India, Join the Israel-Gulf Axis in the New Mideast Cold War

For India, as for Israel, the split in the Muslim world is a strategic opportunity. It’s in Afghanistan that New Delhi needs Arab Gulf allies –...

Returning to Multilateralism

NEW YORK – COVID-19 has shone a light on the acute vulnerabilities of a deeply interconnected world. No country, regardless of its size, wealth,...

The Financial Climate Has Reached a Tipping Point

LONDON – The COVID-19 pandemic is sharpening financial markets’ understanding of the need to address looming threats like climate change. This...

Trump’s aggressive anti-China rant reminds the world why the UN was first established – to prevent future wars

The American president’s speech was angry, curt and severe, delivered with a stabbing staccato voice. In just seven minutes he lurched from...

Argentine Jews hold Rosh Hashanah service – in their cars

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — With the city of Cordoba hosting the country’s annual Rally Argentina car show and race event, the Jewish community of...

Paris’s Eiffel Tower briefly evacuated after bomb threat

Paris police briefly evacuated Paris’s Eiffel Tower and blockaded the surrounding area Wednesday after a phone-in bomb threat. All tourists inside...

If Hannah Arendt theorised public happiness for Americans, Armajani staged it beautifully.

“The twilight zones today between art forms that were once quite distinct – painting and photography, architecture and sculpture – have been the...

Saudi power is on a decline and not even Israel can change that.

As we approach the second anniversary of the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia continues its retreat,...

American capital brought high rates of chronic disease to Mexico which has led to a surging COVID-19 death toll.

In August, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca banned the sale of junk food and sugary drinks to children under the age of 18. Mexico’s A...

The Kenyan government is now mishandling the COVID-19 crisis in similar ways.

Seven years ago on September 21, on a bright and sunny Saturday morning, four men armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades stormed the...

Britain, not Zimbabwe, must pay for colonial land grabs.

On August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under...

If Facebook were to adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, this would be detrimental to freedom...

With its 2.7 billion users, Facebook is the world’s largest and arguably most influential social media platform. Therefore, it comes as no...

Ginsburg’s work has inspired a generation of people who experience outsider status in the US, including Muslims.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life embodies the best of America. Her experiences of being a first-generation American, a religious minority, and...

And forces built to suppress Black resistance cannot be trusted to protect the public.

On May 13, at about 5am, men who appeared to be police officers ordered a motorcycle taxi to stop in Jinja, Uganda. The taxi driver, assuming the...

We have no choice but to address the humanitarian impact of the coronavirus crisis and climate change at the same time.

We have no choice but to address the humanitarian impact of the coronavirus crisis and climate change at the same time.

Kashmiri Shia youth are negotiating their own space within the Kashmiri struggle.

On August 29, the 10th day of the holy month of Muharram, known as Ashoura, Indian forces fired pellets and tear gas shells to disperse hundreds of...

It is increasingly clear that systemic oppression and environmental collapse are inextricably linked.

In the mesmerising context of a global pandemic, a Black-led mass uprising against systemic racism, a “heated” election in the United States, and...

Thousands of Belarusians have been arrested but that will not stop the Belarusian people from demanding freedom.

On September 7, Stanislava “Stasya” Gusakova heard a knock on the door of her flat in Belarus’s capital Minsk. When she opened it, four men –...

It is time we move beyond our obsession with revolutionary aesthetics and engage with its politics.

“Black Power!” was an utterance popularised by radical Black activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Although often ignored ideologically, the...

Urgent action is needed to protect refugees and avoid further disaster on Lesbos island and elsewhere in Greece.

Even by the grim standards of Greece’s reception system, the September 8 fire at the Moria refugee camp is an unprecedented humanitarian...

Reaction to the Steps Taken by Washington to Reconcile Israel and the Arabs

Sundown on September 18th marked the start of Rosh Hashanah 5781, the new year according to the Hebrew calendar. According to Jewish tradition, the...

Indian kickboxing champ moving to Israel, plans to represent his new home

JTA — A mixed martial arts and kickboxing champion from India is moving to Israel, and he plans to represent the Jewish state in international...

Guy Niv becomes first Israeli to complete Tour de France

Guy Niv became the first Israeli to complete the Tour de France, the premier event in world cycling. Niv, 26, a member of the Israel Start-Up...

US ambassador: It will take 6-7 years for UAE to get F-35 jets

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Wednesday said it would likely take six to seven years before the United Arab Emirates receives the F-35...

Sweden avoids 2nd virus surge, but many questions remain on its outlier approach

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — A train pulls into the Odenplan subway station in central Stockholm, where morning commuters without masks get off or...

(POGLED) Arabska izdaja Palestine

Običajno je, da države, ki imajo velika nesoglasja, kljub temu ohranjajo diplomatske in trgovinske odnose. A obstajajo tudi okoliščine, ki tega...

Halt to flu vaccines

Respond to wake-up call thoroughly The government's free influenza inoculation scheme for 19 million people was suddenly halted Tuesday, after 5...

A Message of Incitement

Proposal for end-of-war declaration

NK, international society should cooperate for peace President Moon Jae-in called for a declaration to the end of the Korea War in a prerecorded...

Which non-violent revolutions will succeed?

By Gwynne Dyer The old calculation was simple and brutal: if you want to overthrow a tyrant, you must use violence. There was an occasional...

Think you’re no good at judging others’ emotions? Join the club

Author Ramo Nakajima (1952-2004) gave tongue-in-cheek answers to questions from readers in “Akarui Nayami Sodanshitsu” (Upbeat counseling room...

Coal’s last refuge crumbles with China’s renewables plan

Coal-fired power has been dying everywhere except where it poses the greatest threat. Draw a line down the world around the longitude of the Nile....

It’s time for Palestinians to make their own peace plan

Palestinians are understandably furious at the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for agreeing to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel, but it...

Blacklisting U.S. tech would highlight China’s own weakness

Plans by China to draw up a blacklist of U.S. technology firms might sound great to hardliners as a retaliatory measure against Washington, but...

Celebrating 75 years of the United Nations

NEW YORK – As the United Nations marks its 75th anniversary, the world is in turmoil. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in nearly one million...

Europe’s Digital Emergency

STOCKHOLM – EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered an upbeat assessment in her first annual policy report (“state of the union”...

Large fire breaks out in factory outside Tehran

A large fire erupted in an Iranian dairy factory near Tehran on Tuesday night, Iranian State television reported. The cause of the fire was under...

LISTEN: Israeli band Yamma has millions grooving to ancient Hebrew poetry

It’s not every day that President Reuven Rivlin posts a music video to his social media accounts. But it’s also not every day that Bahrain makes...

Morbidly obtuse: What the press is saying on September 23

1. Infections mushroom: As of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Health Ministry’s coronavirus dashboard, a frustratingly opaque yet singular source for...

Navalny released from hospital after 32 days, doctors say full recovery possible

BERLIN (AP) — The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning said Wednesday that his condition improved...

Ringing in the New Year solo

When I made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) last week with Nefesh B’Nefesh, I knew I was going to have to spend the high holidays isolated in...

Our broken-hearted planet (Daf Yomi 45)

Embed from Getty Images “The entire world drinks from the waters of the ocean.” Today’s Daf Yomi text continues the discussion on walking...

GOP Senate candidate defends controversial Ginsburg abortion meme

DOVER, Delaware (AP) — Republican US Senate candidate Lauren Witzke on Tuesday defended a controversial meme in a Facebook post by her campaign...

Florida to offer license plate that shows support for Israel

JTA — Florida drivers can now show their support for Israel on their license plates. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation that authorizes the...

The ‘cli-fi’ backlist is now hundreds of novels deep worldwide in 10 languages

Cli-fi shifts readers’ beliefs, but not for long, according to the first empirical test of the effects of reading ”cli-fi,” in which researchers...

Yom Kippur: The Handkerchief at the Train Station

There is a famous folktale about a young man who was traveling on the train through the countryside .  The person sitting next to the young man...

The Monster of Melbourne

Six years and seventy-one court hearings and trials, Malka the monster of Melbourne is being prepared for her over-due extradition from Israel to...

G-d’s Master Plan – XXXVI – A Tribute To RBG – ‘All I Ask Of Our Brethren Is That They Take Their Feet Off Our Necks’

בסייד Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a champion of women’s rights and spent her whole life fighting for what she knew was...

The two-way street of that sexy shofar

When we pray, we talk to G^d. The verb to pray in Hebrew is reflexive. While it’s obvious that G^d hears our prayers, it’s crucial that we...