100 times President Trump supported Israel

President Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel President Trump moved the American Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem...

Amy Coney Barrett confirmed as US Supreme Court justice in partisan vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the US Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, Republicans overpowering...

(POGLED) Ko zgodovinar ne verjame samemu sebi

Zadnje čase velikokrat poslušamo in razmišljamo o zaupanju znanosti in znanstvenikom. Dolgo sem to debato spremljal nekako od daleč, kot nekdo, ki...

Japan should sign U.N. nuclear ban treaty as soon as possible

Nuclear weapons must not exist in human society, no matter in what form. A groundbreaking treaty designed as an international code of conduct for...

Palestinians don’t need a ‘victim status’ they have a right to an anti-colonial struggle

The US-Israeli narrative on Palestine goes a step further than the designated humanitarian label which the international community imposed upon the...

Ombudsman calls to review Sephardi chief rabbi’s status as rabbinical judge

The Selection Committee for Rabbinical Judges must consider whether Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef should continue to serve as a judge at the...

8 arrested, another 8 questioned in Eilat municipal corruption investigation

Police on Tuesday said they arrested eight people and detained a further eight, including municipal employees, for questioning in the southern city...

Abraham and the Secret to Successful Aliyah

This weekend we read in the weekly Torah portion about the quintessential immigrants to Israel, Abraham and Sarah. Their Aliyah story has served as...

Two Years

Two years. Two years since waking up to the frantic calls and texts on that gray and gloomy Shabbat morning. Two years since trying to locate...

A new dream for Taksim

There is a democratic aspect to holding a public vote when it comes to urban development. In the end, the residents of course will not make the...

Big Brother, Special Coronavirus Edition

Shenzhen’s Game-Changing Reform

HONG KONG – Early this month, on the 40th anniversary of Shenzhen’s designation as a special economic zone (SEZ), Chinese President Xi Jinping...

Umm al-Fahm couple, unable to hold large wedding due to virus, gives it all away

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Umm al-Fahm residents Riham and Anas Aghbariya decided not to have the ostentatious wedding they’d hoped...

How the US can maintain influence over Asean, whether Trump or Biden wins

During his first term, US President Donald Trump triggered concerns among Asian countries that Washington would not shoulder the responsibility of...

»Prosim, da vse osebe navedete.«

Aktiv delavk in delavcev v kulturi je minuli teden pripravil še eno v vrsti protestnih akcij zoper ignoranco ministrstva za kulturo do...

US sees fresh virus spike in Midwest, at worst possible time for Trump

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (AP) — Gabe Loiacono is the kind of voter US President Donald Trump can ill afford to lose. He lives in a pivotal county of a...

French doctor warns his country has ‘lost control’ as virus surges in Europe

PARIS (AP) — A French doctor warned Monday that his country has “lost control of the epidemic,” a day after health authorities reported more...

UN watchdog says Iran building new underground nuclear facility

BERLIN, Germany (AP) — Inspectors from the UN’s atomic watchdog have confirmed Iran has started building an underground centrifuge assembly...

Modest growth rebound

COVID-19 still weighs on full recovery The economy recorded a modest rebound in the third quarter, temporarily ending a COVID-19 triggered slump....

Stopping midnight deliveries

Logistics firms should end exploitation of workers Hanjin Transportation has decided to do away with overnight parcel delivery services starting...

Suga’s reluctance to speak makes it hard to figure out who he truly is

Every new prime minister strives to make a splash with their first policy speech before the Diet, it seems. Many seek to underscore their political...

US antitrust case against Google a welcome start

Angst over President Donald Trump should not cloud judgment of a new federal antitrust case against Google. In announcing the case last week,...

The US Election’s Chaos Quotient

NEW YORK – Opinion polls in the United States have long pointed to the strong possibility of a Democratic Party sweep in the election on November...

The growing calls to replace the Palestinian leadership

The Palestinians are still being surprised from time to time by local, regional and international calls and statements calling for the...

In the flesh

By Dan Paul Rose Is online learning working as well as in-person, classroom instruction? The short answer is no. However, like any new rubric or...

Recovery and renewal at UN

By Madeleine Albright and Ibrahim Gambari Madeleine Albright Ibrahim Gambari NEW YORK ― The international community urgently needs new tools,...

France is curbing freedom in the name of freedom 

France under President Emmanuel Macron has been making more than a few international waves over the past few months. It has involved itself in the...

Europe is Balancing on Turkish Scales.

Due to the increased activity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Transcaucasia, and the Black Sea basin of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey,...

Will the US Mlitary-Industrial Complex Save the Middle East?

During the recent so-called “strategic dialogue” with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud, the US Foreign Minister said that...

America's "Quad Alliance" is a Dead End

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or “Quad” as it’s been referred to is a US-led bloc created in 2007 consisting of the US itself, Australia...

De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis

By the 16th century, European painters had become masterful at crafting illusions of perspective, giving viewers an impression of lifelike, three-...

The Holy Power of Renewal (Isaiah 40:27-41:16)

The return from Babylonian exile was enormously challenging. Coming back to a land from which your people had been exiled from two generations...

A woke left BDS campaign against Israel dooms all Jews

As you read this essay, please keep this one thought in mind: in today’s new woke left world of terror, there’s an insidious plan to destroy...

On the New York Times, The Grand Mufti and why it is Relevant

These are arguably the early days of the new Middle East, not the chimera of the Oslo Accords, but the days of actual peace, normalization,...

Annual Manofim contemporary art festival goes online

Yet another festival, the 12th Manofim Jerusalem Contemporary Art Festival, is going online, October 27-29, for three days and three nights of...

The hole inside (Daf Yomi Eruvin 79)

Embed from Getty Images “The house retains the status of a house.” I have been writing since the start of Tractate Eruvin about what it tells us...

How Google and YouTube inadvertently created and maintain QAnon

What follows is not my explanation. Rather, it is what I learned from the superb Dutch weekly satirical TV show “Zondag met Lubach” about QAnon....

My Wish for 30

With each day that passes I become more and more aware of my weaknesses and frailty. It is not, thank God, from any exposure to coronavirus or any...

After the Flood, how will you emerge from the Ark? (Eruvin 79)

God tells Noah to build an ark for a Great Flood that will last for forty days.  Forty days cooped up inside a wooden cage – not wonderful, but...

Making a Career out of Religion

“I’m planning on making a career out of religion.” Apparently, you shouldn’t say that to a rabbi. Even one with a good sense of humour. What...

Normalization, a thought

On October 23, 2020, Sudan and the State of Israel made the historic decision of normalizing relations with each other. This is historic for a...

Renewal

As we can all well attest, it has been an incredibly long year, especially, of course, since March when COVID-19 first made its presence known in...

Offering a Prayer for America

Over the past eight months, as the pace of events in the United States has accelerated with every passing day, it has seemed not only appropriate...

An Extraordinary Meeting in an Extraordinary Time

Horasis, the international think-tank I’ve been working for around a year, held the Horasis Extraordinary Meeting at the beginning of the month,...

How Israelis get American elections wrong

It has always been the case that the outcomes of US presidential elections have a major impact on Israel. That is the case because US foreign...

Let’s Have a Better Debate on North Korea

Despite the final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden being billed as a discussion about foreign policy, there was very little...

(BRANJE) Na Arktiki se končuje obdobje mraza

Ali nas čaka prihodnost s sodelovanjem ali vedno večjimi soočenji na Arktiki, bomo še videli. Toda že zdaj je jasno, da bo to območje deležno...

Bots from Gaza trying to delegitimize Israel, inflate hostility, ministry says

Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a report on Tuesday that it said revealed a network of 170 inauthentic social media profiles trying...

Join ToI Community as Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove calls for a new American Judaism

Please join us this Wednesday, October 28, for a special Behind the Headlines interview, exclusively for The Times of Israel Community. Two years...

Al-Sisi and the black box

The new mantra of Egypt’s ruling military regime when anyone attempts to express an opinion that differs from the official narrative is that...

Jedenáste prikázanie

Všetci prežívame mimoriadne časy, poľnohospodári a potravinári obzvlášť. Starajú sa o tisíce živých tvorov, zberajú úrodu bez ohľadu...

The Palestinians must try to win over disillusioned Israelis to their cause

Amira Hass is a courageous Israeli journalist who defends the Palestinian people relentlessly and without hesitation. She writes about the rights...

Scott Morrison's China policies are selling Australia short

Canberra ignoring the real conundrum at the heart of its relationship with Beijing

Kuwait Stands on the Cusp of Future Changes

The sad news from Kuwait, where Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah died at the age of 91, literally rocked the entire world. A special session of the...

French Initiative in Lebanon: But Who Wants it to Work?

The French like to make demands. They are now making the formation of a new government in Lebanon a requirement for the promise of financial...

Turkish leader sues Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker for calling him a ‘terrorist’

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders after the anti-Islam politician posted a series...

Tens of thousands march in Bangladesh as Muslim backlash against Macron widens

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday in the biggest anti-France rally since President Emmanuel Macron...

2 years on, MKs seek ways to remember Pittsburgh massacre, prevent another

To mark the second anniversary of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting, the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora...

Amy Coney Barrett formally sworn in at US Supreme Court by chief justice

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett was formally sworn in Tuesday as the US Supreme Court’s ninth justice, her oath administered by Chief Justice...

Getting schooled: What the press is saying on October 27

1. Missing the blame for the pandemic: A long-awaited state comptroller report Monday found serious failings with several aspects of the...

Datos e informalidad

Los datos son una nueva fuente de crecimiento en la transformación digital que vive el mundo; en tanto, la informalidad es una de las principales...

A Century Of Jewish Life In Shanghai

During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Chinese city of Shanghai was home to more Jews than any other metropolis in Asia. Congested,...

Bipartisan House bill will encourage US to sell bunker buster bombs to Israel

NEW YORK — Bipartisan legislation will be introduced in Congress this week requiring the US Department of Defense to consider selling Israel...

Go, For You!

Sunday was a day in Israel known as Yom HaAliyah. This day occurs twice in Israel. The first is on the 10th of the month of Nissan, the month of...

Shalom, Salaam Sudan

There’s a legitimate degree of euphoria in Israel this week over the announcement of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Sudan, the...

Jews and Muslims celebrate going from ‘darkness to light’

October 27 marks the 2nd anniversary of the tragic Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, the worst attack on a synagogue in the history of...

Lech Lecha: Borat and Abraham Moviefilm

The Kabbalists tell us that holiness is to be found even in the basest things, and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is undoubtedly base, but it also...

Parasha Lekh L’kha לך לך: Find yourself!

My Weekly D’var Torah 31 October 2020 : Parasha Lekh L’kha לך לך …. Find yourself! This is a transitional chapter moving our story from a...

Joe Biden: 2 years after the Tree of Life shooting, the world feels dark. We must be the light.

JTA — Two years ago, a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh with hate in his heart and bigotry in his soul. Beset by a false...

Biotech future of promise and peril looms larger and closer

Throughout October, I moderated a series of discussions on “game-changing technologies” that examined their significance and role in the...

After 4 years of chaos, many Euro leaders want rid of Trump… but President Biden could make life very difficult for some

If Joe Biden does overcome Donald Trump in the US election, then from Wednesday next week until the moment he’s handed the keys to the Oval Office...

Attorney general clashes with Likud minister for ‘spreading pernicious lies’

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit once again found himself clashing with a Likud minister Monday after the latter attacked him during a Knesset...

Russians react to Putin’s ‘no lockdown’ with fear and anger

Reportage. 'If it’s not possible to slow down economic life even a little bit, this means that the situation is serious and the government is...

It’s never a good time: Ending a dog’s life

“When would be a good time for you?” Such a simple question, and an obvious one. We were, after all, scheduling the appointment. That’s why I...

Xi Jinping's historical revision of Korean War

By Lee Seong-hyon Chinese leader Xi Jinping joined the pack of historians and scholars who, over the years, have attempted to present a different...

Nine scenarios for the 2020 U.S. elections

I always feel depressed in the last week of October before the U.S. presidential election every four years as people always ask me questions like...

COVID-19 tests are the real pandemic moneymakers

Vaccines and drugs get much of the attention in the scientific race to fight COVID-19. But companies have been working just as hard on ways to meet...

A Debt Crisis Is Not Imminent

NEW YORK – As countries, companies, and households confront the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic fallout, many market watchers are sounding the...

Nutrition Leadership During a Pandemic

ACCRA – An African proverb says, “When the music changes, so does the dance.” As governments around the world strive to protect their...

Man runs over friend who reportedly owed him NIS 300, seriously injuring him

A man in the north of Israel was accused of running over a friend who owed him NIS 300 (approximately $90), leaving the victim seriously injured....

Dancing with interpreters

By Casey Lartigue Jr. There's an old joke about an American businessman giving a speech in China that greatly amused students at the Seoul...

State-owned company, 5 executives may face trial over 2014 desert oil spill

State prosecutors announced on Tuesday that the state-owned Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC), along with five current and former senior...

The symptom of another epidemic

Commentary. A paradigm shift is being invoked—fortunately also at the European level—with the COVID emergency said to be a litmus test for a...

Tech Giants and Competition: A Political Economy Perspective

There has been a continuously rising attention devoted by American and European policymakers to the Big Five tech giants: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple,...

High Court swats ‘political’ challenges to legality of alternate PM post

The High Court of Justice on Tuesday heard petitions against the new post of alternate prime minister, created earlier this year as part of the...

US firm Course Hero buys Tel Aviv-based online math teacher Symbolab

California-based Course Hero, a firm that provides online learning courses, has acquired Tel Aviv-based Symbolab, a maker of education technology...

France ups security amid rising Muslim anger over Muhammad cartoons

PARIS (AP) — France is increasing security at religious sites as the interior minister said Tuesday that the country faces a “very high” risk...

Microsoft, Google top two best tech firms to work for in Israel: D&B

Microsoft and Google are the two best tech firms to work for in Israel, a new ranking by business analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet Israel shows....

Rallying behind Trump, NY’s Orthodox Jews bicker over pandemic restrictions

JTA — When Jacob Reich heard that Orthodox Jews would be staging a rally near his home to support US President Donald Trump this weekend, just 10...

Keeping our Corona Cool

Loneliness. Isolation. Fear. Anxiety. Death. This pandemic has turned the world upside down. It seems endless. People are miserable, delving deep...

Fiddling while Rome converts

Late in 386 CE, Libanius, a 72-year-old teacher of rhetoric from the Syrian metropolis of Antioch, penned an oration addressed to the Roman emperor...

China shocked to discover the developed world views it in a negative light

China, the only major economy with positive growth this year, is apparently shocked to discover that the developed world, instead of admiring its...

Muslim boycott threats and politics play out in attacks on ‘mentally ill’ Macron as he ups the rhetoric against Islamists

President Emmanuel Macron brought down the wrath of Islam upon his own impeccably groomed head this weekend but amid all the insults, slurs and...

And threatening to turn our lands into a toxic waste dump.

Native American tribes in the United States rejoiced when the US Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in McGirt vs Oklahoma in July. The...

2 Israeli startup entrepreneurs played roles in rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Last month, when Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez canceled her participation in an Americans for Peace Now event commemorating...

What does Israel have against Palestinian singer, Mohammed Assaf?

Why does Israel hate Palestinian singer, Mohammed Assaf? On October 16, Avi Dichter, Israeli Member of Parliament from the right-wing Likud Party,...

America’s Moral Tipping Point

ITHACA – Within the space of the next month, as the autumn leaves here in the northeastern United States are swept away by the winds of...

An Interview with Kenneth Rogoff

Africa’s contribution to the field of nuclear non-proliferation has long been ignored. It is time to recognise it.

On October 24, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the Ban Treaty) welcomed its 50th ratification, crossing the threshold to make the...

Israel’s next coronavirus czar named as former IDF medical chief Nachman Ash

A former chief medical officer of the Israel Defense Forces who also served as a director at a leading HMO will replace Ronni Gamzu as the...

Israel, Sudan discuss draft proposal for repatriating Sudanese refugees – report

As part of the normalization deal between them, Israel and Sudan are expected to discuss the fate of some 6,000 Sudanese asylum seekers currently...

Percentage of positive COVID tests the lowest since June; serious cases drop

The rate of coronavirus tests returning positive has fallen to 2.1 percent, the lowest level recorded since June 21, according to data released by...

Slavoj Zizek: Biden’s just Trump with a human face, and the two of them share the same enemy

In the run up to the US presidential elections, different forms of populist resistance are gradually forming a unified field: “Armed militia...

China's yuan nowhere near cracking US dollar hegemony

Domestic assets now draw attention, but foreign investors can be flighty

Arab Israelis, Palestinians protest Macron’s defense of Muhammad cartoons

Scattered groups of Arab Israelis and Palestinians demonstrated for a second consecutive day Tuesday against what they considered offensive remarks...

Poignant new anthology marks second anniversary of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

On the morning of October 27, 2018, an anti-Semitic white supremacist armed with a semi-automatic weapon entered the Tree of Life synagogue in the...

The Progress & Impact of Stem Cell Research Hadassah and Prop 14 in California

Twenty years ago, when stem cell therapy was highly regulated in the United States and other countries, it was well underway in Hadassah...

South African Jews celebrate first criminal conviction for online anti-Semitism

South African Jews this week celebrated what they said was an unprecedented criminal conviction, handed down for anti-Semitic Twitter posts calling...

Me Before ‘Figs’

Figs and Alligators begins with me at university about to meet Bonnie, who would become my wife. Sure, in a sense my life began then. It’s hard for...

Trump Packs the Court His Way

WASHINGTON, DC – Following the US elections on November 3 – although its final resolution may take longer – the partisan arrangements of almost...

Zionism threatens all Arab states, and normalisation is part of the plot

There are insistent voices pointing to the decline of the Palestinian cause amongst Arabs and Muslims and its loss of its centrality within the...

Trump says up to 10 Middle East countries lining up to normalize with Israel

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that there are up to 10 countries that he expects to soon normalize relations with Israel, but that the...

Kazakhstan adopts Borat’s ‘Very nice’ as tourism slogan

After initially pushing back against Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” films as offensive, Kazakhstan has adopted the eponymous character’s...

Israel Needs a Different State Comptroller

From Militancy to Stone Pelting: The Vicissitudes of the Kashmiri Freedom Movement

Since 1947, the Kashmir issue remains the most obstinate between nuclear rivals Pakistan and India. Pakistan controls around 30% of the disputed...

Israeli High Court's Ruling on Palestinian Hunger Striker Is No Surprise

Trump and Biden hit battleground Pennsylvania, 8 days before polls close

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — US President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden zeroed in on the critical battleground of Pennsylvania on Monday,...

While Coronavirus Cabinet Rules Israel, What Are the Other Ministers Doing?

Arab Israelis see new virus surge as weddings ‘return with a vengeance’

Over the past two months, the number of active coronavirus infections among Arab Israelis abruptly surged, dramatically declined, and then began...

What's Behind Israeli-Arab Peace Agreements, and What Do They Mean for the Palestinians?

Maryland judge refuses Muslim group’s bid to block state anti-BDS rule

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) — A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit in which a Muslim civil rights group sought to block the state of...

China struggles to fill Trump's 'America First' leadership void

As Donald Trump has pulled the United States inward under his "America First" presidency, China has had only halting success at capitalizing on a...

Gantz claims ‘positive voices’ in Lebanon talking about peace with Israel

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Tuesday signaled optimism about the prospect of an eventual peace deal between Israel and Lebanon, as the two...

How to Prevent the Next Israeli Museum From Having to Sell Off Its Collection

Why India supports the Abraham Accord

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) rarely comments on developments that do not directly concern India, and when it does, it tends to be...

Haaretz Cartoon

My ‘fake news’ odyssey: How I learned the media prefer narratives over facts and never tell the whole story

Today, outlets like CNN would have you believe ‘fake news’ began with President Donald Trump five years ago, and that he weaponized the term...

State-owned company, 5 executives face trial over massive oil spill in 2014

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s news as it unfolds. Soccer leagues from the United Arab Emirates and Israel have signed a...

Israel and Lebanon to meet twice this week for maritime talks — ministry

Israeli and Lebanese officials will meet on Wednesday for the second round of rare talks aimed at settling a maritime border dispute between the...

Israel takes crack at sniffing out COVID outbreaks in people’s poop

Citizens of 14 cities will be able to do their civic, er, duty to help identify early COVID-19 outbreaks by simply visiting the john, as Israel...

Key issues for Trump await Barrett on US Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett’s first votes on the Supreme Court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her. The court...

France’s love affair with decapitation

Fernand Meyssonnier was the last official French executioner in charge of beheading Algerians using a guillotine. He served in that capacity from...

Putin’s long game strategy on nuclear missiles in Europe may well pay off because Cold War treaties completely ignored China

In a bold new proposal, Russian President Vladimir Putin has expanded on his existing offer of a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range...

Erdogan and Khan are hypocritical about Macron's France

Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Pakistani PM Imran Khan have no right to talk about French secularism, as they have no regard for the...

‘Borat’ lawsuit from Holocaust survivor’s daughter thrown out

A judge in Georgia has dismissed a lawsuit by the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who appears in Borat sequel “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”...

JNF official: Don’t trash used masks, use them to grow plants

Wondering how you can recycle all those used surgical masks you’ve been wearing against coronavirus? Turns out they’re the perfect answer for...

Apparent pick of nationalist ex-minister to head Yad Vashem sparks outcry

AP — Israel plans to nominate a far-right former general and cabinet minister who once called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank...

After the Tree of Life tragedy, I went to Shabbat services and never stopped

On October 27, 2018, I felt a deep sense of wrongness – grief in the very depths of my spirit. Killing innocent, defenseless, seniors on the...

Report: Israeli arms manufacturers paid millions to Azeris through Russian bank

Last month, The Times of Israel reported that Israel’s largest aerospace manufacturer, Israel Aerospace Industries, transferred at least $155...

What I Learned Perusing Joe Biden’s Campaign Website

The other day, I came across a page on Joe Biden’s campaign website devoted to the Jewish community. To this Jewish American, it was canned...

Greek inscription links modern Israeli army base to 1,700-year-old Roman village

Salvage excavations of a 14th century Mamluk roadside inn near the IDF’s Nafah army base have unveiled the first Roman border stone found in the...

Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars: Live from the Museum of Jewish Heritage

7 p.m., Sunday night, October 25, it all went down live on stage and on screen. Live from Edmond J. Safra Hall, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage —...

The Election from a Jewish Perspective

Many of us, myself included love politics. As a rabbi I have always been blessed to serve a “mixed” congregation, full of Republicans,...

Is Man ready to vote against G-d?

G-d says that preservation of life takes precedence over all other considerations whatever they maybe. Preservation of life means not saying,...

Israel, US relations blossom as nations mark 35 years since free trade accord

Senior government officials and industry leaders from the US and Israel converged online on Monday to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the...

Hadassah Statement On World Zionist Congress’ Adoption Of New Agreement Of Principles

Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc. National President Rhoda Smolow released the following statement today following the...

Oscar Isaac in talks to play Jewish Marvel superhero

JTA — The forthcoming TV adaptation of a Marvel comic series about a rabbi’s son who leaves religion for a life of vigilante justice could star...

Jordan Peterson is back

Jordan Peterson is a phenomenon – a clinical psychologist with millions of followers to whom he is a hero.  Night after night, in packed sold...

A Palestinian dreams of Isaac and Ishmael

“Israel is the solution, not the problem.” To have expressed this as a young Palestinian twenty years ago, or even come to realize it, as I did,...

Joe Biden: Two Years After the Tree of Life Shooting, the World Feels Dark. We Must Be the Light

Video shows cop manhandling maskless teens, while failing to wear one himself

A policeman was caught on camera this week scrapping with teens in the northern city of Tiberias who were not wearing face masks — while failing...

Dozens of preschools closed due to virus in matter of days

Over 100 kindergartens have been shut down due to coronavirus outbreaks, including more than 50 which have been shuttered just since Sunday,...

Fights break out, 7 arrested, as ‘Jews for Trump’ convoy rolls through New York

NEW YORK — Skirmishes broke out between supporters and opponents of US President Donald Trump as a Jews For Trump convoy of hundreds of cars...

Why do so many Asian nations want to be in China's debt?

Beijing's debt-trap diplomacy likely to cost it dearly over the long term

At Brooklyn Trump rally, Orthodox anger at mayor and governor take center stage

NEW YORK — Over a thousand mostly Orthodox Jews gathered for a rally in support of Donald Trump in Brooklyn on Sunday, using the opportunity to...

Tax reform should take into account longer-term challenges

Discussions have begun in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on the Tax System on fiscal 2021 tax reforms, which will be...

Need to brace for 'tapering'

Asset bubbles could trigger systemic risks Korea, like most other industrialized countries, is struggling with excess liquidity amid the COVID-19...

Wrong history perception

Xi deserves criticism for distorting Korean War fact Chinese leader Xi Jinping deserves criticism for his remarks apparently glorifying China's...

Damage from Trump's trade wars won't heal quickly: analysts

After four years in office, Donald Trump has failed to achieve his promise to eliminate the U.S. trade deficit, and dealt a lasting blow to the...

Recovery and Renewal at the UN

NEW YORK – The international community urgently needs new tools, ideas, and initiatives to meet the common threats and challenges faced by the...

Multilateralism in US election

By Javier Solana MADRID ― When Donald Trump became the U.S. Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2016, many predicted that he would tone...

True or false?

By Robin Rhee The attempts which are made to establish the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, are akin to launching quests to capture a...

America deserves patriotic debatable debate

By Martin Schram Throughout this most disastrous year in U.S. presidential history, President Donald Trump dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic perils...

The Anniversary of Gaddafi’s Death and the Current Reality in Libya

“Security problems, political discord, oil blockades, corruption, and Libya’s foreign debt, which has reached 270% of its GDP, all torpedo...

Pien, queen of the bees

Pien is 10 and having treatment for cancer. After learning that crop pesticides and other human activities pose a mounting threat to bees and, by...

Der Vaser-Treger on Orphaned Street of Vilna

Memory Stones series  Never Again what?   There are two schools of thinking on the matter of the way of commemoration of our tragic Jewish past in...

New venture seeks to pave way for Israeli businesses in UAE

With Israeli companies’ interest in doing business in the United Arab Emirates increasing following the signing of a peace deal between the two...

A ladder to somewhere (Daf Yomi Eruvin 78)

Embed from Getty Images “Most of the area is the empty space of the pit.” I have been thinking a lot about public space since the start of...

Court-packing isn’t the issue

Republicans and Democrats over the last couple of years have been busy trying to bend the courts into their own direction. Republicans have been...

Kosher Movies: The Dancer Upstairs

Terrorism is very much a part of the world’s landscape at this point in history. Terrorist attacks occur not only in Israel, but in the United...

An Encounter with a Sudanese Military Official

Many years ago, when I conducted my PhD research on Rwandan foreign policy, I had the fortunate opportunity to visit the Rwandan Peace Academy....

No-Shows for Joe: Democrats Who Fear a Biden Victory

The growing evidence may be anecdotal, but it is unmistakable.  Based on extensive voter feedback, there are increasing numbers of life-long...

Is America Great Enough for You Yet?

For the vast number of American Jews, Donald Trump and his followers have become the repository of bullying, intimidation, racism, anti-semitism,...

In ‘Return of the Babel Fable,’ where’s Israel’s voice?

This post is dedicated to Emeritus Chief Rabbi Johnathan Sacks and his refuah shlemah from current illness . Johnathan, I hope you like it. “Have...

Break Free from Inertia (Eruvin 78)

Our patriarch Yaakov escapes the wrath of his brother, Esau, and heads off to Charan.  On the way, he puts his head down to rest for the night. ...

Never Let A Serious Crisis Go to Waste….Implications for Schools (Part II)

On August 24, 2020, I posted a BLOG on this platform entitled “Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste: Implications for Nonprofits (Part I). The...

Is Israel More Constitutionally Observant Than America?

So who has the superior system of constitutional law, the US or Israel. In Israel, there are fears that a nationalist religious government could...

Longing for Israel on #InternationalArtistsDay

  One of the things on my bucket list is to attend the Jerusalem Biennale.   According to their website http://jerusalembiennale.org, “The...

Animal Abuse – A Matter of Party Loyalty? Seriously?!

Recently, there was a vote in the Knesset to institute a law that would demand harsher punishment towards animal abusers. What is wrong with our...

Working together

A friend whose work I admire recently posted a photo on social media. It was of a policeman who had come into to see an art exhibit about the...

COVID-19: A Vigorous Program of Action is Needed from the G20

[John Bruton] The G20 should decide that all barriers to trade in goods that the World Customs Organization (WCO) has said are critical to fighting...

COVID-19: Why is Lockdown Necessary?

[Bahauddin Foizee] The best option available against COVID-19 is the full, strict and early lockdown, together with testing the suspects, and...

The need to touch

Touch is the first sense by which we encounter the world, and the final one to leave us as we approach death’s edge. ‘Touch comes before sight,...

(BRANJE) Smrt pred šolo

V petek, 16. septembra, popoldne je bil v bližini srednje šole v pariškem predmestju, v kateri je poučeval zgodovino in zemljepis, na grozljiv...

Matovičov veľmi drahý marketing

Keďže Matovič berie politiku ako marketing, jeho spokojnosť s testovaním je pochopiteľná. Zrazu sa o nás píše v zahraničí, sme aspoň...

China Leads Again

NEW HAVEN – Just as China led the world in economic recovery in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, it is playing a similar...

COVID-19 explodes the myth that women ‘opt’ out of the workforce

In August and September, more than a million people dropped out of the workforce. Eighty percent of them were women. Women have been losing jobs at...

Europe epicenter of virus crisis again

By Andrew Hammond Europe has been jolted yet again in recent days becoming ― for the second time ― the epicenter of the global pandemic. Yet...

Antitrust efforts in the US are not enough to counter the global power of Big Tech.

In July, the CEOs of Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon appeared before Congress in an “historic” antitrust hearing. The event was met with...

Truck kills 5-year-old riding his bicycle in suspected hit-and-run

Police opened an investigation into a suspected hit-and-run accident after a five-year-old boy riding a bicycle was killed by a truck on Monday in...

Denying kids meals will be BoJo’s legacy, but the solution for feeding the poor is community based – and that means proper funding

I’m sure Britain’s government had hoped that the ongoing debate about free meals for children, following a high-profile campaign by footballer...

On the Interview of the Taiwanese Foreign Minister to Indian TV

For a number of reasons, the video interview given by Joseph Wu, the Taiwanese minister of foreign affairs, on October 16 to a correspondent for...

Pompeo’s ‘Tokyo Kick’ Cannot Start the QUAD

Mike Pompeo lashed out at China in his latest visit to Tokyo where he met his counterparts from India, Australia and Japan as part of his efforts...

To Be Abraham – Save God; Save the World

With the new Abraham peace accords in the news nearly every day, our progenitor, Abraham, is back at the forefront. We were introduced to him at...

Jews Are Too Smart to Vote for Trump

Jews are, first and foremost, scholars.  We have (and have had) the largest libraries in the world.  20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jews. ...

Ministers back bill declaring Eilat, Red Sea area virus-free ‘tourist islands’

Ministers on Monday approved a bill that will enable defining the resort city of Eilat and the Dead Sea hotels complex as special virus-free areas,...

Israeli Democrats, Republicans spar over election impact on normalization deals

Israeli representatives of the two major US parties on Monday sparred over the question of whether the current trend of Arab states normalizing...

Class warfare: What the press is saying on October 26

1. The class ceiling: After days of internal squabbling, ministers voted to do pretty much the only thing they could do, open elementary schools...

Western Wall cable car planners meet with developers despite High Court case

Planners tasked with building a controversial cable car that will link West Jerusalem and the Old City have held a meeting for interested...

Borat II Falls Short

I missed Sacha Baron Cohen’s first Borat film, so I have no way of comparing it to the sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, which was released...

Digitalización: un beneficio para las empresas y el planeta

Sin duda la situación actual ha cambiado las reglas de juego para la mayoría de las industrias este año. Nos ha obligado a repensar la forma de...

Likud MK to face second indictment over tax offenses — TV

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has decided to file a second indictment against Likud MK Haim Katz for suspected tax offenses, Israeli...

Moon may have more water than previously thought — researchers

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — The moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities...

Are charismatic leaders dangerous?

Does one candidate trump the other? The United States presidential elections are to be held in the next few weeks… Much has been said about the...

Some people blame Titus for the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh

These are the words of Harav Avraham Schorr, son of Reb Gedlya Schorr former Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas https://www.hamodia.co.uk/files/...

Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

Embed from Getty Images Pope Pius XII was head of the Roman Catholic world during the Second World War. His leadership during the Holocaust has been...

Israel and the Diaspora Jews – Very Distant Brethren

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Omer Yankelevich, is promoting a proposal that will obligate the Israeli government to consult...

Response to Ben Shapiro: US Election 2020

On October 19th, 2020, Ben Shapiro posted a video titled “I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016. I am in 2020 — here’s why.” — Click here for...

How Did a Public Health Crisis Become So Political?

During the past few months, the world has gone through an unprecedented crisis. With millions of cases all over the world in hundreds of thousands...

Why We Get Crazy in Political Arguments

It’s a week before the US election and on every media platform and get together there is a lot of frothing at the mouth. My Twitter feed included...

Donald Trump and Orthodox Jews Share No Values at All

Will Biden Help Israel Take on Turkey?

Israel has a lot at stake in the eastern Mediterranean, not least Turkey’s challenge to the regional order. Would Biden deal with Ankara’s...

Aliyah Journal Part II – Return

I’ve been thinking alot about “return” lately. Aliyah is enabled by the Law of Return ( חוק השבות). Enacted by the Knesset in 1950. The...

America’s Tarnished Supreme Court

LONDON – Born in 1944, I grew up in a world largely made – and made pretty well – by America. The post-war settlement established institutions,...

Book burning in Jerusalem: City to set up cameras after arson at Reading Station

The Jerusalem municipality on Sunday vowed to quickly rebuild a popular outdoor lending library and set up security cameras after vandals set the...

A True Born Englishman

I was lucky. My grandparents met in England after their families had fled the violent anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia, or perhaps it was Poland;...

Israel begins mass-producing coronavirus vaccines ahead of human trials

Israel has begun mass-producing a potential coronavirus vaccine ahead of its human trials and plans to distribute it to both Israelis and...

Government extends multi-billion dollar plan for Arab municipalities

The cabinet voted on Sunday to extend by a year a multi-billion dollar program aimed at closing extensive gaps between Jewish and Arab communities...

Demons have a rich history in popular culture and manga

One story in “Uji Shui Monogatari,” an anonymous collection of tales compiled during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), is believed to be the...

Moon's troubled green energy policy

By John Burton While President Moon Jae-in has been praised for his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, his efforts to address another global issue...

Biden’s Economic Edge

CAMBRIDGE – In a few days, Americans will choose a president. Opinion polling suggests that voters favor former Vice President Joe Biden when it...

Coronavirus ward closed after Legionnaires’ bacteria found in water

The Hasharon Hospital in Petah Tikva, outside Tel Aviv, was forced to close its coronavirus ward and move its patients to another location after...

Are we experiencing a pandemic spiritual mutation? An approach from Kabbalah

Embed from Getty Images One of the most fruitful franchises that has flourished during the pandemic, apart from food-delivery by bicycle, is video-...

El color del dinero

En 2010 la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos emitió un fallo crucial en torno al financiamiento de campañas electorales. De un lado, decidió...

Erdoğan vs. Macron: Round two

Here we go again. Few spats and a couple of phone calls later, we are back at square one on the Erdoğan-Macron front. Or even worse perhaps this...

Attackers pepper-spray soldier, try to steal his gun — police

Two men pepper-sprayed a soldier and attempted to steal his gun at a bus stop near the West Bank, police said Monday morning. The suspects were...

Democrats ask Pence to skip Barrett vote over COVID-19 risk

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply torn US Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, but Democratic leaders are asking Vice...

Hispanic voters in Florida targeted with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Just over a week before the US presidential election, conspiracy theories, racist and anti-Semitic posts and...

I married a non-Jew – but our lives are as Jewish as can be

My extended family is the most colourful and vibrant family you could find anywhere. We span the entire Jewish and non-Jewish spectrum just within...

The hypocrisy of the Taliban’s mantra of inclusion has been exposed during the intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha.

The Afghan peace process entered a pivotal phase with the start of the long-awaited intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha on September 12. Shortly...

Trump’s pandering to QAnon should be a deal-breaker

American Jews are participating in a critical presidential election next week. In most presidential elections, 25-30% of Jews vote for the...

‘Thank you Rabbis,’ Trump tweets after support letter from 13 Orthodox leaders

JTA — “BREAKING,” tweeted Mishpacha, a magazine for Orthodox Jews, Saturday night about a letter signed by 13 leading Orthodox rabbis...

Trump mocks Biden for calling him ‘George’

US President Donald Trump on Monday mocked Democratic nominee Joe Biden for appearing to confuse him with former Republican president George Bush....

The politicisation of civilisations and ideologies: Macron, Charlie Hebdo and blasphemy in France 

The reproduction of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) recently was no surprise. What was frustrating though was...

Virus cabinet deliberates further easing lockdown measures

The high-level coronavirus cabinet convened Monday to discuss further easing lockdown measures in place to curb the spread of COVID-19, a day after...

Over 58 million ballots cast in early US vote, surpassing 2016

AP — With nine days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee...

State comptroller cites ‘significant shortcomings’ in Israel’s pandemic response

After eight months in pandemic mode, Israel is underprepared for winter, is quarantining the wrong people, and has frustrated businesspeople who...

Cabinet appoints high-level committee to rule on future of Haifa Bay area

The cabinet on Sunday appointed a committee of top officials to examine the future of Haifa Bay, long home to some of the country’s worst...

UAE-based Israeli businessman Koen said bidding $50 million for Israir Airlines

A Dubai-based company is offering to buy Israir Airlines, one of Israel’s largest carriers and tourism companies, for some NIS 170 million ($50...

Plan for 1st-2nd graders to attend school part-time lashed as ‘ludicrous’

City officials on Monday lambasted the government’s decision to allow first and second grades to only reopen part-time starting next week, calling...

The integration of the Arabs in Brazil is at the expense of their language and culture

In Brazil today you can see Arabic dishes alongside local fare on the menu; you might hear occasional Arabic names and words; and someone may even...

The Azedarach Tree

Chill autumn gusts whipped the gaunt branches of the azedarach tree across the road and the wind above propelled ragged clouds across the sky. A...

In Tel Aviv, Sudanese migrants say Israel making peace with a rotten regime

On October 23, US President Donald Trump called the White House press corps into the Oval Office to announce a “historic” and “very special”...

Normalisation with Israel will trigger an arms race in the Middle East

Giving up its decades-old position against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Sudan has agreed to normalise relations with the Zionist state....

Netanyahu’s secretary diagnosed with coronavirus

A secretary in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau was found to be infected with the coronavirus, the Prime Minister’s Office said...

Wary of angering public, Iran has few ways to contain virus

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As coronavirus infections reached new heights in Iran this month, overwhelming its hospitals and driving up...

Naming new cardinals, Pope Francis appoints first Black US prelate

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first...

How Jewish groups are protecting voting access in 2020

JTA — If you’re in Arizona or Florida and a 585 area code pops up on your phone, you might want to answer: It could be a Jewish volunteer in...

Pittsburgh congregations mark 2 years since shooting under shadow of COVID-19

PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle) — Two years after 11 loved ones were ripped from their families, multiple bodies and minds were injured and...

Another Israeli-Arab Peace Deal? No Wonder the Applause Is Less Exuberant

Last Call for Transatlanticism

BERLIN – Many Americans have already voted, and many more will soon go to the polls in what will be the world’s most important political event of...

Netanyahu said to ban ministers from visiting UAE until he makes trip first

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly banned his government ministers from visiting the United Arab Emirates until he personally makes...

In neverending budget saga, is Likud about to cannibalize one of its own?

Finance Minister Israel Katz may grow to regret his term as the head of Israel’s treasury. It was supposed to be the high point of his career thus...

Four startups join Visa’s innovation center in Tel Aviv

Four new startups will join Visa’s innovation center in Tel Aviv in a bid to get the startup and development community working in tandem with the...

Did a Lebanese reporter go to jail for talking to me?

The setting was the 1991 Middle East peace conference in Madrid. It was before the Oslo process between Israel and the PLO – the Palestine...

Israel mulls action as virus cases suspected of being imported from West Bank

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls on Turks to boycott French goods...

Why are UK and EU still arguing over Brexit?

It’s more than four years since Britain voted to leave the European Union, and almost a year since Prime Minister Boris Johnson won an election...

If nothing else, Trump has toppled the iron wall

Britain’s Jewish community, in line with its American counterparts, is encouraged by Israel’s series of peace deals with Arab states. In the...

Trump’s Last Stand for Apartheid America

NEW YORK – The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents:...

The Arab League and regional leaders will forget Arafat's warning at their peril

I miss Yasser Arafat. Like many revolutionary leaders he was flawed but he had guts, determination and a courage that reflected the Palestinians he...

‘What Killed Michael Brown?’ is the new must-see documentary that eviscerates the mainstream narrative on race in America

‘What Killed Michael Brown?’ is the most important documentary of the year. The film, which is exquisitely directed by Eli Steele and...

Cabinet decides grades 1-4 to go back to school Sunday, salons to reopen

As Israel’s daily case rate continued to drop a week after a second national lockdown was eased, ministers in the so-called coronavirus cabinet...

The UAE has bought Sudan’s normalisation with Israel

The UAE has been accused of complicity in Sudan’s internal political turmoil for quite some time. Some believe that even the political machinations...

Jerusalem Islamic museum scraps Sotheby’s sale of its exhibits following outrage

Following outrage from both Israeli and international archaeological and cultural authorities, Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art asked on Monday...

As Israel moves to reopen some schools, infections fall along with testing rate

The Health Ministry on Monday said it had logged fewer than 1,000 new coronavirus cases over the past two days, continuing a downward trend, as top...

Sudan confirms it agreed to talk to Israel for terror delisting, economic aid

Sudan on Sunday confirmed that it had agreed to normalize ties with Israel in exchange for being removed from the US terror blacklist,...

Japan’s full of wind, but China could blow away the competition

HERE COMES THE FILTHI think most people would agree with the observation that the air quality in Hong Kong this year seems to have improved....

I lost multiple friends to opioids, and the deaths won’t stop while the system creates crises to sell ‘solutions’

American communities are being ravaged by so-called “deaths of despair” as the life expectancy of Americans is beginning to drop. Young people...

Western Histories of ‘Russia’ and Ukraine

This is an advance preview from Crisis in Russian Studies? Nationalism (Imperialism), Racism and War by Taras Kuzio (forthcoming soon from E-...

Russia strikes kill at least 78 Turkey-backed rebels in Syria, monitor says

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Airstrikes by Damascus regime ally Russia killed 78 Turkey-backed rebels in northwestern Syria on Monday, a monitor said, in...

A historic decision in Chile

On Sunday, an overwhelming majority of Chileans voted to scrap the country's Pinochet-era constitution. However, this is only the first step in a...

When Christian is Jewish: Living a Jewish life with a non-Jewish name

JTA — Christian Goldenbaum is used to people doing a double-take after he introduces himself. Almost every single day while living abroad in New...

How A Man I Never Met Changed My Life

I seem to find new inspiration every time that I volunteer at the Pina Chama, the Soldiers’ Corner in Gush Etzion. Today, while I was working, I...

Week into lockdown exit, plunging infection rates tempered by mounting worries

Israel has shaken its reputation as a coronavirus black sheep. It has been a week since the country took the first steps out of national lockdown,...

Ultra-Orthodox non-compliance rests on fear

The ultra-Orthodox “revolt” of the last lockdown, which continues until today, is most clearly expressed in the opening of their elementary...

Golan Druze town of Majdal Shams to be cordoned off as infections mount

Ministers voted late Sunday to impose a five-day closure in the northern Druze town of Majdal Shams, which has seen virus cases jump in recent...

Opposition chief to file bill next week to dissolve Knesset, call new elections

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Monday said he would submit a bill next week to dissolve the Knesset and hold new general elections, amid coalition...

Hadassah in negotiations to open hospital in Dubai

Hadassah Medical Center is holding talks to open a hospital in Dubai, the Israeli hospital’s head said Monday, following the agreement between...

Ashkenazi tells Russian FM Iranian entrenchment in Syria must be prevented

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi met his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, for the first time on Monday, thanking him for working with the Jewish...

Daughter of Lebanese president says open to peace with Israel, under conditions

The daughter of Lebanese President Michel Aoun continued to draw outrage in Lebanon this week for her repeated calls for peace with Israel, though...

Donald Trump's enduring foreign policy legacy in Asia

Biden victory would not alter new political realities

Koniec prokurátorskej hanby?

Kováčikovi bola prvou námestníčkou generálneho prokurátora dočasne pozastavená funkcia. V piatok dokonca dvadsať z dvadsiatich deviatich...

Recent Speeches by Putin, Lavrov and Xi Signal Fundamental Changes in the Pipeline

Three recent speeches and interviews given by major politicians have sharpened the political debate now raging in the Western media. Ironically,...

Mideast Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures

Demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron held across region from Israeli Arab town of Hura and the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and war-town Yemen

UN envoy chides Security Council for ‘ignoring’ Israel normalization deals

NEW YORK — Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan on Monday accused Security Council members of “ignoring” recent decisions by...

Leading Modern Orthodox rabbi in Israel hits out at ‘mentally disturbed’ Trump

JTA — While a majority of Orthodox Jews are expected to vote for Donald Trump in next week’s US presidential election, a well-respected Israeli...

Turkey’s Erdogan invokes Holocaust to condemn French crackdown on radical Islam

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invoked the Holocaust in condemning France’s crackdown on radical Islam, calling it part of Europe’s...

Palestinian indicted for planning terror attack in Rosh Ha’ayin

A Palestinian man was indicted Monday for illegally carrying a loading gun and planning to carry out a shooting attack with it in the central...

US hits Iran’s oil sector with further sanctions

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday slapped fresh sanctions on Iran’s oil sector, including over sales to Syria...

G-d’s Master Plan – XLV – The Additional Unique Code Contained Within נחמו

בסייד Firstly, I want to refer you to the Blog I wrote on August 16 mentioning the word Nachamu. I pointed out unique facts within the Hebrew...

Remembering The Tree of Life Massacre

Two years ago today, I turned on my phone after a lovely autumnal Shabbat in Boston and saw a message from my mother in Israel. “We heard the news....

Remembering The Tree Of Life

Dear Readers, On the morning of Saturday, October 27, 2018, an armed assassin named Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh,...

Noam Gershony: From Lebanon to London

The Israeli star of the XXX Para-Olympic London games was Noam Gershony. Noam features in the fantastic new book, “Isresilience: What Israelis...

Whose Side Are You On? Fauci or Trump?

I’m at home in New Jersey, in West Orange, a suburb of Newark. We live in a large condominium complex and there’s always some kind of work being...

Hamas convicts, releases activists who held Zoom conference with Israelis

A Hamas military court convicted three Gazans on Monday who had been charged with “weakening revolutionary spirit” for their public Zoom call...

The Negligence of the Trump Administration

What is negligence? According to Webster’s it is “failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in life’s...

Why No Jew Should Vote For President Donald Trump: Take Two

Exactly four years ago, I reluctantly wrote take one of this article. As a historian who maintains a website that includes a section chronicling...

An Anonymous Act of Kindness in a Most Unusual Way

When I began blogging for Psychology Today using the title “Under Extreme Circumstances” my intent was to entertain and educate readers using...

Macron's real crisis has more to do with French values than Islam

Emmanuel Macron’s fierce campaign against Islam and Muslims has not come out of nowhere. It is the product of racism rooted deep within the...

Sudan’s leader: Israel deal ‘incentive’ to end pariah status

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s leader said Monday that the decision to normalize ties with Israel was an incentive for US President Donald...

Can Covid Reduce Global Inequality?

Ahilova peta ustavnega loka

Povsem razumem in podpiram mnoga prizadevanja za spremembo sedanjih razmer, v katerih mediji (po oceni trenutne oblasti seveda pristranski in...

The peace with Sudan and its discontents

The folk of the Far Left must have become  frum.  The vociferous militants and supporters of Yachad, who tweet almost every day, have become...

Sealing a Room at a Palestinian Family's Home With Concrete? For Israel, It's 'Urgent Security Needs'

Haaretz Cartoon

Give AOC credit

I, for one, am happy that AOC refused to speak at the Peace Now memorial for Yitzhak Rabin. There are many lessons to be learned from this refusal/...

Biden accuses Trump of giving up in coronavirus fight

WASHINGTON (AFP ) — US presidential challenger Joe Biden on Sunday accused Donald Trump of giving up in the fight against COVID-19, as the...

Aliyah for all? Part I: The great food aliyah

Everyone knows that making aliyah is a very personal decision. Even if someone feels a strong connection with Israel, moving one’s life to a...

Don’t Deport the Sudanese

1 in 5 students in yeshiva ‘capsule’ program contracted COVID-19

One in five yeshiva students taking part in a government-approved “capsule” program during August and September contracted COVID-19, despite...

Rivlin: State must help stop sale of Jerusalem’s Islamic art museum collection

President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday called for Israel to help prevent the sale of part of Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art’s storied collection,...