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Italy shuts down ‘Jew hunting’ form seeking to ‘map Zionist tourism’ after uproar

Italy shuts down ‘Jew hunting’ form seeking to ‘map Zionist tourism’ after uproar

Rome’s antisemitism czar puts end to Google form that drew condemnation from government officials, including Senate leader who said ‘profound...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

UN condemns Israeli attacks in Gaza, after raft of strikes on Oct. 7 terrorists

UN condemns Israeli attacks in Gaza, after raft of strikes on Oct. 7 terrorists

Rights office suggests IDF ‘war crimes’ in Strip, notes dozens killed this week, including children; strikes have killed Hamas commanders, PIJ...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

From Evian to Ankara: The Illusion of the CRICK Defense Alliance's Demise

From Evian to Ankara: The Illusion of the CRICK Defense Alliance's Demise

From Evian to Ankara: The Illusion of the CRICK Defense Alliance’s Demise The main strategic goal of the United States is to dismantle the informal...

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New Eastern Outlook

Mohamed Lamine Kaba

3 Reasons Why Adult Child Blame Can Feel So Jarring

3 Reasons Why Adult Child Blame Can Feel So Jarring

The emotional toll of adult children blaming their struggles on their parents.

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Psychology Today

Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

Above Suspicion

Nazi villains were a staple of early 1940s Hollywood movies, especially after the United States’ entry into World War II following Japan’s attack...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sheldon Kirshner

Nine Items for Blogging Last Week

Nine Items for Blogging Last Week

Radio talk show. Murderer sentenced. In May 2020, he strangled his 19-year-old girlfriend. Her father was interviewed. How did he feel, sitting in the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Harriet Gimpel

The Nile’s New Frontline: Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Somaliland Question

The dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has increasingly extended beyond the Nile Basin into the Horn...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed Osman

Is the mourning for Tisha BeAv still relevant?

Each year, as Tisha B’Av approaches, the Jewish people return to an ancient wound: the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem. Yet beyond the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Marc Levy

Expanding Our Sense of Change

Expanding Our Sense of Change

A Personal Perspective: Preparing for a new understanding of interdependency.

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Psychology Today

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.d

Cynická obluda: Paradox tolerantného Slovenska

Krajina plná tolerantných milujúcich ľudí, ale pre istotu, tu je policajná ochrana.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

How to Manage Your Inner Posse of Lawyers When It Pipes Up

How to Manage Your Inner Posse of Lawyers When It Pipes Up

Personal Perspective: My inner lawyers are trying to keep me safe.

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Psychology Today

Victoria Maxwell

How Michigan’s Senate race is testing pro-Israel Jews’ loyalty to the Democratic Party

How Michigan’s Senate race is testing pro-Israel Jews’ loyalty to the Democratic Party

Some Jewish communal leaders in the state say they would support a Republican candidate if a strident Israel critic beats centrist Haley Stevens in...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Lapin

How to Listen and Speak to Symptoms in Psychotherapy

How to Listen and Speak to Symptoms in Psychotherapy

What can we learn from listening to and hearing what our symptoms have to say?

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Psychology Today

Stephen A. Diamond Ph.d

From Gatorade to Addiction and GLP-1s

From Gatorade to Addiction and GLP-1s

Neuroscience and the gut-brain revolution in obesity and addiction medicine.

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Psychology Today

Mark S. Gold M.d

Mamdani’s American dream

Mamdani’s American dream

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – Francis Fukuyama’s 1990s end-of-history thesis was the last big narrative that united the liberal-democratic West. Western...

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The Japan Times

Slavoj Žižek

Creation: The Story of Beginnings by Grossman

Jonathan Grossman’s 2019 book Creation: The Story of Beginnings, published as part of the Maggid Tanakh Companion series, is a substantial 439-page...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Israel Drazin

Israel's Embarrassing Turnaround on the Armenian Genocide

Israel's Embarrassing Turnaround on the Armenian Genocide

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Tova Herzl

Extremist settlers steal 200 goats from two Palestinian villages – report

Extremist settlers steal 200 goats from two Palestinian villages – report

Footage from Peace Now shows Jewish extremists driving dozens of goats through Palestinian village of Deir Ibzi; 35 goats later returned by Israeli...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Showing So as Not to See

On July 4, 1946, forty-two Jews were murdered in Kielce, and dozens more were wounded. The eightieth anniversary of the pogrom should be more than...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The road to normalising colonial expansion in Gaza

The road to normalising colonial expansion in Gaza

Normalising genocide was a way to normalise colonial expansion in Gaza. Only three weeks after Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich revealed...

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Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Chickenpox surges in Gaza camps amid overcrowding and poor sanitation

Chickenpox surges in Gaza camps amid overcrowding and poor sanitation

With families packed in tents, there is no space to isolate infected people as officials record 9,300 suspected cases this month; UNICEF warns other...

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The Times of Israel

Afp

Europe’s Atlantic Mediocracy: Why Its Establishment Is Afraid of Realism

Europe’s Atlantic Mediocracy: Why Its Establishment Is Afraid of Realism

Europe’s Atlantic Mediocracy: Why Its Establishment Is Afraid of Realism The symbolic departure of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not end...

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New Eastern Outlook

Adrian Korczyński

Daily Briefing July 21 – IDF begins trial pullout from Lebanon buffer zone

Daily Briefing July 21 – IDF begins trial pullout from Lebanon buffer zone

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on Israeli assessments of Iran’s capabilities and a visit to an underground Hezbollah base, a stone’s throw...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Execution is the new scarcity in the age of AI

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The Korea Times

Charles Chang

Japan’s next economic challenge: bringing yen home

Japan’s next economic challenge: bringing yen home

In 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Finance unveiled Kokusai-sensei, a mascot whose smiling face is made from the first kanji character in the Japanese...

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The Japan Times

Gearoid Reidy

Why Losing a Child Shatters the World

Why Losing a Child Shatters the World

A child’s death can wound six universal psychological needs at once.

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Psychology Today

Sefik Tagay Ph.d

J Street defends co-sponsoring college Democrats event featuring Hasan Piker

J Street defends co-sponsoring college Democrats event featuring Hasan Piker

Liberal pro-Israel group says it funded exhibit table and had no say in who spoke at conference in Washington, DC, amid blowback over presence of...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

Mladi Pirančani so Punti vrnili življenje

Mladi Pirančani so Punti vrnili življenje

Na piranski Punti se je v soboto zbralo več sto obiskovalcev, ki so napolnili obalo ob glasbi, lokalni kulinariki in druženju. Festival, ki ga je...

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Dnevnik

Vesna Levičnik

The North Sea Mirage

When Donald Trump declared that the people of Aberdeen were “dancing in the streets” following reports that incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Cynická obluda: Plán výmeny Fica za Orbána stále žije

Toľko naivity, čo dokážu v PS položiť na stôl, sa len tak nevidí.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Beyond the Strait of Hormuz: Refining Capacity and Product-Market Vulnerability

Beyond the Strait of Hormuz: Refining Capacity and Product-Market Vulnerability

The recent disruption in the Middle East, including the closure and uneven reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, has exposed a shift in the global energy...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Umud Shokri

The Netanyahu Family Knows How Yoni Died. Why Revive the Blood Libel?

The Netanyahu Family Knows How Yoni Died. Why Revive the Blood Libel?

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Amir Oren

Tumbling U.S. status in the world should be no surprise

Tumbling U.S. status in the world should be no surprise

“The United States is respected as never before.” U.S. President Donald Trump has confidently repeated that assertion since his first term in...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

Stage Fright and the Heroic Struggle of Being

Stage Fright and the Heroic Struggle of Being

An existential-phenomenological approach to stage fright.

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Psychology Today

Matthew T Giobbi Ph.d

From Filing Cabinet to A Powerful Growth Engine

The Evolution of Technology Transfer Software and Why TTG (Technology Transfer Growth) is the Next Step For two decades, the software that runs the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tamir Huberman

1 Thing Your Relationship Needs More Than Chemistry

1 Thing Your Relationship Needs More Than Chemistry

The trait that makes long-term relationships work is simple and unglamorous.

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Psychology Today

Mark Travers Ph.d

Where Europe Places Its Jews

Where Europe Places Its Jews

A few weeks ago, I walked into a second-hand bookstore and bought a novel by Antonio Tabucchi, the Italian writer whose devotion to Fernando Pessoa...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sharon Pardo

Don’t Overestimate America and China’s Importance

Don’t Overestimate America and China’s Importance

LONDON—I recently launched a new policy platform (with Gemma Cheng’er Deng) to promote closer cooperation between the West and the BRICS group...

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Project Syndicate

Jim O';Neill

The people’s atheist

Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey The Angelus (1857-59) by...

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Aeon

Nidal Taibi

Strach, hnev a bezmocnosť: Ako Taiwanci prežívajú vzťah s Čínou

O budúcnosti Taiwanu nerozhodujú len rakety. Rozhodujú aj emócie

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SME.sk

Richard Turcsanyi

Featured Post

Featured Post

For most of my life, I thought a “bad Jew” was someone like me. I wasn’t Orthodox. I didn’t keep kosher. I’ve eaten more shrimp, lobster,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dory Benami

Israel’s American Influence Operation

Israel’s American Influence Operation

Architecture, Objectives, and Failure In the summer of 2026, a detailed picture emerged of a coordinated effort by the Israeli government to reshape...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

William Keenan

Critical Terrorism Studies: Discourse and Discourse Analysis

Critical Terrorism Studies: Discourse and Discourse Analysis

Much critical terrorism studies work deals explicitly with the concept of discourse and the methods for studying the use of language in politics.

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E-International

Lee Jarvis And Alice Martini

Old Wine in New Pixels? Skeptcism About the Simulation Hypothesis

Old Wine in New Pixels? Skeptcism About the Simulation Hypothesis

What simulation belief may reveal about ourselves, more than reality.

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Psychology Today

Grant Hilary Brenner Md

Tisha b’Av, Donald Trump, Antisemitism, and the Moral Collapse of the West

If one had to choose a single day on the Jewish calendar that best explains the state of the world in 2026, it would not be Yom Kippur or Passover. It...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Paul Mendlowitz

From Lab to Life: Coffee Fights Stress, Aging

The world is divided into two: Coffee lovers and tea drinkers. I belong to the coffee lovers. Forever and irrevocably. Now comes news from Science...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Maital

Critical Terrorism Studies: Hamas and 7 October 2023

Critical Terrorism Studies: Hamas and 7 October 2023

Scholars have argued that Hamas’ humanitarian aid, social welfare, and governance structures complicate reductive portrayals of the group as a...

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E-International

Lee Jarvis And Alice Martini

Haftarat Shabbat Nachamu: Comforting God

Nachamu nachamu ami – “Comfort, comfort My people” (Isaiah 40:1). With these words we begin the shiva denechemta, the seven haftarot of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Brander

The arrest that could never happen

When Political Theater Collides with Constitutional Reality You know the headlines. You’ve read the papers. You know about the fiery rhetoric...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky

Vision+

Vision+

Marcus was getting ready to meet Sara, wondering whether to put his Vision in his eyes and ear to help him decide what to wear. There was still an...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Rosh Pina