Suga's pledge of being carbon-free puts Japan at the starting line

Japan will fight the climate crisis by achieving net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 to become carbon-free, Prime Minister Yoshihide...

Has Putin Lost His Mojo?

MOSCOW – What a difference a year makes. In the fall of 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to be riding high. Upheaval in the West –...

Is the US Headed Towards a Disputed Election?

Head of NXIVM sex-cult tied to Seagram’s heir gets 120 years in prison

NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced self-improvement guru Keith Raniere, whose NXIVM followers included millionaires and Hollywood actors, was sentenced to...

Shalom and welcome to Bahrain

As the excitement following the signing of the Abraham Accords continues to reverberate around the world, we are already seeing the underpinning of...

The Lincoln Project Wants to Save America From Trump. It’s Working

Taunting Trump on COVID, autocracy and white supremacy, the unrelenting campaigns of Never Trumpers from the Lincoln Project to Bill Kristol have...

Hysteria over Amy Coney Barrett reflects the complete lack of respect for Christian beliefs that is now so common

There has been a substantial amount of mania surrounding the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court. Mania has become an odd...

United States of Anxiety: New fears have American Jews questioning the future

JTA — American Jews are anxious. They’re worried about COVID-19, which already has killed a quarter-million Americans and is spreading more...

Most Jews back French crackdown on radical Islam, targeting religious activities

JTA — As the French government rolls out a controversial plan that amounts to its most robust crackdown on religious activity in decades, it is...

Israel and US to extend their scientific cooperation to West Bank and Golan

NEW YORK — The US and Israel will expand their scientific cooperation agreements to include the West Bank and the Golan Heights, Prime Minister...

By huge majority, Czech parliament calls for outlawing Hezbollah in its entirety

The Czech Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday night passed by an overwhelming majority a resolution urging the government to declare all of Hezbollah a...

PM fetes ‘important victory’ as US extends bilateral agreements to settlements

Israel and the US on Wednesday signed an agreement that removed all previous geographic restrictions from their scientific cooperation, a move...

Canada’s Lantic joins forces with Israel’s DouxMatok for low-sugar sweeteners

A Canadian-based sugar manufacturer will collaborate with Israeli startup DouxMatok to create sugar-cane based sweeteners that are 30 to 50 percent...

Lost interviews show Bob Dylan worried about anti-Semitism when he changed name

AP — For nearly half a century, they were blowin’ in the wind: lost interviews that contained surprising new insights about celebrated singer-...

New vision for future

Korea Times speeds up digital transformation The Korea Times will mark its 70th anniversary this Sunday. This newspaper is the country's oldest...

Concern over greater tax burden

It is necessary to adopt fair property assessment method The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has presented a long-term plan to raise...

A Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight toppled?

PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA – Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Shigeru Ishiba last week decided to step down as the head of his faction. While at...

Want to see what election fraud looks like? Look at Belarus

As the United States hurtles toward its most important presidential election in decades, anyone eager to understand the consequences of...

Zero hour is coming for emissions. Believe it.

It’s only natural to be skeptical when a political leader stands up and makes a promise about a target that’s far off, hard to achieve, and lacks...

Essence of customer service organizations

By Kim Jong-nam A few months ago, I went to a different city to conduct interviews as part of a diagnostic for a client organization. Since the...

Tension on the India-China border: Why Asia should care

By Siddharth Varadarajan The atomic age began in 1945 and today there are nine countries which possess nuclear weapons. Eight of these openly...

Man shot dead in Tira

Police were investigating a suspected murder of a man shot dead on Wednesday in the predominantly Arab city of Tira, in central Israel. The victim,...

Falošná hra vlády

Zákaz vychádzania mal pôvodne platiť iba do 1. novembra. Ústredný krízový štáb ho však predĺžil do 15. novembra. Bude potom skutočne...

The “Domino Effect” in Oceania and Competition among World Powers

Even after gaining independence, the countries in Oceania are facing pressure from more powerful regional players that want to keep them in their...

Turkish leaders denounce Charlie Hebdo for lecherous Erdogan cartoon

ANKARA, Turkey  — Turkish officials on Wednesday railed against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over its cover-page cartoon mocking...

Israel researchers wield machine learning to streamline clinical trials

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a machine learning platform that they hope will increase the efficiency and...

Army, prison, and male behavior towards women

I begin my opinion piece with the statement that there is never an excuse or rationale for physical, emotional, financial, or any other abuse of...

Will Biden ever tell the truth about Charlottesville?

In the video that launched his campaign for the presidency, Joe Biden said it.  When he announced that he had selected Sen. Kamala Harris as his...

Tales of our Homeland #9: The New Ghetto

Notes for further study from Michael Unterberg: Herzl was a prolific author, best known for his pamphlet “Der Judenstaat” and...

Poll-Axing Democracy

With less than a week to go in the American Presidential (and other levels) election campaign, it is useful to look at Israel’s law regarding the...

Middle Eastern past is never dead

By Mark Leonard BERLIN ― The images were touching. In early October, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas visited the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin...

US election critical for Korea too

By Troy Stangarone Record numbers of Americans have already taken advantage of early voting or cast their ballots by mail, while millions more will...

LISTEN: Medieval Jewish ghost stories, heaven, hell, and a lot of punishment

Just in time for Halloween, this week on The Times of Israel Podcast we’re speaking with Dr. Susan Weissman, who has just published “Final...

Cyprus and the elusive solution

A presidential election was held in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus last Sunday. That is the northern part of the island that has been...

O jednom statuse Igora Matoviča. Chlapci, posledná šanca pribrzdiť!

Prišla. Ale odpovede na položené otázky nedala. „Niekto na Slovensku nechce pochopiť a silou-mocou má nutkavú potrebu ľudí od...

Israel workplace management startup monday.com reportedly seeks Nasdaq IPO

Israeli startup monday.com, which has created a workplace collaboration and management platform, is planning an initial public offering of shares...

Why do Jews get more Nobel Prizes?

Jews get more than 100 times more Nobel Prizes than their demographics would predict. That’s very disproportional. But why? Is it favoritism?...

Running all the way home (Daf Yomi 80)

Embed from Getty Images “Any case where you have the ability to be lenient (with regard to an eiruv), be lenient.” Today’s Daf Yomi portion...

Learning the hard way: What the press is saying on October 28

1. Opening act: Some people just can’t be pleased. With infections continuing to drop, the clamor for everything to reopen is only growing, and...

Tel Aviv aims to be the world’s first city to introduce smart electric roads

Technology brings miracles into people’s lives. As famed British science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, once said, “Any sufficiently...

Tales of our Homeland #9: The New Ghetto

Notes for further study from Michael Unterberg: Herzl was a prolific author , best known for his pamphlet “Der Judenstaat” and novel...

Key Insights on Iran from Lt. General H.R. McMaster

Embed from Getty Images In the new book Battlegrounds written by Lt. General H.R. McMaster, we gain several important insights on the current state...

Noah’s Ark—Three Layers of a Human Being

A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with...

[VIDEO] A Journey from Despair to Engagement (Parshat Lech Lecha)

TRANSCRIPT A quick look at the news can make even Pollyanna cynical. Behaviors in the face of looming US elections, political mayhem in Israel, ...

The Politics of Being a Mensch

I realize that many Rabbis out there may disagree with me -but being a mensch is overrated.  Particularly if you’re President of the United States....

The Crisis of Faith, A Chance for a Positive Step

The real crisis that is currently ripping Israeli society apart, and that is significantly exacerbating the health crisis, and the accompanying...

More minority commissioners

Some catch phrases stand the test of time. One such is in Laurel and Hardy films. At some point Hardy will say “Another fine mess you’ve got me...

The Importance of Traveling the Land

When we first meet Avram and Sarai, at the end of Parshat Noach, they are travelling. They begin their journey along with their family from Ur...

Grounded by the pandemic, air travelers are growing antsy

In his collection of essays titled “Tabi no Tsubakuro” (Traveling swallow), author Kotaro Sawaki cites musician Yosui Inoue’s comment to the...

Banning glitter won’t save the oceans

This year, retailers have declared war on an unlikely enemy: Christmas glitter. Those sparkly bits of plastic that make ornaments twinkle, wrapping...