Mossad head said to warn of face-saving Hezbollah strike on gas field as deal wavers

The head of the Mossad spy service reportedly told government officials that the Hezbollah terror group would likely attempt a limited attack on...

World closest to nuclear ‘Armageddon’ since Cuban missile crisis, Biden warns

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile...

In landmark ruling, top Spanish court says BDS movement ‘infringes on basic rights’

JTA — Over the past several years, dozens of Spanish courts have rejected Israel boycotts by nonprofits, municipalities and other groups. Now,...

China’s foreign policy should not include social media potshots from diplomats aimed at foreign governments

Recently, numerous Chinese diplomats have taken to social media to highlight the differences in foreign diplomacy between Beijing and Washington.

Medal of Olympian who defied Hitler by embracing Jesse Owens goes under the hammer

AP — One of the most consequential Olympic medals ever awarded is on the auction block — the silver medal captured in 1936 by Germany’s Luz...

“Jewish Life Is Thriving at UC Berkeley”?

I have been following the situation at UC Berkeley with keen interest where nine student groups within the School of Law have declared that...

Hrana in podnebne spremembe

To je po mojem skoraj moralno zavržno dejanje. S tem tudi povečujemo izpuste toplogrednih plinov. Kajti vsi litri traktorskega goriva, ki je bilo...

Requirement of dams on Kabul river for the better management of Afghanistan’s water: Opinion

By: Mirza Ahmad Ebrahimi: The author is a PhD research scholar in India. Afghanistan has abundant water resources. 80% of such resources come from...

Digital Virulence and Post-Truth in Light of Baudrillard’s Science-Fiction Theory of Pataphysics

This is an excerpt from Global Politics in a Post-Truth Era. You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations. Jean...

Jewish women sue Kentucky over abortion ban, say it violates their faith

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — Kentucky’s sweeping abortion ban was challenged Thursday by three Jewish women who brought a lawsuit arguing that...

Yom Kippur Yizkor: Remembering Grandma Cookie

This year I lost my grandmother, Henrietta Diestel, or “Grandma Cookie,” as we and many others used to call her. She was born in Shanghai to a...

Lod man killed in shooting; package explodes outside restaurant where Netanyahu ate

A 20-year-old resident of Lod was killed in a shooting late Thursday. Alah Alsach was found with critical injuries on a street in the central...

Persistent protests over woman’s death in custody become threat for Iran regime

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the country’s morality police have...

Lebanon sticks to guns on maritime deal amid reported US pressure to drop demands

Lebanon seemed to be sticking firm to its stance on the proposed maritime deal with Israel despite reported pressure from the Biden administration...

Putin’s five fa­tal mis­takes in Ukraine

Russia’s justifications for its invasion of Ukraine, like the United States’ excuses for its invasion of Iraq two decades earlier, prove that...

Swastikas scrawled on Jewish newspaper boxes in New York over Yom Kippur

Swastikas were found on newspaper boxes distributing Jewish publications in New York City on Wednesday night, as the solemn Jewish holiday of Yom...

Hong Kong Has Changed, But Britain’s Legal Community Doesn’t Seem to Realize It

There is a fictional version of Hong Kong that still exists in many of the minds of the most prominent members of the U.K. legal community. The...

Somber High Holidays in Ukraine reveal a local Jewish community changed by war

KYIV, Ukraine (JTA) — For some of the tens of thousands of Hasidic pilgrims on their way to the raucous Rosh Hashanah celebrations in Uman, the...

Escalating tensions on peninsula

Well-conceived tactics needed to tackle repeated provocations South Korea and the United States resumed joint drills with a U.S. aircraft carrier...

Owner seeking to unload Berlin soccer team roiled by Israeli spy firm allegations

BERLIN (AP) — Hertha Berlin investor Lars Windhorst wants his 374 million euros back. The relationship between the Bundesliga club and its...

Podcast: IPO’s Lahav Shani compares orchestra conducting to film direction

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Lahav Shani speaks with Jessica Steinberg for this week’s Times Will Tell episode, ahead of the...

Far-right firebrand Ben Gvir stumps from kibbutz streets after disinvitation

Far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir campaigned from the streets of a small kibbutz in northern Israel Thursday, after a planned appearance at a...

4th shots of Pfizer, Moderna vaccines provide near equal protection — Israeli study

Booster shots developed by Pfizer and Moderna provide near equal protection against COVID-19, according to Israeli research. The newly...

The Song of Past, Present, Future

The Hebrew word Haazinu means “listen.” It begins the last prophecy of Moses dictated by G-d on the shores of the Jordan River. Found in this...

When Nature Speaks, We Should Listen

Hurricane Ian left a trail of devastation that will take weeks to assess, years to repair, and who knows what new adversities will happen in the...

Would Anne Frank support Lithuanian independence?

This month, I got two interim measures of the UN Human Rights Committee prohibiting the destruction of the Monuments to WWII Soviet Soldiers in...

Sukkot: The Problem of Change

Jewish conventional wisdom views the holiday of Sukkot as a time to reflect on life’s transience. From the coziness of our home and daily life,...

Scholarly Arrogance (Haazinu)

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. —...

Sukkot: Navigating Insecurity

He will shelter me in His pavilion (b’suko) on an evil day, grant me the protection of His tent, raise me high upon a rock. (Psalm 27:5)   We say...

On Slowing Down

True confession of a literary nerd: until tenth grade, I hated poetry.  As an elementary schooler we read (and then wrote) things like haikus and...

Sukkah As Tabernacle

The Rema—the great Halakhic Codifier of Ashkenazi Jewry—rules that we should build the sukkah on the day after Yom Kippur (starting even right...

The Holiness Within Each of Us

Now that the High Holidays have come and gone, we all can catch our breaths and recover from the drama we put ourselves through every year. For...

EDITORIAL: Extending legal life of nuclear reactors places safety at risk

The industry ministry’s plan to allow extending the operational life span of nuclear reactors beyond 40 years raises concerns about ensuring the...

VOX POPULI: Shohei Ohtani focuses on future the moment he makes history

Yoshiharu Habu, a 9-dan shogi player, once had a nightmare about a match. Certain of his victory, he inadvertently made the illegal move of “nifu”...

China, Taiwan and where the KMT fits in

Just after the People’s Liberation Army sent ballistic missiles flying over Taiwan and effectively blockaded the island’s ports in a ferocious...

The Woman King: The truth about slav­ery mat­ters

When the musical film Black is King was released in 2020, African audiences and some critics said it defamed and distorted the continent’s culture...

The Saudi-Russian oil axis snubs the West with production cuts

The OPEC cartel has just delivered a massive snub to Western governments facing the worst energy crisis in half a century. Look past the buzzwords...

The US is pushing the situation towards a clash of major nuclear powers

With its actions in recent months, the United States is blatantly pushing the international situation towards a clash of major nuclear powers. This...

“Tole bo bolelo!”*

'Gospa Stana, lepo prosim, da mi pomagate. Padel sem s kolesom in se ves polupal!« Tako nas je okrog enih ponoči v mojih dijaških letih zbudil eden...

Gay Palestinian who was living in a shelter in Israel is beheaded in Arab Hebron

The murderer posted a clip of the brutal execution on social media ● Let’s hear it from US President Biden demanding a thorough investigation. ●...

Chips with Everything?

War in the Ukraine. That’s worth a headline or two, but it’s not our problem. The UK’s Telegraph brings us the serious news: “Shorter chips on...

The Haunted Hut

The thought of our sainted ancestors, Avraham, Yitzchak, Ya’akov, Yosef, Moshe, Aharon and David, mysteriously arriving in our Sukkah every year...

The Sukkot Commandment to Be Happy

Embed from Getty Images What exactly Thomas Jefferson’s intent was when he included in the Declaration of Independence the pursuit of happiness as...

Americans Overseas, Final 2022 Time to Vote!!

Are you fed up with the way the world has become unstable? Cost of living, shortages, education and medical care for your family in America.  What...

Sukkot, to be a free people in our land

“From Shimon bar Kosiba, Prince over Israel, Shalom ! ” These words written at the beginning of a papyrus document in the second century CE,...

Haftarah Ha’azinu: If we can curse like Faust, we can thank like King David

Gratitude is an art which we ought to cultivate. When asked what we are thankful for, our answers tend to be clumsy, cliché, and overgeneralized....

Why Deglobalization Makes US Inflation Worse

Delving deeper into Kishida’s post-Abe trust crisis

TOKYO – No one could have foreseen that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s popularity would nosedive so soon after the Liberal Democratic...

US mid-terms: En­light­ened Amer­i­cans are re­claim­ing their coun­try

It is not surprising that the media circus is attracted to clowns. This is true not only of the establishment press in the United States, but also...

China's expansionism creeps along as West distracted by Ukraine

India retreats further into own territory with Himalayan buffer-zone pullbacks