Fights break out, 7 arrested, as ‘Jews for Trump’ convoy rolls through New York

NEW YORK — Skirmishes broke out between supporters and opponents of US President Donald Trump as a Jews For Trump convoy of hundreds of cars...

Why do so many Asian nations want to be in China's debt?

Beijing's debt-trap diplomacy likely to cost it dearly over the long term

At Brooklyn Trump rally, Orthodox anger at mayor and governor take center stage

NEW YORK — Over a thousand mostly Orthodox Jews gathered for a rally in support of Donald Trump in Brooklyn on Sunday, using the opportunity to...

Tax reform should take into account longer-term challenges

Discussions have begun in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on the Tax System on fiscal 2021 tax reforms, which will be...

Need to brace for 'tapering'

Asset bubbles could trigger systemic risks Korea, like most other industrialized countries, is struggling with excess liquidity amid the COVID-19...

Wrong history perception

Xi deserves criticism for distorting Korean War fact Chinese leader Xi Jinping deserves criticism for his remarks apparently glorifying China's...

Damage from Trump's trade wars won't heal quickly: analysts

After four years in office, Donald Trump has failed to achieve his promise to eliminate the U.S. trade deficit, and dealt a lasting blow to the...

Recovery and Renewal at the UN

NEW YORK – The international community urgently needs new tools, ideas, and initiatives to meet the common threats and challenges faced by the...

Multilateralism in US election

By Javier Solana MADRID ― When Donald Trump became the U.S. Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2016, many predicted that he would tone...

True or false?

By Robin Rhee The attempts which are made to establish the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, are akin to launching quests to capture a...

America deserves patriotic debatable debate

By Martin Schram Throughout this most disastrous year in U.S. presidential history, President Donald Trump dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic perils...

The Anniversary of Gaddafi’s Death and the Current Reality in Libya

“Security problems, political discord, oil blockades, corruption, and Libya’s foreign debt, which has reached 270% of its GDP, all torpedo...

Pien, queen of the bees

Pien is 10 and having treatment for cancer. After learning that crop pesticides and other human activities pose a mounting threat to bees and, by...

Der Vaser-Treger on Orphaned Street of Vilna

Memory Stones series  Never Again what?   There are two schools of thinking on the matter of the way of commemoration of our tragic Jewish past in...

New venture seeks to pave way for Israeli businesses in UAE

With Israeli companies’ interest in doing business in the United Arab Emirates increasing following the signing of a peace deal between the two...

A ladder to somewhere (Daf Yomi Eruvin 78)

Embed from Getty Images “Most of the area is the empty space of the pit.” I have been thinking a lot about public space since the start of...

Court-packing isn’t the issue

Republicans and Democrats over the last couple of years have been busy trying to bend the courts into their own direction. Republicans have been...

Kosher Movies: The Dancer Upstairs

Terrorism is very much a part of the world’s landscape at this point in history. Terrorist attacks occur not only in Israel, but in the United...

An Encounter with a Sudanese Military Official

Many years ago, when I conducted my PhD research on Rwandan foreign policy, I had the fortunate opportunity to visit the Rwandan Peace Academy....

No-Shows for Joe: Democrats Who Fear a Biden Victory

The growing evidence may be anecdotal, but it is unmistakable.  Based on extensive voter feedback, there are increasing numbers of life-long...

Is America Great Enough for You Yet?

For the vast number of American Jews, Donald Trump and his followers have become the repository of bullying, intimidation, racism, anti-semitism,...

In ‘Return of the Babel Fable,’ where’s Israel’s voice?

This post is dedicated to Emeritus Chief Rabbi Johnathan Sacks and his refuah shlemah from current illness . Johnathan, I hope you like it. “Have...

Break Free from Inertia (Eruvin 78)

Our patriarch Yaakov escapes the wrath of his brother, Esau, and heads off to Charan.  On the way, he puts his head down to rest for the night. ...

Never Let A Serious Crisis Go to Waste….Implications for Schools (Part II)

On August 24, 2020, I posted a BLOG on this platform entitled “Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste: Implications for Nonprofits (Part I). The...

Is Israel More Constitutionally Observant Than America?

So who has the superior system of constitutional law, the US or Israel. In Israel, there are fears that a nationalist religious government could...

Longing for Israel on #InternationalArtistsDay

  One of the things on my bucket list is to attend the Jerusalem Biennale.   According to their website http://jerusalembiennale.org, “The...

Animal Abuse – A Matter of Party Loyalty? Seriously?!

Recently, there was a vote in the Knesset to institute a law that would demand harsher punishment towards animal abusers. What is wrong with our...

Working together

A friend whose work I admire recently posted a photo on social media. It was of a policeman who had come into to see an art exhibit about the...

COVID-19: A Vigorous Program of Action is Needed from the G20

[John Bruton] The G20 should decide that all barriers to trade in goods that the World Customs Organization (WCO) has said are critical to fighting...

COVID-19: Why is Lockdown Necessary?

[Bahauddin Foizee] The best option available against COVID-19 is the full, strict and early lockdown, together with testing the suspects, and...

The need to touch

Touch is the first sense by which we encounter the world, and the final one to leave us as we approach death’s edge. ‘Touch comes before sight,...

(BRANJE) Smrt pred šolo

V petek, 16. septembra, popoldne je bil v bližini srednje šole v pariškem predmestju, v kateri je poučeval zgodovino in zemljepis, na grozljiv...

Matovičov veľmi drahý marketing

Keďže Matovič berie politiku ako marketing, jeho spokojnosť s testovaním je pochopiteľná. Zrazu sa o nás píše v zahraničí, sme aspoň...

China Leads Again

NEW HAVEN – Just as China led the world in economic recovery in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, it is playing a similar...

COVID-19 explodes the myth that women ‘opt’ out of the workforce

In August and September, more than a million people dropped out of the workforce. Eighty percent of them were women. Women have been losing jobs at...

Europe epicenter of virus crisis again

By Andrew Hammond Europe has been jolted yet again in recent days becoming ― for the second time ― the epicenter of the global pandemic. Yet...

Antitrust efforts in the US are not enough to counter the global power of Big Tech.

In July, the CEOs of Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon appeared before Congress in an “historic” antitrust hearing. The event was met with...

Truck kills 5-year-old riding his bicycle in suspected hit-and-run

Police opened an investigation into a suspected hit-and-run accident after a five-year-old boy riding a bicycle was killed by a truck on Monday in...

Denying kids meals will be BoJo’s legacy, but the solution for feeding the poor is community based – and that means proper funding

I’m sure Britain’s government had hoped that the ongoing debate about free meals for children, following a high-profile campaign by footballer...

On the Interview of the Taiwanese Foreign Minister to Indian TV

For a number of reasons, the video interview given by Joseph Wu, the Taiwanese minister of foreign affairs, on October 16 to a correspondent for...

Pompeo’s ‘Tokyo Kick’ Cannot Start the QUAD

Mike Pompeo lashed out at China in his latest visit to Tokyo where he met his counterparts from India, Australia and Japan as part of his efforts...

To Be Abraham – Save God; Save the World

With the new Abraham peace accords in the news nearly every day, our progenitor, Abraham, is back at the forefront. We were introduced to him at...

Jews Are Too Smart to Vote for Trump

Jews are, first and foremost, scholars.  We have (and have had) the largest libraries in the world.  20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jews. ...

Ministers back bill declaring Eilat, Red Sea area virus-free ‘tourist islands’

Ministers on Monday approved a bill that will enable defining the resort city of Eilat and the Dead Sea hotels complex as special virus-free areas,...

Israeli Democrats, Republicans spar over election impact on normalization deals

Israeli representatives of the two major US parties on Monday sparred over the question of whether the current trend of Arab states normalizing...

Class warfare: What the press is saying on October 26

1. The class ceiling: After days of internal squabbling, ministers voted to do pretty much the only thing they could do, open elementary schools...

Western Wall cable car planners meet with developers despite High Court case

Planners tasked with building a controversial cable car that will link West Jerusalem and the Old City have held a meeting for interested...

Borat II Falls Short

I missed Sacha Baron Cohen’s first Borat film, so I have no way of comparing it to the sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, which was released...

Digitalización: un beneficio para las empresas y el planeta

Sin duda la situación actual ha cambiado las reglas de juego para la mayoría de las industrias este año. Nos ha obligado a repensar la forma de...

Moon may have more water than previously thought — researchers

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — The moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities...

Are charismatic leaders dangerous?

Does one candidate trump the other? The United States presidential elections are to be held in the next few weeks… Much has been said about the...

Some people blame Titus for the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh

These are the words of Harav Avraham Schorr, son of Reb Gedlya Schorr former Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas https://www.hamodia.co.uk/files/...

Likud MK to face second indictment over tax offenses — TV

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has decided to file a second indictment against Likud MK Haim Katz for suspected tax offenses, Israeli...

Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

Embed from Getty Images Pope Pius XII was head of the Roman Catholic world during the Second World War. His leadership during the Holocaust has been...

Israel and the Diaspora Jews – Very Distant Brethren

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Omer Yankelevich, is promoting a proposal that will obligate the Israeli government to consult...

Response to Ben Shapiro: US Election 2020

On October 19th, 2020, Ben Shapiro posted a video titled “I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016. I am in 2020 — here’s why.” — Click here for...

How Did a Public Health Crisis Become So Political?

During the past few months, the world has gone through an unprecedented crisis. With millions of cases all over the world in hundreds of thousands...

Why We Get Crazy in Political Arguments

It’s a week before the US election and on every media platform and get together there is a lot of frothing at the mouth. My Twitter feed included...

Donald Trump and Orthodox Jews Share No Values at All

Will Biden Help Israel Take on Turkey?

Israel has a lot at stake in the eastern Mediterranean, not least Turkey’s challenge to the regional order. Would Biden deal with Ankara’s...

A True Born Englishman

I was lucky. My grandparents met in England after their families had fled the violent anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia, or perhaps it was Poland;...

America’s Tarnished Supreme Court

LONDON – Born in 1944, I grew up in a world largely made – and made pretty well – by America. The post-war settlement established institutions,...

Book burning in Jerusalem: City to set up cameras after arson at Reading Station

The Jerusalem municipality on Sunday vowed to quickly rebuild a popular outdoor lending library and set up security cameras after vandals set the...

Israel begins mass-producing coronavirus vaccines ahead of human trials

Israel has begun mass-producing a potential coronavirus vaccine ahead of its human trials and plans to distribute it to both Israelis and...

Government extends multi-billion dollar plan for Arab municipalities

The cabinet voted on Sunday to extend by a year a multi-billion dollar program aimed at closing extensive gaps between Jewish and Arab communities...

Aliyah Journal Part II – Return

I’ve been thinking alot about “return” lately. Aliyah is enabled by the Law of Return ( חוק השבות). Enacted by the Knesset in 1950. The...

Demons have a rich history in popular culture and manga

One story in “Uji Shui Monogatari,” an anonymous collection of tales compiled during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), is believed to be the...

Moon's troubled green energy policy

By John Burton While President Moon Jae-in has been praised for his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, his efforts to address another global issue...

Biden’s Economic Edge

CAMBRIDGE – In a few days, Americans will choose a president. Opinion polling suggests that voters favor former Vice President Joe Biden when it...

Coronavirus ward closed after Legionnaires’ bacteria found in water

The Hasharon Hospital in Petah Tikva, outside Tel Aviv, was forced to close its coronavirus ward and move its patients to another location after...

El color del dinero

En 2010 la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos emitió un fallo crucial en torno al financiamiento de campañas electorales. De un lado, decidió...

Erdoğan vs. Macron: Round two

Here we go again. Few spats and a couple of phone calls later, we are back at square one on the Erdoğan-Macron front. Or even worse perhaps this...

Attackers pepper-spray soldier, try to steal his gun — police

Two men pepper-sprayed a soldier and attempted to steal his gun at a bus stop near the West Bank, police said Monday morning. The suspects were...

Democrats ask Pence to skip Barrett vote over COVID-19 risk

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply torn US Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, but Democratic leaders are asking Vice...

Hispanic voters in Florida targeted with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Just over a week before the US presidential election, conspiracy theories, racist and anti-Semitic posts and...

I married a non-Jew – but our lives are as Jewish as can be

My extended family is the most colourful and vibrant family you could find anywhere. We span the entire Jewish and non-Jewish spectrum just within...

The hypocrisy of the Taliban’s mantra of inclusion has been exposed during the intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha.

The Afghan peace process entered a pivotal phase with the start of the long-awaited intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha on September 12. Shortly...

Trump’s pandering to QAnon should be a deal-breaker

American Jews are participating in a critical presidential election next week. In most presidential elections, 25-30% of Jews vote for the...

‘Thank you Rabbis,’ Trump tweets after support letter from 13 Orthodox leaders

JTA — “BREAKING,” tweeted Mishpacha, a magazine for Orthodox Jews, Saturday night about a letter signed by 13 leading Orthodox rabbis...

Trump mocks Biden for calling him ‘George’

US President Donald Trump on Monday mocked Democratic nominee Joe Biden for appearing to confuse him with former Republican president George Bush....

The politicisation of civilisations and ideologies: Macron, Charlie Hebdo and blasphemy in France 

The reproduction of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) recently was no surprise. What was frustrating though was...

Why No Jew Should Vote For President Donald Trump: Take Two

Exactly four years ago, I reluctantly wrote take one of this article. As a historian who maintains a website that includes a section chronicling...

Virus cabinet deliberates further easing lockdown measures

The high-level coronavirus cabinet convened Monday to discuss further easing lockdown measures in place to curb the spread of COVID-19, a day after...

Why are UK and EU still arguing over Brexit?

It’s more than four years since Britain voted to leave the European Union, and almost a year since Prime Minister Boris Johnson won an election...

Over 58 million ballots cast in early US vote, surpassing 2016

AP — With nine days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee...

State comptroller cites ‘significant shortcomings’ in Israel’s pandemic response

After eight months in pandemic mode, Israel is underprepared for winter, is quarantining the wrong people, and has frustrated businesspeople who...

Cabinet appoints high-level committee to rule on future of Haifa Bay area

The cabinet on Sunday appointed a committee of top officials to examine the future of Haifa Bay, long home to some of the country’s worst...

UAE-based Israeli businessman Koen said bidding $50 million for Israir Airlines

A Dubai-based company is offering to buy Israir Airlines, one of Israel’s largest carriers and tourism companies, for some NIS 170 million ($50...

Plan for 1st-2nd graders to attend school part-time lashed as ‘ludicrous’

City officials on Monday lambasted the government’s decision to allow first and second grades to only reopen part-time starting next week, calling...

The integration of the Arabs in Brazil is at the expense of their language and culture

In Brazil today you can see Arabic dishes alongside local fare on the menu; you might hear occasional Arabic names and words; and someone may even...

The Azedarach Tree

Chill autumn gusts whipped the gaunt branches of the azedarach tree across the road and the wind above propelled ragged clouds across the sky. A...

In Tel Aviv, Sudanese migrants say Israel making peace with a rotten regime

On October 23, US President Donald Trump called the White House press corps into the Oval Office to announce a “historic” and “very special”...

Normalisation with Israel will trigger an arms race in the Middle East

Giving up its decades-old position against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Sudan has agreed to normalise relations with the Zionist state....

Netanyahu’s secretary diagnosed with coronavirus

A secretary in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau was found to be infected with the coronavirus, the Prime Minister’s Office said...

Wary of angering public, Iran has few ways to contain virus

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As coronavirus infections reached new heights in Iran this month, overwhelming its hospitals and driving up...

Naming new cardinals, Pope Francis appoints first Black US prelate

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first...

How Jewish groups are protecting voting access in 2020

JTA — If you’re in Arizona or Florida and a 585 area code pops up on your phone, you might want to answer: It could be a Jewish volunteer in...

Pittsburgh congregations mark 2 years since shooting under shadow of COVID-19

PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle) — Two years after 11 loved ones were ripped from their families, multiple bodies and minds were injured and...

Are we experiencing a pandemic spiritual mutation? An approach from Kabbalah

Embed from Getty Images One of the most fruitful franchises that has flourished during the pandemic, apart from food-delivery by bicycle, is video-...

Last Call for Transatlanticism

BERLIN – Many Americans have already voted, and many more will soon go to the polls in what will be the world’s most important political event of...

Netanyahu said to ban ministers from visiting UAE until he makes trip first

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly banned his government ministers from visiting the United Arab Emirates until he personally makes...

In neverending budget saga, is Likud about to cannibalize one of its own?

Finance Minister Israel Katz may grow to regret his term as the head of Israel’s treasury. It was supposed to be the high point of his career thus...

Four startups join Visa’s innovation center in Tel Aviv

Four new startups will join Visa’s innovation center in Tel Aviv in a bid to get the startup and development community working in tandem with the...

Did a Lebanese reporter go to jail for talking to me?

The setting was the 1991 Middle East peace conference in Madrid. It was before the Oslo process between Israel and the PLO – the Palestine...

Israel mulls action as virus cases suspected of being imported from West Bank

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls on Turks to boycott French goods...

If nothing else, Trump has toppled the iron wall

Britain’s Jewish community, in line with its American counterparts, is encouraged by Israel’s series of peace deals with Arab states. In the...

Another Israeli-Arab Peace Deal? No Wonder the Applause Is Less Exuberant

A historic decision in Chile

On Sunday, an overwhelming majority of Chileans voted to scrap the country's Pinochet-era constitution. However, this is only the first step in a...

Trump’s Last Stand for Apartheid America

NEW YORK – The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents:...

The Arab League and regional leaders will forget Arafat's warning at their peril

I miss Yasser Arafat. Like many revolutionary leaders he was flawed but he had guts, determination and a courage that reflected the Palestinians he...

‘What Killed Michael Brown?’ is the new must-see documentary that eviscerates the mainstream narrative on race in America

‘What Killed Michael Brown?’ is the most important documentary of the year. The film, which is exquisitely directed by Eli Steele and...

The UAE has bought Sudan’s normalisation with Israel

The UAE has been accused of complicity in Sudan’s internal political turmoil for quite some time. Some believe that even the political machinations...

As Israel moves to reopen some schools, infections fall along with testing rate

The Health Ministry on Monday said it had logged fewer than 1,000 new coronavirus cases over the past two days, continuing a downward trend, as top...

Sudan confirms it agreed to talk to Israel for terror delisting, economic aid

Sudan on Sunday confirmed that it had agreed to normalize ties with Israel in exchange for being removed from the US terror blacklist,...

Japan’s full of wind, but China could blow away the competition

HERE COMES THE FILTHI think most people would agree with the observation that the air quality in Hong Kong this year seems to have improved....

I lost multiple friends to opioids, and the deaths won’t stop while the system creates crises to sell ‘solutions’

American communities are being ravaged by so-called “deaths of despair” as the life expectancy of Americans is beginning to drop. Young people...

Western Histories of ‘Russia’ and Ukraine

This is an advance preview from Crisis in Russian Studies? Nationalism (Imperialism), Racism and War by Taras Kuzio (forthcoming soon from E-...

Russia strikes kill at least 78 Turkey-backed rebels in Syria, monitor says

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Airstrikes by Damascus regime ally Russia killed 78 Turkey-backed rebels in northwestern Syria on Monday, a monitor said, in...

When Christian is Jewish: Living a Jewish life with a non-Jewish name

JTA — Christian Goldenbaum is used to people doing a double-take after he introduces himself. Almost every single day while living abroad in New...

How A Man I Never Met Changed My Life

I seem to find new inspiration every time that I volunteer at the Pina Chama, the Soldiers’ Corner in Gush Etzion. Today, while I was working, I...

Week into lockdown exit, plunging infection rates tempered by mounting worries

Israel has shaken its reputation as a coronavirus black sheep. It has been a week since the country took the first steps out of national lockdown,...

Ultra-Orthodox non-compliance rests on fear

The ultra-Orthodox “revolt” of the last lockdown, which continues until today, is most clearly expressed in the opening of their elementary...

Golan Druze town of Majdal Shams to be cordoned off as infections mount

Ministers voted late Sunday to impose a five-day closure in the northern Druze town of Majdal Shams, which has seen virus cases jump in recent...

Opposition chief to file bill next week to dissolve Knesset, call new elections

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Monday said he would submit a bill next week to dissolve the Knesset and hold new general elections, amid coalition...

Hadassah in negotiations to open hospital in Dubai

Hadassah Medical Center is holding talks to open a hospital in Dubai, the Israeli hospital’s head said Monday, following the agreement between...

Ashkenazi tells Russian FM Iranian entrenchment in Syria must be prevented

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi met his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, for the first time on Monday, thanking him for working with the Jewish...

Daughter of Lebanese president says open to peace with Israel, under conditions

The daughter of Lebanese President Michel Aoun continued to draw outrage in Lebanon this week for her repeated calls for peace with Israel, though...

Donald Trump's enduring foreign policy legacy in Asia

Biden victory would not alter new political realities

Koniec prokurátorskej hanby?

Kováčikovi bola prvou námestníčkou generálneho prokurátora dočasne pozastavená funkcia. V piatok dokonca dvadsať z dvadsiatich deviatich...

Recent Speeches by Putin, Lavrov and Xi Signal Fundamental Changes in the Pipeline

Three recent speeches and interviews given by major politicians have sharpened the political debate now raging in the Western media. Ironically,...

Sudan’s leader: Israel deal ‘incentive’ to end pariah status

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s leader said Monday that the decision to normalize ties with Israel was an incentive for US President Donald...

Mideast Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures

Demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron held across region from Israeli Arab town of Hura and the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and war-town Yemen

Cabinet decides grades 1-4 to go back to school Sunday, salons to reopen

As Israel’s daily case rate continued to drop a week after a second national lockdown was eased, ministers in the so-called coronavirus cabinet...

UN envoy chides Security Council for ‘ignoring’ Israel normalization deals

NEW YORK — Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan on Monday accused Security Council members of “ignoring” recent decisions by...

Jerusalem Islamic museum scraps Sotheby’s sale of its exhibits following outrage

Following outrage from both Israeli and international archaeological and cultural authorities, Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art asked on Monday...

Leading Modern Orthodox rabbi in Israel hits out at ‘mentally disturbed’ Trump

JTA — While a majority of Orthodox Jews are expected to vote for Donald Trump in next week’s US presidential election, a well-respected Israeli...

Turkey’s Erdogan invokes Holocaust to condemn French crackdown on radical Islam

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invoked the Holocaust in condemning France’s crackdown on radical Islam, calling it part of Europe’s...

Hamas convicts, releases activists who held Zoom conference with Israelis

A Hamas military court convicted three Gazans on Monday who had been charged with “weakening revolutionary spirit” for their public Zoom call...

Palestinian indicted for planning terror attack in Rosh Ha’ayin

A Palestinian man was indicted Monday for illegally carrying a loading gun and planning to carry out a shooting attack with it in the central...

US hits Iran’s oil sector with further sanctions

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday slapped fresh sanctions on Iran’s oil sector, including over sales to Syria...

G-d’s Master Plan – XLV – The Additional Unique Code Contained Within נחמו

בסייד Firstly, I want to refer you to the Blog I wrote on August 16 mentioning the word Nachamu. I pointed out unique facts within the Hebrew...

Remembering The Tree of Life Massacre

Two years ago today, I turned on my phone after a lovely autumnal Shabbat in Boston and saw a message from my mother in Israel. “We heard the news....

Remembering The Tree Of Life

Dear Readers, On the morning of Saturday, October 27, 2018, an armed assassin named Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh,...

Noam Gershony: From Lebanon to London

The Israeli star of the XXX Para-Olympic London games was Noam Gershony. Noam features in the fantastic new book, “Isresilience: What Israelis...

Whose Side Are You On? Fauci or Trump?

I’m at home in New Jersey, in West Orange, a suburb of Newark. We live in a large condominium complex and there’s always some kind of work being...

The Negligence of the Trump Administration

What is negligence? According to Webster’s it is “failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in life’s...

An Anonymous Act of Kindness in a Most Unusual Way

When I began blogging for Psychology Today using the title “Under Extreme Circumstances” my intent was to entertain and educate readers using...

Macron's real crisis has more to do with French values than Islam

Emmanuel Macron’s fierce campaign against Islam and Muslims has not come out of nowhere. It is the product of racism rooted deep within the...

Can Covid Reduce Global Inequality?

Ahilova peta ustavnega loka

Povsem razumem in podpiram mnoga prizadevanja za spremembo sedanjih razmer, v katerih mediji (po oceni trenutne oblasti seveda pristranski in...

The peace with Sudan and its discontents

The folk of the Far Left must have become  frum.  The vociferous militants and supporters of Yachad, who tweet almost every day, have become...

Sealing a Room at a Palestinian Family's Home With Concrete? For Israel, It's 'Urgent Security Needs'

Haaretz Cartoon

Give AOC credit

I, for one, am happy that AOC refused to speak at the Peace Now memorial for Yitzhak Rabin. There are many lessons to be learned from this refusal/...

Samsung after Lee's death

Chaebol's future relies on transparent governance Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee died Sunday at 78. His death came six years and five months...

Tobacco nationalism is more toxic than tobacco

Although one in four of all adult Indians use tobacco, the country’s addiction runs far deeper. The government, too, has a toxic dependence....

Socialism is no longer just a specter

WASHINGTON – In 1906, Werner Sombart, the German economist, explained America’s resistance to socialism in five words, “roast beef and apple...

COVID-19 accelerated the future of jobs. Here’s how to protect workers.

For years, the technological changes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution have ushered us closer and closer to the future of employment, as emerging...

Clocks in Israel turn back as daylight saving ends

Israel’s winter officially began overnight Saturday-Sunday as clocks turned back one hour, marking the end of daylight saving time. At 2 a.m....

Egypt’s parliamentary vote likely to tighten el-Sissi’s grip over legislature

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians cast ballots Saturday in the first stage of the country’s parliamentary election, a vote which is highly likely to produce...

Large volunteer sand and sea cleanup planned for Friday

A massive beach and sea cleanup day will take place on Friday to draw policymakers’ attention to the need to better protect marine life. Thousands...

10,000 Israelis have used 119 cyberhotline to report hacks: Cyber Directorate

Some 10,000 Israeli citizens and organizations have called up the nation’s cybersecurity hotline, 119, in the past year – from September 2019...

Peace is not about leaders. It is about people.

We stand to witness a potential new era begin here in the Middle East. For centuries, the Middle East has been nothing less than a continuous...

Google's monopolistic acts

Trustbusters need to put brakes on global tech company Google's "preloading" of its web search engine on smartphones could be tantamount to abuse...

If elected, Trump will ramp political prosecution of opponents

By Trudy Rubin Not long after federal authorities broke up an extremist plot to kidnap or kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whom President...

Deep 'han'

By Mark Peterson My previous article "End of han" generated one of the largest responses of any of my articles. "Han" is something everyone knows...

Trump less unhinged in 2nd debate, but Biden still scored

More than 47 million Americans already have voted, and it's doubtful that many who still haven't cast a ballot are undecided about whom to choose...

Inner reflection amid COVID-19

By Kumar Vikrant Before the COVID-19 pandemic, students who were about to graduate in a year or two had healthy thoughts of being ushered into a...

Woman, 46, stabbed and seriously wounded in north; husband arrested

A 46-year-old woman from northern Israel was stabbed and seriously injured Sunday in a suspected case of domestic violence, with her 54-year-old...

COVID-19 hits the Cabinet and German leaders shrug

The health minister tested positive for COVID-19 after meeting with colleagues. Officials implore Germans to stay home for their communities —...

The imaginary genocide of white South Africa

Analysis. The rhetoric of white genocide has long managed to find allies overseas. In 2018, Australia’s Interior Minister proposed issuing...

Run Rabbit, Run, Run, Run

The ancient Egyptians had the right idea. Let me run it by you. When a pharaoh had completed his first 30 years in power, he was expected to fulfill...

Finland’s 34-year-old Prime Minister Sanna Marin bares it all to expose misogyny

Yes, it’s true: Finland’s 34-year-old Prime Minister has recently bared it all to expose ”misogyny” in Finland and worldwide. Google the news...

Trump fools some USrs most of the time, most USrs some of the time, is so losing

2016, conceited Clinton vs. terminator Trump was for many: neither. 2020, Trump vs. Biden is very different. By Trump’s own admission: “What an...

Remembering Me

One of the great joys of growing old (in my case growing VERY old), is a pleasure beyond words to hear from people whose lives I have in some way...

The Prelude to the Third Daily Blessing for Zion and Jerusalem

Since biblical times religious Jews have recited blessings after each meal. Three times every day they have thanked God for providing the food that...

Cabinet greenlights target of 30% renewable energy by 2030

The cabinet on Sunday greenlighted the Energy Ministry’s aim of having 30 percent of Israel’s energy come from renewable sources by 2030....

Italy imposes tough coronavirus curbs as US cases hit record highs

ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy unveiled tough new restrictions on Sunday to help curb surging coronavirus cases, while the pandemic has taken center...

Finding the Silver Lining

Ten months into the global Covid-19 pandemic, five months since the murder of George Floyd, and less than two weeks from one of the most...

Parashat Noach: We Are Part of Humanity

A particularly treasured book I own is called Humans of New York. Despite being a heavy book, it is not a particularly heavy read. In fact, it...

Māori-Israeli Ties Strengthened

During the recent Covid 19 lockdown, a small hui (meeting) was held in Northland between members of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe) and outgoing Israeli...

How Inequality Endangers Our Country – Whereas Equality Saves Our Lives

“All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm. (courtesy) We all want to live happily...

A Response to R. Kornblau’s ‘Why (Orthodox) Jews Must Vote for Joe Biden’

Rabbi Barry Kornblau just published an essay called Why (Orthodox) Jews Must Vote for Joe Biden .  Ordinarily, I’d simply respond on the...

In Israel's Mass Protests, Leave the Horses Out of It

The use of horses to disperse demonstrators is a cruel remnant of wars of the past and should have stopped a long time ago

Even if Trump loses the election, there will be no legal ‘reckoning’ for his alleged crimes.

For progressives, it is the stuff that dreams are made of: Donald Trump could soon trade his orange tan for a prison-issued orange jumpsuit. But...

Hitting back, Baron Cohen tells Trump: I don’t find you funny either

Sacha Baron Cohen, the comedian behind the “Borat” films, hit back at Donald Trump after the US president called him an unfunny “creep.”...

EU condemns Erdogan questioning Macron’s mental health as ‘unacceptable’

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Sunday condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for making what he described as...

Biden accuses Trump of giving up in coronavirus fight

WASHINGTON (AFP ) — US presidential challenger Joe Biden on Sunday accused Donald Trump of giving up in the fight against COVID-19, as the...

An Israeli embassy in Khartoum? Not so fast. This peace deal may take some time

The Israel-Sudan normalization agreement announced Friday was a historic breakthrough, but the path to a formal peace treaty and the establishment...

3 of Pence’s aides, including his closest adviser, said to contract COVID

US Vice President Mike Pence will continue with his aggressive campaign schedule after his chief of staff, Marc Short, tested positive for the...

Aliyah for all? Part I: The great food aliyah

Everyone knows that making aliyah is a very personal decision. Even if someone feels a strong connection with Israel, moving one’s life to a...

He made Israel laugh: Actor and prankster Yehuda Barkan dies of COVID-19

Actor Yehuda Barkan, who died Saturday at age 75 after a battle with COVID-19, was a stalwart of classic Israeli comedy films and a master of...

Top al-Qaeda propagandist wanted by FBI said killed by Afghan forces

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan claimed Sunday that it had killed a top al-Qaeda propagandist on an FBI most-wanted list during an operation in...

Record-breaking equestrian stars in new doc weaving her history with Israel’s

Horses gallop, canter and jump throughout “UnReined,” a new documentary about Israeli equestrian Nancy Zeitlin, a record-breaking rider whose...

Go, And Know…

Go From your native land From your father’s home To the Land that I will show you Go From your siblings, and their children That you love Almost...

Gideon Levy, Reciprocity in International Law Is About Rights, Not Conditions

Why Asia has little to fear from a Joe Biden White House

Arguments to the contrary miss the bigger picture

Italian archbishop Pizzaballa appointed new Latin patriarch of Jerusalem

Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the most senior Roman Catholic official in the Middle East, has been appointed by Pope Francis as the new Latin...

Netanyahu says ministers will consider reopening some school grades, commerce

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the government will weigh reopening some schools and commerce next week, as the high-level...

The hardship Iranian Americans have faced under Trump is just one example of how American democracy is in a crisis.

For Iranian Americans, the election of Donald Trump was more than an expression of intolerance and ignorance in the United States. It was an...

Ľudia na test prišli, ale...

Blesková organizácia celoplošného testovania podčiarkuje fakt, že vláda podcenila prípravu na druhú vlnu. Teraz sa pod nátlakom času...

Lewandowski is one of the greatest players ever

Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski scores so many goals that he has bored people with his feats. DW's Jonathan Harding believes it is precisely for...

Afghanistan claims it killed an al-Qaeda leader wanted by FBI

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan claimed Sunday it killed a top al-Qaeda propagandist on an FBI most-wanted list during an operation in the...

Ascending walls together (Daf Yomi Eruvin 77)

Embed from Getty Images “The wall is considered nonexistent.” The daily readings from Tractate Eruvin have been mostly about establishing eruvs...

Thousands rally in Iraq to mark one year since mass protests

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Sunday to mark one year since mass anti-government demonstrations swept...

Human trials for Israeli coronavirus vaccine to begin November 1

The Defense Ministry on Sunday announced that the first human trials of its coronavirus vaccine will begin next Sunday, November 1, and continue...

Cindy’s Corners Exclusive With Breitbart’s Joel Pollak ‘Jews Must Vote Trump’

The winner of the upcoming election will determine the future of Israel. American Jews need to understand that they should vote on policies, not...

Love and Marriage During the Coronavirus

Today, Sunday our daughter Rochel Leah will God willing wed Itamar Taktuk from Ashkelon, Israel, who serves as a Rabbi to the Israeli Chabad...

Israel’s Advances in Alzheimer’s

Once, we were full of blossoming trees. Trees that would change colours every fall. Trees that spread deep roots. Then, a few trees in a huge...

The Pogrom of Beverly Hills

The media likes to cherry pick facts to fit the story they want to tell. They reinterpret reality to paint people in the appearance of their...

The American Culture War

Many Americans don’t realize that a civil war has been raging in their country for the last 20 years.  I didn’t, really.  The other side,...

Is Libya’s Khalifa Haftar Nearing Victory?

[Manish Rai] It's only a matter of time when Khalifa Haftar takes over Tripoli and announces his complete military victory.

BREXIT: UK Backing Away from Commitments Made under Withdrawal Agreement

[John Bruton] A fraught negotiation between the EU and the UK is looming, as Boris Johnson seems to be backing away from legally and politically...

Sri Lanka to Continue with a Foreign Policy Favorable to China

[Bahauddin Foizee] Despite his attempts to reduce Chinese influence during the initial stage of his tenure, Sirisena had later realized that China...

Herd Immunity, Reinfection and the Great Barrington Declaration

By Gwynne Dyer After eight months of the global pandemic, the pressure to keep economies open and let the chips (or rather, the elderly) fall where...

Australia’s money laundering detectives have been out at the pub

Why did it take media reporting to get Australia’s money laundering investigators to start looking into casino operator Crown Resorts Ltd.? Shares...

For flailing Trump, it may be too late to win this race

Commentary. Even the Republican stronghold of Texas could fall. In short, Trump really needs the Devil’s helping hand to win this time as well....

G-d’s Master Plan – XLIV – The Most Foolish Thing Joe Biden Said Thursday Night

בס”ד With Election Day November 3 almost here, it is important that you look at all the evidence before making your final choice for US...

Life and ironies

Israelis who advocate for a more equal society and better relations between Israel’s Arab and Jewish citizens often point to Israel’s health...

Don’t Deport the Sudanese

Power Doesn’t Translate the Israeli-Palestinian Status Quo

Although some progressive Zionist thinkers might say this phrase as a ‘concession’ in dialogue, attempting to create good-will and common...

Stop the Jerusalem Islamic Art Museum From Selling Off Its Treasures

Israeli women’s soccer team sees COVID outbreak after Euro 2021 qualifier

Five members of the Israeli national women’s soccer team have either contracted the coronavirus or are suspected of carrying the pathogen, following...

Ministers vote to send kids in grades 1-4 back to school next week

The coronavirus cabinet on Sunday voted to reopen schools for children in first to fourth grade early next week, if morbidity rates remain low....

1 in 5 students in yeshiva ‘capsule’ program contracted COVID-19

One in five yeshiva students taking part in a government-approved “capsule” program during August and September contracted COVID-19, despite...

Senate votes to advance Barrett Supreme Court nomination; confirmation on Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett toward final confirmation,...

Sudan confirms moving ahead with Israel accord, despite growing opposition

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Sudanese and Israeli officials will meet in the coming weeks to discuss a package of cooperation deals to “achieve the...

Sudanese torn on Israel ties between loyalty to Palestinians, economic benefits

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — Sudan’s move to normalize relations with Israel has laid bare deep societal splits, with some bashing it as a betrayal...

Israel Continues To Normalize Its Occupation

Israel’s damaging and counter-productive settlement expansion program in the West Bank continues apace. Earlier this month, the Ministry of...

Examining Jesus as a human

“According to James” is an interesting and thoughtful book. Whether readers are Christians, Jews, Muslims, or something else, and even if they...

Change 2020: Choice or Chance?

The changes that will occur in the coming weeks will make history in the voting annals of the United States. As I write this, there are still nine...

Computer bug freezes virus tally ahead of ministers’ discussion on lockdown

A technical error possibly linked to Israel’s move to standard time Sunday morning has delayed the publication of updating figures of coronavirus...

Ministers set for key meeting on reopening schools, some businesses

The coronavirus cabinet was set to meet Sunday afternoon to make a final decision on opening elementary schools next week as virus infection...

Sudan normalizes relations with Israel, though it may not have had much choice

Analysis. Donald Trump announced Friday that Khartoum is the third Arab capital that will start full relations with the Jewish state, leaving...

Paul Auster to discuss his dream of America with Israelis

Docustream, the month-long DocAviv Festival-sponsored documentary film streaming service, is hosting a webinar conversation on October 28 with...

US infection surge underscores sharp differences between Trump, Biden on virus

WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) — US President Donald Trump assured supporters packed shoulder to shoulder at weekend rallies that “we’re rounding the...

Booby traps left inside Sinai homes by IS kill at least 14 civilians

EL-ARISH, Egypt — More than a dozen civilians, including women and children, were killed in Egypt’s restive northern Sinai Peninsula over the past...

Bulgarian PM tests positive for coronavirus

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has tested positive for the new coronavirus as the number of infected with COVID-19 in the Balkan country...

Now dispersed by pandemic, Pittsburgh Jews seek healing 2 years after massacre

AP — Two years ago, the three congregations sharing space at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue relocated after an anti-Semitic gunman killed...

Food, cybersecurity firms leave for UAE in bid to forge tech ties

An Israeli high-tech delegation departed on Sunday to the United Arab Emirates, led by Jerusalem Venture Partners Fund and its founder and chairman...

Why Trump is Bad for Israel (and for Jews and the USA)

The State of Israel will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and...

Charles Aznavour’s Last Chanson Chides Israel About Cluster Bombs

IDF launches its largest drill of the year, simulating war against Hezbollah

The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday morning launched a large-scale exercise simulating war against the Hezbollah terror group, aimed at improving...

Arab Israelis rally against Macron over his defense of Mohammed cartoons

About 200 people protested outside the residence of France’s ambassador to Israel Saturday against President Emmanuel Macron, after he vowed his...

Separating the ‘Facts’ about COVID-19 from the facts

Never before in history has access to information – about almost everything – been easier and faster. That includes information about COVID-19....

Coronavirus pandemic strips 154 Israelis of millionaire status

The coronavirus pandemic has ousted 154 people from the ranks of Israeli millionaires, the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2020 shows, with the...

Netanyahu Mirrors 'Trump Style'; Election Defeat Could Mean a Change of Tack

I Love My Haredi Community. But Our Persecution Complex Is Killing Us

I grew up on stories of Jewish suffering at the hands of hostile non-Jewish authorities, of resistance and self-sacrifice. Today, during the...

Palestinian man killed under unclear circumstances during IDF pursuit

A Palestinian was killed in the West Bank overnight, with Palestinians claiming that the 18-year-old was shot by Israeli troops, and Israel saying...

Israel to send $5 million worth of wheat to ‘our new friends in Sudan’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Sunday that Israel is sending $5 million worth of wheat to Sudan following the announcement...

Justice minister compares Netanyahu secrecy on F-35s to submarine graft case

Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn on Sunday joined other politicians and public officials in questioning the decision-making process behind Israel...

More New Troubles are Raining Down on the Americans

While the current leap year 2020 is far from over, there is no doubt that it will go down in American history marked by memories that are less than...

In Arab first, Bahraini institution joins with US to combat anti-Zionism

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Bahraini institute has signed an agreement with the US State Department to combat anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and...

The Dynamics of Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia

China’s relations with Russia and the Central Asian states have steadily improved in the last three decades. With ideological tensions and border...

Cabinet ratifies UAE treaty, sends Bahrain agreement to Knesset for approval

The government on Sunday officially ratified Israel’s normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates, sealing a landmark treaty that is...

UN says nuclear weapons ban treaty to enter into force in 90 days

UNITED NATIONS  — The United Nations announced Saturday that 50 countries have ratified a UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons triggering its entry...

Rivlin: State must help stop sale of Jerusalem’s Islamic art museum collection

President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday called for Israel to help prevent the sale of part of Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art’s storied collection,...

France recalls envoy to Turkey after Erdogan questions Macron’s mental health

PARIS (AP) — France recalled its ambassador to Turkey for consultations after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said President Emmanuel...

Borat 2’s Jewish gags run the gamut from anti-Semitic to very nice

Spoiler alert: This article contains information about scenes and plot points in “Borat 2.” JTA — Sacha Baron Cohen’s new “Borat” sequel...

Choose life! That’s the Jewish way, and it hasn’t changed

JTA — I grew up in the Williamsburg and Borough Park neighborhoods of Brooklyn. At my Orthodox Jewish day school, I studied the Torah and Jewish...

Netanyahu, Gantz trade accusations about alleged secret F-35 talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night denied an allegation by Defense Minister Benny Gantz that he had hidden negotiations concerning...

High stakes for Earth's climate future in U.S. election

The United States presidential election will be "make or break" for the planet after four years during which Donald Trump frustrated global efforts...

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Israel Must Aim for 40% of Electricity Generated by Renewable Energy