(PISMO IZ BRUSLJA) Spodbujanje in povezovanje Zahodnega Balkana na poti v EU

Beograd, Podgorica, Priština, Sarajevo, Skopje, Tirana – to je šest glavnih mest Zahodnega Balkana, ki so v središču Evrope, vendar potovanje...

Concerns about flu vaccines

It's urgent to investigate possible links between deaths and vaccines Public anxiety over flu vaccines is running high as more people have died...

Controversial reactor audit

Government needs to reconsider nuclear phase-out The Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) has concluded that the economic feasibility of the aged...

Japan’s old ‘kao’ signatures a fun anachronism worth preserving

"Kao" is a kind of personalized hieroglyphic signature on official documents in Japan in lieu of a handwritten full-name signature. Those used by...

The Truth About the Submarine Affair

The pointless fight. Is Suga’s honeymoon over?

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga started off surprisingly well, despite his noncharismatic personality and selection by the Liberal Democratic...

Khashoggi fiancee sues Saudi prince in US over journalist’s murder

WASHINGTON — The fiancee of journalist Jamal Khashoggi sued Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and other officials Tuesday in a US court, seeking damages...

Surprise in October, or What We Saw at the Military Parade in Pyongyang

On October 10, 2020, the DPRK held a massive celebration for the 75th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. It is one of the most important...

Virus outbreak continues to abate, but experts warn of potential new surge

The coronavirus outbreak is continuing to abate, according to figures published Wednesday morning by the Health Ministry, with new daily cases...

In Thailand, the king has no clothes

Commentary. Regardless of what the short-term consequences of these protests will be, these slogans, which from one day to the next have become the...

Pediatric hotspots in Northern Italy are pushing health care to the brink

Reportage. In Turin, the situation is chaotic and inefficient. Lines of responsibility are unclear, and parents are frantic. The rising contagion...

Florida, Israel call on firms to bid for joint aerospace R&D funding

Space Florida and the Israel Innovation Authority are calling on Israeli and Florida-based for-profit companies to bid for funding for a total of...

US files landmark antitrust case against Google

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising — the...

Screen test: Coronavirus causing ‘academic Darwinism’ as campuses stay closed

With Israeli university and college students heading back to school this week — virtually, for the second semester in a row — the weight of what...

Israeli Morality: A Light to the World

Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman wrote a very interesting article in today’s issue of the JERUSALEM POST. In it, she affirms that Israel’s top priority at...

G-d’s Master Plan: Al Jolson, Jazz Singer, Honor Thy Mother And Father, COVID

בסייד On October 6, I published a Blog explaining the significance of that date in history, but I neglected to mention what took place on October...

With cakes, lonely Shabbat sweetened for older Israelis

YAVNE (AP) — For thousands of older Israelis like Sara Weinsten, being housebound alone during the country’s second nationwide lockdown is...

Israel & America: Democratic Systems Poles Apart

As a political scientist, I can vouch for one very common denominator underlying the American and Israeli electoral/political systems: they are...

Butler Students Must Vote on IHRA

Butler Students Deserve a Vote on IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Radical activists want you to believe that reasonable people disagree on what...

Time for a Positive EU Policy on Taiwan

The outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, has amplified geopolitical uncertainty. It has made us all recognize how interdependent and...

In India, rape is only a symptom

New York – It is difficult to reconcile India’s rapid economic and technological development with brutal practices that, in many cases, lead to...

In Thai demonstrations, both sides need restraint

Iran’s Khamenei: Muslim nations reject ‘humiliation’ of compromise with Israel 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out at the idea of Muslim nations compromising with Israel, calling it a “humiliation,” and...

Jewish prisoner in Russian penal colony goes on hunger strike to get Shabbat off

JTA — A Russian-Jewish man imprisoned near Moscow said he’s going on a hunger strike to protest the violation of his religious rights. Danil...

IDF seals off room of Palestinian man suspected of killing soldier with a brick

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday sealed off the room where resided a Palestinian man suspected of killing soldier Amit Ben-Ygal earlier this...

Bernard-Henri Levy in unity plea amid right-wing Zionist Congress takeover bid

Speaking at an unusually tense 38th World Zionist Congress on Tuesday, French celebrity philosopher, filmmaker, activist, and author Bernard-Henri...

(POGLED) Janis Varufakis: Ko so grški nacisti v zaporu, se njihov strup še širi

Sedmi oktober je bil dober dan za demokrate. Grško pritožbeno sodišče je potrdilo obsodbe voditeljev Zlate zore - edine nacistične stranke, ki...

Government continues its unfathomable casino obsession

The government is extending by nine months its July 2021 deadline for local governments to submit bids to host “integrated resorts” (IR) that...

Haaretz Cartoon

Herd immunity, reinfection and the Great Barrington Declaration

After eight full months of the global pandemic, the pressure to keep economies open and let the chips (or rather, the elderly) fall where they may...

A miserable 21st century: Poor America

Poor America! This great and rich nation, the savior of the free world in the 20th century, the author of Pax Americana, is having a miserable time...

France has paid an appalling price for its lax attitude to radical Islam and a clampdown on extremists is long overdue

The headline on national broadcaster France 24 said it all: “French police raid dozens of targets suspected of extremism after teacher...

Fear of right-wing PragerU classroom infiltration overlooks double standard: BOTH left and right should stop brainwashing kids

After the mother of a 10th-grade student alerted Maumee City Schools administrators and the media to her daughter’s history teacher’s...

Arctic comes in from the cold

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― Whether we are heading for a future of cooperation or of increasing confrontation in the Arctic remains to be seen. But...

Politics beat public health in Florida

Mark down Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, as the date when Ron DeSantis officially stopped pretending that public health was more important than politics....

A Modest Hope for the Post-Trump World Order

MADRID – With the US presidential election nearing its apotheosis, predictions about what will come after are dominating discussions well beyond...

Capitalism caused climate change; it must also be the solution

Can the world shrink its emissions footprint without immiserating its population? We’re seeing a brutal real-world experiment on that front right...

Jacinda Ardern landslide is a vote for COVID-19 competence

For governments facing a growing wave of coronavirus cases as fall turns to winter, there’s a stark lesson in Saturday’s stunning election victory...

Jewish people can be gay, so why are Orthodox schools refusing to teach kids about LGBT issues?

Homophobia is not a lifestyle choice. It’s a form of hatred and discrimination. So that’s the charge that must be levelled at the Orthodox...

Educational paradigm

By Gudmundur Hegner Jonsson As an educator, I have the privilege of working with young people on a daily basis. Being part of a team that...

Financial supervision & devastation

By Kwack Eun-kyoung A series of fund redemption suspensions by private equity funds are disrupting the market. One notorious example is Lime Asset...

Algeria-Morocco competition exposes the closed shop nature of influence within the AU 

According to specialist news reports, Algeria has failed to nominate any candidates for key positions in the African Union. Seven positions are...

Senior health official reverses car into man, lightly injuring him

The deputy director-general of the Health Ministry was involved in a car accident that lightly injured a pedestrian on Wednesday morning. According...

Finance Minister Katz has a budget. Netanyahu should be worried

On Saturday night, Finance Minister Israel Katz called a surprise press conference to announce he intends to present the long-delayed 2020 budget,...

You may say that I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one

Keep on dreaming! Reb Shlomo Carlebach says, there are two kinds of sleep. There is the sleep of Adam, during which Eve was created, the sleep of [...

BatEl gets Busted in Bulgaria

BatEl Peretz, a young Israeli woman from my city of Petach Tikva, is now imprisoned in Bulgaria on what apparently are illegal substance charges...

The Orange Man Is My Man

He’s orange, he’s brash, sometimes crass, sometimes mean, sometimes is more pro wrestler than presidential, but he’s my pick. Now, there are...

Israeli Entertainment Sheds Light on Patriotism

With the international success of Israeli shows, Fauda, The Spy, and now Tehran, one wonders what is the appeal specifically in Israeli thrillers....

A President Biden would likely take less combative approach on Israel than Obama

NEW YORK — A recent survey of American Jewish voters found that they place foreign policy at the bottom of their priorities when deciding which...

What China can teach the world about getting old and staying rich

Japan and Italy stand out as examples of how not to manage an aging population