Author Tatsuhiro Oshiro showed Okinawa’s woes continue today

Every time a crime is committed by a U.S. soldier in Okinawa Prefecture, I am reminded of “The Cocktail Party,” a 1967 novel by Okinawan-born...

The Green Recovery Virtual Event – Highlights

Can America avoid an election crisis?

BRUSSELS – The 2020 U.S. presidential election is unlike any other in living memory. Previous contests have been rancorous and some were described...

Man stabbed to death in Jerusalem’s Talpiot industrial zone

A man aged around 40 was stabbed to death in Jerusalem’s Talpiot industrial zone on Thursday, police said in a statement. Paramedics were called...

Living with the Enemy

Who would have thought that going out for coffee with a couple of friends could be so liberating and energising? Who would have imagined that being...

The Road Avraham Traveled

This week begins the saga of Avraham and Sara and the origin story of the Jewish people. It all begins with Avraham receiving and following a...

Is France the New Satan?

For decades, many extremists among the Arab World and radical Islamists have designated their sworn enemies with a very striking vocabulary,...

Facing challenges 25 years after Rabin’s assassination, and today, with COVID-19

This year, as an educator, I have a heightened sense of responsibility because we are living in times of crisis and difficulty. Our world fell...

Who gets to feel secure?

The 13 May was usually a happy day for Carolina Maria de Jesus. It’s a day of celebration in Brazil, especially for Black Brazilians, as it marks...

Donald Trump Has Split the Jewish People, Perhaps Forever

Even if the U.S. president loses on November 3rd, Trump Jews are here to stay, and they're not just in America. We could be witnessing the defining...

Power outages reported across Israel

Power outages were reported across Israel during the early hours of Friday morning. The Israel Electric Corporation said the blackouts were caused...

The more you use a particular social media platform, the more addictive that platform becomes – for you, specifically.

The sale of products that are addictive, such as tobacco and alcohol, is obviously not new. And businesses that trade in addiction have long raised...

Why Trump’s Jewish supporters say he’s been a ‘dream come true’ on Israel

JTA — Most Jews disapprove of US President Donald Trump and plan to vote against him. But for a segment of American Jewry, Trump has granted a...

Pandemic of loneliness, anxiety: Crisis hotline says suicide calls have doubled

An Israeli crisis hotline says it is receiving an unprecedented level of suicidal calls — and many of them are from people who did not have...

When Israel’s Arabs began to demand their own ‘normalization’ deal

For a brief spell last Wednesday, Israel’s Knesset sounded like the stands at a soccer stadium. “For shame!” opposition lawmakers shouted at...

‘The good cop’: Joe Biden and Israel during the Obama years

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Talk to the folks who handled the Israel file and who were close to Joe Biden between 2009 and 2017, and his boss, Barack...

Will Fascism Win the US Election?

NEW YORK – Many Americans can see that voting for US President Donald Trump is tantamount to endorsing white nationalism and the kind of...

Israel's Illegitimate 'Demographic Balance'

It’s time to give foreign residents the right to vote in local elections

A weekend referendum on a proposal to reorganize Osaka’s administrative structure has highlighted a key question relevant to other local...

No more disgraced President

Former President Lee should apologize to people The country's top court upheld Thursday a lower court ruling that convicted ex-President Lee...

Haaretz Cartoon

Hundreds protest at Temple Mount against Macron, Muhammad cartoons; 3 arrested

Hundreds of people protested at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Friday against French President Emmanuel Macron’s vow to protect the right to...

Israeli study finds paying off debt, not spending, is main use of stimulus cash

An Israeli study that researched people’s financial responses to the direct one-time coronavirus stimulus payments distributed by the government...

Neprijetne dileme za javne finance

V Evropi smo priča že tretji gospodarski krizi v zadnjih desetih letih. Vsaka od njih je imela različne vzroke, a vse so povzročile gospodarski...

How Enduring is the American-style Asian Version of NATO?

The United States, committed to fanning the flames of wars in various regions around the world, and to entangling the whole world in military blocs...

Use nuclear power to decarbonize Japan PREMIUM

Tanzania faces huge challenges to peace and unity

Opposition candidates have been suspended, harassed and arrested. There's been violence and intimidation, nevertheless Tanzanians must stay strong...

Strong earthquake topples buildings in Turkey, damages structures in Greece

A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has shaken Turkey and Greece. Turkey’s interior minister reports that six buildings in western Izmir...

The Specter of Islamic Radicalism In France

The specter of radical Islam looms large in France and presents the French government with a complex challenge of monumental proportions. Less than...

The freedom of women to say no (Daf Yomi Eruvin 82)

Embed from Getty Images “ Even a six-year-old prefers the company of his mother to that of his father.” It is imperative to comment when the...

Time flies, but ‘Bubbie and Zadie Come to My House’ remains a children’s classic

I wrote a children’s picture book for Jewish kids at Hanukkah time in the 1985 titled “Bubbie and Zadie Come to My House” (and it’s still in...

Parshat Lech Lecha: Our Shield of Love

Love is sought after by everyone in the world, albeit in different forms, as we see marketed in movies and stories across the world. This make...

Polls apart: What the press is saying on October 30

1. States of play: There are a few days to go until US election day, but the Israeli media, perhaps glad to be covering someone else’s election...

It was a dark and stormy night

The Torah does not provide us with the exact weather report for the night of the Covenant. We only know that Avram, exhausted by the visions of God...

Religious voters pro and con on Donald Trump

Donald Trump is gaining popularity among American Muslims nationally, according to the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, an American...

The excellence of ADHD and ADD

View the above clip. Between the giggles, you get a ton of inside info. ADHD is the healthy reaction to attempts to make babies and young children...

The Weight of Gold – Abraham

When I helped guide a young Christian business associate through a spiritual crisis, little did we know that it would result in a life-altering...

Election 2020: The Battle Against Disinformation

Election season is in full swing, and what began as a cautionary tale in 2016 has now become our new reality. During the last presidential...

Trump Is No True Friend to the Jewish People

Well, we are five days away from the election here in the United States and still there are fellow Jews who continue to support Donald Trump.  A...

Learning From Abraham to Fight For Others: Lekh Lekha

P arashat Lekh Lekha begins Abraham and Sarah’s saga. They are imperfect, but we have much to learn from them. Abraham in particular teaches us...

Listen! It’s the question that created the Jews – passive or proactive?

Listen! It’s the question that created the Jews: passive or active? What is your answer to the first question of Jewish history? It’s...

The 10.27 Shooting and COVID-19 Are Not Totally Dissimilar

As I reflect on the 10.27 synagogue shooting, I remember my younger brother, who was born on October 27th in 1962.  He almost died on the day of...

Yitzhak’s blood cries out to us from the ground

Twenty-five years have passed since Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered. Today, half of all Israelis cannot remember that terrible day. But...

With Sudan, everything has changed in the Middle East

Everything has changed. These are not just my words, but also those of the Head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, whose country has rightly concluded...

Daring to hope in Nagorno-Karabakh

On October 18th, I found myself in Azerbaijan’s Ganja, a day after the fourth missile attack had struck civilian targets in the city. I witnessed...

American Apocalypse?

Civil Liberties in a Pandemic

IDF says bomb thrown at troops, who then open fire; 3 Palestinians injured

Israeli troops opened fire on a Palestinian car overnight Thursday-Friday after a homemade bomb was thrown from the vehicle at a junction manned by...

UK Labour in turmoil as Corbyn vows to fight suspension and key allies back him

Britain’s main opposition Labour party was in turmoil on Friday, a day after it suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn following his response to...

Kulturnikov se ni treba bati

Z zadnjim dejanjem (primer Metelkova) je slovenska oblast dokazala svojo averzijo do kulture, ki ni po njenih "standardih in normativih". Treba jo...