Catholic leader warns Truss against potential UK Jerusalem embassy move

The most senior Catholic leader in England has written to new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to urge her not to move the country’s embassy from Tel...

Owner seeking to unload Berlin soccer team roiled by Israeli spy firm allegations

BERLIN (AP) — Hertha Berlin investor Lars Windhorst wants his 374 million euros back. The relationship between the Bundesliga club and its...

4th shots of Pfizer, Moderna vaccines provide near equal protection — Israeli study

Booster shots developed by Pfizer and Moderna provide near equal protection against COVID-19, according to Israeli research. The newly...

Yom Kippur Yizkor: Remembering Grandma Cookie

This year I lost my grandmother, Henrietta Diestel, or “Grandma Cookie,” as we and many others used to call her. She was born in Shanghai to a...

Requirement of dams on Kabul river for the better management of Afghanistan’s water: Opinion

By: Mirza Ahmad Ebrahimi: The author is a PhD research scholar in India. Afghanistan has abundant water resources. 80% of such resources come from...

Far-right firebrand Ben Gvir stumps from kibbutz streets after disinvitation

Far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir campaigned from the streets of a small kibbutz in northern Israel Thursday, after a planned appearance at a...

Lebanon sticks to guns on maritime deal amid reported US pressure to drop demands

Lebanon seemed to be sticking firm to its stance on the proposed maritime deal with Israel despite reported pressure from the Biden administration...

Persistent protests over woman’s death in custody become threat for Iran regime

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the country’s morality police have...

Somber High Holidays in Ukraine reveal a local Jewish community changed by war

KYIV, Ukraine (JTA) — For some of the tens of thousands of Hasidic pilgrims on their way to the raucous Rosh Hashanah celebrations in Uman, the...

Jewish women sue Kentucky over abortion ban, say it violates their faith

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — Kentucky’s sweeping abortion ban was challenged Thursday by three Jewish women who brought a lawsuit arguing that...

Medal of Olympian who defied Hitler by embracing Jesse Owens goes under the hammer

AP — One of the most consequential Olympic medals ever awarded is on the auction block — the silver medal captured in 1936 by Germany’s Luz...

The Woman King: The truth about slav­ery mat­ters

When the musical film Black is King was released in 2020, African audiences and some critics said it defamed and distorted the continent’s culture...

Digital Virulence and Post-Truth in Light of Baudrillard’s Science-Fiction Theory of Pataphysics

This is an excerpt from Global Politics in a Post-Truth Era. You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations. Jean...

The Saudi-Russian oil axis snubs the West with production cuts

The OPEC cartel has just delivered a massive snub to Western governments facing the worst energy crisis in half a century. Look past the buzzwords...

Why Deglobalization Makes US Inflation Worse

Palestinian nabbed for attempted shooting attack, placing bomb at gas station

Israeli forces on Friday announced the arrest of a Palestinian suspected of attempting to carry out a pair of recent attacks in the West Bank,...

China's expansionism creeps along as West distracted by Ukraine

India retreats further into own territory with Himalayan buffer-zone pullbacks

Putin’s five fa­tal mis­takes in Ukraine

Russia’s justifications for its invasion of Ukraine, like the United States’ excuses for its invasion of Iraq two decades earlier, prove that...

Mossad head said to warn of face-saving Hezbollah strike on gas field as deal wavers

The head of the Mossad spy service reportedly told government officials that the Hezbollah terror group would likely attempt a limited attack on...

In landmark ruling, top Spanish court says BDS movement ‘infringes on basic rights’

JTA — Over the past several years, dozens of Spanish courts have rejected Israel boycotts by nonprofits, municipalities and other groups. Now,...

Swastikas scrawled on Jewish newspaper boxes in New York over Yom Kippur

Swastikas were found on newspaper boxes distributing Jewish publications in New York City on Wednesday night, as the solemn Jewish holiday of Yom...

Teen stabbed to death less than a year after immigrating from India

A teenager who recently immigrated to Israel from India with his family was stabbed to death after a fight broke out at a party in the northern...

World closest to nuclear ‘Armageddon’ since Cuban missile crisis, Biden warns

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile...

After 74 years, IDF identifies remains of 2 troops killed in War of Independence

The Israel Defense Forces on Friday announced it has identified the remains of two soldiers killed fighting Egyptian forces during the War of...

China’s foreign policy should not include social media potshots from diplomats aimed at foreign governments

Recently, numerous Chinese diplomats have taken to social media to highlight the differences in foreign diplomacy between Beijing and Washington.

Hong Kong Has Changed, But Britain’s Legal Community Doesn’t Seem to Realize It

There is a fictional version of Hong Kong that still exists in many of the minds of the most prominent members of the U.K. legal community. The...

Kanye West says Jared Kushner only brokered Abraham Accords ‘to make money’

Acclaimed rapper Kanye West said that former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner brokered the Abraham Accords peace agreements between Israel...

Escalating tensions on peninsula

Well-conceived tactics needed to tackle repeated provocations South Korea and the United States resumed joint drills with a U.S. aircraft carrier...

Names revealed of suspects in assassination of mob boss Benny Shlomo

The names of three suspects arrested in the killing of mob chief Benny Shlomo, who was gunned down in broad daylight this week, were cleared for...

Israel-Lebanon Agreement Is in Jeopardy

Only a few days ago, Israel’s proposed maritime border agreement with Lebanon seemed like a sure thing, a beacon of hope in Israel’s...

The (surprisingly many) Jewish NHL players to watch this season

JTA — October is a busy month for American sports fans. The MLB playoffs get underway, the NBA season begins, the NFL season kicks into high gear...

Sukkot: Navigating Insecurity

He will shelter me in His pavilion (b’suko) on an evil day, grant me the protection of His tent, raise me high upon a rock. (Psalm 27:5)   We say...

The Tantura Myth: It Makes No Sense That Palestinian Villagers Never Mentioned a Massacre

Naively, I thought that with Mohamed Bakri’s film “Jenin, Jenin” (2002), which mendaciously describes the Israeli army’s conquest of Jenin’s...

The Holiness Within Each of Us

Now that the High Holidays have come and gone, we all can catch our breaths and recover from the drama we put ourselves through every year. For...

Parshat Ha’azinu: The Shapeshifting Torah

When one reads a text, there is what the text says and what one says the text says. For proponents of Reader Response Theory, the two are not...

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The past couple of weeks have been a tumultuous time for me since the protests erupted in Iran. To watch some of the images and videos coming out...

Sukkot: The Problem of Change

Jewish conventional wisdom views the holiday of Sukkot as a time to reflect on life’s transience. From the coziness of our home and daily life,...

The Song of Past, Present, Future

The Hebrew word Haazinu means “listen.” It begins the last prophecy of Moses dictated by G-d on the shores of the Jordan River. Found in this...

When Nature Speaks, We Should Listen

Hurricane Ian left a trail of devastation that will take weeks to assess, years to repair, and who knows what new adversities will happen in the...

Scholarly Arrogance (Haazinu)

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. —...

Haftarah Ha’azinu: If we can curse like Faust, we can thank like King David

Gratitude is an art which we ought to cultivate. When asked what we are thankful for, our answers tend to be clumsy, cliché, and overgeneralized....

Gay Palestinian who was living in a shelter in Israel is beheaded in Arab Hebron

The murderer posted a clip of the brutal execution on social media ● Let’s hear it from US President Biden demanding a thorough investigation. ●...

The Haunted Hut

The thought of our sainted ancestors, Avraham, Yitzchak, Ya’akov, Yosef, Moshe, Aharon and David, mysteriously arriving in our Sukkah every year...

On Slowing Down

True confession of a literary nerd: until tenth grade, I hated poetry.  As an elementary schooler we read (and then wrote) things like haikus and...

Sukkah As Tabernacle

The Rema—the great Halakhic Codifier of Ashkenazi Jewry—rules that we should build the sukkah on the day after Yom Kippur (starting even right...

Chips with Everything?

War in the Ukraine. That’s worth a headline or two, but it’s not our problem. The UK’s Telegraph brings us the serious news: “Shorter chips on...

Sukkot, to be a free people in our land

“From Shimon bar Kosiba, Prince over Israel, Shalom ! ” These words written at the beginning of a papyrus document in the second century CE,...

The Sukkot Commandment to Be Happy

Embed from Getty Images What exactly Thomas Jefferson’s intent was when he included in the Declaration of Independence the pursuit of happiness as...

Americans Overseas, Final 2022 Time to Vote!!

Are you fed up with the way the world has become unstable? Cost of living, shortages, education and medical care for your family in America.  What...

How to Settle the Great Chess Cheating Scandal