‘Metro Law’ in the balance as opposition seeks leverage over election schedule

Opposition lawmakers led by the Likud party appear to have seized on plans for an Israeli metro system — the country’s most ambitious public...

Toi Staff

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Reimagining aging: Older persons as agents of development

Older persons are highly visible across Asia and the Pacific. They work in agricultural fields producing our food supplies, peddle their wares as...

Japan Today

10

Abortion stigma and oppression of women

On June 24, in a historic decision with its widespread ramifications, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade , eliminating the...

Allia Bukhari

10

Russia and Israeli Exceptionalism

After years of indiscriminate bombing of Syrian infrastructure by Israel, it was reported, in mid-May 2022 that Russia fired a “warning shot”...

Gordon Duff

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Turkey supports NATO bid for Sweden, Finland

MADRID, Spain (AP) — Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, ending an impasse that had clouded a...

Jill Lawless

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UK military chiefs evoke fight with Nazi Germany in mobilization call over Russia

LONDON, UK (AFP) — British military leaders warned Tuesday that UK armed forces must “mobilize” in response to the threat posed by Russia, with...

Joe Jackson

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Meshi-Zahav dies a year after attempting suicide amid rape allegations

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the founder of the ZAKA emergency service, died a year after his attempting to take his own life amid an investigation into...

Toi Staff

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MKs gear up to dissolve 24th Knesset in final votes, Lapid set to assume premiership

Israeli lawmakers were gearing up to pass the final readings of a bill to dissolve the 24th Knesset late Wednesday, as the country is set to go to...

Toi Staff

10

America’s Watery Indo-Pacific Alphabet Soup

Takatoshi Ito

20

Palestinian reported killed in clash with IDF soldiers in Jenin

A Palestinian man was reportedly shot dead during clashes with Israeli forces who were conducting an arrest raid early Wednesday in Jenin....

Emanuel Fabian

10

Father of man held by Hamas urges release of all Israeli prisoners

The father of one of the Israelis held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday he is prepared to wait for his son to be released if it...

Toi Staff

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NATO Secretary-General: Strengthening our partnership with Japan

Closer ties are needed to tackle shared security challenges

Jens Stoltenberg

30

76% of Israelis fear car accidents, half of drivers admit speeding — poll

Over three-quarters of Israelis fear getting into a car accident and more than half of drivers regularly speed at more than 10 kilometers above the...

Toi Staff

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Gas prices to climb to NIS 8.08 per liter this week

Israeli gas prices will rise to NIS 8.08 ($2.35) per liter this week, the Energy Ministry announced on Wednesday, setting the price near the record...

Toi Staff

10

Stamp out plagiarism

It's imperative to revamp lax verification system An artificial intelligence (AI) research team at Seoul National University is facing allegations...

Editorial

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Fear of legislative dictatorship

Negotiated compromise essential to normalizing Assembly The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is taking flak for seeking to convene...

Editorial

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NATO chief says alliance faces ‘most serious security crisis’ since WWII

MADRID (AP) — NATO leaders were sitting down Wednesday to try to turn an urgent sense of purpose triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into...

Jill Lawless

10

Massive Contemporary Torah Revelations (Chukat)

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. — Franklin D. Roosevelt There is a...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

9

Moral obligation

By Steven L. Shields My upbringing as a Christian in the United States has formed my understanding of my moral obligation since childhood. I don't...

Steven L. Shields

10

Abortion and democracy in America

MELBOURNE, Australia – Every woman should have the legal right safely to terminate a pregnancy that she does not wish to continue, at least until...

Peter Singer

10

Economics of wedding gift money

By Yoon Ja-young I once saw readers of The Korea Times from other countries commenting on an article about the money given as a gift at weddings...

Columns

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The death of the WTO has only been delayed

That the World Trade Organization was able to come to any kind of deal at its 12th ministerial meeting this month was something of a miracle. The...

Mihir Sharma

10

The steep costs of disengagement for China

OXFORD, England – For more than three decades, the global economy was defined by unbridled integration and unprecedented interdependence. Neither...

George Magnus

10

AI’s next big thing is ‘fake’ data

Last week Microsoft Corp. said it would stop selling software that guesses a person’s mood by looking at their face. The reason: It could be...

Parmy Olson

10

The eternal optimism of Masayoshi Son

There’s a $60 billion reason why SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son might feel a little down. His company has shed more market value in...

Tim Culpan

10

EDITORIAL: Public needs better alerts to cope with power supply problems

The season's first heat wave has already arrived, prompting the government on June 27 to issue a "power crunch caution" in areas serviced by Tokyo...

The Asahi Shimbun

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Palestinians 'are not animals in a zoo': On Kanafani and the need to redefine the role of the 'victim intellectual'

Years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, US media introduced many new characters, promoting them as 'experts' who helped ratchet up US...

Dr Ramzy Baroud

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South Korea becomes 7th Full-fledged Space Power

On June 21, 2022, a 200-tonne South Korean space launch vehicle (KSLV-II), or Nuri, finally took off from the Naro spaceport in Goheung County,...

Konstantin Asmolov

8

Airport boss sorry for chaos; MK calls on government for help

The director of Ben Gurion International Airport has apologized for the chaos at the airfield, but said it was because he didn’t want to cancel...

Toi Staff

10

(POGLED) Poštno kokotovanje

Srečko Klapš

10

Leading US Orthodox group praises Supreme Court backing for football coach’s prayer

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Agudath Israel of America praised the reversal of a judicial standard that came about as a result of a Supreme Court ruling...

Ron Kampeas

10

Jerry Nadler’s campaign urges support for ‘last remaining NYC Jewish congressmember’

New York Jewish Week via JTA — Rep. Jerry Nadler’s election campaign sent out a fundraising email on Tuesday highlighting that he is the last...

Jacob Henry

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Kosher certification agency sues JetBlue, saying it falsely put its stamp on snack

JTA — One of the United States’ largest kosher certifying agencies alleges that JetBlue airlines sold a snack it falsely claimed was certified...

Jackie Hajdenberg

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Devastating defeat for rights of women

Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the first time the Supreme Court has driven a dagger into the heart of human rights and further divided a deeply...

Tribune Service

10

How Jewish is Ben Shapiro?

Ben Shapiro, the kippah-wearing conservative pundit, undoubtedly finds himself in anti-abortion heaven along with the many thousands of...

Phil M. Cohen

10

After the Gavel: LGBTQ+ and Yeshiva University

I write this blog post, prompted by the NYT article regarding YU and the LGBTQ Pride Alliance on campus, while sitting in a Ford truck, wearing a...

Hope Blecher

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Putting the “B’nai” Back into B’nai Mitzvah

Thanks to the publication of such books as Putting God on the Guest List by Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin and The Mitzvah Project by Liz Suneby and Diane...

Rinny Yourman

10

War in Ukraine: lesson on why world should ban nuclear arms

By Kasit Piromya If the first meeting of the states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in January 2022 had taken...

Guest Column

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Economics of wedding gift money

By Yoon Ja-young I once saw readers of The Korea Times from other countries commenting on an article about the money given as a gift at weddings...

Guest Column

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If Jerusalem Is Overbuilt, Will Tourists Even Be Able to Find the Western Wall?

Last month, the Jerusalem Municipality held a festive event in which it proudly presented its master plan for open spaces in public areas. The plan...