Ministry report highlights backlash against world Jewry over 2021 Gaza conflict

A Diaspora Affairs Ministry annual report on global antisemitism has spotlighted a sharp spike in online hate posts against Jews during Israel’s...

Israel's Occupation Junkies Are Drawn to the Negev

Unless new opportunities crop up, the Negev remains the ultimate destination for occupation junkies. The days of the major occupations in Egypt,...

Top Canadian agent smokes out long-lost relatives with new title ‘The Cigar Factory’

TORONTO — Over the past 50 years, Canadian “super-agent” Michael Levine has helped bring hundreds of fiction and non-fiction books into the...

Deja Vous All Over Again (Jeremiah 34:8-22; 33:25-26)

Parshat Mishpatim is chock — full of laws. It opens with a discussion of the regulations governing the taking of a Hebrew or Jewish slave. The...

What is a Soul? III (5). The Many Souls of Man—How Many Souls?

In the previous installments of The Many Souls of Man, we discussed the animal soul,  Nefesh HaBahamit , the godly soul,  Nefesh HaElokit , the...

Is America Pushing Itself to the Limits?

America surfaced as a world power at the end of the 19th century after winning the war against Spain in 1898. By the end of World War II, America...

Aliyah Diary: Part 9

Life Hey y’all! It’s been a little while… Sorry about that… A lot has been going on and I haven’t really had the mental capacity to sit down...

Particularism before Universalism

Are the citizens of a country entitled to preserve their ethnic or religious makeup or their culture? And who is to decide? The Western model says...

INTERVIEW: Mayor election reflects changing Okinawa views of U.S. bases

Younger Okinawans have become more tolerant of U.S. military bases stationed in the prefecture, a trend reflected in the Nago mayoral election won...

Israel said preparing for potential need to evacuate Ukrainian Jews in case of war

The Israeli government is preparing for the possibility that thousands of Ukrainian Jews will want to immigrate to Israel in the event of a Russian...

(POGLED VOJKA FLISA) V dolgem obdobju pandemije se je medicini ugled skrhal. Z izdelavo kulis si ga ne bo povrnila

Prvo presaditev človeškega srca v človeka je leta 1967 opravil južnoafriški kirurg Christian Barnard. Prvi pacient Louis Washkansky je sicer...

Undiplomatic move

Tokyo hit for trying to raise territorial issue The Japanese Embassy in Seoul has touched off controversy over its refusal to accept a New Year's...

Potential of digital assets

Time to overhaul blockchain-related laws and institutions Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are expected to be included in the government's...

With half a million currently infected, COVID expert says Omicron peak is here

Prof. Eran Segal, a leading government COVID adviser, said Monday that he expects the spread of the Omicron variant to slow down this week,...

The Ukraine crisis is a showdown between two worldviews

NEW YORK (AP) — The crisis in Ukraine is hardly going away — a showdown of two worldviews that could upend Europe. It carries echoes of the Cold...

Last 60 years and next 60 years

By Suh Jeong-in During the closing ceremony of the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato on Oct. 31, 2021, an announcement was made that Korea would be...

Stuck in a rut

By John Burton As he marks his first year in office, President Joe Biden's North Korea policy is failing for a number of reasons. His...

Green Nuclear Power

VOX POPULI: Our anonymous society is doing a disservice to our names

Enebish, a 45-year-old man living in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, is an electrician who mainly does electrical wiring for houses. The...

EDITORIAL: Japan-U.S. alliance should fulfill the need to be a ‘public good’

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met U.S. President Joe Biden for their first summit in online talks on Jan. 21. The two leaders agreed, among other...

Strengthening Ties between Iran and Russia Help Improve the Global Situation

On January 20, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi completed a two-day official visit to Moscow. The Iranian leader...

Global tax deal gives new hope to the poor

Agreement must urgently evolve to deliver the benefits that are now so close

Identikit of a constitutional president

Commentary. There is a lack of solid ground, a lack of political forces that would want and be able to make the Constitution a concrete program;...

Police increase security around far-right MK Ben Gvir amid death threats

Police have increased the level of security for far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir, after receiving information about express threats to his life,...

Netanyahu expected to be called as central witness in state probe of submarine deal

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to be called to testify before a state commission of inquiry into the so-called “submarine...

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Rabbi Simcha Krauss, who fought for women’s rights in Orthodoxy, dies at 85

JTA — Rabbi Simcha Krauss, a leading figure of Modern Orthodox Judaism who was a forceful advocate for women’s rights within Orthodoxy, died...

Cecile Klein, Canada’s oldest person for 7 months, dies at 114

JTA — Cecile Klein, an energetic supercentenarian with ties to Montreal’s Jewish community and institutions, spent seven months as Canada’s...

Conservatives are hobbling pandemic response

Amid the spread of the most contagious coronavirus variant yet, major decisions by conservative politicians and judges at the federal and state...

New antimicrobials needed as superbugs are coming

By Latania K. Logan Chicago is one of a handful of American cities where a deadly fungal infection, Candida auris, has been spreading rapidly. It...

Natalie Portman, French firm work to create vegan bacon

AFP — Vegan bacon sizzles on a pan in the office of a French startup whose quest to produce the “holy grail” of the growing plant-based meat...

The Stated Clerk states it again

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has more than one million members, and its Stated Clerk, the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, is its most senior...

Fond memory of Royal Asia Society Korea

By Choe Chong-dae I am always awestruck by the many ancient tombs of Gyeongju, the ancient capital of Silla Kingdom (B.C. 57―A.D. 935). They...

Organized religion

By Steven L. Shields Pope Francis declared, "It is not necessary to believe in God to be a good person. In a way, the traditional notion of God is...

Looking for the casus belli to justify war in Ukraine

Commentary. What is the pretext that the US and NATO are looking for? Because it seems clear that the climate of uncertainty, in this dangerous...

Saudis bombed a prison and a soccer field in Yemen

Report. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates launched a harsh reprisal after drone attacks by the Houthis. But instead of hitting the rebels they killed...

Žižkov tržni komunizem

Težko bi človek pred kakšnim letom sploh pomislil, da bo prišel čas, v katerem bo prva stvar, ki jo bo hotel v novem letu pogledati na televiziji...

Court sends UK neo-Nazi to jail after earlier ruling instructed him to read classics

A young British right-wing extremist who was convicted last year of a terrorism offense has been sentenced to two years in prison, months after his...

Illegal outpost gets demolition notices days after attack Jewish extremist attack

Security forces put up demolition notices on Sunday night in the illegal West Bank outpost of Givat Ronen, days after Jewish extremists, believed...

Brother of Texas synagogue hostage-taker says ‘religious nuts got a hold of him’

The brother of the British terrorist who assaulted a Texas synagogue on January 15 and took four people hostage has said his brother was...

UAE intercepts 2 ballistic missiles over Abu Dhabi, days after deadly strike

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates intercepted two ballistic missiles targeting Abu Dhabi early Monday, its state-run news...

Capitulation: “Oslo Accords” with the Taliban?

Norway took over the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the 1st of January 2022. The Kingdom has always been the...

Former US diplomat Ted Osius’s new book offers a ringside seat to Vietnam’s reconciliation with America – and an insight to its future with China

In the annals of reconciliation between two former warring nations, Vietnam today stands out as one of the United States’ most critical partners...

Israel's New Surrogacy Ruling Is More Just, but Still Discriminatory

For many years, the issue of surrogacy in Israel has been fertile ground for argument and debate. Earlier this month, surrogacy twice made its way...

IS using hundreds of minors as human shields as Syrian prison standoff continues

BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes between US-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters and militants continued for a fourth day Sunday near a prison in northeastern...

Former Supreme Court chief justice Miriam Naor dead at 74

Former Supreme Court chief justice Miriam Naor died on Monday at age 74. The cause of death was not immediately clear. Naor, who was appointed to...

Israel extends Holocaust pension to over 8,000 unrecognized survivors

Over the past three years, the Social Equality Ministry  has managed to identify some 8,300 Holocaust survivors who had yet to receive a special...

Between Yitro and Mishpatim

Rashi comments on the beginning of Parashat Mishpatim (Shemot 21:1), and explains why the verse says, “And these are the laws.” Based on a...

Naozaj si zaslúžime slobodu, nezávislosť a štátnosť? (píše Ivan Mikloš)

Autor je prezident MESA 10 a exminister financií Ak ma v ostatných rokoch viackrát prepadli pochybnosti o tom, či si ako Slováci a občania...