Carbon neutrality in 2050

Detailed plans should follow President Moon's pledge President Moon Jae-in declared that Korea would attain "carbon neutrality in 2050" during his...

Suga’s responses to Diet grilling offer little hope for proper debate

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s responses to opposition questions about his policy speech offered no reason to expect him to deliver on his promise...

China and the US risk accidental war over Taiwan

Need for both sides to show resolve could lead to a conflict nobody really wants

WATCH: Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, ‘US Judaism needs to be Netflix, not Blockbuster’

Two years after the massacre at Pittsburgh, deep in the throes of the coronavirus crisis, and just ahead of a polarizing United States presidential...

Global framework to ban nuclear arms marks significant step

Barrett’s appointment puts the US Supreme Court in the hands of the ultra-right

Commentary. To call Barrett “conservative” is an understatement. Her selection promises to destabilize the court, perhaps for several...

Israeli Trump Cards in Washington's Game

It is unlikely that anyone today would object to the assertion that the pro-Israeli lobby plays an important, and sometimes decisive, role in...

Sivo razpoloženje

Pravzaprav ne vem, zakaj tudi ženske ne bi mogle biti šarmantne s srebrnimi nitmi v laseh, pa ne samo z nitmi, tudi z rjavimi ali črnimi… nitmi...

The streets of Rome on the first night of curfew

Reportage. After midnight, silence has fallen along the Lungotevere. Everything is still. There is a carabinieri vehicle and a garbage truck at the...

Ex-Homeland Security official reveals himself as ‘Anonymous’ anti-Trump author

WASHINGTON — A former Trump administration official who penned a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous” revealed...

Screaming our prayers

Within ten minutes of receiving my BDS Blog, two non Jewish friends -one Catholic and one Protestant who both worry that Christianity is in peril-...

A deferred rupture between Turkey and US

My first piece that appeared at Gazete Duvar on July 11, 2019 was titled “A crisis apt for continuous postponement.” I had written this article...

Men, stop blaming women

Do we really still need to explain that when we misstep and fall, the ground is not evil for hitting us? Do we really still need to explain that...

Abraham: Nationalist or Globalist?

Franky, it is a tough call. There seems to be a debate raging throughout the world as to what’s next, what direction do we need to pursue, what...

Tom Wolfe, Donald Trump, and the Pissing Monkey Presidency

Fiction sometimes defines the reality we find ourselves in. It’s truer now than at any time in memory. Right now it seems like a brew of Bizarro...

Will the Real Abraham Please Stand Up

The prophet Isaiah once proclaimed to the People of Israel reeling from crisis, “Look to the rock from which you were cut… look to Abraham.” ...

Toldot Yitzhak Rabin

at the end of the day we gently tuck a child in bed with sheets and blankets at the end of a person’s life we gently cover their grave with the...

The Courage Not to Conform (Lech Lecha, Covenant & Conversation 5781)

This year’s Covenant & Conversation series on “Lessons in Leadership” was originally written and recorded in 5774 (2014) and subsequently...

Trust Counts

As early voting hits its stride, Jewish Americans who cast their ballots for former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris are in good...

Noah’s Ark — Three Layers of Reality

A light shalt thou make to the ark…with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. (Genesis 6:16) We mentioned in the previous posts...

Trick or Tractate?

Embed from Getty Images What COVID-19 will do to Halloween this year remains to be seen, although the ubiquitous Internet availability of masks and...

Admitting That Maybe I’m Wrong: A Supremely Jewish Value

A few weeks ago, I delivered a drasha expressing my unpopular position that whatever my political views are, I am probably more open than most...

Standing For Something

“If you stand for nothing Burr, what’ll you fall for” I’m back to thinking about Hamilton this week, although truth be told I never stopped....

Surgeon who tried to save Rabin: Nobody had the guts to declare him dead

The surgeon who tried to save Yitzhak Rabin when he was shot at a Tel Aviv peace rally in 1995, has spoken for the first time about the events of...

Synagogue, store openings on agenda as ministers to meet on lockdown exit plan

The so-called coronavirus cabinet was set to meet Thursday morning to continue mapping Israel’s exit from its second national lockdown with...

France locks down, Germany closes down, as virus cases hit record

ARIS (AFP) — France announced a new month-long national lockdown and Germany imposed drastic new curbs on people’s daily lives as the EU’s...

The GOP is Singing the Wrong Tune on Anti-Semitism

Since World War II, both political parties have avoided using anti-Semitism in their discourse.  From time to time, certain isolated exceptions...

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Netanyahu’s Economic Violence

Curling up with a book offers oasis from monotony of lockdown life

Amid the dreary and oppressive social climate of wartime Japan, there once was a rental bookstore that must have felt like a veritable oasis to its...

The humiliation of Arabs

The past few days have witnessed two major incidents of extreme cruelty and unprecedented humiliation launched against Arab regimes. These...

Moon's 'New Deal' visions and India-South Korea economic ties

President Moon Jae-in, right, shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after their joint press conference at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on...

Kam so šli vsi komunisti?

Ali je mogoče razumeti to nenavadno obnašanje ljudi, ki so na vrhu državnih institucij in političnega aparata? Seveda je mogoče. Niso...

After Bolivia, Chile marked a turning point unthinkable a few months ago

Commentary. The result of the plebiscite in Chile may have important repercussions in Latin America, where elections will take place in Brazil,...

G-d’s Master Plan – XLVI – A Serious Man And That Tornado רוח In The Closing Scene

בסייד It seems my hometown of St. Louis Park was never in the national or for that matter international spotlight until 2009 when the film “A...

A Brand New Day

I awoke to a beautiful new day in a world of peace and love. Yesterday evening I had cut the wire to my ancient telephone, thrown my smart-phone in...

Senior Satmar rabbi denounces Brooklyn anti-lockdown rallies

JTA — A leader of a major Hasidic sect denounced protests earlier this month where local Orthodox Jews voiced their anger at lockdown measures...

Holocaust survivor and Olympian Sir Ben Helfgott wins Pride of Britain award

LONDON (Jewish News) — Holocaust survivor and British weightlifting hero Sir Ben Helfgott has been honored with a Pride of Britain award for five...

Do Black Lives Matter To Russian Jews?

Public opinion on the Black Lives Matter movement is shifting, with studies showing dramatically increasing support among Americans. However,...

The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Mental Health

Unless you were born with a nervous system made of steel, it is likely that you have or are experiencing anxiety, depression, sleeplessness,...

Take all possible means

Concern grows over another wave of infections Many large clubs and bars in Seoul have decided to cooperate with the health authorities' efforts to...

The Lincoln Project Wants to Save America From Trump. It’s Working

Trump versus Biden

By Donald Kirk Odds-makers have no doubt fine-tuned the chances of Donald Trump or Joe Biden winning next Tuesday's presidential election. I might...

Biden's America must abandon Trump tactics, rethink US-China policy

By Tom Plate Change will come, it has to. But America's hyper-confident "commentariat" has convinced itself that China-U.S. policy under Democrat...

Witness to Korea's turbulent history

By Choe Chong-dae I wish to extend my sincere congratulations to The Korea Times on its 70th anniversary. Since its establishment on Nov. 1, 1950,...

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for Libya?

In just two months, the situation in Libya has shifted dramatically, creating hope that a solution to the ongoing crisis might be around the...

Trump's closing argument is a loser

By Doyle McManus As President Donald Trump has barnstormed battleground states in a frenzy of final campaign rallies, he hasn't offered voters much...

Just the Facts FAQ: Trump/Biden on Israel

My students (American teenagers) have prepared this document in order to help clarify both candidates for the American פresidency’s position on...

Charity or merit

This week’s Torah reading always feels like a warm reunion. After a certain awkwardness in the two previous weeks, reading about those ambiguous...

American Zionists must vote for Biden

As a dual citizen of Israel and the United States, I am fortunate to have the right and the responsibility to vote in both countries’ elections....