Royal Caribbean to launch cruise from Israel for ‘fully vaccinated’

Royal Caribbean will offer cruises from Israel for fully vaccinated people, the company said Monday, in the latest effort by Israel to reopen its...

A long time coming: Reform, Conservative movements laud Israel conversion ruling

The Reform and Conservative religious movements celebrated Monday’s High Court of Justice ruling that legitimized non-Orthodox conversions in...

The mental rollercoaster of being a student shutout of Israel

Co-authored by Alexa Sussan, Brandon Werbel and Lea Thomas Wake up, check the Israeli news. Go to online school, check the Israeli news. Complete...

(JAVNO PISMO) Spoštovani gospod minister za zdravje Janez Poklukar!

Ob vaši izvolitvi najprej iskrene čestitke, toliko bolj, ker se s svojimi dejanji in zavzetimi stališči za to izjemno zahtevno vlogo kažete...

Sanders lauds Israeli health officials for pushing to vaccinate Palestinians

US Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday lauded senior Israeli health officials who have urged the government to vaccinate the Palestinians, in a rare...

Shira Haas to play Golda Meir in American TV series

JTA — Israeli actress Shira Haas, best known internationally for her star turn in Netflix’s “Unorthodox,” will portray Israel’s only female...

Israeli and Palestinian Men Are Uniting – to Destroy This Arab Woman’s Political Career

In Israel’s election, one woman wants to hold men to account for their apathy towards and even defense of gender-based violence. No wonder the...

Afghanistan awaits Biden's big decision

By Andrew Hammond Almost two decades after 9/11, one of the biggest early foreign policy decisions that U.S. President Joe Biden will have to make...

A New Heart, a New You – Parshat Parah (Ezekiel 36:16-38)

Ezekiel was a revolutionary and visionary prophet. His prophetic message, in this third of the four special haftarot which precede Pesah, opens...

One man’s lead on a fight to save Jewish history

Mattan Segev-Frank is a man with a mission. And while he has singlehandedly already begun making an impact, he knows that the issues he is...

To My Daughters’ Principal

To the Principal of My Daughters’ School In the Hareidi world there are not many like you. You are a rarity. You are rare in your perspective on...

How Top Sr. Scientists beat isolation and stay fit

A year has gone by under the dark clouds of the pandemic. Covid-19 situation in UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany and USA turned worrisome again...

It’s time Malaysia had a law against party-hopping

When Malaysia’s King Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah declared a state of emergency in January, his message to the MPs was unequivocal: cut the...

Frontier accused of kicking Hasidic family off flight due to unmasked toddler

JTA — Frontier Airlines is facing accusations of anti-Semitism after videos circulated online of the airline kicking a Hasidic family off a plane...

Trump’s $3 billion Abraham Fund may be tapped out before staking a dime

When the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain agreed to formalize their diplomatic ties with Israel last year, the decision came with a gilded signing...

Gal Gadot confirms she’s pregnant with third child

Israeli-born actor Gal Gadot confirmed Monday that she is pregnant with her third child. The “Wonder Woman” star posted a picture with her...

VIP Passes for Netanyahu's Allies at Ben-Gurion Airport

Loss of public trust widening as dining scandal still simmering

Cabinet public relations secretary Makiko Yamada stepped down on March 1 after becoming embroiled in a wining and dining scandal involving senior...

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In Arabic, 'Work Meeting,' in Hebrew, 'Return to Gaza': An Israeli Underhanded Trick

Time for exit strategy

Soaring interests raise concerns about post-coronavirus economy Fiscal deficits and national debt are rising in many countries as governments have...

Conciliatory gesture

Japan should compromise to mend ties with Korea President Moon Jae-in has made a conciliatory gesture toward Japan to mend soured ties with Tokyo....

Building back together

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN ― Human beings are creatures of habit. We tend to envisage a future much the same as the past, so we cling to familiar...

Kindness gap: Prude's death should spur wholesale change in mental health care and policing

Read all of New York Attorney General Tish James' report on Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died last March in Rochester police custody....

North Korea's cyber kleptomania is threat to capitalism

Sometimes missed on North Korea's voluminous list of human rights abuses are its serial cyber kleptomania and global criminal schemes to rip off...

North Korea lost in translation

By Lee Seong-hyon There are only a handful people in the world who have personally sat down with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and discussed...

Democrat lawmakers Meng, Lieu join anti-Semitism task force leadership

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two Taiwanese-American members of Congress have joined the leadership of its anti-Semitism task force. Reps. Grace Meng of New...

Jewish fraternity AEPi official, controversially tied to pro-Trump group, quits

JTA — Andy Borans, the longtime executive of AEPi whose affiliation with Turning Point USA sparked controversy at the Jewish fraternity, is...

Hope in uncertain times

By Moonbin Jeong More than ever, the world economy is suffering from severe recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During this situation, we must...

Biden retreats from vow to make pariah of Saudis

AP — As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised to make a pariah out of Saudi Arabia over the 2018 killing of dissident Saudi writer Jamal...

Why ‘Burma’ should remain the country’s name

The brutal takeover by the military, renews the debate about how the country should be addressed, Burma or Myanmar. In the past, the country’s...

The Eurasian Economic Union is Alive - and Expanding

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), created in 2014 as an international organization for regional economic integration with international legal...

The real problem with anti-Zionism

A heated debate has arisen in the last decade as to whether the contemporary anti-Zionism of progressive groups such as the BDS movement or of...

Jewish supernatural horror: Oxymoron? Discuss.

Given all we’ve been through, do Jews really need supernatural horror movies? The question arises anew with the streaming release of...

Seth Rogen, who ‘really loves weed,’ brings cannabis company to US

Actor Seth Rogen is bringing his cannabis company, Houseplant, to the United States. “Almost ten years I go, I envisioned having my own weed...

Top health official: Election fever driving government’s pandemic decisions

A senior Health Ministry official on Tuesday suggested the government’s latest decisions to lift coronavirus-related restrictions were influenced...

The ‘winter of bureaucrats’ in Japan has turned into an ice age

"Kanryo-tachi no Natsu" (The summer of bureaucrats), which is novelist Saburo Shiroyama's (1927-2007) seminal work, portrays officials of the...

Trump’s legal, business woes could keep him from running in 2024

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Former US president Donald Trump is teasing another run for the White House in 2024. And while the 45th president of the...

Ministers to debate plan to reopen airport ahead of elections

Ministers on Tuesday will discuss a plan to gradually reopen Ben-Gurion Airport ahead of the national elections later this month, following a five-...

Amid resistance from Turkey, Kosovo embassy may not be in Jerusalem

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s prime minister-designate has found himself in a difficult diplomatic position ahead of taking the post following...

Myanmar's monthlong 'phony war' is over

International community must rapidly engage with the country's military leadership

Calls mount for Cuomo to resign as 3rd sexual harassment accuser comes forward

NEW YORK (AP) — Calls for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation intensified late Monday after a third woman accused him of offensive...

Michigan professor fired over anti-Semitic, racist social media posts

JTA — Ferris State University, a public research school in Big Rapids, Michigan, fired a professor last week for using anti-Semitic, racist,...

Išče se vsaj miceno odgovorna oseba

Na posnetku četrtkove videokonference predsednikov vlad EU je bilo videti Janeza Janšo brez kravate, z odrtimi gumbi na srajci, s tistim odsotnim...

Spanish gag law: The original sin and ongoing penance

Since mid-February, there have been protests in a number of Spanish cities against the jailing of Pablo Hasél, a rapper of Catalan descent. Hasél...

Human rights defenders continue to be killed with impunity

It has been five years since environmental human rights defender Berta Cáceres was murdered in her home in Honduras. She was one of hundreds of...

Israel’s Dan David Prize and vaccine apartheid

When we circulated an open letter calling on Australian Professor Alison Bashford to reconsider accepting Israel’s Dan David Prize, we expected...