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VOX POPULI: Santoka’s haiku teach us to savor the moment as summer rolls in

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Israel approves new defense complex at former UNRWA East Jerusalem headquarters

Israel approves new defense complex at former UNRWA East Jerusalem headquarters

IDF museum, enlistment office, office for defense minister set to be built on site; Katz says ‘nothing more symbolic or just’ than placing them...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

The Tribe of Levi

The Tribe of Levi was counted differently from the other tribes of Israel. They were counted from one month in age rather than twenty years, as was...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Unconditional Support:The True Meaning of Advocacy

Unconditional Support:The True Meaning of Advocacy

​The global landscape of Israel advocacy has shifted in a troubling direction. Increasingly, we witness a phenomenon where support from abroad comes...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Nir Oz marks birthday of Johnny Siman Tov, killed on October 7

Nir Oz marks birthday of Johnny Siman Tov, killed on October 7

Kibbutz friends, neighbors and family members celebrate together in Karmei Gat

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

A Letter from California

A Letter from California

There is a sentence I keep trying to write, and every version sounds worse than the last. It begins: “Bill Maher was brave to…” The rest does...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Magnus Torén

Collateral Sovereignty: How the Iran War Put the Falklands in Play

When a leaked Pentagon memo from Elbridge Colby floated the idea of reviewing US support for Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, most...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part IV

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part IV Part I tried LGGRTC through institutional impeachment. Part II tried LGGRTC through its own...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

Digital Wills: Aim for a Simple, Highly Secure System

Digital Wills: Aim for a Simple, Highly Secure System

14:55 JST, May 14, 2026 To whom will you leave your assets after death, and how? Inheriting property is an issue that many people face. With the...

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The Japan News

Editorial

A History of Tribal Humor Infotainment

A History of Tribal Humor Infotainment

Two months ago, I reposted a statement from Donald Trump into a WhatsApp group chat after one of the flare-ups involving Iran. I remember the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Matthew Robin

Good News.Space cooperation, good deeds, social contacts, internships and more

Good News.Space cooperation, good deeds, social contacts, internships and more

Good News.Space cooperation, good deeds, social contacts, internships and more Which positive messages of the past few weeks and announcements of...

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New Eastern Outlook

Ksenia Muratshina

Egypt and Pakistan Are Co-Producing Weapons. Read the Fine Print.

Egypt’s military establishment does not make moves casually, and its deepening defense industrial partnership with Pakistan deserves more scrutiny...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Amine Ayoub

Settler activists illegally cross into Syria; IDF returns them, hands them to police

Settler activists illegally cross into Syria; IDF returns them, hands them to police

Amid signs war may renew, Trump publishes Middle East map with arrows pointing at Iran * Lebanon state media says Israeli strike in Baalbek killed...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Trust Me, I Have Sources

Trust Me, I Have Sources

Crowdfunding, conflict journalism and the performance of insider access For more than a decade, the disappearance of Austin Tice has remained one of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Domicela Heijmeriks

Featured Post

Featured Post

I used to think I was an extrovert. Social situations give me energy. I like meeting new people, learning what makes them tick, and swapping stories...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

Was G-d Kidding?

This week, we celebrate Shavuot, the day we received the Torah on Mount Sinai. It was 3338 years ago, in 2448 in the Hebrew calendar. Our ancestors...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lazer Gurkow

Report: Netanyahu revealed secret UAE visit to avoid being upstaged by election rival Bennett

Report: Netanyahu revealed secret UAE visit to avoid being upstaged by election rival Bennett

Having learned Bennett was about to visit the Gulf nation, PM said to have rushed to publicize his own trip, enraging Abu Dhabi which has denied it...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

UN Committee Against Torture cracks down on Italy

UN Committee Against Torture cracks down on Italy

UN Committee Against Torture cracks down on Italy The CAT expresses “serious concern” regarding the conditions in Italian prisons, ranging from...

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Il Manifesto Global

Eleonora Martini

Intelligent Autonomous Robots May Be the Solution to Hezbollah’s Drone Threat

Intelligent Autonomous Robots May Be the Solution to Hezbollah’s Drone Threat

Hezbollah lost roughly 90% of its rocket arsenal during the Gaza war, and Iran, its strategic patron, is in economic collapse. And yet the most lethal...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Celeo Ramirez

The energy crisis is becoming a currency crisis

The energy crisis is becoming a currency crisis

Have a look at a list of the worst-performing currencies since the start of the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran and a striking but unsurprising pattern...

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The Japan Times

David Fickling

Yes, You Can Quit the New York Times

Yes, You Can Quit the New York Times

A field guide for those who know better but have not—yet. There is a particular panic that sets in when one considers canceling The New York Times....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Todd L. Pittinsky

Drone strike hits Abu Dhabi nuclear plant; UAE, Saudi Arabia and UN watchdog condemn

Drone strike hits Abu Dhabi nuclear plant; UAE, Saudi Arabia and UN watchdog condemn

No injuries or radiological release reported as attack sets generator on fire; UAE, hit hard by Iran, appears to blame strike on Tehran or its...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Why Israel Is Treated Differently

Why Israel Is Treated Differently

Israel Is Not Unique — The Standards Applied to It Are There is something strangely revealing about the way people speak about Israel. Not merely...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ivan Bassov

Maj – ljubezni čas?

Maj – ljubezni čas?

Tako je o ljubezni v pesnitvi Maj pisal češki romantik Karel Hynek Macha, Prešernov sodobnik: »Ljubi se – v ljubezni maja – vse, prav vse.«...

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Dnevnik

Dragan Petrovec

How Moscow lost friends and global influence

How Moscow lost friends and global influence

Since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not only failed to achieve the...

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The Japan Times

Nina L. Khrushcheva

Trump’s troop drawdown in Germany is a warning shot

Trump’s troop drawdown in Germany is a warning shot

With the world’s attention focused on wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, a major geopolitical development in Europe has gone largely unnoticed:...

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The Japan Times

James Stavridis

The New Pogrom

The New Pogrom

There are moments in history when societies reveal not merely their political divisions but also their moral collapse. New York City, once the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Aaron t. walter

Velenjčan je osvojil rekord v najdaljšem igranju harmonike na svetu

Velenjčan je osvojil rekord v najdaljšem igranju harmonike na svetu

Od srede do nedelje se je v Šaleški dolini zbralo več tisoč ljubiteljev harmonike. Štiri dni in tri noči so številni spremljali podvig znanega...

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Dnevnik

Mojca Marot

Sošolko po zabavi potisnil na posteljo in posilil

Sošolko po zabavi potisnil na posteljo in posilil

On je trdil, da je šlo za prostovoljen odnos, ona pa, da jo je držal za zapestji in tiščal ob posteljo, medtem ko jokala in prosila, naj neha. Na...

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Dnevnik

Mojca Furlan - Rus

Before I Knew the Name

Before I Knew the Name

There are things the body recognizes before the mind has a language for them. When I was a child in El Salvador, I attended a small church with my...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Walter estever gonzalez

Sivan’s Hidden Lesson

Yesterday we ushered in the Hebrew month of Sivan (סִיוָן). What is its origin? 

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shamai Leibowitz

The Bit Everyone Gets Wrong About Sinai

The Bit Everyone Gets Wrong About Sinai

Moses got all the credit. The real story was happening below. There are two common phrases for what happened at Sinai, and the difference between them...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Feivel strauss

Podizvajalec

Podizvajalec

Kot poročamo, je svet stranke Resnica prvaka Zorana Stevanovića potrdil, da bodo predsednika SDS Janeza Janšo podprli na glasovanju za mandatarja...

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Dnevnik

N. N

Hezbollah Is Plotting to Kill Lebanon’s Leaders

Hezbollah Is Plotting to Kill Lebanon’s Leaders

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have done what too many of their predecessors refused to do: openly accuse Hezbollah of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Did Trump just say he’s at war for PR reasons?

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The Korea Times

Marc Champion

A Jewish Child, Three Popes, and the One Who Said Nothing

A Jewish Child, Three Popes, and the One Who Said Nothing

In November 1946, a twelve-year-old girl stood before Pius XII and received a medal. She was a Jewish child from the Warsaw Ghetto, passing as a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Janet Bond Brill

Semiconductor chokepoints define U.S.-China rivalry

Semiconductor chokepoints define U.S.-China rivalry

U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Beijing offers a timely moment to assess the upheaval in U.S. trade relations since the start of his...

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The Japan Times

Eiki Tagami

Can California’s new online platform help rebuild democracy?

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The Korea Times

Jeffery marino and micah weinberg

سوريا لن تكون وحدها

الاستثمارات السورية-الإماراتية: شراكة لإعادة بناء المستقبل في وقت مليء بالرسائل...

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العين الإخبارية

عيسى الكعبي

Katarina Bervar Sternad: V Sloveniji gre bolj za sistemsko korupcijo

Katarina Bervar Sternad: V Sloveniji gre bolj za sistemsko korupcijo

Mislim, da se je že vsak posameznik srečal s posledicami korupcije. Ko je, na primer, želel dostopati do nekih zdravstvenih storitev, v...

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Dnevnik

Katarina bervar sternad

Ithaca, NY: Ground Zero for Small Town Jew Hate Part II

Ithaca, NY: Ground Zero for Small Town Jew Hate Part II

Ambient antisemitism. When I first encountered this phrase several weeks ago, a condition I had sensed but was unable to name snapped into focus. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stacey lehman

4 crew members eject safely after two US Navy jets collide during air show in Idaho

4 crew members eject safely after two US Navy jets collide during air show in Idaho

Cause unclear for collission of EA18-G Growlers at Mountain Home Air Force Base, but expert says it’s remarkable both crews managed to eject

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The Times of Israel

Rebecca Boone

Japan urged to expand 'Life Safety Education' to prevent sexual violence

Japan urged to expand 'Life Safety Education' to prevent sexual violence

As a member of the international nongovernmental organization Plan International, I have advocated for institutionalizing and expanding "Life...

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Japan Today

Miki nagashima

The Implications of the Oil Crisis for Israel’s Energy Economy

The Second Iran War illustrates the structural weakness of the global oil market – and the urgent need to  develop credible alternatives for both...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nadav bachar

H-Interfaith: The Global Academic Interfaith Space

H-Interfaith: The Global Academic Interfaith Space

The article, ‘Interfaith work has failed—we need to move to action’, published two months ago in Church Times, merits careful attention because...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Thea gomelauri

The Blessing of Female Friendship: Lessons from Ruth and Naomi

Each year, Shavuot returns us to Megillat Ruth — a story of faith, continuity, and belonging, but also one of the Torah’s most enduring portraits...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Rachel z. goodman

متى يُحاكم جنرالات الكيماوي في السودان؟

لم تعد الحرب في السودان مجرد نزاع بين معسكرين أو فصيلين، أو صراع جنرالات على...

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العين الإخبارية

عبدالمنعم سليمان

Imperial Succession: Can Stability Be Achieved by Insisting on Men in Paternal Line?

Imperial Succession: Can Stability Be Achieved by Insisting on Men in Paternal Line?

16:13 JST, May 17, 2026 Japan’s Imperial system, in which the throne has been passed down to members in the paternal line for 126 generations, is...

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The Japan News

Editorial

The Madrid Bombings and Islamism’s successful Western Colonial Project

or How the new-Palestinians learnt to Gaslight Jews on Everything. On the 11th of March 2004 at 07:37 a.m. Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Maurice Solovitz

The Other Blood Libel

There is a tragic similarity in the psychology of collective accusation. When Nicholas Kristof paints Jews as uniquely bloodthirsty, uniquely...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Paul Mendlowitz