestinian terrorist at a virtual event hosted by San Francisco State University suffered a setback Tuesday after Zoom...

Virus surges to 6,861 daily cases ahead of cabinet meet on tightening closure

The Health Ministry said on Wednesday morning that 6,861 new virus cases had been diagnosed in Israel the previous day, a massive surge to a record...

People don’t fully understand anti-Semitism, Ilhan Omar says

JTA — Many people have gaps in their understanding of what anti-Semitism is and how it works, according to Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has been accused...

To Murder, but Only According to Jewish Law

Think you’re no good at judging others’ emotions? Join the club

Author Ramo Nakajima (1952-2004) gave tongue-in-cheek answers to questions from readers in “Akarui Nayami Sodanshitsu” (Upbeat counseling room...

GOP Senate candidate defends controversial Ginsburg abortion meme

DOVER, Delaware (AP) — Republican US Senate candidate Lauren Witzke on Tuesday defended a controversial meme in a Facebook post by her campaign...

Lessons from ‘second wave’ can guide way to economic revival

The Suga administration says it will simultaneously fight the novel coronavirus pandemic and sustain socio-economic activities. But exactly how...

Suga diplomacy needs a vision, with Japan-US alliance at core

Promoting Indo-Pacific strategy and TPP will best advance national interest

Senate Republicans dash ahead with plans to fill court seat before election

WASHINGTON (AP) — Votes in hand, Senate Republicans are charging ahead with plans to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the late...

With months to live, neurologist Oliver Sacks gave a master class on how to die

On a Friday night in February 2015, the legendary British Jewish neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks gathered his inner circle in his New York City...

Pokažimo otrokom, da nam je zanje mar

September je za otroke, njihove starše in vse, ki so povezani z njihovo vzgojo in izobraževanjem, mesec začetkov – ponoven začetek pouka in...

Trump says 200,000 virus deaths a ‘shame,’ but could be much worse

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said it was “a shame” that the US had reached the grave milestone of 200,000 COVID-19-related deaths,...