Blast in northern Gaza said to injure at least 15 people; cause unclear

An explosion was reported Saturday morning in a building in the northern Gaza Strip, with multiple people said injured. The blast occurred in Beit...

UAE confirms it signed deal to buy F-35 jets from US on last day of Trump’s term

The United Arab Emirates confirmed on Thursday that it had inked agreements to buy up to 50 F-35 jets and other weapons from the US on former...

Site of mass Haredi wedding in London: A school whose principal died of COVID

An illegal Jewish wedding broken up by police in London on Thursday took place at a school whose principal died of COVID-19 last year. Rabbi...

Volivci

Preteklo leto se je začelo s škandalozno prodajo stranke Desus desnici - in to je izvedla nova predsednica, "novo upanje" stranke, ki je nato...

From 'America first' to 'Earth first'

By Song Young-gil Rep. Song Young-gil of the Democratic Party of Korea, who is the chairman of the National Assembly Foreign Affairs and...

Inexcusable deaths of children in Korea

Photos of Jung-in, a 16-month-old girl who died after being abused by her adoptive parents, sit in front of her grave at a cemetery in Yangpyeong,...

In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive

JTA — For a movie about the Holocaust, the Belarussian film “Persian Lessons” has some comic potential. Set in a concentration camp somewhere...

Thousands of Navalny supporters rally for his release throughout Russia

Thousands of supporters of Russia’s jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny rallied in Moscow and other cities on Saturday, answering his call...

Blueberries from Down Under thrive in Israel’s north, indoors

Blueberries, a super fruit that’s high in fiber and vitamin C, are usually picked from bushes that grow in the ground. Now, a group of growers in...

Biden says COVID expected to kill ‘well over 600,000’ in US

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President Joe Biden warned on Friday that the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States was expected to surpass...

Trump shuns ‘ex-presidents club’ — and the feeling is mutual

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a club Donald Trump was never really interested in joining and certainly not so soon: the cadre of former commanders in...

A Hypothetical Interview with America’s Riotous Jew

Since my blog entitled, “There ‘s always one of us in every crowd” went viral  (443 shares), some of my readers requested I write a follow-up...

Arab Israeli man shot dead while returning from protest against violent crime

An Arab Israeli man was shot dead Friday in the northern city of Umm al-Fahm as he returned from a protest against violent crime in the community...

Over 1,600 detained in Russia at Navalny rallies; clashes in Moscow

MOSCOW — Russian police on Saturday detained over 1,600 protesters, including the wife of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, as several...

Trump’s impeachment trial to begin the week of February 8

WASHINGTON (AP) — Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump on the charge of incitement of insurrection for the Capitol...

Netanyahu said planning new aid to small businesses ahead of election

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to unveil a new economic plan to provide grants and financial aid to small business owners in an...

How will Biden deal with China?

Back in 2008, when Joe Biden was on the campaign trail running for vice president, the Democratic senator from Delaware once told fundraisers that...

With theater actors’ legs intact, TV’s ‘Rehearsals’ breaks a heart instead

It’s been 10 months since anyone in Israel has been able to sit in a theater and laugh — or cry — at a tale acted out on stage. You still...

8,948 COVID cases, 67 more deaths confirmed in Israel this weekend

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they happen. ROME — A descendant of Italy’s wartime King Victor Emmanuel III has...

‘One of my most historic nights’: When Larry King hosted Rabin, Arafat, Hussein

On June 8, 1995, Larry King interviewed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO leader Yasser Afrafat and Jordan’s King Hussein on the same CNN show,...

Bill to amend COVID-19 laws riddled with too many questions

The Cabinet approved a bill to amend legislation on measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The government is hoping the proposed changes will...

Netanyahu seeks to suspend outgoing flights amid fears over virus variants

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to suspend most outgoing flights from Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport amid growing...

Islamic Jihad says late Iranian general Soleimani gave ‘direct orders’ in Gaza

A senior figure in the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad said the organization received “direct orders” from the late Iranian Quds force...

Virus epicenter Wuhan returns to normal as world remains battling pandemic

The Chinese city of Wuhan marked one year since the start of its traumatic 76-day coronavirus lockdown Saturday, while the pandemic raged elsewhere...

Biden must vanquish Trumpism to uphold the international order

Weight of the world rests on the new president's shoulders

Islam and Judaism are in agreement in appreciating God’s trees and roots

Islam and Judaism are in total agreement when it comes to appreciating God’s trees. Prophet Muhammad said:”If the Hour (of judgment) is about to...

The Nature of Inaugurations and Unity Speeches

Joe Biden’s inauguration speech was all about unity. He said that his whole soul is in “Bringing America together, uniting our people, and uniting...

A cave dweller from Purim until Tu Bishvat

It was Purim in Jerusalem that I decided that being outside is too dangerous because of the coronavirus epidemic. And this week, the day before Tu...

#MeTooInceste — A blind spot, not just in France

A new book has opened up a conversation in France about the sexual abuse of children within the family. The discussion of this taboo topic, usually...

Double Parking

Bigamy is having more than one spouse at the same time. Unlike polygamy, where all spouses know about each other, in   bigamy the two or more...

Moses and Biden persevered. So must we: Bo

President Joe Biden had two failed runs, before winning the White House in his third attempt.  At the beginning of this week’s Torah portion, and...

My journey to the past

My grandparents suffered from PTSD. I grew up witnessing their internal silent agony. They had suffered and been victimized by antisemitism. As the...

Parshat Bo – shadows of the past

As I sit here in Syracuse, caught up in the COVID isolation and limitations, I have been thinking back on two short trips that I took in the last...

The Abraham Accords (poem)

May He who makes peace in His high places        grant peace upon us עוֹשֶֹה שָׁלוֹם בִּמְרוֹמָיו הוּא...

Good guinea pig, bad guinea pig

“So when are you getting your second shot?” I asked an old friend who I’ll refer to as “Molly”. “Oh, I’m not vaccinating yet”, She...

Auschwitz liberation without freedom

January 17th, 1945 was the day of the last roll call in the Auschwitz system. Over 67,000 prisoners of which close to 19,000 women and over 48.,000...

Israelis Should Learn From the ultra-Orthodox How a Minority Behaves

Janet Yellen’s nomination as treasury secretary advances in Senate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Senate Finance Committee approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of Janet Yellen to be the nation’s 78th treasury...

Pfizer to supply 40 million COVID-19 shots for poor countries

Pfizer on Friday committed to supply up to 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year to a World Health Organization-backed effort to get...

Why Israel is a settler-colony

When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether or not Israel is truly an...

Small steps by Xi and Biden could lead to big changes in US-China ties

Watching the live telecast of Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony on Thursday morning, sparsely attended due to the coronavirus pandemic and under...

Hawaiian-Jewish surfer may have ridden largest wave of all time

JTA — Hawaiian-Jewish surfing star Makua Rothman may have successfully ridden the largest recorded wave in the history of the sport, estimated to...

Last Jew in Tajikistani city dies after community thrived there for centuries

JTA — For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in...

‘Erratic’ or ‘Strategic Clarity’: What to make of Trump’s Middle East legacy?

Donald Trump broke with bipartisan convention in his Middle East policy. Some say he overturned stagnant conventional wisdom that rewarded foes...

Democracy Dies in Darkness: Washington Post backtracks after it's caught burying Kamala Harris’ cringeworthy joke from old article

“We should have kept both versions of the story on the Post’s site…rather than redirecting to the updated one,” communications VP Kris...

Why is the Labour Party so enthusiastic about Covid-19 lockdowns when they are so destructive to our poorest communities?

Whenever Home Secretary Priti Patel is wheeled out to lead the daily government briefing we know we have done something wrong and something rotten...

Joe Biden brings slightly new look to Oval Office

WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden has given the Oval Office a slight makeover. Biden revealed the new decor Wednesday as he invited reporters...

The Vaccine Race: Yet Another US Weapon for World Domination

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine race has been turned by Washington into one of the most costly and...

Underpromise, overdeliver — Biden signals early approach to pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a proven political strategy: Underpromise and overdeliver. US President Joe Biden, in his first three days in office,...

What sick children taught me about healing in polarized America

JTA — As an Orthodox rabbi in Omaha, Nebraska, people often want to know what it’s like to live here in the middle of America. The most common...