With habit of ripping up records, Trump could leave a hole in US history

WASHINGTON (AP) — The public won’t see US President Donald Trump’s White House records for years, but there’s growing concern the collection...

Benjamin Rothschild, prominent French member of the banking family, dies at 57

JTA — Benjamin de Rothschild, a French-Jewish banker who has donated generously to Israel, including $22 million for the country’s effort to...

Tech giants crack down on far-right content, but leave major loophole: Podcasts

AP — Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the leadup to the presidential...

Not ‘Apartheid in the West Bank.’ Apartheid

On 1st day in office, Biden to cancel Muslim travel ban, rejoin climate accord

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions...

Israel's Blatantly Illegal Public Security Minister

New Hope’s Sa’ar: If I win, Likud can join me but Netanyahu won’t be a minister

New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar said Saturday that his former party, Likud, could be “a partner” in the government he hopes to form after the...

Why a new Asia policy is needed under Biden

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is likely to attach more importance to Asia as well as its allies when he is sworn in on Jan. 20, raising...

Trump’s whiplash diplomacy on Taiwan

Beginning in Jan. 2017, the Trump Administration made great strides in America’s relationship with Taiwan during its time in office, bringing the...

A China strategy to reunite America’s allies

WASHINGTON/LONDON – America’s relationships with its core democratic partners are set to rebound dramatically after President-elect Joe Biden...

What poet Michael S. Harper heard in John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’

“Trane was searching for a particular tone on his horn; he had what he thought was a perfect embouchure, but his teeth hurt constantly, so he...

Am I too worried for my son?

I’m dead-tired of the restrictions by now, they come and go – with new ones having to be learned every other day. While I do understand the...

Jews in Morocco ‘already packing their suitcases’ for direct Israel flights

CASABLANCA (AFP) — Fanny Mergui has no doubt: Moroccan Jews “are already packing their suitcases” to board direct flights to Israel after the...

Israel nears grim milestone of 4,000 coronavirus deaths

Israel on Sunday neared the grim milestone of 4,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic. The Jewish state recorded its first...

These US Orthodox women bloggers prefer not to be seen, but are very much heard

NEW YORK — Soon after its release, the new cookbook “Dinner Done: Practical Recipes For Your Busy Day” zipped to Amazon’s number one new...

Heavily armed man arrested in DC while trying to access inauguration area

WASHINGTON — A heavily armed man has been arrested in Washington at a security checkpoint near the US Capitol, where he tried to use a phony...

Čas za zamenjavo vlade. Danes rabimo neenotnost

Ena od stalnic slovenske politike je zahteva po združevanju in povezovanju nepovezanih in nasprotujočih si socialnih enot. Ta zahteva se stalno...

Health official: ‘No choice but to extend the lockdown for another week’

Coronavirus czar Nachman Ash said on Sunday that he believed Israel would have no choice but to extend its third national lockdown, which is...

Thank you, LTI

By Mark Peterson I have two reasons to offer gratitude to the LTI ― the Korean Literature Translation Institute. The first reason for appreciation...

New US Agenda for Central America

By Daniel F. Runde WASHINGTON, DC ― Most undocumented migrants crossing the United States' southern border come from three small countries: El...

K-Critical Realism

By David Tizzard K-culture is differentiated from Korean culture in a variety of ways. The former is primarily constructed for export, and its...

Retrospection good for soul

By Steven L. Shields Last year was unkind on all fronts: health, the economy, politics and climate change. Friends and families have suffered from...

Redevelopment housing project

New method should help cool overheated market The government has selected eight areas in Seoul for a pilot redevelopment project by public builders...

Israeli lenders Hapoalim and Leumi sign accords with National Bank of Bahrain

Israel’s two largest banks, Bank Hapoalim Ltd. and Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd., said on Sunday they have signed memorandum of understanding...

Hackers attack Atlanta synagogue stream of senator-elect Warnock’s sermon

JTA — Hackers shut down an Atlanta synagogue’s live stream of Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock delivering a sermon to honor Martin Luther King Jr.,...

Pinched by pandemic, artists paint new paths onto Instagram walls

If there’s one thing artists have learned, it’s that Instagram offers the perfect blank canvas. Particularly during a pandemic. Israeli artist...

Information War Dethrones US President

In the end, it was not the Russian government as anti-Russia propagandists in the West claimed but instead homegrown digital tools that brought...

The Dreyfus Case — a study in scapegoating

One particular image of Captain Alfred Dreyfus has stayed with me since childhood. Dreyfus is standing stiffly to attention while the officer...

Fake news jolted Kurdistan Region officials, and Kurdish Jewish leadership

This report is part of a series. For several years, the Kurdish Jewish leadership in Israel has tried to build constructively on their historic...

The Key Is Unity

The old saying, “united we stand, divided we fall,” conveys a pithy truth; if we knock others down on our path to success, it catches up with us...

Pope John Paul II on Jewish-Christian friendship and ‘ecological conversion’

Today, January 17, 2021, is precisely 20 years since Pope John Paul II gave a remarkable General Audience, warning about mankind’s disastrous...

Wherein Lies the Real Arrogance?

The immediate, hysterical reactions to the election of President Trump in 2016 should have been enough to indicate that this presidency was going...

Sylvain Sylvain, Jewish guitarist for the New York Dolls, dies aged 69

JTA — Sylvain Sylvain, a guitarist best known for anchoring the influential 1970s band the New York Dolls after his Jewish family left Egypt...

Huldai: Tel Aviv cultural venues to open in February for the fully vaccinated

Tel Aviv mayor and head of the newly formed The Israelis party Ron Huldai said Sunday that he will not wait for government approval to reopen...

What Is Russia Hiding?

Did Stalin kill him? And why? Until Putin reveals his fate, Raoul Wallenberg is still Russia’s prisoner

It’s the unpredictability that’s exhausting us!

It’s been months.  Hours, days, weeks, months. In fact almost a year has passed. I’m noticing that people are really worn down, Exhausted,...

Parting

Neither closing doors to inside of minds nor lengthen roads to into deep hearts. Not a falling star from a vivid memory or a journey to unknown...

Is Social Media Ruining Us?

בס”ד Ain Hara… or Hurtful Words? A recent re-read of one of my favorite books – The Power of Words by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin – has gotten me...

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau tests positive for coronavirus

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau tested positive for coronavirus, it was announced on Saturday, days after he received the second dose...