Dockside dealings: Smuggling, bribery, tax evasion rampant at Beirut port

BEIRUT (AFP) — The huge explosion at Beirut’s port last month laid bare a dockside institution riddled with graft which critics say is a microcosm...

Netanyahu, Step Down So That We May Have a Good Year

Why the Philippines’ Sabah claim against Malaysia isn’t a land grab

Sabah has been a sticking point in Malaysia-Philippines relations ever since the Federation of Malaysia formally came into being in 1963. Manila...

Forget the US, Japan’s Yoshihide Suga should visit South Korea first to mend ties

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who this week replaced Shinzo Abe, may want to take a leaf out of one of his predecessors’ playbooks by...

Thai protesters must force reform not a revolution

Compromise the only way to create a genuine constitutional monarchy

Cabinet eases movement restriction to allow travel 1 kilometer from home

Government officials loosened restrictions on movement during the new nationwide coronavirus lockdown, saying on Thursday night that people will be...

Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv against new virus lockdown

Hundreds of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv late Thursday against a second nationwide lockdown to combat Israel’s surging coronavirus outbreak....

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Suga likely to be cautious in diplomacy, avoid disputes with Asian neighbors

Lacking diplomatic experience, new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is likely to take a cautious approach in the early stages of his foreign policy,...

While summer is overstaying its welcome, we can still enjoy fall air

The Japanese expression “sankan shion” (literally, three cold and four warm) is used in early spring when cold and warm days tend to alternate. I...

Suga should seize opportunity to reinvent nation’s energy policy

The Abe administration failed to address key energy policy issues during its seven years and eight months in power, with the procrastination most...

Izzivi proračunov v času koronakrize

Priprava proračunov za naslednji dve leti bo pomenila velik izziv za vlado, saj bo potekala v času velike negotovosti in pomanjkanja zanesljivih...

Online event reconnects Super Sentai ‘Red’ heroes PREMIUM

‘Imuri’ poses questions on par with other manga masterpieces PREMIUM

With the Israel-UAE-Bahrain deals, ‘undeniable Palestinan truths’ no longer hold

One of the first things that the historic agreements between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain will do is bring the word tatbie, normalization, into...

Hungarian Jews to celebrate Rosh Hashanah on a boat as coronavirus cases surge

JTA — When Rosh Hashanah begins on Friday night, none of Hungary’s 100,000 Jews will be in a synagogue. Instead, they’ll be on a boat in the...

The circles on the water

The Rosh HaShana Torah reading comes from Genesis 21, where the intimate story of one couple’s discovery of God becomes the story of two nations....

Somalia goes for indirect elections again - for the sixth time 

The Federal Government of Somalia and its member states have agreed after lengthy discussions and consultations, to an indirect electoral formula...

US says Hezbollah storing explosive chemical that caused Beirut blast in Europe

Hezbollah has stored ammonium nitrate, a chemical that can be used to make explosives, in several European countries, a senior US State Department...

Twilight in the Desert for Saudi and MBS?

It appears as if Saudi de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is on a mission to destroy the world oil giant by one after the other ill-...

Journalist reckons with Israeli blame for 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre

Recollections of the final harrowing chapter of Israel’s Beirut adventure in 1982 always begin for me with the ambience of Jerusalem’s Great...

Who is betraying whom?

Embed from Getty Images Twice in the past few days Palestinian leaders have charged fellow Arab states with treachery.  The accusation was taken...

A Jew is never alone – A 2020 Vision for Rosh HaShanah

This year, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic,  the global  Jewish community is not only saddened by the need to surrender many of...

Study said to find Saudis may have enough uranium to make own nuclear fuel

Saudi Arabia likely has sufficient uranium reserves to produce nuclear fuel domestically, according to a British newspaper report on Thursday....

We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer 

The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was...

On gloomy Rosh Hashana Eve, Israel prepares for second painful national lockdown

Israelis prepared to welcome the Jewish New Year Friday with a new deeply unpopular national coronavirus lockdown, amid expectations of serious...

(POGLED) Ali bo šel slovenski osel še enkrat na led?

Koronska kriza je pretresla svetovno, evropsko in tudi slovensko gospodarstvo. Ni nam bilo lahko v zadnjih mesecih. Ne bo nam lahko niti v...

Rosh Hashanah: How You Know You Matter

I once watched a YouTube video called, “A Reason to Stop Worrying — Watch This Whenever You’re Stressed or Anxious.” The narrator began by...

When the Shofar is Silenced During a Pandemic

There are many reasons (many!) why this year’s Rosh Hashanah will be different from last year’s Rosh Hashanah. One reason was predictable. Last...

Love-in-a-Box

When the staff of Shutaf (Hebrew for partner)—a year-round inclusion program that brings together kids, teens and young adults with and without...

A Moment of Truth in the Pandemic

GENEVA – Now almost in its tenth month, the COVID-19 pandemic is still wreaking havoc on economies and lives around the world. But while the end...

Israelis' Much-vaunted Solidarity, Honed by War, Has Failed in Time of Plague

Israelis are grimly reaping the result of decades of Netanyahu’s divide and rule and incitement: We can no longer come together to fight the...

The Sermon I never Preached

Any fair retrospect will highlight how fortunate we are to live in times shaped by the luxuries of modernity. We enjoy unprecedented healthcare,...

Hillel to Orwell: Israel Distorts the Golden Rule

It was recently reported that Israel plans to bring 2,000 Ethiopian Jews to the Jewish Homeland. This is both too little and too late and yet...

Uman and Jerusalem – When a Pilgrimage Misses the Point

I’m pretty certain that I’m not alone in watching videos, seeing pictures and reading stories of the hundreds of people attempting to reach Uman...

Normalisation with Israel and the Palestinian response

There has been a breach in the Arab Front in favour of Israel against Palestine. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has caused a wide rift in the Gulf...

Two shot dead in Nazareth during club brawl, police search for suspects

Two men were shot dead in the northern city of Nazareth Thursday night in a suspected double homicide, police said. The shooting took place in a...