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Ta zapis je nastal v noči na 21. januar, po koncu slovesnosti ob inavguraciji (grda je ta beseda, a se je nekako udomačila) novega ameriškega...
British police busted a mass wedding held Thursday at a London high school for ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls in violation of virus lockdown rules....
JTA — US President Joe Biden has named Jessica Rosenworcel, a champion of net neutrality, to serve as acting chair of the Federal Communications...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President Joe Biden is ordering an expansion of government benefits for hungry Americans, after the coronavirus pandemic...
Revival of 'red-tagging' has set the country back decades
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem made the headlines this week when it released a new paper in which – for the first time – it described Israel...
Dozens of new immigrants from Ethiopia stepped into the brisk early morning winter air at Ben Gurion airport on Friday to start their new lives as...
Political neutrality and independence key to success Kim Jin-wook started work Friday as the inaugural head of the new Corruption Investigation...
A landmark year has started for the international movement to end the era of collective stupidity when nations threaten others with nuclear...
There once was a Hungarian-born scientist who succeeded in persuading the United States to develop atomic bombs, but failed to stop the bombs from...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial to February to...
Dve zaporedni gospodarski krizi v zadnjih desetih letih sta v temeljih pretresli prevladujočo strategijo denarne politike za obvladovanje...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — US President Joe Biden named Stephanie Pollack, the Massachusetts transportation secretary known for her ability as a Democrat...
From January 5 to January 13, the 8th congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was held in North Korea, which marked a series of major...
Passover is, probably, the most joyful of our festivals. This has to do not only with an overall feeling of finally awakening nature but also with...
Earlier this week, I received my second shot of the Pfizer vaccine in the nearby small Arab city of Shefa-Amer. It was once a mixed city with...
“The US and Fake Democracy,” “The American Picture with Iraqi Flavor,” and “The Rising End of US Exceptionalism and Trumpism.” “America....
Vaccines are about 90% effective, depending on the data one reads, the type of mutation, and other factors. That means about one in ten vaccinated...
V času epidemičnih omejitev gibanja se marsikdo počuti še posebej ujetega. Naše misli potujejo marsikam po svetu, ki nam je bil, vsaj v naši...
Anti-Israel activists at Florida State University (FSU) are working to reverse the university’s earlier decision to adopt the International...
When we think of mitzvot (commandments), we may think of sacrifice, suppressing our will, or another burden to worry about. In Judaism, mitzvot are...
Individuals who were eligible for an economic impact payment but did not receive one, or were eligible for a larger payment than they received, may...
Parashat Bo Parashat Bo opens with the final plagues. Locusts devastate the remaining vegetation of Egypt. Darkness so thick that the rabbis tell...
Donald J. Trump, one of the most controversial presidents in American history, has had to finally exit the stage. His prefacing everything with...
What message does the book “Letters to Talia” have to offer us today? Doing a Weekly Podcast on Jewish Authors is quite a challenge. This week...
The six city-states on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf, each formerly a sleepy, pristine fishing village, are now all glitzy and futuristic...
The IDF shot down a drone that was crossing into Israeli airspace from Lebanon, the military said Friday. The drone was identified as it approached...
Joe Biden’s inauguration last week was the most heavily guarded in memory: Washington’s entire National Mall was fenced off; numerous military...
TEL AVIV – On December 11, then-President Donald Trump proclaimed that the United States would recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the...
The Biden administration is a couple of days old, but it’s already setting out its foreign policy priorities. In a clear break with Donald Trump,...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — UCLA has opened a center to explore the history of Jewish music in America with an eye toward breaking ground. The Lowell...
AP — Public health experts Thursday blamed COVID-19 vaccine shortages around the US in part on the Trump administration’s push to get states to...
JTA — Norman Golb, a pathbreaking academic who broadened scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls and unearthed a history of Jews in Medieval France,...
For most of 2020, the Southeast Asian country has kept the pandemic under control. Until late July, it had managed to keep the total case tally in...
It is rather odd that Ankara has bought 50 million doses of China’s Sinovac vaccine, which is anything but cheap and its trials are still ongoing....
Od 6. januarja, ko je množica podpornikov Donalda Trumpa vdrla v ameriški Kapitol, so več deset izgrednikov že obtožili. Trump, ki je spodbudil...
The Israeli political, security and research decision-making circles have recently shown great interest in the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of...
MOSCOW – Russia’s main opposition leader Alexei Navalny is disturbing Russia’s laziest month. As in Soviet times, the New Year holiday...
(JTA) — A prominent Jewish doctor in Boston died this week while attempting a challenging ascent in the mountains of Pakistan. Alex Goldfarb, an...
Embed from Getty Images “Rabbi Yohanan took a clod of dirt and threw it at him In the middle of the today’s exposition on the details of...
The notion of time becomes remarkably amorphous in early chapters of the Book of Exodus, referred to in generalities, instead of specifics. Exodus...
So many people must have felt the same: what a relief. What a good taste the whole mostly televised inauguration ceremony was. It represented the...
Ric Elias was among the passengers on the plane that Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger safely landed in the Hudson back in January of 2009. Determined...
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower. The departure of Donald Trump and the arrival of Biden signaled not just...
Analysis. The Rome prosecutor is asking for the indictment of four national security officers. But it is very likely that there will be no...