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A visit by the CEO of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer next week was postponed due to the fact that Albert Bourla and his delegation are not yet fully...
The United Arab Emirates’ first ambassador to Israel, Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah, completed his preliminary visit to Israel Friday after meeting...
A new poll Thursday once again showed the left-wing Meretz party failing to pass the electoral threshold in the coming March 23 election, while it...
Ameriški predsednik Joe Biden, ki se je soočil z velikim izzivom spodbujanja gospodarstva svoje države v obdobju po pandemiji in ki ga je še...
Ruling bloc to blame for top prosecutor's quit Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl resigned Thursday to protest the ruling bloc's campaign to weaken...
When Europe was hit with plague in the 14th century, the Church offered its frightened followers indulgences, not spiritual comfort, a pattern that...
JTA — The Globe and Mail, a leading Canadian newspaper, has taken down an opinion piece comparing COVID-19 lockdowns to Anne Frank’s experience as...
Tehnološka revolucija na področju finančnih storitev in pojav privatnih digitalnih valut sta odprla številna vprašanja o vlogi države in...
Analysis. Twenty days before the legislative elections—the fourth in two years—parties want to avoid appearing to the voters as the one holding...
Path to effective collective action lies in casting off long-standing aversions
Zase pravim, da imam rad naravo. Koliko je ljudi, ki bi rekli enako? Ampak kaj dejansko pomeni imeti rad naravo? Ali se pravzaprav zavedamo, kaj je...
“If I am not for myself, who is for me?” (Pirkei Avot 1:14). This famous saying from Pirkei Avot speaks to the imperative we each have to live...
One of the challenges of the past year has been the restrictions on celebrations, the postponement and limitations on bar mitzvahs and weddings....
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Parker J. Palmer The sin of the Golden Calf, and in...
Prayerful Creations is the name I call my tallitot- prayer shawls that are unique, made with a technique called, Swedish Weaving. It’s a...
Sergio Bergman is a social activist, climate-change activist, former Argentinian Environment Minister, friend to Pope Francis – and a rabbi. He is...
This post and the Torah learning invested is fully dedicated to the Ilui Neshama of Chaim Schneur Zalman Yehuda “Yudi” ben Aaron Leib, may his...
Reportage. Il manifesto witnessed a second rescue operation by Sea-Watch-3, 31 miles from the Libyan coast. Among the migrants who left on a rubber...
The convergence of the Indian and Pacific Oceans into a single geostrategic space — the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR) — and the growing competition...
Analysis. Instead of the closure, the government has introduced the obligation to wear a mask in the workplace and intends, in the coming weeks, to...
Israel may begin vaccinating children aged 12 and up this spring after receiving initial safety data from Pfizer-BioNTech but before US regulators...
This week’s High Court of Justice ruling on non-Orthodox conversions has, it seems, given new life to the flailing campaigns of the Haredi...
JTA — NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is looking forward to his daughter’s wedding to a Jewish entrepreneur. He’s just a little worried about...
In its current form, Erdoğan government's last package has nothing more to say than “we’ve just found out there is such a thing as law.” It has...
JTA — Israel’s two largest Orthodox political parties both released ads this week attacking Reform Jews. One video featured pictures of dogs in...
JTA — As he tries to acclimate to the NBA, Deni Avdija got some much-needed good news: The Israeli first-year pro was picked for the Rising Stars...
Despite rising numbers due to second waves across the continent, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa, is still within manageable...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday spoke to US Vice President Kamala Harris, with the conversation focusing on the pandemic, the Iranian...
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has informed Defense Minister Benny Gantz that he will not currently examine whether the prime minister can...
JTA — In Israel, a High Court ruling liberalizing Jewish conversion standards is sparking a political crisis just three weeks before the country...
THE CONVERSATION via AP — From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in...
Na celjskem sodišču je bilo za danes napovedano, včeraj pa preklicano ponovno sojenje premierju in predsedniku SDS Janezu Janši zaradi očitane...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Thursday said the Israel Defense Forces is continuously updating its plans for a prospective military strike on...
JTA — The political advocacy group Dallas Jewish Conservatives is celebrating Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s lifting of his statewide...
Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. This week we’re speaking with the brains and brawn behind the hit web...
I don’t have a good voice. There, I’ve said it. Now that doesn’t mean I can’t carry a tune. Usually, I can sort of keep on key (with usually...
The Asean Foreign Ministers’ meeting this week with Wunna Maung Lwin, a retired army colonel appointed as foreign minister by Myanmar’s junta,...
After a year of living in a cultural desert, the ban on public performances in Israel has finally been lifted. And last night when we were able at...
After four years of work, the Israel Defense Forces has completed the sophisticated new underground barrier on the Gaza border which is used to...
On 12 February, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked by a reporter whether the new Joe Biden administration intends to shut down the...
Most people assume that Poland’s destroyed Jewish burial grounds were desecrated by the Nazis. An expert on Jewish cemeteries in Poland, however,...
In Judaism, the two most common names for God are Elohim and the tetragrammaton (Y-H-W-H). The word Elohim (אלהים) is the plural for Eloah...
Shpilkes is one of those piquant and now quite translatable Yiddish words. Derived from the word siztn, which means to sit, its literal meaning is...