(POGLED) Turbulence v prašičereji. Kako dolgo bodo trajale?

Potrošniki z zaskrbljenostjo spremljamo stalno dvigovanje cen hrane na trgovskih policah. Kaj se dogaja, kje iskati razloge? Razlogov za to je...

Setback in overseas drilling, mining

Korea should have farsighted policy to secure resources The global supply chain is faltering, as prices of major energy resources, including oil,...

Gunman pleads guilty to 2018 Parkland high school massacre

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering 17 people during a rampage at his former high school in...

Environment minister says she sees climate battle as key to regional stability

AP — Israel’s new environmental protection minister has set some ambitious goals: She believes she can use her office to play an important role in...

How to handle an anti-vaccine 'stay-at-home' protest against schools

Some California parents kept their kids out of classrooms Monday as part of a statewide protest against the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for schools...

Can Asia lead global fight to cure poverty pandemic as US lags behind?

By Tom Plate Perpetual inequality will only increase if we always look the other way. This is especially so if, as some predictions suggest, the...

Shouldn't America be happier?

By Tom Purcell Despite the many blessings of living in America, why aren't more Americans happy? According to?World Population Review,?the 2021...

Chances for radical change for US democracy

By Nicholas Goldberg Recently a White House commission heard testimony on a controversial proposal to strip the U.S. Supreme Court of its power to...

Supply-Shock Therapy

Galloway: New papers reveal UK’s role in the slaughter of 3mn Indonesians. How do I explain this to my half-Indonesian children?

My wife is Indonesian, though born in Amsterdam because her parents, like many others, are exiles from the genocidal massacre of up to three...

Good Chinuch: Learning to Balance Tzedakah and Mishpat

Besides being a shul rabbi, I am a high school rebbe. This year I am fortunate to teach a medical ethics course to a select group of twelfth...

It’s the Little Things

Every year, I am exhilarated by the stories of the Patriarchs, our Avot. Sometimes the soaring bravery of these remarkable individuals to confront...

World will not wait for German coalition

By Andrew Hammond With Germany's 2022 presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) beginning in January, the three political parties negotiating a new...

Rav Kook on Parshat Vayera: Perfecting The World Doing Righteousness and Justice

  וְאַ֨בְרָהָ֔ם הָי֧וֹ יִֽהְיֶ֛ה לְג֥וֹי גָּד֖וֹל וְעָצ֑וּם וְנִ֨בְרְכוּ־ב֔וֹ...

Useful Idiots with Beards (Part III)

In Part I and Part II of this piece, I argued that, throughout history, Jews who wished to “fit in” have been essential to the success of...

The challenge and responsibility of securing Rabbi Sacks’ legacy

What is a legacy, and how do you make it not only last, but inspire? This was the sad challenge – and huge responsibility – which members of the...

Parshat Vayeira: For If We Knew, We May Concede

This week’s Parsha contains a mind-blowing story that teaches us what it means to be a human being in a relationship with the Divine. Just days...

Rabbi Sacks – One year on

Rabbi Lord Sacks embraced challenges. He cared more for the honour of Torah than of his own. And his optimism and humour always shone through. It...

Ukrainian Hackers Instead of North Korean Hackers

On October 15, 2021, the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) reported that four members of an unnamed money laundering organization, including its...

Surge in crime continues to target Israel's Arabs, amid Israeli failure to fight it

An Arab-Israeli man was gunned down by armed men in a passing vehicle in the town of Umm al-Fahm, north of Israel, on Tuesday morning. Local...

CIA has a New ‘China Mission’

Even though officials in the Biden administration, including Biden himself, continue to emphasise that the purpose of their renewed engagement with...

EDITORIAL: Parties need to offer clear vision for foreign and security policy

One crucial foreign and security policy challenge facing Japan is protecting peace and stability at home and in the region through efforts based on...

VOX POPULI: Column has had the scoop on how Japan’s women feel for 70 years

The Asahi Shimbun's "Hitotoki" column runs essays sent in by female readers. A piece that ran in the Tokyo edition on Oct. 20 made me feel all warm...

Banned from Facebook and Twitter, Trump launching own social network

Former US president Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to launch his own social network, in the latest push to reclaim his internet dominance...

It was too good to be true

Today marks the second anniversary of the launching of Duvar English. We were supposed to be celebrating with joy and gratitude. Instead, here I am...

Death penalty can express society's outrage – but biases often taint verdict

In its hearing on Oct 13, 2021, the Supreme Court appeared to favor reinstating the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found guilty of...

US regulator approves mixing COVID vaccines, backs Moderna, J&J boosters

WASHINGTON (AP) — US regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson...

What needs to change in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan

Just weeks ago, two decades of U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan came to a rather abrupt end. Twenty years ago, at the start of the so-called...

Serial sperm donor nears 100 children after prolific pandemic

JTA — While others were perfecting their sourdough bread-baking or watching the entire catalogue of Netflix, Ari Nagel spent the past 20 months of...

Medieval Jewish prayer book goes for near-record $8.3M in controversial sale

JTA — An 700-year-old Jewish prayer book from Germany, offered for sale by a French Jewish organization to shore up its finances, sold at auction...

Building contractor charged with murder of cop run over in Nahariya

Prosecutors on Thursday charged 44-year-old Nasim Sah with the murder of Israel Police volunteer Hossam Zaghir, after he plowed his vehicle into...

Chinese state-run news site proposes ‘final solution to the Taiwan question’

TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) — A German lawmaker heard ominous echoes of Nazi Germany after a Chinese state-run media outlet threatened violence in...

Tree of Life massacre looms large at Pittsburgh anti-hate summit

(Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) — Standing before a crowd of several hundred, Pittsburgh resident Michele Rosenthal welcomed attendees to...

The High of Aliyah and the Low of Everyday Life

https://omny.fm/shows/the-daily-briefing/how-do-israelis-afford-to-buy-or-rent-homes As a young, fresh out of high school California student, my...

COVID, ‘Post-Truth’ and the Death of the Alternative Media

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass...

Zdravniško opravičilo kot simptom

Neki petek pozno popoldne leta 2015 sem hotela zagrabiti padajočo ponev na štedilniku. Ni mi uspelo: ponev mi je zdrsnila iz rok, cvrčeče olje v...

Colin Powell’s wars, on the wrong side of history

Analysis. The first Black U.S. secretary of state died at the age of 84. In 2003, he accused Iraq of hiding chemical weapons, a prelude to the...

Conte focuses on voter abstentionism as Five Stars slide across Italy

Analysis. The Five Star Movements faces its deepest crisis yet, losing the major cities it governed. ‘We must start again from the citizens.’...

Study Seeks to Boost Resilience in Breast Cancer Patients

IDF officer who raped Palestinian was not dismissed for earlier sexual offenses

An Israeli Defense Forces officer who has been imprisoned since 2017 for multiple sexual offenses, including the rape of a Palestinian woman, had...

A Self-evident Law

Nothing is more self-evident than a law that bars someone who has been indicted for criminal offenses from being able to form a government or serve...

Large Israeli study finds Pfizer COVID shot keeps teens safe from Delta strain

An analysis of nearly 200,000 Israeli adolescents shows Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine to be 93 percent effective at stopping symptomatic...

Green activists quit DC rally over inclusion of Jewish groups backing Israel

JTA — The Washington DC branch of a national climate action group turned down a role at a voting rights rally because a “number of Zionist...

As Jerusalem simmers, bus driver recalls harrowing trip through deluge of stones

Tensions around Jerusalem’s Old City remained taut Wednesday, a day after simmering anger exploded into some of the worst fighting seen in months...

Visually appealing ‘Dune’ isn’t half bad, but it’s only half-finished

NEW YORK — It’s not every day that a Jewish-American actor makes the cover of Time magazine, but then it’s not every day that cinema sees the...

At Moscow talks, Taliban vows to work with regional players over IS threats

MOSCOW (AFP) — The Taliban agreed on Wednesday to work with Russia, China, and Iran on regional security, after the Kremlin warned of emerging...

2 more arrested over cold case murders from ’80s, ’90s tied to Hasidic cult

Police on Thursday said they arrested two more suspects in connection with the suspected murder of a teenage boy and the unsolved murder of a man...

Plant used in ‘Cleopatra’s scent,’ Temple rite found on ancient Jerusalem seal

An amethyst seal engraved with what is thought to be the earliest depiction of a plant used for incense in the Second Temple — and for perfume by...

Powell, a man of war and peace

By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― South Korea's pursuit of a declaration that the Korean War is over is an exercise largely unknown to virtually all...

The French Connection

By Arthur I. Cyr The government of France bitterly denounced Australia's decision to purchase nuclear submarines from the United States and...