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Veteran journalist Oren Nahari dies of ALS at 70, days after final radio broadcast

Veteran journalist Oren Nahari dies of ALS at 70, days after final radio broadcast

Nahari said farewell to listeners on Saturday, citing worsening illness; journalist founded public broadcaster’s foreign affairs show in 80s,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Las Leonas remain a force at the 2026 World Cup, 26 years on from when it all started

Las Leonas remain a force at the 2026 World Cup, 26 years on from when it all started

On September 24, 2000, the Argentine women’s field hockey team, competing at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, needed to win to survive in the tournament....

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Buenos Aires Herald

Fernando Romero Nuñez

Accused of calling stunt election to avoid scrutiny, UK’s Farage faces joke candidate

Accused of calling stunt election to avoid scrutiny, UK’s Farage faces joke candidate

Head of anti-immigration Reform party expected to beat man wearing trash can on his head, as major parties snub special election in small seaside...

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The Times of Israel

Pan Pylas

Chile’s Boring Conservative President

Chile’s Boring Conservative President

LONDON—When the conservative José Antonio Kast became president of Chile six months ago, the big question was whether he would be a pugnacious...

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Project Syndicate

Andrés Velasco

Why We Lie About Who We Are

Why We Lie About Who We Are

From Cambridge dons to Victorian dancers, the same impulse keeps showing up.

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Psychology Today

Enterprise Adhd Institute

Bank of Jerusalem stock erratic amid rumors over employee’s disappearance in Vienna

Bank of Jerusalem stock erratic amid rumors over employee’s disappearance in Vienna

Gag order placed on Israel Police investigation into whereabouts of Mali and Liel Yahalomi, as family claims terrorism has not been ruled out, despite...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Where the earth meets the sky

Where the earth meets the sky James Turrell: you who look Powers of ten, updated The Universe in motion Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels The...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Rob Reiner’s son charged with parents’ murder, in ‘profound betrayal’ of loved ones

Rob Reiner’s son charged with parents’ murder, in ‘profound betrayal’ of loved ones

Los Angeles grand jury accuses Nick Reiner of lying in wait, ambushing mother and father before stabbing them to death; prosecutors mum on possible...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Dalton

What Our Community Asked For — And What We’re Building Together

What Our Community Asked For — And What We’re Building Together

What should a Jewish Federation do when it is building — or rebuilding — a Jewish community organization from the ground up? Not assume. Not...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

Lionel Messi returns to action with Inter Miami after father’s passing

Lionel Messi returns to action with Inter Miami after father’s passing

Argentine football star Lionel Messi returned to the pitch on Wednesday, after publishing a letter to his late father, Jorge, who died on Saturday, in...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Fernando Romero Nuñez

Playing Israel in football is unthinkable right now

Playing Israel in football is unthinkable right now

Ten years have passed since football families in Ireland were given a very clear picture of just how cruel, callous, calculating, and downright racist...

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Middle East Monitor

Ciaran Tierney

Protect Muslims, Scrutinize Islam: The Lesson of the Oxford Union Debate

Protect Muslims, Scrutinize Islam: The Lesson of the Oxford Union Debate

The Oxford Union is best known for its high-profile, adversarial debates that focuses on controversial political, religious, and social questions....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tim Orr

The queryable war: When AI turns ‘could’ into ‘must’

The queryable war: When AI turns ‘could’ into ‘must’

The US–Iran war reveals a quieter power of generative AI: it can turn unfolding reports into plausible futures, reshape what citizens expect, what...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Mojtaba Touiserkani

Why Myths Still Matter: Did Odysseus Suffer From PTSD?

Why Myths Still Matter: Did Odysseus Suffer From PTSD?

What ancient myths can teach us about psychopathology and psychotherapy today.

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Psychology Today

Stephen A. Diamond Ph.d

Na Danskem iz morja potegnili mrtvega orjaškega morskega psa. Zakaj je poginil?

Na Danskem iz morja potegnili mrtvega orjaškega morskega psa. Zakaj je poginil?

V soboto so iz vode ob danski baltski obali potegnili skoraj pet metrov dolgega mrtvega morskega psa orjaka. Raziskovalci preiskujejo vzrok njegove...

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Dnevnik

Alp

What Does the Story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible Teach Us?

In the story of the Tower of Babel, people wanted to reach the heavens. Indeed, this story still accompanies us today. Hidden in the story are key...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Laitman

The Board of Peace: The same old prejudice and injustice of the US administration

The Board of Peace: The same old prejudice and injustice of the US administration

The recent statement by Nikolay Mladenov, the High Representative of the so-called “Board of Peace,” should not go unquestioned or unnoticed. In...

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Middle East Monitor

Ahmed Asmar

Terrific Israeli Customer Service!

For those of you old enough to remember them, Monty Python sometimes introduced a new sketch by having a deep-voiced announcer intone, “And now for...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Avi Rockoff

Families move into rebuilt West Bank settlement of Ganim, 21 years after evacuation

Families move into rebuilt West Bank settlement of Ganim, 21 years after evacuation

Some two dozen prefabricated homes installed, with construction ongoing; IDF carries out demolitions of nearby Palestinian stores and blocks roads to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Evidence at The Hague. None in Pretoria.

Evidence at The Hague. None in Pretoria.

South Africa’s Justice Minister linked Israel to domestic unrest and the ICJ case. Her own newspaper source recorded the missing part: evidence....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Cynická obluda: Ruské komponenty

Keď už teda vieme, že ruské komponenty niekde prekážajú, prečo neprekážajú aj inde?

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

What an Earthquake Taught Me About Identity

What an Earthquake Taught Me About Identity

Personal Perspective: Restorative justice changed how I think about connection.

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Psychology Today

Sigifredo Castell Britton Ph.d

The Mecca Defence Pact: A New Security Architecture or a Coalition Without an Enemy?

The Mecca Defence Pact: A New Security Architecture or a Coalition Without an Enemy?

The Mecca Defence Pact: A New Security Architecture or a Coalition Without an Enemy? The Mecca defence pact brings Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and...

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New Eastern Outlook

Ricardo Martins

Shoftim: Tzedek

Shoftim: Tzedek

Devarim 16:18: Judges and enforcers you shall give to yourself in all of your doors, i.e., cities that Hashem your Lord gives to you and your tribes....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Lemmer

All the king’s horses

All the king’s horses

In Parshat Shoftim, Dvarim 17:14-16 we learn about the rules for having a king: When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and have...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Are you fulfilling all you need to in this world?

Do you make the same Cheshbon Hanefesh (accounting of the soul) as everyone else? Your Cheshbon HaNefesh will vary according to your level of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Aryeh Lazar

Israel’s imaginings of forced displacement, and UN culpability

Israel’s imaginings of forced displacement, and UN culpability

The forced displacement of Palestinians is taking up much of the Israeli imagination. From the Yellow Line, to pilot projects instead of...

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Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Interview – Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez

Dr. Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Havana and currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of...

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E-International

Dr. Jacqueline Laguardia Is A Senior Lecturer At The Institute Of International Relations At The University Of The West Indies

Energy without borders: Why the Middle East needs an energy Schengen

Energy without borders: Why the Middle East needs an energy Schengen

For more than a century, the Middle East has been one of the world’s most important centres of energy supply. Yet a strategic paradox remains at the...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Kamran Yeganegi

X suspends Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree’s account amid regional escalation

X suspends Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree’s account amid regional escalation

Social media platform says account used to claim attacks by Yemeni rebel violated its rules, but doesn’t specify how; Yemeni government soldier...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Why Should Jews Care About the Vulnerable?

Why Should Jews Care About the Vulnerable?

In studying Abraham Heschel’s The Prophets, I am reminded that many people are heartened by the prophets’ call to care for the poor, widows,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Matthew Robin

What Is a ‘Zionist Government,’ Really?

On November 10, 1975, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ofer Chen

Our AI, Your Problem

Our AI, Your Problem

PARIS—In 1971, US Treasury Secretary John Connally famously told European finance ministers that the dollar was “our currency, but your...

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Project Syndicate

Bertrand Badré

How Much Psychology Can You Really Trust?

How Much Psychology Can You Really Trust?

Popular theories often become facts before the evidence deserves our trust.

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Psychology Today

Richard Brown

Treasure Trove: Zionism Means Israel’s Election Involves Diaspora Jewry Too

Treasure Trove: Zionism Means Israel’s Election Involves Diaspora Jewry Too

If the original purpose of Zionism was to establish a home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, what is the purpose of Zionism once that home...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Matlow

Elul – ‘Give Him the Best Death You Can’

Elul – ‘Give Him the Best Death You Can’

As I enter Elul, the holy month before the Jewish New Year and the beginning of a period that leads us towards the Days of Judgment, I feel as though...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ben Lazarus

7 questions to Haredi leaders on non-draft to the Israeli army

Why do Haredi rabbis tell their people that the goal of a draft law is “to destroy the world of Torah,” or that a kollel scholar was arrested...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yehuda Gellman

Pogačar bo letos rekordno zaslužil, milijon evrov namenja v dobrodelne namene

Pogačar bo letos rekordno zaslužil, milijon evrov namenja v dobrodelne namene

Po pisanju milanskega športnega dnevnika La Gazetta dello sport bodo letos prihodki Tadeja Pogačarja presegli 13 milijonov evrov, kar je največ v...

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Dnevnik

Mihael Šorl

Poraziť Fica nie je také dôležité

Samozrejme, bude treba poraziť aj Fica

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SME.sk

Rado Ondřejíček

Humor as a Psychological Defense Mechanism

Humor as a Psychological Defense Mechanism

A laugh eases stress, but class clowns may be defending against emotional pain.

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Psychology Today

Anthony D. Smith Lmhc

What Keeps You From Feeling Truly Loved

What Keeps You From Feeling Truly Loved

When performance causes an inner division.

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Psychology Today

Jan Bonhoeffer M.d

Backed by Walmart and Cisco, Israel’s Team8 raises $365m to help build AI startups

Backed by Walmart and Cisco, Israel’s Team8 raises $365m to help build AI startups

Venture group plans to use funds for investing in 16 companies that focus on software infrastructure needed for businesses to securely manage AI...

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Wrobel

When Trying Harder Stops Working

When Trying Harder Stops Working

Sometimes the strategy we've always used is the one we need to loosen.

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Psychology Today

Andrea Gardner

Ombudsman chce meniť pravidlá: Dostanú pacienti konkrétneho lekára?

Neuveriteľné príbehy s lekármi - žiaľ, mnohé so smutným koncom - by dnes vedel rozprávať skoro každý.

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Pravda.sk

Iris Kopcsayová

Ra’am’s Abbas, former Yesh Atid MK Segalovitz confirm ongoing talks on Knesset run

Ra’am’s Abbas, former Yesh Atid MK Segalovitz confirm ongoing talks on Knesset run

Negotiations come as Islamist party seeks to shed its religious image; far-right Otzma Yehudit party claims Abbas using the move to turn Negev and...

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The Times of Israel

Sam Sokol

Hrôza z nemodernosti

V súvislosti s najzávažnejšími problémami dneška si veľmi veľa ľudí zrejme ani nestíha uvedomiť, ako veľmi sú konflikty poznačené...

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Pravda.sk

Silvia Ruppeldtová

Should Diaspora Jews who support Israel avoid the word ‘Zionism’?

Should Diaspora Jews who support Israel avoid the word ‘Zionism’?

JFNA first supports, then fires consultant for suggesting Jewish leaders shouldn’t use the loaded term that has been hijacked by its opponents —...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll

From Lab to Life: Dogs Know Smiles – Do We?

We have two small dogs – a mixed-breed Yorkie and a purebred Shi Tzu.  Both are rescuedogs. I am astonished daily by how good they are at reading...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Maital

President Ramaphosa Meeting IDF Soldier’s Family Raises Crucial Questions

President Ramaphosa Meeting IDF Soldier’s Family Raises Crucial Questions

Question doing the rounds is whether meeting the family of a South African citizen serving as an Israeli soldier, as President Ramaphosa did, has...

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Middle East Monitor

Iqbal Jassat

How ADHD Stimulant Medications Really Work

How ADHD Stimulant Medications Really Work

What research on stimulants means for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

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Psychology Today

Sharon Saline Psy.d