Israel offers to send IDF search and rescue team to Turkey after deadly quake

Israel offered to immediately send an IDF search and rescue team to Turkey on Friday, after a deadly earthquake toppled buildings in the city of...

Israel-Arab accords an earthquake for Palestinians, who pin their hopes on Biden

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has long been considered an anti-Israel institute, to put it mildly. It was established following an...

Israel's Illegitimate 'Demographic Balance'

No more disgraced President

Former President Lee should apologize to people The country's top court upheld Thursday a lower court ruling that convicted ex-President Lee...

It’s time to give foreign residents the right to vote in local elections

A weekend referendum on a proposal to reorganize Osaka’s administrative structure has highlighted a key question relevant to other local...

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Neprijetne dileme za javne finance

V Evropi smo priča že tretji gospodarski krizi v zadnjih desetih letih. Vsaka od njih je imela različne vzroke, a vse so povzročile gospodarski...

Living with the Enemy

Who would have thought that going out for coffee with a couple of friends could be so liberating and energising? Who would have imagined that being...

Religious voters pro and con on Donald Trump

Donald Trump is gaining popularity among American Muslims nationally, according to the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, an American...

Time flies, but ‘Bubbie and Zadie Come to My House’ remains a children’s classic

I wrote a children’s picture book for Jewish kids at Hanukkah time in the 1985 titled “Bubbie and Zadie Come to My House” (and it’s still in...

The Road Avraham Traveled

This week begins the saga of Avraham and Sara and the origin story of the Jewish people. It all begins with Avraham receiving and following a...

Facing challenges 25 years after Rabin’s assassination, and today, with COVID-19

This year, as an educator, I have a heightened sense of responsibility because we are living in times of crisis and difficulty. Our world fell...

The Weight of Gold – Abraham

When I helped guide a young Christian business associate through a spiritual crisis, little did we know that it would result in a life-altering...

Abraham and Lot—A Story of Decoherence

So Abram went, as the Eternal had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him… And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son… (Genesis...

Election 2020: The Battle Against Disinformation

Election season is in full swing, and what began as a cautionary tale in 2016 has now become our new reality. During the last presidential...

Yitzhak Rabin's Legacy of Endless Negotiations

The fact that he was assassinated doesn't prove the late prime minister sought true peace. Quite the contrary

Donald Trump Has Split the Jewish People, Perhaps Forever

Even if the U.S. president loses on November 3rd, Trump Jews are here to stay, and they're not just in America. We could be witnessing the defining...

Power outages reported across Israel

Power outages were reported across Israel during the early hours of Friday morning. The Israel Electric Corporation said the blackouts were caused...

Suga gives Southeast Asia credible options besides China

Japan support crucial for a region struggling to counterbalance Beijing

Muslims are strangely obsessed with cartoons, all while there are very real crimes over which they should be angry at France

I honestly don’t know what to make of France. Not the people –nor the country itself– but the foreign policy inclinations of its respective...

‘The good cop’: Joe Biden and Israel during the Obama years

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Talk to the folks who handled the Israel file and who were close to Joe Biden between 2009 and 2017, and his boss, Barack...

When Israel’s Arabs began to demand their own ‘normalization’ deal

For a brief spell last Wednesday, Israel’s Knesset sounded like the stands at a soccer stadium. “For shame!” opposition lawmakers shouted at...

Pandemic of loneliness, anxiety: Crisis hotline says suicide calls have doubled

An Israeli crisis hotline says it is receiving an unprecedented level of suicidal calls — and many of them are from people who did not have...

Strong earthquake topples buildings in Turkey, damages structures in Greece

A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has shaken Turkey and Greece. Turkey’s interior minister reports that six buildings in western Izmir...

Daring to hope in Nagorno-Karabakh

On October 18th, I found myself in Azerbaijan’s Ganja, a day after the fourth missile attack had struck civilian targets in the city. I witnessed...

Macron needs the help of Muslim world leaders or France’s tally of decapitated heads will continue to rise

As France struggles to comprehend the horror of yet another Islamist extremist beheading of an innocent civilian in broad daylight, President...

Author Tatsuhiro Oshiro showed Okinawa’s woes continue today

Every time a crime is committed by a U.S. soldier in Okinawa Prefecture, I am reminded of “The Cocktail Party,” a 1967 novel by Okinawan-born...

Mobilizing the world behind the nuclear weapons ban treaty

Setsuko Thurlow is an atomic bombing survivor who lives in Canada. She has been a highly visible public face of the hibakusha around the world,...

Terror attacks in France demand statesmanship, not demagoguery

World leaders behave in a settled pattern after a terrorist attack, so we know what to expect after the gruesome events in Nice on Thursday. French...

PM spars with Katz after finance minister tweets criticism from cabinet meeting

In a sign of increasing tensions within both the government and the ruling Likud party, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly suggested...

Environment ministry investigating, cleaning up oil spill off Ashkelon coast

The Environmental Protection Ministry said Friday that it was investigating an oil spill from the Trans-Israel pipeline some three kilometers from...

Ministers impose, extend virus lockdowns on northern Israeli Arab towns

Government ministers decided Friday to impose a week-long local lockdown on the northern Arab Israeli locality of Bu’eine Nujeidat and to extend...

Trump and Biden hold dueling rallies in key battleground state of Florida

TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Pressing against stiff headwinds from the pandemic, US President Donald Trump steered toward what he hoped was safer...

A guide to the 23 US Jewish Democratic incumbents running on Tuesday

JTA — Two Jewish Democrats are retiring from Congress this year, and one is being forced out after he lost his primary. But that leaves 23...

Lech Lecha: Lessons from Avram About the Election

Does the election matter anymore? I am sitting down to write a few hours after I cast my vote. I am sure that by the time Shabbat has begun, many...

10 reasons Jews should vote for Joe Biden

1.  Joe Biden is a mensch Joe Biden will make your bubbie kvell. He’s caring and engaging. Most of all, he loves helping others and treats everyone...

Polls apart: What the press is saying on October 30

1. States of play: There are a few days to go until US election day, but the Israeli media, perhaps glad to be covering someone else’s election...

Learning From Abraham to Fight For Others: Lekh Lekha

P arashat Lekh Lekha begins Abraham and Sarah’s saga. They are imperfect, but we have much to learn from them. Abraham in particular teaches us...

The Real Drama These Days: The Zionist Movement Almost Split

The Green Recovery Virtual Event – Highlights

Can America avoid an election crisis?

BRUSSELS – The 2020 U.S. presidential election is unlike any other in living memory. Previous contests have been rancorous and some were described...

Man stabbed to death in Jerusalem’s Talpiot industrial zone

A man aged around 40 was stabbed to death in Jerusalem’s Talpiot industrial zone on Thursday, police said in a statement. Paramedics were called...

Israeli study finds paying off debt, not spending, is main use of stimulus cash

An Israeli study that researched people’s financial responses to the direct one-time coronavirus stimulus payments distributed by the government...

Is France the New Satan?

For decades, many extremists among the Arab World and radical Islamists have designated their sworn enemies with a very striking vocabulary,...

Alyn riders keep wheels close to home as rehab hospital renovates for COVID-19

The Alyn Hospital Wheels of Love Ride usually takes place in November, bringing hundreds of riders from around the globe to bike Israeli routes...