Hamas said to form Lebanon branch to open new front against Israel

Hamas has quietly established a Lebanon branch of its Gaza-based terror group in recent years in order to open up an additional front against...

Toi Staff

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Climate justice and decoloniality

In November this year, the Scottish port city of Glasgow was the host of an event that once again brought the urgent question of climate change to...

Hamid Dabashi

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Artificial intelligence must not exacerbate inequality further

We all agree that artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to drive development and even out global inequalities. Because it can process vast...

Gabriela Ramos

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The Beatles – reimagined

Nostalgia is the enemy of art since it inevitably tips into sentimentality. The Beatles understood this. Their art – the hard, enigmatic quest for...

Andrew Mitrovica

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America and China opened the door for African coups to return

The most recent coup in Sudan has been modified – not undone – by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s reappointment of deposed civilian Prime...

Christopher Rhodes

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Hunger strikes show the history of Irish-Palestinian solidarity

During the 11-day Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in May, which claimed the lives of 254 Palestinians, including 66 children, acts of solidarity...

Yousef M Aljamal

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‘Not every decision of ours is perfect’: Bennett responds to uproar over family trip

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday responded to outcry over his wife taking their children on vacation overseas just days after he...

Toi Staff

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Acclaimed Shakespearean actor Antony Sher dies at 72

LONDON (AP) — Antony Sher, one of the most acclaimed Shakespearean actors of his generation, has died aged 72, the Royal Shakespeare Company said...

Jill Lawless

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Stop Digging

The resolution passed unanimously. There is nothing to tie modern day Britons with so called Great Britain. The current inhabitants are descendants...

Roger M. Kaye

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The Immigrant’s Choice

In Genesis 41:38, Pharaoh lays the path for every law demanding that, before hiring a foreign employee, the company should prove there is no one...

Nelly Shulman

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Attentive, but not agitated

Attention need not produce tension. This should be obvious. When we pay attention to majestic sunsets and gentle streams, we typically feel calm....

William Hamilton

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Parshat Mikeitz: The Dilemma of National Dependence

One consequence of the Jewish diaspora is our historical reliance on foreign empires and nations. As time went on and we traveled...

Sruli Fruchter

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Back to Earth

After two weeks in California, with all its delights and attractions, it is a relief to be back in the humble abode that is our home in Israel. In...

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

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Fox Tales: Parashat Mikkeitz–Yehuda Steps Up

When Yosef sees his brothers for the first time since they mercilessly sold him to passing traders, he is unsure whether he can trust them. Have...

Everett Fox

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Hanukah and the Contemporary Jewish Cultural Civil War

Twenty years ago Noam Zion, Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman in Jerusalem, in a talk to a group of rabbis...

John L. Rosove

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Redefining Conservative Judaism: The Conversation

I argued in my last post that Conservative Judaism needs to re-define itself in a way that speaks to the real lives of the majority of American...

Mark Hoffman

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“It’s not me! It’s G-d”

“Rabbi, I have to meet you urgently.” As a Rabbi, I am used to receiving all kinds of urgent phone calls, all of those calls are coming in times...

Mendy Kaminker

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Russian-Indian Relations amid the “Radical Transformation of the World Order”

The visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to India scheduled for December 6, is poised to become a significant event which will undoubtedly...

Vladimir Terehov

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Chun Doo-hwan’s Case Ended with his Death

On November 23, 2021, Chun Doo-hwan, the most popularly disliked former president of the Republic of Korea, passed away as President of the...

Konstantin Asmolov

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Gestión de riesgos conectada para enfrentar la disrupción continua

A raíz de la pandemia, las empresas están pensando mucho en la planificación de la continuidad del negocio. El mundo se ha vuelto más...

Guillermo Orrillo

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Integración latinoamericana: recomencemos con una “Comunidad de Energía, Minería y Agua”

Nuestros primeros esfuerzos integracionistas son contemporáneos de los de la Europa comunitaria, sin embargo, no hemos logrado esa unidad...

Héctor Casanueva

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Air force jet makes emergency landing when wheel fails to deploy; training suspended

The Israel Air Force said Friday it was suspending training exercises for the F-15i fighter after a jet was forced to make an emergency landing...

Toi Staff

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Wartime strategy update

ROK, US agree to fortify alliance against NK threats South Korea and the United States have agreed to update their joint wartime strategy against...

Editorial

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Multilateralism's Secret Sauce

Harold James

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Omicron Is Nature’s Precise Spanking

We haven’t finished with Delta, yet here comes Omicron. The new strain of coronavirus is said to be five times more infectious, but there is as yet...

Michael Laitman

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Time to Overhaul the Global Financial System

Jeffrey D. Sachs

10

MidEast autocrats sigh relief: US signals Democracy Summit will not alter policy

The United States has signalled in advance of next week’s Summit for Democracy that it is unlikely to translate lip service to adherence to human...

James M. Dorsey

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So how, in fact, do Haredi women behave?

Anna Somershaf’s documentary film Women of Valor aired recently on Israeli television, and will soon make the rounds on the festival circuit...

Gitit Levy-Paz

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How Israel’s new president (almost) ruined my Hanukah

Hanukah really is special here in Israel. I love how much my young kids are into it and come home from a day at Gan singing the Hanukah songs they...

Alan Abrams

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Germany's Modern Angst

Helmut K. Anheier

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What was the real Miracle of Hanukkah? An examination of the Historical Sources

Each of the four main ancient sources on the events of Hanukkah – I Maccabees, II Maccabees, Antiquities of the Jews, and the Talmud – has a...

Tuvia Book

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Futenma replacement base will be obsolete before it’s finished

While technology and delivery methods continue to evolve, military air bases remain the most crucial platforms for the projection of air power. Yet...

Shawn D. Harding

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The IDF’s New (and Growing) Problem

We’ve all heard of the maxim: “More is Less.” Israel’s army is now facing precisely that phenomenon, and its headache will only increase in...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

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Why is truth is so elusive? Blame Adam and Eve.

By eating from the Tree of Knowledge, we lost the ultimate knowledge of truth What exactly happened to Adam and Chava after eating from the Tree of...

Yoni Mozeson

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Listen to the flames – A Chanukah perspective

Rabbi Yakov Saacks The Chai Center, Dix Hills, NY. www.thechaicenter.com Author of The Kabbalah of Life Unless you live in Afghanistan or Iraq, you...