Lapid: Netanyahu aiding Hezbollah by criticizing Lebanon maritime deal

Prime Minister Yair Lapid accused opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of aiding Hezbollah terror group propaganda efforts with his...

Israeli man’s Russian wife, son denied entry as family flees Russian draft

Authorities at Ben-Gurion Airport reportedly refused to allow an Israeli man’s Russian wife and the couple’s son into the country Sunday, turning...

Major Iran university suspends classes after security forces clash with students

TEHRAN, Iran — Classes were suspended and moved online Monday at Iran’s leading technology university in Tehran after clashes erupted...

Jerusalem Haredi phone store destroyed in fire; owner claims foul play

A cellphone store in Jerusalem was gutted by fire overnight Sunday, with the shop’s owner claiming it was a deliberate attack over for his refusal...

Thousands in France march in support of Iranian women

PARIS, France — Thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday to show their support for Iranian protesters standing up to their leadership over...

Dirty Diamonds: How Israel Helps Russia Fund Its War on Ukraine

Dozens of gold coins discovered in secret cache dating from Muslim conquest

Forty-four pure gold coins were recently found hidden in a wall during excavations at the Banias archaeological site within the Hermon River nature...

The Miami Boys Choir churned out generations of child stars. Where are they now?

The Miami Boys Choir’s first album was released as a vinyl record. The Jewish singing group later moved on to cassettes, then CDs, mp3s, streaming...

Religious students report sexual abuse at twice rate of secular school peers – study

Students who attend religious schools are more than twice as likely to have reported being sexually abused than those in secular public schools,...

IDF: Two Palestinians killed trying to ram troops during West Bank arrest raid

Israeli troops shot two Palestinians dead near Ramallah in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, after they attempted to run over troops during an arrest...

The Real Escalation Is the Destruction of Palestinian Space

The frenetic elections that take place with Italian frequency stands in contrast to the stability of Israeli policy in the West Bank (including...

Iran’s Khamenei accuses US, Israel of engineering ongoing ‘riots’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold. The High Court rejects a petition calling to criminally investigate the Likud...

Shadowy Israeli firm claims it ran negative campaign that ousted Berlin soccer boss

A commercial Israeli spy outfit said it helped oust the president of a Berlin soccer team, it was revealed last week, sending shockwaves through...

One of Netanyahu's Most Stunningly Irresponsible Decisions Threatens Israel's Future

“A revolt against the Haredim is coming,” my Israeli cousin yelled into the phone about the ultra-Orthodox community. “Israelis can’t take it...

The future of American Jews on campus

What’s going on at Havard? When I refer to Harvard, it is shorthand for the American campus in general, especially those with the most glittering...

Putin Escalates, Europe Hesitates

Realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific

TOKYO – The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has drastically changed the global security environment and posed serious challenges to Japan’s...

How effective are the West’s sanctions on Russia?

The previous three Geoeconomic Briefing series discussed whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has aspects of a “new war.” To better understand...

Seeing and somethingness

An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience - by Nicholas Humphrey...

Joining wave of institutions, London museum drops Sackler name from exhibits

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has removed the Sackler name from exhibitions amid mounting pressure to cut ties with family members tied to...

Truth or bluff? Why Putin's nuclear warnings have the West worried

Russian President Vladimir Putin's latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a...

Ukraine war creates interesting alliances

Arms and weapons are like water, they often find the shortest route to conflict areas. Pakistan has become the new channel for supply of weapons...

IDF says shots fired at troops in northern West Bank; no injuries

Gunshots were fired Monday evening at Israeli troops stationed in the northern West Bank, the military said. According to the Israel Defense...

Tom Stoppard’s alt-neu Broadway play ‘Leopoldstadt’ is 140 minutes of shock and awe

NEW YORK — “What did you think of ‘Leopoldstadt’?” I’ve asked everyone I know that has seen Tom Stoppard’s new play. No one ever says...

German Christmas cookies turn traditional Yom Kippur break-fast treats

THE NOSHER via JTA — When people deny themselves food for an extended period of time they’re usually ravenously hungry and find themselves...

Liberman proposes easy entry for great-grandchildren of Jews, in wake of Ukraine war

Finance Minister and Yisrael Beytenu party chief Avigdor Liberman on Monday proposed easing entry requirements to Israel for residents of the...

White House ‘alarmed and appalled’ by Iran’s violent crackdown on student protesters

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The United States is “alarmed and appalled” at the crackdown by Iranian authorities on student protesters angered by the...

Questions about Sukkot

Judaism has dozens of meaningful customs and ceremonies, but most people, even Jews, do not know all of them, their origins and their...

Prayer and the perfect storm

Recently, an ally described the first portion of my High Holidays as “the perfect storm.” I write poetry, so I naturally assumed that she was...

Likud legal adviser tells Netanyahu he can’t use party funds to promote his new book

Opposition leader and Likud party chief Benjamin Netanyahu was told by Likud’s legal adviser that he cannot use party funds to promote his new...

Consecutive trade shortfalls

More intensive steps needed to tackle looming crisis The nation's trade shortfall reached $3.77 billion in September, logging a deficit for the...

Likud party and former MK Amichai Chikli appeal his election race disqualification

The Likud party and its disqualified candidate Amichai Chikli filed an appeal with the Supreme Court on Monday, seeking to reinstate his candidacy....

The Real Difference Between Netanyahu and Lapid

For many years the ultra-Orthodox, the Haredim, have refused to teach their children the core curriculum. The issue took on a political twist when...

Global necessity of American democracy

By Javier Solana MADRID ― In his prophetic 1838 Lyceum Address, a generation before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln predicted that the fall of the...

Climate change is nudging us toward next pandemic

By Arjun V.K. Sharma The threat of climate change conjures certain scenes: Smoke billowing from a forest aflame. Smothering heat clinging to the...

Nuclear brinkmanship

By John Burton North Korea's recent declaration that it would remain a nuclear state and that its decision was "irreversible" underscores the...

An unresolved slavery past still hurts US labor relations, society, and Whites

Oppressing also hurts the oppressors, but they don’t become the victims I met working-class Americans. I saw them on US public transportation,...

Go Vote for Ben-Gvir and Smotrich!

The recommendation in the headline, calling to vote for the extreme right of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, sounds odd and discordant to the...

Not just green tech: Natural habitats are our best allies against climate change

Floods, droughts, storms, wildfires – hardly a week goes by without a major warning that human-induced climate change is rapidly getting out of...

Dating in metaverse offers vast array of possibilities

By Chyung Eun-ju and Joel Cho Chyung Eun-ju Joel Cho Imagine a first date with someone who lives thousands of miles away that starts with a few...

VOX POPULI: New way to cook pasta that saves energy stirs debate in Italy

Heat a pot of water until it boils and put pasta into it. Keep heating the pot for two more minutes and shut off the heat. Lastly, put a lid on the...

EDITORIAL: Japan should help stop Putin’s appalling attack on basic values

Russia has forcefully wrestled territories from a neighboring country and justified the move by fabricating public consent. This goes far beyond a...

Crazy Fakes as a Sign of “Cartoon Reality”

More recently, we have been looking at a fake story about North Korea supplying arms to Russia, which the author believes to have originated from a...

Turkey's monetary experiment holds lessons for Asia's central banks

Blindly following the Federal Reserve's rate moves brings risks to region

High Court rules government must respond to petition over Lebanon maritime deal

The High Court of Justice ruled on Monday that the government must respond to a petition demanding that any maritime border deal with Lebanon come...

A Re-declaration for Yom Kippur

Kol Nidre is often referred to as a prayer. I myself had always assumed that it was the prayer sung during the beginning of Yom Kippur services....

Yom Kippur. What a Lucky Day

What a phenomenal remarkable time of the year. Rabbi Shmelkeh of Nikolsburg said, “I want to live in this world (only) because in the world to...

Tehran 2 – A Riveting Thriller

The second season of Tehran, an Apple TV and Israeli state television co-production, lives up to expectations. Tehran, in its debut season,...

Aké tresty pre cestných pirátov? V Dánsku sa s nimi nebabrú

Ak v súčasnosti niekto „nafúka“ do jedného promile, je jeho konanie považované za priestupok. V takomto prípade môže policajt vodičovi...

Israeli Aid to Ukraine –A Source of National Pride

On this eve of Yom Kippur  the  citizens of the State of Israel can take pride in the country’s humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Israel is making...