Netanyahu snubs Bennett at Shin Bet event, is jeered by crowd: ‘The PM is here’

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to snub his successor Prime Minister Naftali Bennett while giving a speech at an event to mark the...

After snub, Bennett says Netanyahu ‘dangerously’ delegitimizing his government

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hit back on Friday at opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the latter was “undermining the legitimacy” of...

Several far-right Israelis, groups said on extensive Facebook blacklist

A far-right Israeli activist and the racist organization he heads were both revealed to be on Facebook’s blacklist of entities banned from the...

Zvi Gur, Israel’s longest-serving prisoner, dies 41 years after murdering boy

Zvi Gur, who served 41 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a young boy, died on Friday of cancer at age 74, four years before he was...

Religious Zionist Society Uses Organ Donation to Virtue Signal

As is widely known, Culture and Sports Minister Chili Tropper donated a kidney to a man he didn’t know. His brother Avishai did so as well. It’s...

‘Fiddler’ meets ‘Sopranos’: Gritty Sholem Aleichem novel in English for 1st time

JTA — Move over, Tevye the dairyman. Make room for Moshkele the thief, the rough-and-tumble rogue hero from the wrong side of the shtetl in a...

How Britain Is Confronting Its Jew-hating Fascist Past

Britain has a complicated relationship with its fascist past, in that it barely acknowledges it.  It’s a source of national pride that the country...

Sally Rooney Just Revealed the Feelgood Futility of BDS

The tiny Hebrew-language publishing world took on larger than life proportions this week after Irish writer Sally Rooney, author of the...

How the hydroelectric genius of Einstein’s dad lit up an Italian town in 1899

MANTUA, Italy — Over a century ago, Hermann Einstein, father of the famous Nobel laureate physicist Albert Einstein, installed a hydraulic turbine...

Don’t Call Them ‘Stray Weeds’

The rioters who left the Havat Maon and Avigayil outposts on Simhat Torah to wreak destruction in the village of Khirbat Mufkara also disrupted the...

Word games: What does Lapid mean when he pushes ‘other options’ on Iran?

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid gave an unprecedentedly harsh warning about Iran’s nuclear program during his visit to Washington, DC this week. “At...

At Sweden summit, social media giants urged to act against ‘rife’ antisemitism

MALMO, Sweden (AFP) — Social media giants were urged to take action on Wednesday to stem “rife” online antisemitism during an international...

‘Jeopardy!’ contestants fumble question about cholent on Shabbat

(JTA) — Contestants on an episode of “Jeopardy!” that aired Wednesday night were stumped when presented with a photo of cholent, a stew...

Lebanon unrest revives all-too-familiar ghost of civil war

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Bullets riddling residential facades, snipers on roofs, residents crouching inside their homes — the scenes that filled...

Even NCIS, which should know better, can’t seem to tell Russian warships from US Navy ones

Most Americans know about NCIS from the CBS TV series that’s been running for almost 20 years – a brainchild of the same producer that...

George Galloway: Facebook is fighting to the death to stop those with the ‘wrong’ opinions from being heard

If you had told me during the years I sat with Nick Clegg in the British Parliament that the achingly liberal member for Sheffield Hallam – later...

Empty gestures or substantive change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and its discontents

The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is...

Israel's New Government Promised Change, Now Is the Time to Act

Remarks by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference Tuesday, according to which the political influence of ultra-...

Reinventing nuclear power

Time to reconsider nuclear phase-out policy French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the importance of nuclear power while unveiling his "France...

Israel's Coalition Isn't Ideologically Diverse at All

Marvel all you want at Naftali Bennett’s management of his disparate government, but his most impressive accomplishment to date has been to...

We Should Embrace Dave Chappelle’s ‘Space Jews’

Comedian David Chappelle made headlines last week by concocting a rather amusing fiction that Jews in ancient times colonized outer space, and when...

Avraham and Sarah – The Original Soulmates

What the story of Avraham and Sarah in Egypt teaches us about the ideal relationship between husband and wife This week’s Torah portion begins with...

‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’ creator still paving the way with ‘JoJolion’ PREMIUM

VOX POPULI: In politics, a simple prefix makes a big difference

The word “distribution” was heard frequently during the Diet session that just ended. I wonder why this plain word has a somewhat unfamiliar ring...

US Marines on Taiwan: Major Provocation, But Not News

When the Wall Street Journal reported recently that US special forces and Marines have been secretly based in Taiwan to train their Taiwanese...

22 million Italians live in areas of high seismic risk

Report. Historically, an earthquake occurs every five years and causes serious damage. Yet the buildings in our country are in ‘very bad’...

The emergency of 149 emergencies

Reportage. In Italy, there is no law on handling emergencies: there is no pre-established plan, and the approach is decided in the moment every...

It’s Official: The Netanyahu Era Is Over

Yuli Edelstein did it, big-time. He said out loud what other senior Likud politicians have been whispering to journalists “not for attribution”...

EU slams Slovenian prime minister for antisemitic conspiracy tweet

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union reiterated Friday that antisemitism “has no place” in the 27-nation bloc after Slovenian Prime...

Parshat Lech Lecha: We Are Searching Souls

Beginnings are, in many ways, radical. They represent the first spark — the initiation — of something new, the intention of trying with the risk...

Impossible Meat Is (Halakhically) Possible

A major brouhaha is emerging among kosher-observant Jews: will it be permissible to eat lab-sourced “meat”? This is no narrow question but rather...

Stepping into the shoes of Abraham’s un-settlement

“Go forth,” God says. And you shall be a nation, and a blessing, and Mine. And even before all of that, though this goes unsaid, you will be...

His Beloved Son: A Difficult Story

The story of Akedat Yitzchak — the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 18:1- 22:24) — is read, according to tradition, just twice a year: on the second day...

An Open Letter to the Israeli Government in the case of Alta Fixsler

BS”D October 15,  2021 – The 9th of Heshvan 5782 It is incomprehensible that the State of Israel sits silently by at a time like this! An open...

My Personal ‘Lech-Lecha Moment,’ and the IDF service that Followed

This week we read the Torah portion in which Abraham and Sarah are given the first commandment of the Jewish people, “Lech Lecha,” which...

Sweet moderation is at the heart of this nation

During the years of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, it was possible to think that all the anti-Israel, antisemitic kooks were of...

What the cow does

In an old neighborhood of Jerusalem, I stood with my daughter strapped to me in a Snugly baby-carrier, waiting to speak with a certain renowned...

Heeding the Call: Part 6 of our Aliyah Journey

The first sentence of this week’s Torah portion says: “Go for yourself from your land, from your birthplace, and from your parents’ house to the...

How To Shake Yourself Out of Shame

We do shame badly. Very very badly. There’s no understatement and I’m willing to throw in a third “very.” We do shame very, very, very badly....

Lech Lecha as a credo

Why is the term “lech lecha” found in the beginning and end of Avraham’s life? What is the term’s meaning that makes it iconic for Avraham?...

NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg Thinks We’re All Idiots

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is either a nincompoop, or he thinks the rest of us are. A recent statement about Russia concerns over the...

Iran-US: a Nuclear Tug of War

There appears to be growing anxiety in Western capitals about the prospects for resuming negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal, with entirely...

US Terrorists with US Diplomatic Passports

There has long been no shortage of factual information in various media publications about the USA’s ties with all sorts of gangs and terrorists....

EDITORIAL: Voters can send clear message on how to bring democracy to life

On Oct. 14, just 10 days after taking office, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved the Lower House to seek a public mandate. The period between...

Vlada na napačni strani razuma

Zdrava oziroma razumna fiskalna politika je takšna, ki je proticiklična. V času recesije ali nizke rasti je ekspanzivna, da spodbuja rast, v...

Why is 'Squid Game' so successful? Because its simple

Squid Game's simple message and stunning, often brutal, visuals make it a formula for success. The violence finds a way to tap into our inner kid,...

Defend the deep

Instead of letting waves of exploitation sweep through the deep ocean, we could choose to protect this vast living realm - by Helen Scales Read at...

Changes to China’s Banking Law Could Help – or Hurt – the Planet

As China – the host of this week’s U.N. Conference on Biodiversity – announces a new fund on biodiversity, we, environmental organizations that...

At least 16 killed in explosions at mosque in southern Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Explosions hit a Shiite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Friday, leaving at least 16 dead and 32 wounded....

Bennett confirms he’ll attend UN climate change conference in Glasgow

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will lead Israel’s delegation to the UN climate change conference in Glasgow at the end of the month, his office...