Americans must come together to rebuild their fallen democracy

The political crisis in the United States has raised serious questions about the future of the country’s democratic system, which is on the brink...

Letters to the Editor: What Rabin's Assassination Teaches Us About Suppressing Trump Supporters

Will Biden undo Trump’s last minute legacy?

While the second state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic has expanded in Japan, the incumbent U.S. president faced a second impeachment in...

Japan must embrace international cooperation in the age of COVID-19

Since the onset of winter, the rampaging coronavirus has seemed unstoppable. Yet, compared to the Spanish flu of 100 years ago, the number of...

Call the Senate vote on Trump’s removal and be done with it

U.S. President Donald Trump deserved to be impeached, again — this time for his sustained and unprecedented attempt to invalidate the results of...

Can America lead again?

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s impending inauguration has raised hopes that his administration will “make America lead again.” If the United...

Ten years after the revolution, Tunisia's president is polarising the country

It is ten years since the people of Tunisia took to the streets and started what became known as the Jasmine Revolution which led to the ouster of...

Top Biden civil rights nominee regrets inviting anti-Semitic speaker to Harvard

JTA — Kristen Clarke, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to head the civil rights division at the Justice Department, said it was a mistake to...

With power crisis, out-of-work woodcutters see opportunity in Gaza

With a chainsaw in his car, Ahmed Abdelal tours the Gaza Strip, asking around for people wanting to cut down trees, regrow orchards or make way for...

Through a new podcast, Vik’s ideas still ‘fly’

Culture. A podcast in six episodes by Samuele Sciarrillo recalls with voices and sounds the young activist and manifesto contributor, ten years...

Napoved vremena in kratek dan

Nevihtni pojavi ali vsaj plohe (to so »nevihte brez grmenja«) povzročijo tudi precej bolj neenakomerno krajevno razporeditev količine padavin,...

Nova fiskalna paradigma

Ko je oktobra lani potekalo redno letno srečanje dveh glavnih globalnih institucij, IMF in Svetovne banke, je Financial Times glavna sporočila s...

Speech in exile

Moshe complains to God that since speaking to the Israelites things have only gotten worse. God tells Moshe to return to the people and tell them...

Why facts don’t matter anymore

“The downside of higher education is that it gives you the confidence to maintain baseless fantasies in defiance of common sense.” Derek...

The U. S. election and halachic ‘truth’

The Shulchan Aruch, Code of Jewish Law, states that if three identical pieces of meat, one which is unkosher and two which are kosher, become mixed...

A spiritual lesson from the vaccine

I am grateful to be among the fortunate, country-wise and age-wise, who have received the vaccine against the Corona virus — both doses. The...

Israeli humanitarian aid

Israel adopted an official humanitarian aid agenda in 1958, 10 years after its founding. In 54 years, Israel has provided aid to 140 countries,...

Los retos del sector turismo: enfoque en la segmentación y estimulación de la demanda

La pandemia global no fue un evento predecible en 2019, pero ha acelerado muchos de los cambios previsibles que esperábamos en el futuro. Es muy...

With ambassadors like this…

“Love him or hate him” began a recent New York Times farewell article about US ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman. And we are left in no...

How to Control the Masses by Silencing the Press

2020 was not a good year for journalism in Southeast Asia – nor for the entire Asian region for that matter. But even before COVID-19 entered the...

Israel's Coalition of Contagion

Precondition of special pardons

Former President Park should first make public apology Seoul's top court Thursday confirmed a 20-year prison term for former President Park...

Triage looms as Japan muddles through response over pandemic

The word triage, which derives from the French verb "trier" meaning to sort or select, initially applied to wool and coffee beans. Medical triage,...

Sheldon Adelson laid to rest in small funeral service in Jerusalem

Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson was buried Friday in a small funeral on the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City, with...

The Pandemic of Fear

Saving America’s Public Pensions

America’s Post-Trump Reckoning

Palestinians need a centralised strategy to counter Israel in Africa, not slogans

Arab normalisation with Israel is expected to have serious consequences that go well beyond the limited and self-serving agendas of a few regional...

India: Tractors at the Republic Day Parade?

“Republic Day” is one of the three national holidays celebrated annually in India on January 26, marking the enactment of the country’s...

More power for law enforcement would not have stopped Capitol riot, their inherent bias to the right is the REAL problem

In the wake of the recent Capitol riot in the US, coupled with new information from the FBI that suggests all 50 state capitals could soon be under...

Whatever gets your pox off: What the press is saying about COVID, shots and Iran

1. Holding steady on the cusp of disaster: The good news in Israel is that the number of new coronavirus cases no longer appears to be rising. The...

Iran: What Awaits the Country and the Region this Year?

“Iran can easily enrich uranium to 40, 60 or even 90 percent,” claimed Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran...

Twitter's Trump ban is no Chinese-style censorship

The schadenfreude in Beijing and among other authoritarian governments about Donald Trump's Twitter ban misses the point, argues DW's Rodion...

Jay Rosenzweig On His Jewish Background And Passion For Equality

For Canadian investor, entrepreneur, songwriter, equality, and human rights activist, Jay Rosenzweig , the sight and thought of airports and flying...

Onward to 2021!

Our collective efforts have mitigated the negative financial impact of 2020, and we have embarked on a path toward recovery in 2021. I am...

Take a deep breath

Human beings can possess extraordinary resilience and no less extraordinary hopelessness. In our current Torah portion, Moses returns to the...

What’s in a name?

Yesterday was Rosh Chodesh Shevat, the first day of what we consider to be the month in which we celebrate the new year of the trees in two weeks,...

Moshe’s sense of justice

In the shift from Bereshit to Shemot, we see the Jewish people go from a thriving nation to a persecuted people. As quickly as we said “Chazzak...

Trump and the Golem

Shortly after the 2016 election, I found myself in Berlin at the Jewish Museum. Upon exiting the museum, I stumbled upon a temporary exhibit titled...

Ultra-nationalism destroys the world

Parashat VaEira 5781 Parashat Vaeira describes the first part of the confrontation between God and Paraoh. God states the divine motivation...

The Silencing of an American President

On January 6, 2021, riots broke out in Washington DC, as an angry mob stormed the US Capitol. Though the rioters bore a striking resemblance to the...

Parshat Va’era: Becoming Truly Free

Chains and cages constrain so many people, in the literal and metaphorical sense; freedom is limited, dreams are destroyed, and life is muted. We...

An unimpeachable blog

It is astonishing and dismaying watching the no-longer United States tearing itself apart. Cries for impeachment rend the air without any real...

Lawyer for Daniel Pearl’s family faces uphill legal fight

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani lawyer for the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl faces an uphill battle to overturn the acquittal of...

Perspective on a 2nd Intifada turning point

This week an Israeli district court delivered a verdict, barring the film Jenin Jenin from being screened in Israel, and ordering the film’s...

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer describes pain at seeing ‘Camp Auschwitz’ T-shirt

JTA — Longtime CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that he was happy that his late parents, survivors of the Holocaust, did not live to witness...

Iran holds ballistic missile, drones drill amid tensions

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces on Friday held a military exercise involving ballistic missiles and drones in the country’s...

Israel to start vaccinating citizens aged 45+ Sunday

All Israelis over the age of 45 will be eligible to receive the first COVID-19 shot through their health providers starting Sunday as Israel’s...

Twitter has found an unlikely enemy in an angry political class that doesn't want to be silenced

Aside from celebrities cautiously expressing varying levels of distaste with Donald Trump being banned from Twitter, another response has come from...

Israel frees Lebanese shepherd detained in disputed border area

The Israeli military on Friday released a Lebanese shepherd it detained this week in a border area between the two countries, the UN peacekeeping...