Involuntary sex slaves or voluntary prostitutes

By Chang Se-moon Before and during World War II, more than 170,000 women were brought to the battle field to satisfy the sexual wants of Japanese...

Global education has permanently changed

One year ago at this time I received an email from my son’s school announcing its closure effective the following week due to then-Prime Minister...

Greek tanker cleared of suspicion for oil spill that polluted Israel’s beaches

The Environmental Protection Ministry announced Sunday that it had absolved a Greek oil tanker suspected of responsibility for the oil leak that...

The Latest Forums for the “Quad” and the Munich Security Conference

In terms of assessing the situation in the Indo-Pacific region, two recent events that happened over a one-day interval (February 18 and 19) are...

Just Another Day in the Age of Pandemics!

Let’s start by looking at a simple definition of the word “pandemic”. According to the Mirriam-Webster dictionary, pandemic means: ...

Parshat Tetzaveh: Clothing of the Soul

Our clothing communicate something about ourselves to the world; they provide a window into the inner character of who we are, or at least who we...

As American as apple pie

Unfortunately, restricting voting rights for the people of the United States is a very American tradition. Upon gaining independence from the...

Bibi-ism and Kahanism in Israel’s Elections

The leadership of the state of Israel these days is moving further and further to the extreme political right, which is a dangerous and destructive...

Anti-Semitism From Black Hebrew Israelites a Growing Concern

Jewish Immigrants arriving in the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century faced discrimination. Jews were not allowed to apply to...

Kosher Movies: News of the World

A number of years ago, I stopped watching the evening news. It was all negative, and I felt that it was beginning to affect the way I saw the...

Stop playing with numbers

UN agency turns down Korea's carbon emission reduction target The worldwide greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 will fall by a mere 0.5 percent from...

Pinnacle of populism

New airport project denounced as pork barrel The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) has set a bad precedent for a pork barrel project by...

Blatman Is Taking Part in Poland's Intimidation Campaign

Republic of Korea Quo Vadis?

By Park Moo-jong Four years ago in 2017, I wrote a column titled "Quo Vadis Korea" about the then commotion and trouble we Koreans were...

Games of war and peace

By Donald Kirk PYEONGTAEK ― U.S. soldiers pour out of the walk-in gate of Camp Humphreys on a weekend afternoon, strolling by bars and...

'America is back'

By John J. Metzler "I'm sending a clear message to the world: America is back. The transatlantic alliance is back," President Joe Biden affirmed to...

EVs need low-carbon materials to fulfil promise of green future

By Gregory Barker At the launch of the Korean New Deal, President Moon Jae-in urged Korea to ride the wave of world history by embracing a...

Turning announcements into action on climate change

By Kim Tae-jong Last year will be largely remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a lot of meaningful strides were made to tackle...

Anchors aweigh

By Nam Sang-so "Stand, Navy, out to sea, fight our battle cr y… Anchors aweigh …" The march song of the U.S. Navy, played by a brass band on the...

Football — no coming home until there's a coming out

British football player Justin Fashanu would have turned 60 last week. Instead, he has been dead for over two decades now — a victim of toxic...

On Listening To The Megillah 2021

Purim is a day fraught with Paradox. It is the day when God is most hidden, yet most revealed. Like the Invisible Man, whose contours are only...

Turkey’s ‘war machine’ and private sector

Turkey has the 13th largest army in the world if one takes its fire superiority into account. Military production is not a natural cycle of need....

From strategic autonomy to strategic retreat

With regard to the new Biden administration, Turkey’s AKP government seems to have given up its previous policy of “strategic autonomy” and is...

After transport blocked, hundreds walk to Jerusalem for banned Purim parties

Police said hundreds of people were walking into Jerusalem on Sunday for banned Purim celebrations after authorities stopped transportation to the...

A war is being waged against academic freedom in Britain

Over the past few weeks, David Miller, a professor of political sociology at Bristol University in the United Kingdom, has been the subject of a...

Khashoggi’s murder: It is time for accountability

In 2018, Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul to pick up documents he...

Cybersecurity startup SentinelOne reportedly seeks IPO at $10 billion valuation

Israeli cybersecurity startup SentinelOne is planning an initial public offering of shares this year at a possible valuation of $10 billion,...

K-12 education will never be the same after COVID-19

With remote learning going on for almost a year in some parts of the U.S., and new CDC guidance that could leave kids at home until May if not...

(POGLED) Človek je človek. Hrvat, Srb, Bosanec, Slovenec … In Balašević je Balašević.

Ob Balaševićevi smrti sem se spomnila svojih staršev. Kadar je umrl kak pevec, ob čigar pesmih so plesali v Veliki kavarni, sta to pospremila s...

PODCAST: Daily Briefing Feb. 28 — Israeli politics’ massive ego problem

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing: Your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish...

Transportation minister proposes plan to allow all Israelis to fly back and vote

Transportation Minister Miri Regev said Sunday that her ministry would propose a plan to the cabinet whereby all Israelis abroad would be permitted...

IDF chief: Blast on Israeli-owned ship was a ‘reminder’ from Iran

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on Sunday indicated that Iran was behind a blast on an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman last week. At a...

Tufts pro-Israel Jewish student government member no longer facing impeachment

JTA — An attempt to remove a pro-Israel Jewish activist from his student government position at Tufts University has been withdrawn. The effort...

Air force pilots sent to train in US removed from return flight due to entry ban

Two air force pilots who were sent to the United States last week for advanced training were reportedly removed from an El Al flight ahead of their...

Transmission rate nears 1 as officials warn Purim parties could halt reopening

Israel’s virus transmission rate has continued to rise and is extremely close to showing expanded spread, data released by a military taskforce...

Israeli ship hit by blast in Gulf of Oman docks in Dubai for repairs

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Israeli-owned cargo ship that suffered a mysterious explosion in the Gulf of Oman came to Dubai’s port for...

Hitler as Haman? Amsterdam museum holds relic of post-Holocaust Purim tradition

JTA — When she was 10 years old, Nechama Mayer-Hirsch sat down to make puppets for a Purim spiel and crafted one of the man responsible for her...

Johnson & Johnson’s 1-dose shot cleared by FDA, giving US 3rd COVID-19 vaccine

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US is getting a third vaccine to battle COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday cleared a Johnson &...

Benny Gantz won’t quit the election race. Is that for Israel’s sake, or his own?

There’s no getting around it: Benny Gantz has become a despised figure among a great many of his former voters. In March 2020, Gantz broke his...

Mazziks—The Low-Level Demons I Knew Nothing About

For years I sensed their presence but I didn’t know their names. So who knew? Not me. I’m no student of the Jewish occult. Nobody ever told me...

2nd former aide accuses New York’s Cuomo of sexual harassment

AP — A second former aide said she was sexually harassed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who responded with a statement Saturday saying he never...

Golden Trump statue drawing crowd at CPAC conference was made in Mexico

A golden statue of former US president Donald Trump at a major annual conservative conference was made in Mexico. The Conservative Political Action...

Israeli security officials in Dubai to inspect ship hit by blast in Persian Gulf

A delegation of Israeli security officials was sent to Dubai to inspect the ship hit by an explosion in the Persian Gulf, Haaretz reported Sunday....

T-shirts of Biden with Hitler mustache on sale at CPAC conference

T-shirts emblazoned with the image of US President Joe Biden sporting a Hitler mustache above the words “Not My Dictator” were spotted on sale on...

Gantz recently held secret meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah — report

Blue and White party leader and Defense Minister Benny Gantz recently met secretly with the king of Jordan, according to a Sunday report. Gantz’s...

Traffic to Jerusalem blocked on 3rd night of Purim curfew to curb virus spread

Police set up checkpoints around Jerusalem on Saturday night to prevent revelers from traveling to the city for the final day of Purim...

Israel authorizes plan to vaccinate over 120,000 Palestinian workers

The Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan to vaccinate over 120,000 Palestinians who are legally employed in Israeli communities, Israel’s...

Israel’s entry ban on citizens ‘unparalleled in democratic world,’ watchdog says

The Israel Democracy Institute on Sunday challenged Israel’s coronavirus restrictions on entry to the country that have left thousands of...

Deaf rabbi translates Torah into sign language

LONDON  (Jewish News) — Israel’s only deaf rabbi is giving a hand to the hard of hearing by translating the entire Torah into sign language....

Iran shuts down internet in southeast province amid protests, harsh crackdown

AP — Iran’s impoverished southeast has been experiencing wide disruptions of internet services, experts said, as unrest gripped the remote...