Report: Israeli fighter jets, refueling planes hold massive drill aimed at Tehran

Israeli fighter jets took part in a large drill over the Mediterranean that included practicing mid-air refueling, according to a report in a...

NY police seeking woman seen spitting on Jewish kids, threatening to kill them

New York police said Wednesday they were looking for a woman who approached Jewish children, made antisemitic comments and spit on them outside a...

US Rep. Boebert asks Jewish visitors if they are spying on Capitol

JTA — Rep. Lauren Boebert asked a group of kippah-wearing Jewish visitors in a US Capitol building elevator on Thursday if they were there to do...

Israel turned its NSO spy firm against its own citizens

Report. NSO spyware, sold to regimes around the world to crush dissent, is also used against Israeli citizens. Mayors, anti-Netanyahu activists and...

Why Hong Kong should consider better regulating the working hours of foreign domestic workers and bumping their salaries

Doreen (not her real name) has worked for the same household for the past decade.She counts herself lucky for having a good relationship with her...

Ta si pa upa!?

Ni lepo, če in ko se veliki spravljajo na majhne. Na primer, Kitajska (LRK), ki ima 1400 milijonov prebivalcev, se spravlja na Litvo, ki jih ne...

Citing error, Facebook nixes threat to delete page of pro-Israel UN watchdog chief

Facebook has apologized to the director of a prominent pro-Israel lobbying group at the United Nations for threatening to close his account, and...

COVID cases ‘drop significantly’ in Africa, WHO says

Cases of COVID-19 have plummeted in Africa and deaths are declining for the first time since the Omicron-dominated fourth wave of the virus reached...

Two months since Omicron emerged, where does Israel stand? Q&A with an expert

It’s been two months since the Omicron strain of coronavirus was first identified. On November 24, South Africa reported the new variant to the...

Yitro: We Will Do and Therefore Understand

Often people will speak to me about their struggles with faith.  Any sensitive human being, seeing tragic elements of the lives we live of life,...

Want to be famous? Look inside

Would you like to be famous? If you’d ask me if I want to be famous, my first answer would be absolutely not. I feel really bad for all those...

Our Vulnerability Is Our Strength

In Colleyville, Texas, this past weekend, Malik Faisal Akram exploited Congregation Beth Israel’s desire to welcome and help those less...

Jonas Noreika: Savior or slayer of Jews?

My maternal grandfather was declared a Rescuer of the Jews by the Lithuanian Genocide Resistance and Research Centre. This division is funded by...

The Texas Synagogue Attack: A Mountain of Jewish Intergenerational Trauma

Jewish intergenerational trauma has become a phrase widely used by Jewish activists worldwide. It’s no secret that mental illness including...

Jewish organizations wasting millions on branding

So there was a public smack-down between branding studio Big Duck questioning Shalom Hartman Institute about its ties to Israel. But that uproar is...

Tell Me It Will Be Okay

I was recently out with a friend and during our conversation she said, “I imagine as a rabbi, you’ve been hearing from so many people dealing...

A Deeper Response to Colleyville

The attack on a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas last Shabbat has left us to yet again process the rise of antisemitism in the US and the world....

Things they tell us

They tell us that being anti-Zionist is entirely different from being anti-Semitic. They tell us that the two have nothing in common. Their message...

How a Jewish kid learned secrets of Black Music

Introduction I met Bill Dixon in the spring of 1970, while visiting the then wildly experimental Bennington College. I was a scrawny 22-old kid,...

Looking into the future to see the present

The State of Israel, and Israelis in general, are not known for our long-term strategic planning skills. This has always surprised me, since the...

EDITORIAL: 1 year in, Biden is failing to heal the divide left by his predecessor

Many people may have almost forgotten the sense of relief and hope they felt when Joe Biden a year ago replaced the president who seriously...

What does the Future Hold for the Arab World in Transition?

For most of the past decade, the Arab world has been facing many complicated, although at times overlapping problems, as it struggled to overcome...

Autocracy's bad boys are here to stay

Liberal world order is in desperate need of new champions

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The thorny crown of the Zulu king

Analysis. The dispute over the throne of the late Zwelithini will end in a South African court. The social shock affects the precarious balance...

Ekonomski učinki cepljenja

Omikronova različica novega koronavirusa, ki je nekajkrat bolj kužna od prejšnje delte, se je na srečo pokazala kot manj tvegana za težji...

Nuclear energy is far too costly

Nuclear power will soon be classified as environmentally friendly under the new EU taxonomy. But nothing about it is green or safe, says DW's...

Flight from NY to Tel Aviv turns back after unruly Israelis grab business seats

Two Israeli passengers caused a plane flying out of New York to turn back and land, as they clashed with cabin crew after allegedly refusing to...

The Pandemic and Our Broken Social Contracts

The Case for Strategic Price Policies

(POGLED) Menedžerska perspektiva: Tri skupne značilnosti epidemije in energetske krize

A ne bo enostavno, saj je večina organizacij - podobno, kot je to bilo in je deloma še danes - organizacijsko in vodstveno povsem nepripravljena...

How Energy is Aiding ASEAN’s Post-Pandemic Recovery

Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) were in for a turbulent ride when COVID-19 first reared its head in 2019. The...

Woman found dead in northern Israel home; husband arrested

A woman was found dead in an apartment in northern Israel early Friday morning, in what appeared to be a deadly case of domestic violence. The...

US charges Belarus with air piracy in flight diversion nation blamed on Hamas threat

NEW YORK — US prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year...

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Non-Jewish US House reps form congressional ‘Caucus for Advancement of Torah Values’

JTA — Two non-Jewish members of Congress announced the formation of the Congressional Caucus for the Advancement of Torah Values on Wednesday in...

Repeat of old tactics

North Korea should abandon brinkmanship tactics North Korea has said it would consider resuming "all temporarily-suspended activities," in an...

Societal rifts a larger threat to Israel than foreign enemies, ex-IDF chief says

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot is warning that Israel’s internal divisions are a greater threat than its foreign foes, according to...

Christian adoption agency accused of discrimination after refusing Jewish couple

JTA — A Jewish couple is suing Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services after a Christian adoption agency that receives state funding...

Iran Exacts Vengeance On The United States

To no one’s surprise, Iran is wreaking vengeance on the United States for its central role in the assassination of one of its most revered...

What Rosie Taught Me About the Importance of a Shul

I’ve been thinking a lot about “Rosie” lately. Rosie was the nickname for Roosevelt Preston, who served for four decades as the janitor at...

What is a Soul? III (4). The Many Souls of Man—Other Souls

In the previous installments of The Many Souls of Man, we discussed the animal soul,  Nefesh HaBahamit , the godly soul, Nefesh HaElokit , and the...

Orthdox, Sane–and Alone

Over the past few months, I have heard privately and publicly from too many orthodox Jews about their feelings of loneliness and isolation. They...

What does memory have to do with belief in God? 

For some people, belief comes easily. From a young age they have believed in God, and that has remained a constant throughout their lives. For...

Whatever Happened to “Yordim”?

You can tell a lot about trends in society by the rise and fall of specific words and terms. “Yordim” is a good example. The word literally means...

Why does God ask questions He knows the answers to (Midrash on Bereishis)

The Midrash has some choice words for Adam because of the way he answered God’s question: “Did you eat from the tree which I told you not to eat...

Good for America, Bad for Turkey: Intellectual Paradoxes of Russia Policies

Turkish-Russian relations have experienced quite problematic times throughout history. The leading role of the Russian Empire, especially in the...

End the filibuster. Take on antisemitism.

The terror of the hostage standoff that took place at Beth Israel in Colleyville last weekend reminds us that antisemitism is alive and well in the...

VOX POPULI: Amid Omicron surge, social responsibility must come first

“Noko sesshokusha” is the Japanese term for an individual who has been in close contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID-19. Some...

Leaning into own past, Jewish ‘Wonder Years’ writer comes of age with TV bar mitzvah

The Jewish world kvelled over last week’s episode of ABC’s popular primetime sitcom “The Wonder Years,” in which character Brad Hitman...