Podcast: Overlooking the Dead Sea, with Spencer Tunick and 200 nude models

Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. This week, arts and culture editor Jessica Steinberg headed to Arad, 25...

Oversight panel rebukes Facebook, will review system exempting VIPs from rules

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Facebook’s oversight panel announced a probe on Thursday of the company’s system to reportedly exempt high-profile users from...

The day I got to see Van Gogh’s stunning ‘Wheatstacks,’ from both sides

In the course of Friday, a wonderful painting by Vincent van Gogh, Meules de Blé (Wheatstacks), is being packed up and flown from London to New...

A New Vision for Global Cooperation

NEW YORK – The world faces a range of serious threats – from exclusionary nationalism to great-power competition to growing inequality – that...

PHOTO ESSAY: Hadassah’s COVID fighters

The coronavirus is still here. The numbers keep dropping and sometimes we forget that in the last year-and-a-half more than 8,000 Israelis died...

The Middle East is in desperate need of geopolitical recalibration, maybe it's underway

One of the gains from the much talked about American "pivot" towards Asia is the genuine prospect for geopolitical recalibration. As implausible as...

From Dylan to Beyoncé: Spiritual Secrets Revealed

The Temptations. The Grateful Dead. The Runaways. Nirvana. Destiny’s Child. The names of rock and roll heroes insist on spiritual liberation and...

Before the Abraham Accords, there was Madrid

Last week, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken hosted Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed to celebrate...

Countries’ broken promises leave Afghans trapped and abandoned

Report. Closed borders, deportations, confinements in third countries and push-backs. A new Amnesty International report reveals the world’s...

Alleged Turkish Mossad spy describes unwitting recruitment, training in Zurich

A Turkish man allegedly working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has reportedly described how he was recruited and taken to Switzerland...

Fallen scion Robert Durst charged with murdering wife who vanished in 1982

NEW YORK (AP) — Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst, who was sentenced last week in California to life in prison for killing a confidante,...

Colin Powell and the Meaning of Charisma

LONDON – I have read the obituaries of General Colin Powell, who died this week, with considerable sadness. I got to know this great American...

Gröhlingova reforma pre reformu

Pritom vysoké školy sa reformujú s malými prestávkami už tridsať rokov a stále to nestačí, kvalita naďalej pokrivkáva. Namiesto...

Director Eric Steel on Jewish-LGBTQ film ‘Minyan,’ one of this year’s top 10

NEW YORK — A famous quote attributed to James Joyce goes, “In the particular is contained the universal.” If you buy this, then “Minyan” is...

'Incomplete success'

Strenuous efforts needed to become global aerospace powerhouse South Korea reached a brilliant achievement in its aerospace history Thursday, by...

(STRAN 210) O tistih, ki plešejo po grobovih

Nekateri ljudje radi plešejo po grobovih. V mislih nimam kake obskurne sekte, ki bi se ob vsaki drugi zimski polni luni zbirala na britofih in tam...

Three years on, Pittsburgh synagogue attacker still not on trial

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) — As the three-year mark since the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue approaches, survivors are planning now-...

The Forecast for the Young – Severe Weather and Anxiety

An extensive study among young people ages 16-25 has revealed that they are anxious about the future, and with good reason. The research, whose...

Spiritual authenticity of doubt and disappointment

Parashat VaYera October 22, 2021 16 Cheshvan 5782 Haftorah: II Kings 4: 1-37 The haftorah comprises two stories from the prophetic career of...

Parshat Vayera: The Test of Choice

We all know people who don’t like making decisions. Whether it’s as minuscule as what to eat for dinner or as important as accepting the right...

Remembering History to Solve Problems

One of the most famous of all aphorisms belongs to the philosopher George Santayana: “ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...

Northern Getaway in Israel

If you were going away by car for a few days, could you have lunch at a 2,000 year old seaport, once the most modern in the world? Or, could you...

Shir HaShirim Asher LeShlomo: Rav Kook And Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

“The great souls feel in the depths of their being their connection to all existence, to all creatures and especially to all humankind…they...

Calling out Bigotry, Both Right and Left

Much “ink” has been spilled in recent years over the dangers posed to both Jewish and American values by a particularly ugly version of the...

Ness Gadol Haya Zoom

In September 1993, I moved with my parents and two younger brothers from Israel to Montreal, Canada. I was almost 16 years old then and have been...

Sinister Rockefeller Food System Agenda -- They Created it and Now Want to Destroy It

No one group has done more to damage our global agriculture and food quality than the Rockefeller Foundation. They began in the early 1950s after...

Sparing Pigeons Pain, Part 2

Five Cheers for Tel Aviv’s people and government. The story that recently appeared here about pigeons’ pain, local politics, and civic action...

All in the family

Some of the biggest brands in the world economy began as family businesses, and many of them are still run by a boardroom of brothers and sisters....

How has the Pandemic Redistributed the World’s Wealth?

At a recent IMF event on recovering nations from the coronavirus pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19...

VOX POPULI: Banner harvest met with bad omens for future of rice farming

The season of new rice is here, and supermarket shelves are stacked with bags of freshly harvested rice from various regions, marketed under brand...

Globalizirano vreme

Že v osnovi vremenske procese določa neenakomerna razporeditev sončne energije po zemljepisni širini. Na polih je je vedno precej manj kot v...

EDITORIAL: Parties face acid test in dealing with Fukushima reconstruction

It is probably difficult for the communities in Fukushima Prefecture ravaged by the nuclear disaster to describe the weight of their struggles over...

How to make Quad tech cooperation truly quadrilateral

Japan, India and Australia must learn to work better together

No far-right publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, please!

Protest over far-right exhibitors at the Frankfurt Book Fair is justified, says DW’s Stefan Dege. A history of racist violence in Germany makes...

Bennett jets to Russia for lightning talks with Putin on Iran, region

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took off Friday for a lightning visit to Sochi to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks expected to...

For India, It’s Now Clear the Taliban Means Real Trouble

NEW DELHI – Since the fall of Kabul, fear is rising in Indian-administered Kashmir and in New Delhi that the Taliban victory in Afghanistan...

Dragging out consulate reopening, Biden does Israel a favor, but not himself

It’s been five months since Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US would be reopening its consulate in Jerusalem. Bringing back...

Gantz declares six Palestinian human rights groups ‘terrorist organizations’

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz declared six Palestinian human rights groups to be “terrorist organizations” on Friday, saying that they...

Alec Baldwin fires prop gun on movie set, killing director of photography

SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) — A prop firearm discharged by veteran US actor Alec Baldwin, who is starring in and producing a Western movie, killed...

Bennett extends Russia trip over Shabbat after ‘warm’ Putin talks run long

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s first meeting as premier with Russian President Vladimir Putin went on for some five hours Friday, forcing the...

Suspect in British MP’s slaying backs IS, plotted attacks for years – prosecutors

Prosecutors said Thursday that a 25-year-old man accused of stabbing British lawmaker David Amess to death was an Islamic State supporter who...

China's Journey into the Unknown

How to deal with antisemitism in our schools

“Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ignorance, confusion, or ineptitude.” This statement was made by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis[1] in...

How the Dreyfus affair spurred the fight against hate

Looking historically, the Dreyfus affair in France, the trial and imprisonment of a French Jewish officer, Alfred Dreyfus, on false charges, the...

The olive harvest in Palestine threatened by settler terror

Ask any Palestinian about their connection with Palestine, wherever they live, and the olive tree would figure prominently in what Palestine means...

The tyrannical Arab League

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, found nothing else to occupy his time other than to declare his support and understanding...

Beijing’s insistence on zero-Covid strategy challenges long-held assumptions about China

When the New Zealand government acknowledged at the start of October that it cannot eliminate Covid-19, that left China (including Hong Kong and...

Prosecutors clear suspects in deadly shooting of Arab Lod man during May riots

Five Jewish Israeli men who were investigated in the death of an Arab Israeli man during violent clashes in Lod in May were cleared of wrongdoing...

For Jewish Indigenous actress Sarah Podemski, it’s a miracle just to exist

ALMA via JTA — In FX’s newest hit series, “Reservation Dogs,” the audience first meets Rita Smallhill, mother to main character Bear, prepping...

Lessons in leadership from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt”l

Five years ago, on Shabbat Vayera, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks of blessed memory taught me a critical lesson about leadership.   It was two days before...