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Zeus’ Law and the Long Way Home

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrived in cinemas last week to a pre-sale frenzy that had not been seen since Oppenheimer. The $250 million...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

No Fear

Moshe Rabbeinu made a great effort to help keep the Jewish people focused on their special reality. He spoke of the time when they will be asked to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Trump will be ‘very disappointed’ if Israel obstructs his Gaza plan, US official warns

Trump will be ‘very disappointed’ if Israel obstructs his Gaza plan, US official warns

Comments come after Netanyahu’s office says Israel can’t accept disarmament proposal approved by Hamas, which official says triggered 14-day...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Boy George pulls out of Jesus Christ Superstar, after releasing pro-Israel single

Boy George pulls out of Jesus Christ Superstar, after releasing pro-Israel single

British pop singer was slated to play Herod in West End production from August 3-15; manager makes oblique reference to ‘We Will Dance Again,’...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Is Life Itself a Memorial?

Is Life Itself a Memorial?

In the depths of Tish’ah BeAv morning caffeine deprivation, I am contemplating last evening’s community discussion about commemorating what has...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Audrey N. Glickman

In DC, Netanyahu showcases diplomatic wins, but they all have expiration dates

In DC, Netanyahu showcases diplomatic wins, but they all have expiration dates

PM emerges glowing from meeting with Trump, poses with evangelicals and takes on NYC’s Mamdani; but with US elections looming, Israel may soon face...

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The Times of Israel

Ron Kampeas

Prebivalce Viča zmotil posek dreves za gradnjo plezalnega centra

Prebivalce Viča zmotil posek dreves za gradnjo plezalnega centra

S podpisom pogodbe med Mestno občino Ljubljana (MOL) in družbo VG5 se je lahko začela gradnja centra plezalnih športov na Viču. Številni...

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Dnevnik

Tamara Čalošević

IDF demolishes Hezbollah tunnels below southern Lebanon’s Beaufort Ridge

IDF demolishes Hezbollah tunnels below southern Lebanon’s Beaufort Ridge

PM and defense minister say subterranean system destroyed in response to drone attack a day earlier, after postponing the demolition due to the...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

The Children Hamas Chose to Weaponize.

The Children Hamas Chose to Weaponize.

There are few images more heartbreaking than a dead child. Every innocent life lost in Gaza is a tragedy. As a father, as a Muslim, and as someone who...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mansoor H. Laghari

Is AI Becoming the Third Person in Your Relationship?

Is AI Becoming the Third Person in Your Relationship?

What happens when people tell an AI what they no longer tell their partners?

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Psychology Today

Changiz Mohiyeddini Ph.d

Israeli festivalgoer stabbed in Hungary, two arrested over drug suspicions

Israeli festivalgoer stabbed in Hungary, two arrested over drug suspicions

Police don’t indicate motive, but Ozora festival has history of violent incidents unrelated to identity; trance event draws tens of thousands each...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The Musician I Let Pass Me By

I shuffled through songs in the car as I searched for parking in Beverly Hills on a Tuesday afternoon. The stakes were high. I needed the perfect song...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jessica Ghitis

Beyond the Nuclear Umbrella: What South Korea Can Learn from Israel

Beyond the Nuclear Umbrella: What South Korea Can Learn from Israel

South Korea is facing a growing danger of nuclear decoupling: the possibility that North Korea could use its capability to threaten US cities to make...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ju Hyung Kim

Greatness and Humility (Eikev, Covenant & Conversation)

Greatness and Humility (Eikev, Covenant & Conversation)

A sequence of verses in this week’s sedra gave rise to a beautiful Talmudic passage – one that has found a place in the Siddur. It is among the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Sacks

Nov cikel napadov kaže, da nobeno premirje ni stabilno

Nov cikel napadov kaže, da nobeno premirje ni stabilno

Američani spet bombardirajo Iran, ki je odgovoril z napadi v Kuvajtu in Jordaniji. Izrael po premirju 8. aprila ne sodeluje več v ameriških...

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Dnevnik

Mihael Šorl

Keep Your $3.8 Billion and Choke on It

Keep Your $3.8 Billion and Choke on It

The American left has discovered a number: $3.8 billion. They repeat it with the solemnity of a catechism. The United States gives Israel $3.8 billion...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joseph P. Rhinewine

The Palestinian Business Sector Took the Allenby Crossing to the High Court

The Palestinian Business Sector Took the Allenby Crossing to the High Court

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Amira Hass

What British Columbia Taught Me About Belonging

British Columbia has been home to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial, and shaped ever since by people who came from somewhere else. For...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ezra Shanken

Off-duty soldiers, Border Police attacked in Jerusalem by dozens of Haredi males

Off-duty soldiers, Border Police attacked in Jerusalem by dozens of Haredi males

Assailants were attending rally celebrating 63 people arrested during recent attack on home of deputy Supreme Court chief to protest the arrest of...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Po potresih v bližini se delež zavarovanj okrepi, a nato hitro upade

Po potresih v bližini se delež zavarovanj okrepi, a nato hitro upade

Po opozorilih Agencije za zavarovalni nadzor bi morali ljudje že danes zmanjšati svojo finančno izpostavljenost tveganju potresa, kar lahko storijo...

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Dnevnik

Sebastjan Morozov

Golobova vlada je za sofinanciranje čipiranja mačk obljubila 4,5 milijona evrov, zagotovila pa precej manj

Golobova vlada je za sofinanciranje čipiranja mačk obljubila 4,5 milijona evrov, zagotovila pa precej manj

Z novim letom bodo morale biti vse lastniške mačke označene in vpisane v register hišnih živali. Da bi imetnike spodbudili k čipiranju, ga...

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Dnevnik

Tatjana Pihlar

Vročina naša vsakdanja

Vročina naša vsakdanja

Vročina naša vsakdanja. Kakšna sreča, da je bila vmes daljša ohladitev ali vsaj osvežitev. Prav čudim se rastlinam, da je še kaj zelenega...

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Dnevnik

Andrej Velkavrh

Kitajska jedrska opcija

Kitajska jedrska opcija

Evropska komisija poskuša izboljšati konkurenčnost evropskih proizvajalcev nasproti kitajskim prek uporabe carin. Ukrepi komisije temeljijo na...

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Dnevnik

Jože P. Damijan

Management of Bluefin Tuna Stocks: Japan Must Do Its Utmost to Reach International Agreement

15:36 JST, July 28, 2026 As one of the world’s leading tuna-consuming nations, Japan bears a heavy responsibility for managing international...

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The Japan News

Editorial

Before Religion, There Was Conscience

Before Religion, There Was Conscience

Every civilisation eventually asks the same question. Where does morality come from? Is it imposed by law? Learned from parents? Inherited through...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump must set up an Iranian government-in-exile

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump must set up an Iranian government-in-exile

Speaking to the Iranians is futile, says the leading classicist and military historian. He explains why American’s don’t have patience for war and...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ may need to bend, not break

Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ may need to bend, not break

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi styles herself after Margaret Thatcher, who famously was not for turning. But successful long-term governing sometimes...

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The Japan Times

Gearoid Reidy

VOX POPULI: Like rain, sudden tax cuts do not fall evenly on an unequal society

“The rain falls on the rich and on the poor, on the just and on the unjust. But the truth is that the rain is not evenhanded at all, because it...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Cornell denounces student’s viral antisemitic remarks, but won’t bar him from campus

Cornell denounces student’s viral antisemitic remarks, but won’t bar him from campus

Condemnation from school comes after student, who told a potential employer he didn’t want to work for Jews, doubles down on statement and accuses...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Lapin

Apartheid wealth cannot buy silence on Gaza

Apartheid wealth cannot buy silence on Gaza

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has lost 250 million rand ($15.2m) in donor funding after adopting two resolutions on Israel’s war on Gaza....

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Al Jazeera

Tafi Mhaka

Criminal Military? UK MoD Cancels BATUK Exercise Over Fears of Criminal Prosecution

Criminal Military? UK MoD Cancels BATUK Exercise Over Fears of Criminal Prosecution

Criminal Military? UK MoD Cancels BATUK Exercise Over Fears of Criminal Prosecution On July 23, 2026, the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) canceled...

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New Eastern Outlook

Simon Chege Ndiritu

How Netanyahu lost America

How Netanyahu lost America

As Benjamin Netanyahu began his latest visit to Washington, DC, to reaffirm Israel’s indispensable alliance with the United States, a public opinion...

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Al Jazeera

Said Arikat

واخان: البوابة الأفغانية في القرن الـ21 ـ معركة الجغرافيا والنفوذ

يشهد العالم تحوّلاً عميقاً في مفهوم القوة، فلم تعد الدول تُقاس فقط بقدراتها...

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العين الإخبارية

د. عبيدالله برهاني

Becoming Jewish Is Well Worth The Effort

Any non-Jewish person of sound mind who feels a personal draw to Judaism can become Jewish. People commonly convert to Judaism out of personal...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Allen S. Maller

Living With 'Gaza Syndrome': Trauma That Renews Itself Every Day

Living With 'Gaza Syndrome': Trauma That Renews Itself Every Day

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Iyad Krunz

Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism

Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism

Latin America is becoming the political and ideological laboratory for tech-supremacism. With Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel recently...

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Al Jazeera

Federico Pita

Silicon, Not Software, Will Decide the AI Race

Silicon, Not Software, Will Decide the AI Race

PARIS—Did the AI boom begin when it did simply as a result of scientific breakthroughs? At first glance, it would seem so. The transformer...

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Project Syndicate

Antonin Bergeaud

Record Number of Mountain Accidents: Stay Alert to Reports of Bear Sightings

17:38 JST, July 27, 2026 The summer mountain climbing season has begun. This year, there has already been a spate of cases where climbers and others...

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The Japan News

Editorial

Who’s (Not) a Zionist: RAAM or the Haredim?

Although the Israeli polls over the last two years have consistently shown that the Opposition is well ahead of the governing Coalition, the former...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Give You A Lift? : My Hagba Humiliation

“Art is born of humiliation.” World Within World, W.H. Auden (1951) Age 17, I moved from Washington Heights in Manhattan to Kew Gardens, Queens....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Finish the Job

Finish the Job

Every pause the West calls prudence, Tehran spends on reconstruction. The conflict with Iran exposes a persistent weakness in Western policy. When the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ilan Eichner W

Pakistan’s attacks on Afghanistan are about more than the TTP

Pakistan’s attacks on Afghanistan are about more than the TTP

Since October 2025, Pakistan has carried out multiple air strikes in Afghanistan, causing large-scale civilian casualties and destruction. The...

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Al Jazeera

Zardasht Shams

AI Companions: Emotional Safety or Risk Reduction?

AI Companions: Emotional Safety or Risk Reduction?

Teens' connection with AI companions may be more than just a safe space.

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Psychology Today

Angela Patterson Ph.d

IDF demolishes Hezbollah tunnels below southern Lebanon’s Beaufort Ridge

IDF demolishes Hezbollah tunnels below southern Lebanon’s Beaufort Ridge

Video shows dozens of Haredi males attacking off-duty troops, border cops in Jerusalem * ‘This will be your grave’: Ex-hostage Evyatar David...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Unpacking the Invisible Moving Boxes

Unpacking the Invisible Moving Boxes

The emotional and administrative weight of changing addresses.

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Psychology Today

Janelle E. Wells

Ex-hostage Evyatar David details struggles with PTSD, a year after Hamas forced him to dig own grave

Ex-hostage Evyatar David details struggles with PTSD, a year after Hamas forced him to dig own grave

‘Rehabilitation is a different battle’ than surviving captivity, says the former hostage, as he explains how ‘that skinny guy with the spoon...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Netanyahu Wanted Washington to Act on Iran, Now He Says It Wasn't His Decision

Netanyahu Wanted Washington to Act on Iran, Now He Says It Wasn't His Decision

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Carolina Landsmann

Costa Rica’s Grynspan takes early lead in race to helm UN, would be first woman and Jewish chief

Costa Rica’s Grynspan takes early lead in race to helm UN, would be first woman and Jewish chief

Non-binding preliminary straw poll shows 10 of 15 Security Council members cast ‘encourage’ votes for the former VP, ahead of Guyana’s ex-FM and...

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The Times of Israel

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