La Familia Must Be Outlawed

Youssouf Kamso Mara is a Muslim soccer player from Guinea. Two weeks ago, he came to Israel and joined the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team. “There’s...

Israel’s Third Option for Dealing With Iran

Benny Morris asserted in a recent article that Israel has two options – both of which he admitted are awful – for dealing with Iran’s nuclear...

Lessons in leadership from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt”l

Five years ago, on Shabbat Vayera, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks of blessed memory taught me a critical lesson about leadership.   It was two days before...

An unforgettable day in Kilis and Gaziantep!

“All their neighbors were Jewish” says Büşra Hanım a Kilis housewife, “My mother would go to their houses to light the fires (on Shabbat).”...

What Powell said about antisemitism

One of the 21st century’s first important speeches on antisemitism by a world leader was given by then secretary of state Colin Powell, in April...

Globalizirano vreme

Že v osnovi vremenske procese določa neenakomerna razporeditev sončne energije po zemljepisni širini. Na polih je je vedno precej manj kot v...

Državljanska drža

Pred leti se je moral na pogovor pri meni v pisarni zaradi nastalega problema oglasiti eden izmed dijakov. Bil je vidno razburjen in mi je ob mojem...

How Nazi sympathizers in WWII Cape Town spied on the Allies and evaded justice

In one of the more improbable Nazi operations during World War II, a South African boxer named Robey Leibbrandt traveled back home from the Reich...

For Jewish Indigenous actress Sarah Podemski, it’s a miracle just to exist

ALMA via JTA — In FX’s newest hit series, “Reservation Dogs,” the audience first meets Rita Smallhill, mother to main character Bear, prepping...

(POGLED) Janševi zdrsi niso zdrsi. To dela namerno

Upam, da so vsi tisti, ki so ob Janševem prevzemu oblasti lani marca mislili, da to leto in pol ali dve, kolikor bo vodil državo, ne pomeni nič,...

Sinister Rockefeller Food System Agenda -- They Created it and Now Want to Destroy It

No one group has done more to damage our global agriculture and food quality than the Rockefeller Foundation. They began in the early 1950s after...

Can Hong Kong employers help low-income workers have a life worth living?

A recent study on household budgets in Singapore found that a family of four – consisting of partnered parents, a preteen and a teenager – would...

Suspect in British MP’s slaying backs IS, plotted attacks for years – prosecutors

Prosecutors said Thursday that a 25-year-old man accused of stabbing British lawmaker David Amess to death was an Islamic State supporter who...

Before the Abraham Accords, there was Madrid

Last week, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken hosted Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed to celebrate...

Meeting Bennett, Putin says he aims to continue warm ties forged under Netanyahu

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Sochi on Friday morning for their first face-to-face talks since Bennett...

China's Journey into the Unknown

How to make the Quad truly quadrilateral

Japan, India and Australia must learn to share technology with each other

The Harsh Truth Biden Needs to Tell Israelis Now About Their Future

Moments before he was assassinated in Tel Aviv 26 years ago, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin delivered a speech to nearly a hundred ...

Israel is picking so many fights on multiple fronts that several wars could break out at any time. Meanwhile, the US stays silent

Israeli police forces this week raided the Damascus Gate (Bab al-Amud), located at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City, injuring at least 70...

How to make Quad tech cooperation truly quadrilateral

Japan, India and Australia must learn to work better together

For India, It’s Now Clear the Taliban Means Real Trouble

NEW DELHI – Since the fall of Kabul, fear is rising in Indian-administered Kashmir and in New Delhi that the Taliban victory in Afghanistan...

Remembering History to Solve Problems

One of the most famous of all aphorisms belongs to the philosopher George Santayana: “ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...

How to deal with antisemitism in our schools

“Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ignorance, confusion, or ineptitude.” This statement was made by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis[1] in...

Shir HaShirim Asher LeShlomo: Rav Kook And Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

“The great souls feel in the depths of their being their connection to all existence, to all creatures and especially to all humankind…they...

Prosecutors clear suspects in deadly shooting of Arab Lod man during May riots

Five Jewish Israeli men who were investigated in the death of an Arab Israeli man during violent clashes in Lod in May were cleared of wrongdoing...

'Incomplete success'

Strenuous efforts needed to become global aerospace powerhouse South Korea reached a brilliant achievement in its aerospace history Thursday, by...

EDITORIAL: Parties face acid test in dealing with Fukushima reconstruction

It is probably difficult for the communities in Fukushima Prefecture ravaged by the nuclear disaster to describe the weight of their struggles over...

(STRAN 210) O tistih, ki plešejo po grobovih

Nekateri ljudje radi plešejo po grobovih. V mislih nimam kake obskurne sekte, ki bi se ob vsaki drugi zimski polni luni zbirala na britofih in tam...

Sparing Pigeons Pain, Part 2

Five Cheers for Tel Aviv’s people and government. The story that recently appeared here about pigeons’ pain, local politics, and civic action...

How has the Pandemic Redistributed the World’s Wealth?

At a recent IMF event on recovering nations from the coronavirus pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19...

Members of thwarted terror cell are linked to PA security forces — report

A terrorist cell linked to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group that was arrested recently on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, contained...

Oversight panel rebukes Facebook, will review system exempting VIPs from rules

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Facebook’s oversight panel announced a probe on Thursday of the company’s system to reportedly exempt high-profile users from...

Beijing’s insistence on zero-Covid strategy challenges long-held assumptions about China

When the New Zealand government acknowledged at the start of October that it cannot eliminate Covid-19, that left China (including Hong Kong and...

Alec Baldwin fires prop gun on movie set, killing director of photography

SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) — A prop firearm discharged by veteran US actor Alec Baldwin, who is starring in and producing a Western movie, killed...

Spiritual authenticity of doubt and disappointment

Parashat VaYera October 22, 2021 16 Cheshvan 5782 Haftorah: II Kings 4: 1-37 The haftorah comprises two stories from the prophetic career of...

Parshat Vayera: The Test of Choice

We all know people who don’t like making decisions. Whether it’s as minuscule as what to eat for dinner or as important as accepting the right...

Ness Gadol Haya Zoom

In September 1993, I moved with my parents and two younger brothers from Israel to Montreal, Canada. I was almost 16 years old then and have been...

The Forecast for the Young – Severe Weather and Anxiety

An extensive study among young people ages 16-25 has revealed that they are anxious about the future, and with good reason. The research, whose...

Calling out Bigotry, Both Right and Left

Much “ink” has been spilled in recent years over the dangers posed to both Jewish and American values by a particularly ugly version of the...

VOX POPULI: Banner harvest met with bad omens for future of rice farming

The season of new rice is here, and supermarket shelves are stacked with bags of freshly harvested rice from various regions, marketed under brand...

PHOTO ESSAY: Hadassah’s COVID fighters

The coronavirus is still here. The numbers keep dropping and sometimes we forget that in the last year-and-a-half more than 8,000 Israelis died...

Bennett jets to Russia for lightning talks with Putin on Iran, region

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took off Friday for a lightning visit to Sochi to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks expected to...

The West Bank's 'Rotten Apples'

During the olive harvest season, the fountains of Israeli evil, cruelty and chutzpah erupt in their most concentrated form. The wellspring of this...