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New York Jewish Week — Over the years, there’s been no shortage of funny Jews who’ve performed at the Comedy Cellar, New York’s premier comedy...
Rocket alert sirens were activated Thursday morning in Israel’s Upper Galilee region along the border with Lebanon, after troops accidentally...
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — A Russian soldier pleaded guilty on Wednesday to killing a Ukrainian civilian in the opening stages of Moscow’s invasion...
Commentary. The Russian army alone has razed a number of urban and production centers, inflicted enormous damage on cities and towns, gutted...
NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of people, including top Israeli and American politicians, will march in Sunday’s Celebrate Israel Parade in New...
JTA — Shuly Rubin Schwartz began her work as the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary nearly two years ago. But it wasn’t until this...
Military Police will not open an investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin last week, despite suspicions...
A Beersheba resident has been sentenced on appeal to 13 months in prison for tweets threatening to kill former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Staff at a hospital in northern Israel were attacked Wednesday by angry family members of a deceased patient, the latest in a string of incidents...
Buffalo. Ten dead. A young white man targeting Black people in a Black neighborhood. Military gear. Racist and antisemitic rantings. The "n word."...
Israeli officials have expressed “enthusiasm” to their American counterparts over the Biden administration’s restoring of aid to the...
A pallbearer beaten by police during the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last week has been arrested, according to his lawyer. Khaldoon...
A branch of the Reform Movement in Israel is suing a popular ultra-Orthodox news website in Jerusalem over its policy of blurring the faces of...
Likud party leader and opposition chief Benjamin Netanyahu is facing rare, open rebellion from within his party over his decision not to support a...
State prosecutors will appeal the controversial decision to grant an early release to jailed serial sex offender Alon Kastiel. Prosecutors in the...
Revived probe team should deal with fund scandal first The prosecution has reinstated the Financial and Securities Crime Joint Investigation Team...
JTA – The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, an annual award that comes with $100,000, this year went to Menachem Kaiser for his nonfiction book...
The release of the name of the Druze officer Lt. Col. Mahmoud Kheir a-Din, who was killed in Gaza and received a posthumous commendation for valor,...
In this week’s Torah reading, at least the Eretz Yisrael version of Parshat HaShavua, which is next week’s in the Diaspora, we have a...
When, in early May, someone leaked the draft Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Mississippi – the decision that will likely overturn Roe v. Wade –...
Japan accepted a record number of refugees last year but its refugee admissions program is still a far cry from international standards. Japan has...
Officially, there is no sign of an international coalition against the Polisario Front being formed like the alliance established by the Americans...
Despite the lessons of World War II, unfortunately the author has to say that the events of the last eight years in and around Ukraine have...
Opaque industry is an invitation to sleazy operators to do their worst
At the funeral of Noam Raz of blessed memory, an officer in the Yamam police counterterrorism unit who was killed in the Jenin area, his son spoke...
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday criticized the state’s conduct regarding construction work being carried out on the Prime Minister’s...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in the White House and thanked him for the Biden...
Social and other media was busy blaming Israel for wrongdoing this past May 15th, the so-called “Nakba Day,” which commemorates and laments the...
Acting on an initiative from the Biden Administration, by November 2022, conveniently at the onset of the next flu season in the northern...
To besedilo je nastalo samo zaradi naslova. Bivši predsednik vlade. Kako milozvočno je slišati te tri besede. Melodija iz starih časov, ko so...
From security to economy, technology President Yoon Suk-yeol will hold his first summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in Seoul on Saturday, raising...
The success of this year’s Lag B’Omer festivities is in the eye of the beholder: To the government and the organizers, Wednesday night was a...
Veteran dancer Rina Schenfeld takes to the stage again Thursday night for “Date,” a dance piece with Avi Kaiser and Sergio Antonino at the...
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Jerusalem International Book Forum was held once more this year. The opening ceremony included a (...
Intelligent design is the theory that God created the universe. It is based on scientific evidence, such as the laws of physics and bringing about...
Toward the end of the book of Leviticus, the Torah gives us the bottom line: “If you follow My statutes and observe My commandments and perform...
God for Atheists (2): Belief in God & the Human Brain As expected, several of my readers had difficulties with my previous essay on belief in God,...
Embed from Getty Images The pro-life movement’s efforts to save babies from death by abortion may finally result in Roe v. Wade being...
JTA — Imagine a village full of Borats, and you’re close to realizing the absurdity of Chelm. The real-life Polish shtetl, a popular subject of...
My Russia-Ukraine series of articles is approaching its conclusion. So let’s summarise: In the first article, I delved into the history of this...
By Robert D. Atkinson The last decade has made it clear that China did not move toward open trade, freer markets, or political liberalization as so...
By Sho Chang-young June 1 is the eighth Nationwide Simultaneous Local Elections Day of South Korea. According to the National Election Commission...
Our sages advise us to make good use of this holy day, Lag B’Omer. In a letter to his followers, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi writes, “Rejoice on...
Last Friday was Nakba Day, the day set aside to remember the Nakba, which means catastrophe in Arabic. The term refers to the Arab experience in...
By Donald Kirk Comparisons between South Korea and the Philippines can be tempting. I can't help but succumb to the temptation after covering last...
By John J. Metzler It's often said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a brilliant chess player. Various geopolitical analysts and think tank...