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Sightseeing Immersions in the Caribbean: Into the Wild Heart of OYA

Sightseeing Immersions in the Caribbean: Into the Wild Heart of OYA

Photo Credit: Noam Bedein | Travel Photojournalist & Wellness Tourism Specialist A field journal from the Dominican Republic’s north coast The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Noam Bedein

From the Temple Mount to the Alamo: Leadership Across 7,000 Miles

Last week, a new leadership cohort of 55 gathered at The Alamo in San Antonio to begin their journeys devoted to civic and community leadership.  The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Winslow Swart

Palestinians in Israel and the coming Knesset elections

Palestinians in Israel and the coming Knesset elections

The continued wars of Benjamin Netanyahu have clearly provided him with additional political breathing space and survival. They may also pave the way...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

Likud minister claims Hamas ‘hatched’ Oct. 7 attack during Bennett-Lapid government

Likud minister claims Hamas ‘hatched’ Oct. 7 attack during Bennett-Lapid government

Zohar says Sinwar planned onslaught when he saw ‘weakness’; Bennett accuses government of campaign to ‘evade responsibility,’ promises state...

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The Times of Israel

Ariela Karmel

The case for a permanent U.S. base in Israel

The case for a permanent U.S. base in Israel

Reports now circulating in the International circuit and picked up by Israeli press suggest that Washington is considering a long-term military...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Bepi Pezzulli

What COVID Taught Us About Managing Hantavirus Anxiety

What COVID Taught Us About Managing Hantavirus Anxiety

Lessons from COVID can inform the psychology of a new public health issue.

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Psychology Today

Phil Lane Msw

AG says High Court should strike down Gofman’s appointment as next Mossad director

AG says High Court should strike down Gofman’s appointment as next Mossad director

Baharav-Miara says appointments panel process was flawed since members did not review the dissenting opinion, were kept from seeing documents on use...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

Syria president shuffles government officials and ministers, boots brother from key post

Syria president shuffles government officials and ministers, boots brother from key post

Sharaa changes foreign, information and agriculture ministers; former Homs governor named secretary-general for Syrian presidency instead of...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Israeli envoy takes rare swipe at US Jewish groups for cosponsoring Spanish exhibit

Israeli envoy takes rare swipe at US Jewish groups for cosponsoring Spanish exhibit

Yechiel Leiter says partnering with embassy for show on Jewish life in Moorish Spain ‘risks lending legitimacy to government working to vilify...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

2026 ‘most violent year in recent memory’ for Canada’s Jews, B’nai Brith warns

2026 ‘most violent year in recent memory’ for Canada’s Jews, B’nai Brith warns

Country has already seen 11 violent attacks this year, surpassing the total for all of 2025: ‘A crisis of antisemitism that has spiraled out of...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Europe Was Born When Evil Was Defeated, Not Invited to the Table

Europe Day is the story of a continent whose wars turned destruction into order, enmity into partnership, and coal and steel into peace. That is why...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shay Gal

2 convicted for going to London Jewish area to film themselves verbally abusing locals

2 convicted for going to London Jewish area to film themselves verbally abusing locals

Adam Bedoui, 20, and Abdelkader Bousloub, 21, traveled to Stamford Hill to make TikTok clip; British MP gets death threats tied to Jewish wife, amid...

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The Times of Israel

Stuart Winer

A Concert Full of Fun

A Concert Full of Fun

Concerts of classical music are usually fairly serious affairs. One wears appropriate clothing, behaves in a suitable manner and listens to the music...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Power Struggle in the US: Iran War Exposes Fractures in the Trump Administrations

Power Struggle in the US: Iran War Exposes Fractures in the Trump Administrations The Iran war exposes deep political divisions within US leadership,...

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New Eastern Outlook

Taut Bataut

How We Make Use of Our Inner Worlds

How We Make Use of Our Inner Worlds

Learning the ropes of looking inside ourselves can change everything.

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Psychology Today

Grant Hilary Brenner Md

Bamidbar: How to Talk So Children Will Listen

The title of this week’s essay, “How to Talk So Children Will Listen,” borrows from the well-known parenting book by Adele Faber and Elaine...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lazer Gurkow

What it means to be a Jew in Britain today

The British Jewish community has become understandably edgy about the spate of antisemitic attacks in recent months. This edginess is now spilling...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Harold Behr

Portugal’s Antisemitic Surge: RASI 2025 Sounds the Alarm

Portugal’s Antisemitic Surge: RASI 2025 Sounds the Alarm

As Portugal’s annual internal security report – the Relatório Anual de Segurança Interna, or RASI 2025 – lands on desks in Lisbon, it paints a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sofia Afonso Ferreira

Eisenkot says Bennett-Lapid uniting without him is ‘not how you build partnerships’

Eisenkot says Bennett-Lapid uniting without him is ‘not how you build partnerships’

Yashar chairman tells party activists he wanted to join merger, condensing Zionist opposition into three separate slates representing left, right and...

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The Times of Israel

Sam Sokol

Israel’s Constitutional Question Never Really Went Away

Israel’s recurring political crises are often discussed as clashes of ideology, personality, or policy. But beneath those battles lies a deeper...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe Manheim

Abstinence or Moderation? What if You Didn’t Have to Choose?

Abstinence or Moderation? What if You Didn’t Have to Choose?

How temporary boundaries can create more freedom and clarity.

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Psychology Today

Jeanette Hu Amft

Wedding Season Guide: How to Celebrate Smart as a Guest

Wedding season is here, and with it comes a flurry of invitations to celebrate. One look at that beautiful card, though, and the costs start adding...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sharon Levin

Passengers on hantavirus-hit cruise ship begin to disembark on Spain’s Canary Islands

Passengers on hantavirus-hit cruise ship begin to disembark on Spain’s Canary Islands

Authorities aiming to send all passengers from 20 countries home by Monday; UK army medics parachute onto remote island where resident has suspected...

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The Times of Israel

Iain Sullivan

When One Is Missing

When One Is Missing

There is a well-known story about a group of shochtim and rabbis who regularly supervised kashrut at an abattoir. Each day, they entered together,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Cohen

What the Abraham Accords Mean for India

What the Abraham Accords Mean for India

When the Abraham Accords were signed in 2020, the global conversation predictably fixated on Israel and the Arab states directly involved. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ankit gawande

Is Japan’s recent diplomatic offensive ‘strategic’?

Is Japan’s recent diplomatic offensive ‘strategic’?

Every year around this time, I find myself asking a simple question: Why do overseas trips by the country’s prime minister, Cabinet ministers and...

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The Japan Times

Kuni Miyake

Israel warned by EBU over ad campaign calling to support Noam Bettan at Eurovision

Israel warned by EBU over ad campaign calling to support Noam Bettan at Eurovision

Eurovision director Martin Green says Kan broadcaster was asked to ‘immediately stop any distribution of the videos’ and it did so; Kan simply...

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The Times of Israel

Amy Spiro

From Dangerous Fantasies to Promising Reality

What both peoples need to understand is that the other side is not disappearing. Not through war, not through terrorism, not through occupation, not...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gershon Baskin

From Lab to Life: Eggs Got a Bad Rap

A close friend, former Vice-Dean of the Technion Medical School, explained to me once that the current wave of obesity and related health problems...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Maital

Applying Jewish Values Can Help Save Our Imperiled Planet

First, let us consider why the world needs saving. Recently, there have been rising temperatures, melting ice caps, intensifying wildfires,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Richard H. Schwartz

Don't 'Save' the Press by Controlling It: A Warning for Israel's New Media Mogul

Don't 'Save' the Press by Controlling It: A Warning for Israel's New Media Mogul

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Haaretz

Amit Schejter

Smer by musel prevychovať vlastných voličov

Otočka v premiérovej rétorike neodstráni záťaž slovensko-ukrajinských vzťahov

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SME.sk

Peter Weiss

Why Passion Needs Patience

Why Passion Needs Patience

How love survives beyond intensity.

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Psychology Today

Aaron Ben-Zeév Ph.d

The world has achieved increased clarity

Clarity is very important. When we see things clearly, then we can deal with them. We see what needs to be improved. On numerous levels, things are...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yoseph Janowski

Daily Briefing May 10: Political parties form new constellations ahead of elections

Daily Briefing May 10: Political parties form new constellations ahead of elections

Political correspondents Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel discuss the opposition parties’ mergers and defections, and a blitz of new legislation as the...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Is God in a Symbiotic Relationship with Us?

We, each of us, needs God. Without Him, we simply wouldn’t exist in any way whatever. Anyone who believes that God created mankind accepts that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joel Cohen

Teen indicted for negligent murder in Yemanu Zelka’s killing; 15 minors charged for assault

Teen indicted for negligent murder in Yemanu Zelka’s killing; 15 minors charged for assault

Family of pizzeria worker killed on Independence Day decry decision to not file murder charges against all involved, say prosecution ‘enabling the...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

Israel’s Economic Breakdown After Months of Fighting

Israel’s Economic Breakdown After Months of Fighting

Somewhere between the missile alerts and the diplomatic communiqués, Israel’s economic story has gone largely untold. Not the macroeconomic...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Farwa imtiaz

We Sounded Like the Setup to a Joke

Instead, we became the answer to one another’s prayers. Three widows, five divorcees, and a single woman walked into a bar. At least, that’s how...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Chava kadoche

IRGC navy threatens ‘heavy attack’ on US assets if its oil tankers come under fire

IRGC navy threatens ‘heavy attack’ on US assets if its oil tankers come under fire

Iranian Army says ships from countries complying with US sanctions will face difficulties in Hormuz; bulk carrier hit by projectile near Doha, no...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Israel said to have built secret base in Iraqi desert to support Iran air campaign

Israel said to have built secret base in Iraqi desert to support Iran air campaign

According to Wall Street Journal, Israeli troops launched airstrikes against Iraqi forces who nearly discovered the airbase in early March; at the...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Between ‘Iron Skies’ and the ‘Iron Dome’ Between Human Effort and Trust in Hashem

In the double Torah portion we read this past Shabbat, Behar–Bechukotai, the Torah lays out the foundations for Jewish life in Eretz Yisrael. At its...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Israel says two Gaza flotilla activists deported after weeklong detention

Israel says two Gaza flotilla activists deported after weeklong detention

After probe completed, Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek released without charge; Israel had accused them of being part of sanctioned group...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Katz said to sign certificate of confidentiality, paving way to indict firebrand MK Gotliv

Katz said to sign certificate of confidentiality, paving way to indict firebrand MK Gotliv

Defense minister had allegedly refused to sign off on document for nine months, holding up the case against her, until Shin Bet warned doing so any...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Israel’s Somaliland Gambit: Red Sea Power Shift

Israel’s Somaliland Gambit: Red Sea Power Shift

On December 26th, 2025, Israel became the first country to formally recognize Somaliland as an independent state. This was not a symbolic gesture or a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

IRGC navy threatens ‘heavy attack’ on US assets if oil tankers come under fire

IRGC navy threatens ‘heavy attack’ on US assets if oil tankers come under fire

Warning comes a day after US attacks against two Iranian tankers in the Gulf of Oman * Man arrested for allegedly hurling antisemitic abuse at Jewish...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff