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Justice minister, others barred from speaking at farewell for court head Hayut

Justice Minister Yariv Levin and other officials will not deliver speeches at a farewell ceremony for retiring Supreme Court President Esther...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Netanyahu claims ties with Ben Gvir copacetic, denies security meeting snub

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to downplay his exclusion of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir from a high-level meeting on...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Helen Mirren defends Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in ‘Maestro’

British actress Dame Helen Mirren has defended Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic, elongated nose in the “Maestro” biopic against accusations it is...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Talmudic tale with 12th-century Chinese twist expands Jewish world for young minds

TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) — Rabbi Akiva’s daughter was destined for death on her wedding day, at least according to the star-gazers. So the early...

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The Times of Israel

Jordyn Haime

Israel finishes 6th overall at European Baseball Championships

Israel’s National Baseball team finished in sixth place in the 2023 European Baseball Championship, a biannual tournament that Israel is set to...

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The Times of Israel

Gavriel Fiske

The Grouchy Neighbor Who Brought Me Closer to G-d

So my wife and I are walking to synagogue on this beautiful, crisp Sukkot day. Out of nowhere, I see my neighbor seemingly walking back from the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Andy Blumenthal

Israelophrenia: A New Mental Disorder

I am an American-Israeli, and I served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), United States Air Force, and the United States Army. I have extensive...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Barack Mandela

Why I Am Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles

The Feast of Tabernacles is how many Christians refer to Sukkot, the Biblical festival we are celebrating this week.  It is also a multi-day event...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Feldstein

Eating Pork Makes You Stupid

I never fail to be amazed by the pearls of wisdom that emanate from the mouth of Sephardi Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Josef. Last Shabbat he told his...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Boyden

Chol Hamoied Sukot — The In Between Days of Sukot

Sukot reminds us of when we wandered in the desert, protected by the clouds of G-d. We remember this by eating in a Sukah, a temporary dwelling...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yoseph Janowski

A Jewish Commitment to Humanity

My podcast has given me so much – and no, not in the financial sense. It’s given me a platform to have insightful conversations and hear fresh...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jeremy Abraham Rabbani

An open letter to Bibi

Dear Bibi–I hate to have to write this letter, but I must. I cannot see Israel self-destruct without at least making a direct plea to you to save...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Harvey Temkin

While Manhattan’s offices stay empty, Tokyo keeps building

Offices in many of the world’s major cities are struggling to find workers to occupy them. The trend of remote working, triggered by the pandemic,...

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The Japan Times

Gearoid Reidy

Video game competitions should be in the Olympics

The hottest sports ticket in Asia-Pacific right now isn’t for a soccer match, an NBA exhibition game or even a swim meet. It is for the medal...

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The Japan Times

Adam Minter

Yen Depreciating Anew: Negative Effects Not Limited to Higher Prices

Editorial 13:30 JST, October 2, 2023 The yen is depreciating against the dollar again. The government and the Bank of Japan must scrutinize the...

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The Japan News

The Japan News Editorial

V senci poplav

Ko pride v deželo katastrofa, kakršno je v Slovenijo prineslo deževje, potihnejo številne druge kolektivne bolečine, ker so v primerjavi s...

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Dnevnik

Dragan Petrovec

الكونغرس يتجنب الإغلاق الحكومي.. ولكن

رغم نجاح الحكومة الأمريكية في تجنب إغلاق بعض المؤسسات الفيدرالية عن العمل بسبب...

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العين الإخبارية

محمد خلفان الصوافي

Ben Gvir chief of staff hands his pistol to man in street, prompting complaints

Two complaints were filed with police against National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s chief of staff after a video emerged Sunday of the...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

IDF said to study security implications of possible Saudi normalization deal

The Israel Defense Forces have reportedly begun studying the range of ramifications for Israel on a military level should a normalization deal with...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Government said to slash budget for mental health organizations

The government has slashed budget assistance to a range of mental health organizations, ending an additional funding program implemented during the...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

‘Fauda’ star takes part in real-life police weapons raid

Life seemed to imitate art overnight Sunday when the star of an Israeli TV series about an undercover security unit participated in a real police...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Muslim sports body says France hijab ban goes ‘against Olympic spirit’

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A group of sports federations from Muslim-majority countries said on Monday that France’s move to bar its Olympic athletes...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Amid protests, Netanyahus arrive in middle of the night for Golan Heights vacation

In an apparent bid to avoid protesters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrived in the early hours of the morning Monday for a...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Daily Briefing Oct 2: Rabbis’ state salaries are real pork barrel, say opposition heads

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Court okays razing West Bank home of terrorist who plotted to kill Israeli brothers

The High Court of Justice on Monday rejected a petition to prevent the military from demolishing the home of one of the suspected terrorists...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Israel arrests former Mexican diplomat ahead of extradition to face rape charges

Police on Monday arrested former Mexican diplomat Andres Roemer in Tel Aviv ahead of his extradition to his home country to face rape charges....

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Alice Shalvi, trailblazing feminist and educator, dies at 97

Professor Alice Shalvi, an intrepid feminist, revered educator and winner of multiple honors, including the Israel Prize, died Monday morning. She...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Pop star Bruno Mars makes his way to Tel Aviv for two shows

When American pop star Bruno Mars makes it to Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park stage on October 4 and 7 for two sold-out shows, he’ll be welcomed by...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Fire erupts in a police headquarters in Egypt, injuring at least 38 people

CAIRO (AP) — A huge fire broke out early Monday in a police headquarters in northeastern Egypt, injuring at least 38 people, the health ministry...

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The Times of Israel

Samy Magdy

Top European diplomats meet in Kyiv to back Ukraine amid strains among allies

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Some of Europe’s top diplomats gathered Monday in Kyiv in a display of support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s...

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The Times of Israel

Susie Blann

Drew Weissman, Katalin Karikó win Nobel in medicine for enabling mRNA vaccines

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19....

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The Times of Israel

Susie Blann

The Joy of Succot

There is a particular emphasis on happiness, connected with the holiday of Succot. One of the names for this holiday, is זמן שמחתינו, the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

What Is the Most Important and Needed Action in Our Lives?

The most important and needed action in our lives is turning to the Creator—the upper force of love and bestowal—and asking Him for help: to help...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Laitman

In the Shadow of Lethal Justice

Mickael Zack’s relentless pursuit of justice and transparency is a testament to the unwavering human spirit, even in the face of the harshest of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Claudine Clark

To Solve the Israel/Palestine/Saudi impasse

Bibi cares only about not going to jail. That’s the root of all the recent maelstrom in Israel.  Here’s the solution: Biden and MBS say to Bibi,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Howard Kaplan

Sukkot: A Safe Dwelling Place, In Our Own Times

Nothing short of idyllic. The thick green grass that rolled casually over endless landscapes, the occasional cloud in the sky, the eager-eyed...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sarah Mali

What’s the Point of a 4.0?

Picture it. Boston, July 4th, 2018. A hot day when transplants to Boston want to go out, get drunk and watch the fireworks which symbolize the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Taylor Jade King

Correspondence and Personal Eulogy for Alice Shalvi

I just this minute, heard about the death of my friend and mentor, Professor Alice Shalvi. This Correspondence from 2007 speaks for itself. From:...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Naomi Graetz

A green oasis for the soul: What just one good-news post can do

I’m a news junky. I admit it. And much of the news I consume comes from social networks. Anyone who “lives online” knows that along with the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shuki Friedman

Jewish Studies faculty need to advocate against anti-Zionism on campus

While the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported antisemitism by student groups on campus, faculty members are equally involved in anti-Israel...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Bonnie K. Goodman

A Rabbi’s View From Tel Aviv

Note: this letter was written to our community in the aftermath of the events of Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv. It is shared here in the hope that it...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joe Wolfson

Did you think they wouldn’t go after the free press?

It is astonishing to see time after time how determined the current government is not to leave any earth unscorched. Liberal democracy, of course,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Roman Bronfman

Peace With Saudi Arabia Would Be Transformational. But Israel Is the Problem

In the Middle East, the unimaginable often becomes the commonplace. In exchange for normalizing relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia may now gain a...

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Haaretz

Chuck Freilich

Freedom Without Justice

LJUBLJANA – Lea Ypi’s Free: Coming of Age at the End of History  has met with a hostile reception in her home country of Albania, and it is easy...

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Project Syndicate

Slavoj Žižek

Churchill’s ‘barbaric nations’: War on China designed to marginalise Global South

Ten years ago, I visited China as a member of a group representing leading Asian newspapers. After the guided tour, I spent many hours walking...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

The Holy See shows how to deal with China

Spending some time in southern Europe last week gave me the opportunity to ponder the relationship between religion and politics. Until recently, I...

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The Japan Times

Kuni Miyake

The only resident on Écréhous

The remarkable story of one man’s self-imposed exile on an uninhabited island after being wrongly suspected of a crime - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Is “Peace Through Commerce” Dead?

BERLIN – Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, German politicians have been on an apology tour for their country’s past reliance on Russian...

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Project Syndicate

Harold James

The October victory that the Arabs lost

As soon as the month of October arrives every year, knives rain down on it from every direction to undermine the 1973 war; to turn the victory into...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Amira Abo El-Fetouh

Not Destined for War

CAMBRIDGE – The great-power competition between the United States and China is a defining feature of the first part of this century, but there is...

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Project Syndicate

Joseph S. Nye

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