Unicorn CEO says he’ll leave Israel, stop paying taxes to protest legal overhaul

The founder of one of Israel’s most successful tech unicorns declared on Tuesday that he was leaving the country and ceasing to pay taxes in...

Bill calling to end UN probe into Israel reintroduced to US Congress

A bill calling to end a United Nations probe against Israel has been reintroduced to the US Congress after similar legislation failed to advance...

Report: Hayut asks to freeze judicial overhaul push to talk compromise, PM says no

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut has reportedly demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government freeze all efforts to push...

Shaped by ‘shanda’: Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s memoir on a life of shame and secrets

All families have their secrets, but from reading Letty Cottin Pogrebin‘s new memoir, “Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy,” it would seem...

Netanyahu’s conspiratorial-minded government is treating every issue like a war

In 2017, an Israeli right-wing activist published a book that became an overnight mainstay of the conservative Israeli bookshelf. It was a fierce...

Two Years On, Women Remain at the Forefront of Myanmar’s Resistance Movement

Two years have now passed since the Myanmar military stole an election from the people and launched an illegal coup on February 1, 2021. Hours...

Netanyahu says he wants to hear ‘counter offers’ to proposed judicial overhaul

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is ready to “hear counter offers” to the contentious plan spearheaded by his government’s justice...

Israeli series with never-before-heard Eichmann confessions comes to Amazon video

Americans subscribed to Amazon Prime Video can now listen to never-before-heard recordings of Adolf Eichmann confessing to his crimes, in his own...

To begin drinking alcohol or smoking weed is not cool or smart

Intentionally, I exclude from this pep talk those already addicted “My parents always warned me to look both ways before crossing a street. But now,...

Pakistans tragedy spills over to Kashmir

Pakistan is bandying about failed causes as millions of its citizens are scrambling for wheat flour and pulses, living literally in darkness caused...

New York community leaders call to remove Nazi collaborators from ‘Canyon of heroes’

NEW YORK — Jewish community leaders in New York City have called to remove plaques honoring Nazi collaborators from a celebrated section of...

Battle over municipal funding for Haredi schools foreshadows local election showdown

In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Education Minister Yoav Kisch, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich earlier this...

If We Surrender to the Internal Tyranny, They Will Win

Last November, after a motorcyclist stabbed a pedestrian to death when the latter chided him for almost hitting himself and his spouse as they...

Blinken’s Trip Lays Bare Differences With Israel

Their stiff body language was unmistakably indicative of their sharp policy differences over the combustible, still unresolved Palestinian issue. As...

The Kaab’a And The Temple Mount Are Linked By Holiness

The United Nations General Assembly on October 20, 2010 proclaimed the first week of February of each year as an Interfaith Harmony Week for all...

Thoughts on the Biblical Portion Beshalach

The weekly biblical portion Beshalach, meaning When Pharaoh “sent out” the Israelites from their centuries of enslavement, tells how the exodus...

”My handiwork is drowning” — Israel or Egypt?

Evidently, both the Song of the Sea — the “sea” being most likely a mere sea of reed, a narrow passage between the big bitter lake and the...

Beshalach: Manna from Heaven

This week, before we begin, a Torah Puzzler: What connects this week’s reading with Parashat Bereshit, at the very beginning of the Torah? The...

Gospod natakar, dvojne čričke, prosim!

Evropska komisija je za prehrano v Evropski uniji poleg kobilic in hroščev mokarjev odobrila tudi uporabo hišnih čričkov. Črički so odobritev...

Redemption of First Born Donkey

There is an unusual ceremony mentioned in the Torah, known as פדיון פטר חמור. It refers to the redemption of a first born male donkey. If...

The Survivor Nation

This past week, our family suffered the passing of our Bobby, Mrs. Blanche Steinmetz, Batsheva Beila bas Moshe a”h. Bobby was a survivor of...

VOX POPULI: Arduous journey started by Suu Kyi continues for Myanmar people

The hero of Truman Capote’s (1924-1984) 1958 novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” has a unique calling card posted on her apartment mailbox....

EDITORIAL: 2 years on from coup, pain and despair reign over Myanmar

On Feb. 1 exactly two years ago, Myanmar's military staged a coup that has resulted in the deaths of 2,900 civilians and more than 13,000 people...

Nissan-Renault new chapter should be based on innovation, not scale

NATO and Turkey: an expulsion or a warning?..

All international political alliances (particularly military-political ones) are formed on the basis of shared interests and threats to two or more...

Bamba, Coke, Unity

Family and friends seek appropriate commemorations for their deceased loved one. But distributing Bamba [the famous Israeli snack] and Coca Cola to...