5-year-old Palestinian boy hurt by rock thrown at car in reported settler attack

A 5-year-old Palestinian boy was injured Thursday night by a rock thrown by West Bank settlers toward a vehicle he was traveling in, according to...

Israel's Population Is Growing, and Its Infrastructure Isn't Keeping Up

Anti-corruption CIO kicks off

Political neutrality and independence key to success Kim Jin-wook started work Friday as the inaugural head of the new Corruption Investigation...

Landmark year starts as treaty to ban nuke arms comes into force

A landmark year has started for the international movement to end the era of collective stupidity when nations threaten others with nuclear...

What would Leo Szilard make of reluctance over anti-nuke treaty?

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...

Letters to the Editor: Biden, Listen to B’Tselem

History at the Barricades

Israeli interpretation on the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring

The Israeli political, security and research decision-making circles have recently shown great interest in the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of...

Europe Must Become a Global Climate Power

BRUSSELS – The world is eagerly watching the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and looking forward to a return to normalcy after a year of lockdowns....

UCLA opens center for music of the ‘American Jewish experience’

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...

COVID-19: Japan faces moment of truth PREMIUM

Islamic State claims Baghdad twin bombing at market that killed 32, wounded 110

BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing that killed 32 people and wounded 110 at a crowded market in...

A Message of Hope

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...

The traumas of oppression and freedom

Parashat Bo Parashat Bo opens with the final plagues. Locusts devastate the remaining vegetation of Egypt. Darkness so thick that the rabbis tell...

Israel aced the vaccine rollout. But most of the world should learn from Vietnam

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...

Antisemitism is on the march from Kuwait to Tunisia

Antisemitism is on the march. From the Tunisian President’s recent remarks blaming the country’s unrest on “thieving Jews”, to Kuwait’s top...

Turkish indie music’s moment of introspection

Four of the most important figures in Turkish indie music decided that they have had enough of the city. They made the choice to escape the...

(POGLED IZZA MEJE) Amy. Slovenka Amy

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...

Jewish community shaped by Inquisition opens Portugal’s first Holocaust museum

JTA — Portugal has opened its first Holocaust museum, built in the northern city of Porto by members of a Jewish community that was founded by...

Joe Biden’s inauguration was replete with anxiety, and a lot of it was Jewish

WASHINGTON (JTA) — I walked to US President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Authority closed 13 downtown...

Avril Haines confirmed as Biden’s director of national intelligence

JTA — The US Senate confirmed Avril Haines to be the first woman to lead the intelligence community, making her President Joe Biden’s first...

The UK’s vaunted NHS is a National Health Shambles – it wasn’t ready for the Covid second wave and can’t cope. What a surprise

The news has been full of images of NHS intensive care units full to bursting. When cases shot up from mid-December, particularly in London and the...

Diet said to bust liver fat with plant goodness unveiled by Israeli academics

Israeli researchers say they have found a diet that significantly cuts liver fat, by tweaking the traditional Mediterranean regimen to include...

(GLOBALNA ARENA) Fantazijska tovarna laži

Od 6. januarja, ko je množica podpornikov Donalda Trumpa vdrla v ameriški Kapitol, so več deset izgrednikov že obtožili. Trump, ki je spodbudil...

Haredi leaders say cops sought ‘revenge’ in Bnei Brak clashes; police deny claim

Ultra-Orthodox politicians on Friday raged at police after major clashes broke out overnight in Bnei Brak between cops and rioters opposed to...

The US and China Must Cooperate in Space

WASHINGTON, DC – America and China should cooperate in space. Although the United States can no longer take its extraterrestrial dominance for...

After another Museveni ‘victory’, Uganda is at a tipping point

In Uganda, history is once again repeating itself – a strongman is stubbornly and violently clinging to power in the face of growing demands for...

The Eighth WPK DPRK Congress

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...

COVID-19. It’s all about behavior!

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...

Gulf slave society

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...

6 arrested in Bnei Brak as ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with cops over lockdown

Clashes broke out between police and rioters opposed to coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the city of Bnei Brak overnight Thursday-Friday, after...

Nuclear weapons are finally outlawed, next step is disarmament

The vile suffering that poison gas inflicted on the soldiers of WWI so horrified the world that chemical weapons were banned only seven years after...

Biden and Trump deliver vastly different messages

Joe Biden’s inauguration last week was the most heavily guarded in memory: Washington’s entire National Mall was fenced off; numerous military...

Navalny’s return: But do most Russians even care about the attempt on his life?

MOSCOW – Russia’s main opposition leader Alexei Navalny is disturbing Russia’s laziest month. As in Soviet times, the New Year holiday...

Global cooperation in the age of COVID-19

The deployment of COVID-19 vaccines brings hope that the onslaught of the virus will soon cease, but the unsettled world within which the virus...

The occupation's crimes against prisoners in Israeli prisons

The occupation's crimes are committed without any moral, religious, legal or human deterrents. It executes its crimes against prisoners who are...

McConnell calls to push Trump impeachment trial to February

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial to February to...

Biden names Massachusetts official Steph Pollack to senior roads post

WASHINGTON (JTA) — US President Joe Biden named Stephanie Pollack, the Massachusetts transportation secretary known for her ability as a Democrat...

Zagate denarne politike ECB

Dve zaporedni gospodarski krizi v zadnjih desetih letih sta v temeljih pretresli prevladujočo strategijo denarne politike za obvladovanje...

Dating, zits and bigotry: UK’s 1st YA novel to cover anti-Semitism gets it right

LONDON — With a fiction track record of writing about “crime and money and sex and drugs” for teenagers, British journalist Keren David has...

Jewish Harvard Medical School professor dies climbing in Pakistan’s mountains

(JTA) — A prominent Jewish doctor in Boston died this week while attempting a challenging ascent in the mountains of Pakistan. Alex Goldfarb, an...

Health experts blame Trump administration failures for US vaccine shortages

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...

Ahdit Tatim’ein: Proudly shot twice in Shefa-Amer!

  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...

Čigav je svet okoli nas?

V času epidemičnih omejitev gibanja se marsikdo počuti še posebej ujetega. Naše misli potujejo marsikam po svetu, ki nam je bil, vsaj v naši...

Raid on the Capitol: Reaction in the Arab World

“The US and Fake Democracy,” “The American Picture with Iraqi Flavor,” and “The Rising End of US Exceptionalism and Trumpism.” “America....

Going from Trump to Biden, from insurrection to inauguration: what a relief!

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...

Parshat Bo: The Meaning of Mitzvot

When we think of mitzvot (commandments), we may think of sacrifice, suppressing our will, or another burden to worry about. In Judaism, mitzvot are...

Roman prosecutor requests charges for Egyptians accused in Regeni murder

Analysis. The Rome prosecutor is asking for the indictment of four national security officers. But it is very likely that there will be no...

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The post-‘fake news’ era

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower. The departure of Donald Trump and the arrival of Biden signaled not just...