Arms, Drones and Spy Tech: How Israeli Weapons Power Vietnam’s Cruel Surveillance State

Vietnam is now one of Israel’s largest markets for weapons and surveillance technology. But those defense exports are used by Hanoi’s...

Israel's Deals With Gulf States Normalize Immorality. An Ethical Left Shouldn’t Accept Them

Israeli Politicians, Don’t Blame Us for the Lockdown. Ask for Forgiveness

Talks on new curbs devolve into finger-pointing on protests by Netanyahu, Gantz

A government meeting meant to decide on new measures to curb a massive surge in virus infections devolved into coalition infighting between the...

Saudi king warns UN of Iranian threat, backs US peace efforts in Middle East

In his address to the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman called upon world leaders to confront Iranian nuclear...

At UN General Assembly, 50 male speakers before the first woman

As the world’s leaders gathered remotely this year for the UN General Assembly due to restrictions of movement caused by the coronavirus,...

Friend of Anne Frank lays first stone at new Dutch Holocaust memorial

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A friend of World War II Jewish diarist Anne Frank laid the first stone Wednesday at a new memorial under construction...

Can Halacha Be Paskened by a Rebbetzin?

Right now, we’re in the midst of the Tishrei festival season.  What if I were to tell you that one of the primary yom tov practices was determined...

Obama-Biden legacy in Africa: myths and reality

Myths The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Barack Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and...

Banky ako práčky peňazí

Na jednej strane úrady a politici deklarujú zámer bojovať proti nelegálnym príjmom. A ich počínanie môže byť úprimné a nastavenie...

(POGLED) Arabska izdaja Palestine

Običajno je, da države, ki imajo velika nesoglasja, kljub temu ohranjajo diplomatske in trgovinske odnose. A obstajajo tudi okoliščine, ki tega...

Halt to flu vaccines

Respond to wake-up call thoroughly The government's free influenza inoculation scheme for 19 million people was suddenly halted Tuesday, after 5...

A Message of Incitement

Proposal for end-of-war declaration

NK, international society should cooperate for peace President Moon Jae-in called for a declaration to the end of the Korea War in a prerecorded...

Which non-violent revolutions will succeed?

By Gwynne Dyer The old calculation was simple and brutal: if you want to overthrow a tyrant, you must use violence. There was an occasional...

Think you’re no good at judging others’ emotions? Join the club

Author Ramo Nakajima (1952-2004) gave tongue-in-cheek answers to questions from readers in “Akarui Nayami Sodanshitsu” (Upbeat counseling room...

If Hannah Arendt theorised public happiness for Americans, Armajani staged it beautifully.

“The twilight zones today between art forms that were once quite distinct – painting and photography, architecture and sculpture – have been the...

It’s time for Palestinians to make their own peace plan

Palestinians are understandably furious at the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for agreeing to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel, but it...

Avoiding a ‘climate lockdown’

LONDON – As COVID-19 spread earlier this year, governments introduced lockdowns in order to prevent a public-health emergency from spinning out...

The Financial Climate Has Reached a Tipping Point

LONDON – The COVID-19 pandemic is sharpening financial markets’ understanding of the need to address looming threats like climate change. This...

Blacklisting U.S. tech would highlight China’s own weakness

Plans by China to draw up a blacklist of U.S. technology firms might sound great to hardliners as a retaliatory measure against Washington, but...

Celebrating 75 years of the United Nations

NEW YORK – As the United Nations marks its 75th anniversary, the world is in turmoil. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in nearly one million...

Are Intellectuals Killing Convergence?

NEW DELHI – How will COVID-19 affect developing countries’ growth prospects? The answer will depend largely on how globalization – and...

It is time we move beyond our obsession with revolutionary aesthetics and engage with its politics.

“Black Power!” was an utterance popularised by radical Black activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Although often ignored ideologically, the...

Samsung, with or without union

By Choi Sung-no Samsung has not allowed any form of union under its roof for 81 years ever since its establishment. It is Samsung's so-called "No...

Reaction to the Steps Taken by Washington to Reconcile Israel and the Arabs

Sundown on September 18th marked the start of Rosh Hashanah 5781, the new year according to the Hebrew calendar. According to Jewish tradition, the...

Argentine Jews hold Rosh Hashanah service – in their cars

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — With the city of Cordoba hosting the country’s annual Rally Argentina car show and race event, the Jewish community of...

Ringing in the New Year solo

When I made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) last week with Nefesh B’Nefesh, I knew I was going to have to spend the high holidays isolated in...

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

United. The first known use of ‘united’ was around 1552. The dictionary tells us that it means being in agreement. As the world tries to unite...

Navalny released from hospital after 32 days, doctors say full recovery possible

BERLIN (AP) — The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning said Wednesday that his condition improved...

Our broken-hearted planet (Daf Yomi 45)

Embed from Getty Images “The entire world drinks from the waters of the ocean.” Today’s Daf Yomi text continues the discussion on walking...

GOP Senate candidate defends controversial Ginsburg abortion meme

DOVER, Delaware (AP) — Republican US Senate candidate Lauren Witzke on Tuesday defended a controversial meme in a Facebook post by her campaign...

Paris’s Eiffel Tower briefly evacuated after bomb threat

Paris police briefly evacuated Paris’s Eiffel Tower and blockaded the surrounding area Wednesday after a phone-in bomb threat. All tourists inside...

‘Sapiens’ graphic novel coming out in October

JTA — For anyone intimidated to start reading Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s wildly popular book “Sapiens: A Brief History of...

Ahead of decision on war crimes probe, Knesset taps point-woman for The Hague

The Knesset on Wednesday tapped a special parliamentary coordinator for issues pertaining to the International Criminal Court, ahead of The...

The ‘cli-fi’ backlist is now hundreds of novels deep worldwide in 10 languages

Cli-fi shifts readers’ beliefs, but not for long, according to the first empirical test of the effects of reading ”cli-fi,” in which researchers...

Yom Kippur: The Handkerchief at the Train Station

There is a famous folktale about a young man who was traveling on the train through the countryside .  The person sitting next to the young man...

The Monster of Melbourne

Six years and seventy-one court hearings and trials, Malka the monster of Melbourne is being prepared for her over-due extradition from Israel to...

G-d’s Master Plan – XXXVI – A Tribute To RBG – ‘All I Ask Of Our Brethren Is That They Take Their Feet Off Our Necks’

בסייד Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a champion of women’s rights and spent her whole life fighting for what she knew was...

The two-way street of that sexy shofar

When we pray, we talk to G^d. The verb to pray in Hebrew is reflexive. While it’s obvious that G^d hears our prayers, it’s crucial that we...

Why Close Synagogues?

One devastating by product of the virus in my opinion has been the controversial role which the synagogue has played in the fight against the...

Recollections of the Yom Kippur War

What would we do without wars there would be fewer casualties of soldiers in the field, but not as many as those killed on our roads! So today on...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Ultimate Pragmatist

Most commentators eulogize the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her dissenting opinions, rather than for her true legacy. In...

[VIDEO] U’Netaneh Tokef: Living Our Prayers (Yom Kippur)

TRANSCRIPT With all that is happening around the world, the prayer that continues to hold more meaning for me than any other is U’Netaneh Tokef,...

To Friends Who Are Parents

What some of you now experience for the first time is the other end from what I experienced basically every day from the time I was 8 until I was...

OECD: Israel is healthy, happy but highly unequal – and COVID is making it worse

Israel is at the top of OECD countries when it comes to health and subjective well-being, but near the bottom in terms of air quality, education...

India, Join the Israel-Gulf Axis in the New Mideast Cold War

For India, as for Israel, the split in the Muslim world is a strategic opportunity. It’s in Afghanistan that New Delhi needs Arab Gulf allies –...

How Erdogan's Turkey Has Failed the Palestinians

Trump’s aggressive anti-China rant reminds the world why the UN was first established – to prevent future wars

The American president’s speech was angry, curt and severe, delivered with a stabbing staccato voice. In just seven minutes he lurched from...