Health Ministry says new Delta mutation AY4.2 appears to be 15% more infectious

Israel’s Health Ministry said that the recently discovered subvariant of the Delta coronavirus, known as AY4.2, appears to be 15 percent more...

Israeli missiles said to target Syrian forces near Golan Heights border

An Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at Syrian forces based near Israel’s border on the Golan Heights early Monday, Arabic reports said....

Diaries show literary giant Stefan Zweig’s inner turmoil as Nazis stormed Europe

LONDON — “I have just decided to resume keeping a diary after a many-year lapse,” begins Stefan Zweig’s entry for Thursday, October 22, 1931....

Ex-security official claims MBS once boasted he wanted to kill the Saudi king

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A former senior Saudi security official who helped oversee joint US counterterrorism efforts claimed in an...

Kaj pa kultura?

Pred trinajstimi leti mi je nekdanja šefica v javnem zavodu s področja kulture, kjer sem začasno delala kot administratorka ("deklica za vse"),...

12-time All-Star Dolph Schayes voted one of the 75 best players in NBA history

JTA — Twelve-time NBA All-Star Dolph Schayes is the only Jewish player on the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team, a list created by a panel including...

Prepare for a stock market crash and take stock of a golden opportunity

Among traders, there have through the decades been two bits of perennial advice, “sell in May and go away” after the bulk of the year’s returns...

»Pukni zoro« in ko nekomu poči film

Te dni je na vrsti za turbulence spet Bosna. In Hercegovina. Zdi se, da Milorad Dodik, najnovejši najboljši prijatelj madžarskega premierja...

Pissing on Hitler’s Grave

While watching a World War II documentary on the History Channel, I heard an American soldier say, “When we reached the banks of Rhine River, we...

A Stain Upon Israel

The government’s declaration of civil society organizations in the West Bank as terrorist organizations is a destructive folly that tarnishes all...

The Sound is Loud and Clear: Will Jews Listen?

The book jacket of David Baddiel’s new must-read Jews Don’t Count reads: “How identity politics failed one particular identity.” In it,...

Opinion – Saving Myanmar?

In over three decades at the coalface of United Nations fieldwork, the scenes witnessed by the author during humanitarian service in Myanmar in the...

Deputy FM hints US will hold off on reopening Jerusalem consulate

Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister hinted on Sunday that the US would hold off on the Biden administration’s plan to reopen the US consulate in...

Calls to ban guns on movie sets grow after Baldwin shooting

LOS ANGELES (AFP)  — Calls were growing Sunday to ban the use of firearms in movie-making, as Hollywood struggled to come to terms with Alec...

Philippines's COVID-19 situation is improving, ambassador says

Sudan ministers detained in apparent military coup; PM said under house arrest

Sudanese officials said military forces detained at least five senior government officials on Monday, including a number of ministers. The...

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Israel And Russia Strike An Upbeat Note

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Black Sea resort town of Sochi...

Billboards in the UK – a Wake-Up Call to British Jews

The billboards that recently appeared in the UK, emblazoned with the title “NORMAL PEOPLE BOYCOTT Israel,” are a reminder to UK Jews that...

Two American Criminal Prosecutions For Us To Watch

As Willard Ritter stood in an Oyer and Terminer session of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in 1930, Judge Horace Stern had the unenviable task...

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #11, Muslim armies arrive

In this scene our hero meets the Caliph Omar who is leading the Muslim armies as they surge out of Arabia. The Eternal Jew’s Tale Fifth Era, Part 1....

EDITORIAL: Voters should keep Fukushima disaster in mind on energy policy

Japan’s energy policy is at a crossroads. The campaign platforms of all political parties for the Oct. 31 Lower House election agree that more...

VOX POPULI: First ‘kogarashi’ wind of autumn signals the quick change of season

What's fun about playing the seeker in hide-and-seek is that the world has changed dramatically when you open your eyes. The many friends who were...

On the transition to clean energy, the EU is in no rush

Analysis. The heads of state and government are unwilling to put their signatures to detailed conclusions, but only to ‘exhortations.’ written by...

Asia Pacific must fix its broken vaccine system

Prevailing zero-sum mentality and parochialism need to be overcome

Sweden is rethinking aid to the Palestinians, why isn’t the US?

Last week, the United States took a step closer to giving the Palestinian Arabs $225-million in aid regardless of their behavior. Also last week,...

On shemitah and smelting

Part of the third-grade curriculum for my Jewish day school was learning about steel production. Growing up in Pittsburgh in the ’80s, the...

The State of the Department

Once more the settlers have hit the headlines. Moving in to a land inhabited by people who had lived there for many, many generations, they did not...