(POGLED) Arabska izdaja Palestine

Običajno je, da države, ki imajo velika nesoglasja, kljub temu ohranjajo diplomatske in trgovinske odnose. A obstajajo tudi okoliščine, ki tega...

Halt to flu vaccines

Respond to wake-up call thoroughly The government's free influenza inoculation scheme for 19 million people was suddenly halted Tuesday, after 5...

A Message of Incitement

Proposal for end-of-war declaration

NK, international society should cooperate for peace President Moon Jae-in called for a declaration to the end of the Korea War in a prerecorded...

Which non-violent revolutions will succeed?

By Gwynne Dyer The old calculation was simple and brutal: if you want to overthrow a tyrant, you must use violence. There was an occasional...

Think you’re no good at judging others’ emotions? Join the club

Author Ramo Nakajima (1952-2004) gave tongue-in-cheek answers to questions from readers in “Akarui Nayami Sodanshitsu” (Upbeat counseling room...

Blacklisting U.S. tech would highlight China’s own weakness

Plans by China to draw up a blacklist of U.S. technology firms might sound great to hardliners as a retaliatory measure against Washington, but...

A better way to help Californians survive wildfires

Firestorms in the West have grown bigger and more destructive in recent years _ and harder to escape. Massive and frenzied, they have overtaken...

Reopening peace factory

By Javier Solana MADRID ― The Sperry Corporation was an American manufacturer of electronic components, information-technology equipment, and...

Celebrating 75 years of the United Nations

NEW YORK – As the United Nations marks its 75th anniversary, the world is in turmoil. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in nearly one million...

And forces built to suppress Black resistance cannot be trusted to protect the public.

On May 13, at about 5am, men who appeared to be police officers ordered a motorcycle taxi to stop in Jinja, Uganda. The taxi driver, assuming the...

We have no choice but to address the humanitarian impact of the coronavirus crisis and climate change at the same time.

We have no choice but to address the humanitarian impact of the coronavirus crisis and climate change at the same time.

'Nostalgia'

By Choe Chong-dae Whenever I visit my hometown, it reminds me of the poem "Nostalgia" written by Jeong Ji-yong. Born in Okcheon, North Chungcheong...

Samsung, with or without union

By Choi Sung-no Samsung has not allowed any form of union under its roof for 81 years ever since its establishment. It is Samsung's so-called "No...

Thousands of Belarusians have been arrested but that will not stop the Belarusian people from demanding freedom.

On September 7, Stanislava “Stasya” Gusakova heard a knock on the door of her flat in Belarus’s capital Minsk. When she opened it, four men –...

Economic injustice in Egypt will continue unless Sisi learns an important lesson

Since the Egyptian businessman Mohamed Ali called on people to protest in the streets on 20 September, all of the official media mouthpieces have...

Reaction to the Steps Taken by Washington to Reconcile Israel and the Arabs

Sundown on September 18th marked the start of Rosh Hashanah 5781, the new year according to the Hebrew calendar. According to Jewish tradition, the...

Covid-19: el desafío de las empresas

El brote de COVID-19 no solo ha generado una de las más graves crisis en la historia de la humanidad, sino también, está afectando de manera...

Paris’s Eiffel Tower briefly evacuated after bomb threat

Paris police briefly evacuated Paris’s Eiffel Tower and blockaded the surrounding area Wednesday after a phone-in bomb threat. All tourists inside...

Ringing in the New Year solo

When I made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) last week with Nefesh B’Nefesh, I knew I was going to have to spend the high holidays isolated in...

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

United. The first known use of ‘united’ was around 1552. The dictionary tells us that it means being in agreement. As the world tries to unite...

Navalny released from hospital after 32 days, doctors say full recovery possible

BERLIN (AP) — The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning said Wednesday that his condition improved...

Our broken-hearted planet (Daf Yomi 45)

Embed from Getty Images “The entire world drinks from the waters of the ocean.” Today’s Daf Yomi text continues the discussion on walking...

Raising trilingual kids in Israel

As a father of my four offspring, I’d like to share my experience in raising them immersed in English, Russian and Hebrew simultaneously, in the...

Thousands expected to honor RBG at US Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the US Supreme Court to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the...

GOP Senate candidate defends controversial Ginsburg abortion meme

DOVER, Delaware (AP) — Republican US Senate candidate Lauren Witzke on Tuesday defended a controversial meme in a Facebook post by her campaign...

‘Sapiens’ graphic novel coming out in October

JTA — For anyone intimidated to start reading Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s wildly popular book “Sapiens: A Brief History of...

Friend of Anne Frank lays first stone at new Dutch Holocaust memorial

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A friend of World War II Jewish diarist Anne Frank laid the first stone Wednesday at a new memorial under construction...

Report: Trump complained to aides Jews ‘only in it for themselves’

US President Donald Trump said that Jews put their ethnic allegiances above all others, making them unreliable political allies, according to the...

The ‘cli-fi’ backlist is now hundreds of novels deep worldwide in 10 languages

Cli-fi shifts readers’ beliefs, but not for long, according to the first empirical test of the effects of reading ”cli-fi,” in which researchers...

Yom Kippur: The Handkerchief at the Train Station

There is a famous folktale about a young man who was traveling on the train through the countryside .  The person sitting next to the young man...

The Monster of Melbourne

Six years and seventy-one court hearings and trials, Malka the monster of Melbourne is being prepared for her over-due extradition from Israel to...

G-d’s Master Plan – XXXVI – A Tribute To RBG – ‘All I Ask Of Our Brethren Is That They Take Their Feet Off Our Necks’

בסייד Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a champion of women’s rights and spent her whole life fighting for what she knew was...

The two-way street of that sexy shofar

When we pray, we talk to G^d. The verb to pray in Hebrew is reflexive. While it’s obvious that G^d hears our prayers, it’s crucial that we...

Why Close Synagogues?

One devastating by product of the virus in my opinion has been the controversial role which the synagogue has played in the fight against the...

Recollections of the Yom Kippur War

What would we do without wars there would be fewer casualties of soldiers in the field, but not as many as those killed on our roads! So today on...

[VIDEO] U’Netaneh Tokef: Living Our Prayers (Yom Kippur)

TRANSCRIPT With all that is happening around the world, the prayer that continues to hold more meaning for me than any other is U’Netaneh Tokef,...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Ultimate Pragmatist

Most commentators eulogize the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her dissenting opinions, rather than for her true legacy. In...

To Friends Who Are Parents

What some of you now experience for the first time is the other end from what I experienced basically every day from the time I was 8 until I was...

Can Halacha Be Paskened by a Rebbetzin?

Right now, we’re in the midst of the Tishrei festival season.  What if I were to tell you that one of the primary yom tov practices was determined...