How Israel Is Harming the War on Antisemitism

Fearing insider attack at Biden inauguration, FBI vetting national guard troops

WASHINGTON (AP) — US defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing US...

Changing needs for volunteer workers require a new approach

Twenty-six years have passed since the Great Hanshin Earthquake devastated Kobe and caused serious damage in wide areas around the port city in...

Dispute over relief funds

Gyeonggi governor should take some time before executing decision The Gyeonggi Provincial Government has decided to provide another round of...

26 years later, memories of the Kobe earthquake still haunt me

Remembering that day still arouses a painful feeling of shame mixed with embarrassment in me. On Jan. 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck...

Putting down markers

By John Burton North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made his opening bid in dealing with the new administration of President Joe Biden at the eighth...

GOP leaders should debunk Trump's 'Big Lie'

By Trudy Rubin Our democracy cannot heal from the Jan. 6 insurrection, let alone block further violence from far-right terrorists, unless...

From the Outside Looking In: A Black Expat's Grief

By Toni Benn It was December 2019 when I informed my family that I'd be moving to South Korea to teach English. Their apprehension, fear and...

China's faltering performance on economic reform

Xi Jinping's reform failures share a common theme

Akademiki, plejboji in domoljubje

Živ dan nisem izrekel žal besede proti plejbojem. Kaj je lepšega kot uživati življenje v mnogih razsežnostih, da le ni na škodo drugega. Tudi v...

What Did More Damage to the World: COVID-19 or Trump?

Out of all the hot topics in international life over recent times, there are most likely two that vie with each other for primacy: COVID-19 and...

More than a coincidence

Every year, Martin Luther King Day seems to correspond with the reading in synagogues around the world of the story of Moses standing before...

Funerals Lend Perspective on Trump and COVID

(Ten months and) Two Weeks of Loss, by Rabbi Howard J. Goldsmith It has been a very sad few weeks for our congregation. Dear, long-time congregants...

The Bar Mitzvah ‘Boy’

I hear the chanting from downstairs. It’s the Torah parasha for that week in January when he will celebrate the big event. The words do not...

Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and modern cancel culture

The night before he was murdered, Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to rally support for striking Black sanitation workers.  On...

Model Bar Refaeli’s mother gets COVID in jail; doctors say her life is in danger

Family of Tzipi Refaeli, serving tax evasion term, say they’ll go to court if she doesn’t get medical care; physician says her heart condition...

Right-wing protesters, some armed, rally outside fortified statehouses across US

AP — Small groups of right-wing protesters — some of them carrying rifles — gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country...

Corona Has Broken Us But Vaccinations Won’t Fix Us

This past Wednesday, I was very lucky to receive my second dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine. Though I am not in the first phase age group for...

Tu BiShvat Seder – 5781 (Covid 19 Edition) part 4 of 5

6.Pomegranate – רימון We now eat fruits with inedible shells or peels. For example: nuts, pomegranate, oranges, and avocado. The edible part of...

Israel Is Not an Apartheid State

B’Tselem, which is an anti-Israel, Israeli organization dedicated to erasing Israel from the map (btselem.org), has once again accused Israel of...

How I became a "terrorist"

In recent times, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has embarked on a campaign to label everyone as a “terrorist”. In this rather...

Belated Justice for the Mother Teresa Tank Brigade in Jenin

Meeting Arab mayors, Netanyahu vows to tackle community crime like terrorism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Arab mayors on Sunday night that he would pass a wide-ranging plan to combat violence and crime...

Twitter suspends QAnon-supporting US congresswoman over election fraud claims

AP — Twitter on Sunday temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican US Congresswoman from Georgia who has...

Swiss sleuths use text analysis to track down the identity of ‘Q’ behind QAnon

GENEVA (AFP) — The mysterious “Q” behind the QAnon conspiracy movement, which was instrumental in the storming of the US Capitol, is in fact...

Prosecutor: Trump incitement ‘most dangerous crime’ committed by US president

WASHINGTON (AP) — The lead prosecutor for US President Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment began building his case for conviction at...

In highest rate in months, 9.1% of virus tests return positive

Serious cases decline for second day in a row; cabinet to meet Tuesday on extending lockdown, health minister will suggest restricting air travel

Refugees’ human rights are buried under the snow of the Balkans

Report. Since the explosion of the Syrian crisis opened a breach through the Balkans, violence, denial of rights and abandonment have taken place...

Capitol violence obscures big attack on US interests

By Andrew Hammond The siege of the U.S. Congress on Jan. 6 by what U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has called "domestic terrorists" has dominated...

Israel’s coming election may be decided on the religious right

Netanyahu has no coalition without Naftali Bennett. Neither does Gideon Sa’ar. The fight is on

Israel’s data-for-vaccines deal with Pfizer raises privacy concerns

Health Ministry releases details of agreement with coronavirus vaccine producer, but redacted document doesn’t address all questions, including...

Two rockets fired from Gaza toward Ashdod land in sea

Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired two rockets toward the southern Israeli city of  Ashdod before dawn on Monday, the army said. The two...

New Capitol riot video shows mayhem as mob ransacks Senate, prays for victory

New footage released by the New Yorker on Sunday provides the most graphically detailed look yet at the mayhem that unfolded as hundreds of...

For world’s 1 billion migraine sufferers, COVID a major headache, new film shows

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a huge pain for everyone, and migraine sufferers are no exception. In fact, many have reported more attacks than...

In idiot America, for equity investors, what difference does it make?

THE DEVIL WILL FIND WORK FOR IDLE HANDS TO DOA friend of mine said to me on Monday: “you won’t be short of something to write this week!”. Not...

The House Is Burning, and That's Not a Metaphor

Former Trump campaign aides played key roles in organizing Washington rally

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans of US President Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign had key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that...

The historic masonry of Sheldon Adelson, z”l

Much has been written over time and especially recently, after Sheldon Adelson’s passing, about his and his wife Miri’s unusually significant...

Brian Wallace’s Journey to Judaism and Building a Company Producing Infographics

“The world often overcomplicates things and starts in the middle of the conversation, but what you really need is simplicity to earn someone’s...

Don’t Say Israeli Occupation, Say Apartheid. Now What?

Apartheid must be fought by breaking its laws, especially the boycott law. The right to call for economic and cultural sanctions on Israel must be...

Museum of London acquires ‘Baby Trump’ blimp

Oversized orange balloon soared above Parliament Square in protests when Trump visited the UK in 2018

PA demands Israel allow East Jerusalemites to take part in Palestinian elections

Israel has long opposed Palestinian Authority activity in East Jerusalem, cracking down on its operations in the city’s boundaries

Violating the nuke deal, Iran shows it wants to talk to Biden

Tehran is trying to gain leverage in expected negotiations with the US, experts say; but it’s also gradually advancing its nuclear weapons...

The ‘Young Settlement’ lie

It's no surprise that 'Hilltop Youth' have been raging unfettered for the past 2 weeks. For the masters of the land, anything goes

It is Time to Emerge from the Darkness

This week’s Torah portion of Bo describes the debilitating impact of the ninth plague of darkness. In fact the text states that there was a thick...

Treat ‘Friends of Donald’ the same as ‘Friends of Farrakhan’

Anybody who tolerates one but not the other is a hypocrite. This describes the organized American Jewish community

Startup hopes to track coma patients’ condition with goggles that monitor pupils

Israel’s BrainWatch Tech is working on prototype of device that will automatically measure and record pupillary reactions to light in patients...

In Russia, cornered Alexei Navalny fights back

Alexei Navalny likely expected to be arrested upon his return to Russia, making his decision to fly back home an extremely courageous move. But his...