Site of mass Haredi wedding in London: A school whose principal died of COVID

An illegal Jewish wedding broken up by police in London on Thursday took place at a school whose principal died of COVID-19 last year. Rabbi...

In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive

JTA — For a movie about the Holocaust, the Belarussian film “Persian Lessons” has some comic potential. Set in a concentration camp somewhere...

Bernie Sanders has his most viral week ever

JTA — Bernie Sanders was everywhere on James Corden’s late-night show set on Thursday. Life-sized cardboard cutouts of the Jewish senator in his...

Bill to amend COVID-19 laws riddled with too many questions

The Cabinet approved a bill to amend legislation on measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The government is hoping the proposed changes will...

How will Biden deal with China?

Back in 2008, when Joe Biden was on the campaign trail running for vice president, the Democratic senator from Delaware once told fundraisers that...

A Hypothetical Interview with America’s Riotous Jew

Since my blog entitled, “There ‘s always one of us in every crowd” went viral  (443 shares), some of my readers requested I write a follow-up...

Islam and Judaism are in agreement in appreciating God’s trees and roots

Islam and Judaism are in total agreement when it comes to appreciating God’s trees. Prophet Muhammad said:”If the Hour (of judgment) is about to...

Israel expected to raise COVID fines, place fresh limits on air travel

Israel is set to take fresh steps to attempt to curb COVID-19 infections, including raising fines on rule-breakers and increasing limitations on...

UAE confirms it signed deal to buy F-35 jets from US on last day of Trump’s term

The United Arab Emirates confirmed on Thursday that it had inked agreements to buy up to 50 F-35 jets and other weapons from the US on former...

Blast in northern Gaza said to injure at least 15 people; cause unclear

An explosion was reported Saturday morning in a building in the northern Gaza Strip, with multiple people said injured. The blast occurred in Beit...

From 'America first' to 'Earth first'

By Song Young-gil Rep. Song Young-gil of the Democratic Party of Korea, who is the chairman of the National Assembly Foreign Affairs and...

Last Jew in Tajikistani city dies after community thrived there for centuries

JTA — For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in...

‘Erratic’ or ‘Strategic Clarity’: What to make of Trump’s Middle East legacy?

Donald Trump broke with bipartisan convention in his Middle East policy. Some say he overturned stagnant conventional wisdom that rewarded foes...

Israelis Should Learn From the ultra-Orthodox How a Minority Behaves

Inexcusable deaths of children in Korea

Photos of Jung-in, a 16-month-old girl who died after being abused by her adoptive parents, sit in front of her grave at a cemetery in Yangpyeong,...

Trump’s impeachment trial to begin the week of February 8

WASHINGTON (AP) — Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump on the charge of incitement of insurrection for the Capitol...

Rabbi starts praying for president again after Trump departs

When Donald Trump became president of the United States in 2017, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz felt he could no longer say the standard prayer for the...

Janet Yellen’s nomination as treasury secretary advances in Senate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Senate Finance Committee approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of Janet Yellen to be the nation’s 78th treasury...

With theater actors’ legs intact, TV’s ‘Rehearsals’ breaks a heart instead

It’s been 10 months since anyone in Israel has been able to sit in a theater and laugh — or cry — at a tale acted out on stage. You still...

Pfizer to supply 40 million COVID-19 shots for poor countries

Pfizer on Friday committed to supply up to 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year to a World Health Organization-backed effort to get...

Thousands of Navalny supporters rally for his release throughout Russia

Thousands of supporters of Russia’s jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny rallied in Moscow and other cities on Saturday, answering his call...

Joe Biden brings slightly new look to Oval Office

WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden has given the Oval Office a slight makeover. Biden revealed the new decor Wednesday as he invited reporters...

Author who made controversial comments on Jews quits Dutch Holocaust event

AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Amid protests by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable...

The Vaccine Race: Yet Another US Weapon for World Domination

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine race has been turned by Washington into one of the most costly and...

Can Israel Ever be Praised

Once again Israel is being demonized with the usual apartheid slights, this time relating to the Covid19 vaccine and Israel’s success at firstly...

What sick children taught me about healing in polarized America

JTA — As an Orthodox rabbi in Omaha, Nebraska, people often want to know what it’s like to live here in the middle of America. The most common...

Jewish Democrats see Ossoff and Warnock as a heroic new Black-Jewish duo

JTA — Two days after his election to the Senate helped tip the balance of power in Washington, Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff found another...

Biden says COVID expected to kill ‘well over 600,000’ in US

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President Joe Biden warned on Friday that the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States was expected to surpass...

Trump shuns ‘ex-presidents club’ — and the feeling is mutual

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a club Donald Trump was never really interested in joining and certainly not so soon: the cadre of former commanders in...

Democracy Dies in Darkness: Washington Post backtracks after it's caught burying Kamala Harris’ cringeworthy joke from old article

“We should have kept both versions of the story on the Post’s site…rather than redirecting to the updated one,” communications VP Kris...

Volivci

Preteklo leto se je začelo s škandalozno prodajo stranke Desus desnici - in to je izvedla nova predsednica, "novo upanje" stranke, ki je nato...

Blueberries from Down Under thrive in Israel’s north, indoors

Blueberries, a super fruit that’s high in fiber and vitamin C, are usually picked from bushes that grow in the ground. Now, a group of growers in...

Small steps by Xi and Biden could lead to big changes in US-China ties

Watching the live telecast of Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony on Thursday morning, sparsely attended due to the coronavirus pandemic and under...

Pizza Hut Israel to trial drone deliveries this summer

Pizza Hut Israel will try delivering pizzas by drone this summer, kind of. The restaurant chain will have drones deliver several orders together to...

Why is the Labour Party so enthusiastic about Covid-19 lockdowns when they are so destructive to our poorest communities?

Whenever Home Secretary Priti Patel is wheeled out to lead the daily government briefing we know we have done something wrong and something rotten...

Šimfanje in štenkanje

Bilo je kakšnih petnajst let nazaj, ko so prišli prvič. Ljudje, ki so tedaj v klasičnih medijih začenjali iskati načine, kako s pomočjo...

Netanyahu said planning new aid to small businesses ahead of election

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to unveil a new economic plan to provide grants and financial aid to small business owners in an...

Hard to believe no 'Plan B' exists for dicey Tokyo Olympics 

“We have, at this moment, no reason whatsoever to believe that the Olympic Games in Tokyo will not open on the 23rd of July in the Olympic Stadium...

Netflix gets to say ‘I told you so,’ for now

Netflix Inc. would like to thank you for attending its cash bonfires over the years, but says it’s time to go home now — and watch more Netflix....

Molčanje kot drža in strategija

Najbolje je molčati. Pogledati stran. In si misliti svoje. To je osnovna drža tega časa. Dokler ne bodo v vse nas montirali čipov, ki bodo brali...

Hawaiian-Jewish surfer may have ridden largest wave of all time

JTA — Hawaiian-Jewish surfing star Makua Rothman may have successfully ridden the largest recorded wave in the history of the sport, estimated to...

Republican lawmaker with gun sets off House chamber metal detector

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capitol Police are investigating an incident in which a Republican lawmaker was blocked from entering the House chamber after...

Party and country: the unexplored reserves of the Gramsci genome

Commentary. This party was not a separate vanguard, but a body mixed with the same blood, the same emotions, behaviors, memories of the Italian...

Why Israel is a settler-colony

When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether or not Israel is truly an...

Larry King, broadcasting giant, dies at 87 after hospitalization with COVID-19

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes...

Mayor of Milan’s shocker: “Greta like Anne Frank”

The Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala raised controversy after making an appalling analogy between Anne Frank and Greta Thunberg. “I think Anne Frank was...

Day 3 of International Holocaust Remembrance Week

On this third day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this third document signed by my...

Underpromise, overdeliver — Biden signals early approach to pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a proven political strategy: Underpromise and overdeliver. US President Joe Biden, in his first three days in office,...