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This week on The Times of Israel’s weekly podcast, Times Will Tell, we jump across the pond to Europe where we speak with Katharina von...
BRUSSELS – The world is eagerly watching the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and looking forward to a return to normalcy after a year of lockdowns....
JTA — Portugal has opened its first Holocaust museum, built in the northern city of Porto by members of a Jewish community that was founded by...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — I walked to US President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Authority closed 13 downtown...
JTA — The US Senate confirmed Avril Haines to be the first woman to lead the intelligence community, making her President Joe Biden’s first...
Antisemitism is on the march. From the Tunisian President’s recent remarks blaming the country’s unrest on “thieving Jews”, to Kuwait’s top...
A landmark year has started for the international movement to end the era of collective stupidity when nations threaten others with nuclear...
JTA — Norman Golb, a pathbreaking academic who broadened scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls and unearthed a history of Jews in Medieval France,...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President Joe Biden is ordering an expansion of government benefits for hungry Americans, after the coronavirus pandemic...
Why, after more than a century of bloody conflict, have Israelis and Palestinians failed to reach a peace agreement? Israeli director Dror Moreh...
From January 5 to January 13, the 8th congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was held in North Korea, which marked a series of major...
AP — Ready for a documentary about three decades of agonizing fits and starts of the Middle East peace process, from the perspective of US...
Parashat Bo Parashat Bo opens with the final plagues. Locusts devastate the remaining vegetation of Egypt. Darkness so thick that the rabbis tell...
Ric Elias was among the passengers on the plane that Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger safely landed in the Hudson back in January of 2009. Determined...
Embed from Getty Images “Rabbi Yohanan took a clod of dirt and threw it at him In the middle of the today’s exposition on the details of...
Vaccines are about 90% effective, depending on the data one reads, the type of mutation, and other factors. That means about one in ten vaccinated...
The notion of time becomes remarkably amorphous in early chapters of the Book of Exodus, referred to in generalities, instead of specifics. Exodus...
The six city-states on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf, each formerly a sleepy, pristine fishing village, are now all glitzy and futuristic...
Od 6. januarja, ko je množica podpornikov Donalda Trumpa vdrla v ameriški Kapitol, so več deset izgrednikov že obtožili. Trump, ki je spodbudil...
JTA — US President Joe Biden has named Jessica Rosenworcel, a champion of net neutrality, to serve as acting chair of the Federal Communications...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President Joe Biden on Thursday tightened mask-wearing rules and ordered quarantine for people flying into the United States,...
BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing that killed 32 people and wounded 110 at a crowded market in...
Revival of 'red-tagging' has set the country back decades
LONDON — With a fiction track record of writing about “crime and money and sex and drugs” for teenagers, British journalist Keren David has...
(JTA) — A prominent Jewish doctor in Boston died this week while attempting a challenging ascent in the mountains of Pakistan. Alex Goldfarb, an...
For most of 2020, the Southeast Asian country has kept the pandemic under control. Until late July, it had managed to keep the total case tally in...
I’m a black-hatter, one of those Chabadniks who would love you to put on Tefillin (it will just take a minute). You might avert your gaze and...
It is rather odd that Ankara has bought 50 million doses of China’s Sinovac vaccine, which is anything but cheap and its trials are still ongoing....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons entered into force on Friday, hailed as a historic step to rid the world of...
Last Tuesday was a good day for progress on tackling the genocide of the Uyghurs. In one of his very last acts as United States Secretary of State,...
Anti-Israel activists at Florida State University (FSU) are working to reverse the university’s earlier decision to adopt the International...
What message does the book “Letters to Talia” have to offer us today? Doing a Weekly Podcast on Jewish Authors is quite a challenge. This week...
Donald J. Trump, one of the most controversial presidents in American history, has had to finally exit the stage. His prefacing everything with...
The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) was established in 2014. Its foundation grew out of extreme frustration with some of the policies...
Political neutrality and independence key to success Kim Jin-wook started work Friday as the inaugural head of the new Corruption Investigation...
There once was a Hungarian-born scientist who succeeded in persuading the United States to develop atomic bombs, but failed to stop the bombs from...
Joe Biden’s inauguration last week was the most heavily guarded in memory: Washington’s entire National Mall was fenced off; numerous military...
The deployment of COVID-19 vaccines brings hope that the onslaught of the virus will soon cease, but the unsettled world within which the virus...
MOSCOW – Russia’s main opposition leader Alexei Navalny is disturbing Russia’s laziest month. As in Soviet times, the New Year holiday...
The Israeli political, security and research decision-making circles have recently shown great interest in the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial to February to...
AP — Public health experts Thursday blamed COVID-19 vaccine shortages around the US in part on the Trump administration’s push to get states to...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — US President Joe Biden named Stephanie Pollack, the Massachusetts transportation secretary known for her ability as a Democrat...
Dve zaporedni gospodarski krizi v zadnjih desetih letih sta v temeljih pretresli prevladujočo strategijo denarne politike za obvladovanje...