Military task force warns that Israeli COVID variant could emerge

A military-led task force has warned of the potential emergence of a mutated Israeli variant of the coronavirus resistant to vaccines. In a report...

The Military Radio Station Is Too Political? What About the Army Itself

US Jewish philanthropists give more during pandemic but struggle with allocation

JTA — Lisa Greer used to devote a significant share of her time and money to long-term philanthropic projects. She didn’t mind that it could...

Israeli artist paints Trump from every angle

AFP — The face is obscure and grim, but the blonde comb-over and tie leave no doubt that the image carpeting the studio of Israeli painter Iddo...

The art of ‘leaking’ in the Japanese government

PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA – Last week, a “senior member” of the ruling coalition fueled a breaking story in The Times that then garnered a...

Lessons from living through a pandemic

The year 2020 undoubtedly defied expectations and predictions. Yet as a new year commences, the experience has not deterred many from offering...

Iraq is Rearming

In addition to the forced withdrawal of the US military from the country, as demanded by the Iraqi authorities and people, the other most popular...

Twitter owes its users a plausible explanation

Twitter, the social networking service, owes all its users a plausible and definitive explanation regarding the posts it allows on its...

Take your booty

In the Song of the Sea, the Jewish People recount the events leading up to the miraculous parting of the Red Sea and the Egyptians’ fateful...

Pressuring Israel never produces results

As the Biden administration begins its time in office a considerable amount of voices, from former administration officials, think tanks and...

The Trust Test

Trust is a fickle thing. It is hard to build and it can shatter in a moment. Once shattered, it is painstaking to rebuild. If this is true of trust...

A ‘wineing’ hypocrisy: The BDS movement in Canada

Recently, both as an academic who studies the Holocaust and as a passionate Canadian Jew, I have been struggling to make liminal to others my fear...

The divine embrace — fusing word and movement in Kaddish

When each one of us is a newborn, our parents often hold us up to them by cupping their palm in one hand under our heads and wrapping their other...

Germans – Don’t Mention the War

What if his grandfather murdered my grandfather? This bizarre question sometimes pops into my head when I meet a German, even in a benign business...

Vaccines: the case against Bibi

In a leaked video , Bibi claimed that he will win the upcoming elections because of his execution of a swift vaccine rollout.  Israel is doing far...

Proud to be an American

I was born in Liverpool, England, and spent time both in the Netherlands and in South Africa. By the young age of 15, I had already traveled and...

There Is No Tidy Ending to My Eating Disorder

Trigger Warning: This post contains weights and calories. I’ve been struggling with my eating disorder. I haven’t gained the pandemic fifteen,...

Meridor and Turner Are Right

Holocaust survivor turns falafel into symbol of Jewish resilience

(JTA) — On January 18, 1945, the Nazis at Auschwitz forced David Leitner and about 66,000 other camp prisoners to march through the snow....

Cabinet to okay Morocco normalization, debate travel ban to curb virus variants

The cabinet on Sunday was set to convene, with ministers slated to approve the establishment of diplomatic ties between Israel and Morocco and...

I, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hereby Declare...

Ministries feud over future of natural gas in climate change tug-of-war

Just hours after Wednesday’s inauguration, US President Joe Biden signed executive orders rejoining the 2015 Paris Climate Accords and...

Labor to pick new leader as frontrunner Michaeli looks to renew struggling party

Labor members go to the polls on Sunday to task a new leader with saving the center-left party, which governed Israel for its first three decades...

Introducing Varieties of European Subsidiarity

This is an advance preview of Varieties of European Subsidiarity: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Edited by Günter Walzenbach & Ralf Alleweldt....

The death of K-pop

Courtesy of Peter Kaminski By David Tizzard The Korean ascent to greatness has been steep and fraught with danger, yet it is all the more...

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, blacklisted in McCarthy era, dies at 101

NEW YORK (AP) — Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist whose Oscar-nominated script for...

Minister slams claim COVID death rate is ‘failure’ compared to others in region

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein angrily denied a TV report on Saturday that suggested Israel was faring poorly in terms of its death toll from...