(GLOBALNA ARENA) Odgovornost se konča pri Putinu

Nemški, francoski in švedski zdravniki soglašajo: Aleksej Navalni, najvplivnejši domači kritik ruskega predsednika Vladimirja Putina in...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the abortion issue

Following her passing on the eve of Rosh HaShanah, many laudatory paeans to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have been written, including many that...

Dating Entrepreneur’s Journey

COVID-19 has changed reality as we know it. Screens have replaced classrooms. Office meetings are held over Zoom. Wearing a mask is nearly second...

Abraham and Jeremiah

“The Akedah is not in the Torah; it is but one of several rabbinic constructs through which to read the narrative of Genesis 22.”  So I have...

The American deep state revives its tired allegations of Russian interference in November’s presidential elections

There have been a spate of reports recently, alleging Russian interference in the 2020 US presidential election, specifically the charge that...

Netanyahus said to bring suitcases of laundry when staying as White House guests

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara repeatedly brought with them suitcases of clothes to be laundered and dry cleaned while staying...

As hospitals overflow, As Haifa’s Rambam transforms car park into virus ward

AFP — As Israeli doctors confront a surge in coronavirus cases, with some patients waiting for hours in ambulances, one hospital is tackling the...

How can we trust the National Trust if they conflate Kipling and Churchill with slavers to pander to the woke mob?

The National Trust has become the latest group in Britain that has decided it would rather pander to the woke mob than do its actual job. The...

Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3...

Chicago burial fund gives penniless Jewish COVID victims a dignified sendoff

David Jacobson, founder of Chicago Jewish Funerals, stood behind the podium at Chicago’s Waldheim Jewish Cemetery on July 2. “I’m not a rabbi or...

Army shoots at Palestinians throwing Molotov cocktails; two said injured

Israeli soldiers fired at a group of Palestinians in the West Bank preparing to hurl Molotov cocktails close to the village of Kafr Malik, the army...

Jerusalem’s Islamic art museum says it has to auction off part of its collection

Facing financial pressure, Jerusalem’s L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art will sell part of its storied collection in October through Sotheby’s...

Collector gifts Hebrew University 130,000 post cards from the Holy Land

A London-based collector has donated to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem a huge trove of some 130,000 post cards sent from the Holy Land,...

For Israeli chefs, pandemic means pivot

When COVID-19 emerged in Israel in March, Nofar Zohar started making sandwiches. Not just any sandwich, of course, but a carefully calibrated...

Lebanon pleads for world’s help ‘trying to rise from its rubble’

BEIRUT (AP) — Facing an economic meltdown and other crises, Lebanon’s president on Wednesday asked for the world’s help to rebuild the...

Haaretz Cartoon

TEPCO’s fitness to operate nuke reactors still open to question

The Nuclear Regulation Authority has effectively endorsed Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s fitness to operate nuclear reactors in its safety screening...

A century on from the 1918 flu pandemic, much left undiscovered

The Spanish flu rose from the dead like a ghost from a frozen grave in Alaska in 1997. That year, a team of U.S. pathologists from the Armed Forces...

The Shame and Blame Game

Because we live in a competitive society where the good/evil complex runs rampant (see my article of January 12, 2012, entitled “The Good/Evil...

Turning the page to 5781… alone

The prospect of COVID-19 High Holidays brought to mind a vivid memory from a quarter century ago. I am sitting on a bench outside the auditorium...

Poll: Yamina closing in on Likud, public supports limiting protests, prayers

The right-wing Yamina party is closing the gap with the ruling Likud, which has seen its support drop sharply in recent weeks, according to a poll...

After letter to CEO, United change Israel flight to accommodate Yom Kippur

JTA — A Jewish passenger who couldn’t make a United Airlines flight to Israel because of Yom Kippur went right to the top for an accommodation —...

The rise of podcasts have created awareness of sex positivity in Israel

Podcasts made such an incredible and lasting impression when they reappeared on the scene. Indeed, podcasting is not a new invention and has been...

Hyundai Motor's decision

Major automaker sets precedent for pandemic-stricken industry Union leaders and management at Korea's largest carmaker, Hyundai Motor, agreed...

'Drive-through' rallies

Politicians should stop instigating people It is deplorable some ultra-right conservative organizations and politicians are plotting to hold mass...

Slavimo šport!

V bolj pravem trenutku si praznika, posvečenega športu, verjetno ne bi mogli zaželeti. Včeraj smo dan slovenskega športa obhajali po sanjskih...

Tashlich and Reunions

In recent days I had two big packages delivered to me. The first came from Chabad of Bedford, NY. The second came from the Princeton Class of 1980,...

Holding Our Mental Health Sacred This Tishrei

Every year on the 1st of Tishrei ( September 18th, this year), we went into an in an intense three week long time known as the Chagim. It starts...

God is in the punctuation

Loud, repetitive and transdimensional. One description for that which cannot be described. As good as any, I suppose. I mean you’ve got your...

Yom Kippur, Repentance, Atonement and Independence

In Dvarim 29:9 (Deuteronomy) it says, “You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God …” Verse 10 lists several different...