Punishment of online sex crimes

Court ruling sends warning to similar perpetrators A Seoul court delivered a heavy punishment against a person involved in one of the nation's...

Nazareth mayor announces plan to establish new joint Arab-Jewish political party

Ali Salam, the mayor of the predominantly Arab city of Nazareth, announced plans on Thursday to found a joint Arab-Jewish party to compete in the...

Corbyn to start legal action as UK’s Labour denies him parliamentary membership

The former leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, is to begin legal action against the party after it refused to readmit...

Europe’s Populist Showdown

And yet another British, well-known cis-woman heartlessly negates transwomen

This is a running commentary on the above interview with Suzanne Moore, an award-winning columnist and journalist who won the 2019 Orwell Prize. ***...

A few common Torah Mnemonics.

Welcome back to my blog about Gematria, the Merkabah and the Birth of the Alephbet. Today I’m going to list some common mnemonics that you should...

One was Loved, One was Hated

The Torah uses a harsh word to describe Jacob’s feelings for his first wife, Leah: that she was hated. Alarmed by this language, some...

Queen Aliquippa, 1st Resident of McKeesport, PA

Some years ago when my Cousin Jean read a draft of an article on our family’s hometown of McKeesport, a small town near Pittsburgh, she replied...

Parshat Vayeitze: Dreams of Tomorrow

In times of despair and distress, whether physically, mentally, or spiritually, we need a recharge. Those restorative moments are catalysts not...

Garlic and Chicken Soup, 2: Vaccines

Last week I wrote about the preventive medicine we should all be practicing, as our foremothers taught us.  I took a bit of heat (in addition to...

A Thanksgiving Moment: Reframing the American and Jewish Story

Managing a Broken Society: As we experience this Thanksgiving moment, we realize the health challenges and economic struggles of so many in our...

Enlightenment starts with Yaakov

 Parashat VaYetzei November 27, 2020 / 13 Kislev 5781 This parasha closes exactly the way it opens. Fleeing from home, the Torah says,  Yaakov left...

Painting a Portrait of Mashiach

“Nobody knows how they will be until they will be,” writes Maimonides about the Messianic days. Nonetheless, he dedicated two chapters in his...

Drunk dialing, texts & voicemails

The Holidays are here, and some of us will be partying and might find ourselves drunk at the end of the night and instead of going to bed we pull...

This week in Turkey's hate speech parade

From 90s pop stars to TV hosts, opposition politicians to publishers, everybody in Turkey has someone they like to hate. Unfortunately, every...

Heavy rainfall causes flooding, damage in coastal cities

Heavy rainfall on Thursday caused extensive flooding and damage in several Israeli coastal cities, with the continued downpours making this...

Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan show the cost of celebrating the military

Australia has fought alongside the United States in every major American military action of the last century, from World War I to the Middle East....

Korea's Sexual Exploitation Runs Deeper than One Man

By David Tizzard South Korea breathed a sigh of relief after the Seoul District Court found a 25-year-old male named Cho Ju-bin guilty of running...

Saudi Arabia must free its Uyghur detainees

The authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested two Uyghur Muslims who face persecution and torture if they are deported to China. Such a move by the...

Relations Between China and South Korea: The Economic Aspects

Having scrutinized the political aspect of relations between the PRC and the ROK, let us briefly examine the economy’s state of affairs. First, a...

Canada police identify person of interest in deaths of billionaire Jewish couple

Toronto police said Wednesday that they have identified a person of interest in the killing of Canadian drug company billionaire Barry Sherman and...

The Elections in the United States: a Middle Eastern Perspective

“Donald Trump – the true face of the United States”, “The Arabs and the new American Administration”, “Biden, Arabs, and the Gulf”....

Russian Military Aggression or ‘Civil War’ in Ukraine?

This is an excerpt from Crisis in Russian Studies? Nationalism (Imperialism), Racism and War by Taras Kuzio. Get your free download from E-...

Parshat Va’yeitzei – Bread and Water and Clothes

Welcome to another exciting Parsha. As Rabbi Nachman said – the Parsha is about you and me. It Is Va’yetzei. Let’s learn and connect to what has...

No More War

‘Valley of Tears,’ the dramatic series currently being shown on Israeli TV about events in the Golan Heights at the outbreak of the Yom Kippur...

For Asia's airlines, financial strife is only just beginning

Next three months critical as risk tolerance deadlines approach

New TLV art space aims to elevate Israeli art aesthetic

It’s been a dark period for the art world, as museums, galleries and art spaces have been shuttered for most of the last eight months. A new Tel...

Japan, China need to step up dialogue on bilateral disputes

Building a healthy relationship with China is a priority for Japan that goes a long way toward determining the nation’s future course. Japan needs...

The End of the Age of Politics

The Real Task of Benny Gantz’s Panel

Cartoonist Takao Yaguchi, like his characters, was force of nature

Muteki (Invincible), a sumo wrestler masked like a pro wrestler whose winning streak cannot be stopped, is the protagonist of the first work of...

The god of soccer has departed this world

New York – Diego Maradona has died, and with him dies one of the greatest soccer players of all time. Daniel, a manager at Ground Support, a...

Javno-zasebno partnerstvo po madžarsko

Tridesetletne izkušnje z javno-zasebnim partnerstvom (PPP) v svetu so pokazale bistvene prednosti in slabosti tega koncepta za izvedbo predvsem...

Maradona had Che on his arm and Fidel in his heart

Commentary. Was Maradona a communist? In a certain “resistance” sense, he certainly was. And a Castrist, Chavista, Peronist of the left, an...

Yavis and Zavis

One of the cruellest elements of the Corona virus has been its effects on the most vulnerable. Like the ancient Amalekite enemy of the Jews, in the...

Jordan warns against changing status of Temple Mt., after Netanyahu’s Saudi trip

Jordan said it opposes any effort to change the status quo at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, following Prime Minister Benjamin...

No progress on Israel-Saudi normalization until ‘King Salman has gone’ — report

An Israeli source familiar with the details of the normalization talks with Saudi Arabia said that progress on a possible deal would only happen...

For some ultra-Orthodox Jews, virus forges path to a very different lifestyle

AFP — For many, the pandemic has been a time of devastating isolation, but for some ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews it has pushed them to integrate in...

(POGLED) Covid, ki je ukradel božič

Želel sem dan začeti prijetno, a sem vklopil televizor ravno v trenutku, ko je jedka gledalka v oddaji Dobro jutro po telefonu nahrulila Ano...

Israeli ex-envoy fumes over Thailand’s release of Iranians jailed for bomb plot

Israel’s former ambassador to Thailand fumed over the release of three Iranians arrested over a 2012 bomb plot in Bangkok targeting Israeli...

Don’t have a cow: Israel’s Remilk serves up dairy products made without animals

Israeli startup Remilk hopes to be the first company in the world to bring real dairy milk products to market without needing a single cow in the...

Iranian diplomat goes on trial in Belgium for plot to bomb opposition rally

BRUSSELS (AFP) — An Iranian diplomat goes on trial in Belgium on Friday accused of plotting to bomb an opposition rally outside Paris, in a case...

15 malls to reopen Friday under plan to evaluate social distancing rules

Some malls were set to reopen Friday as part of a pilot plan approved by the high-level coronavirus cabinet, amid signs that new COVID-19...

Lessons learned from COVID-19 can help us fight climate change

The pressing need to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine and make it available to everyone everywhere to bring an end to the ongoing...

The G20 and multilateralism after Trump

The 2020 Riyadh Summit, the 15th meeting of the Group of 20, was hosted by Saudi Arabia on Nov. 21 and 22. Expectations for this year’s meeting...

Japan’s ‘misunderstanding’ about a Biden administration

Now that Vice-President Joe Biden is set to become the next U.S. president in January 2021, attention is turning to the makeup of his cabinet. Key...

Coronavirus is helping African economies compete

When all is said and done in 2020, African economies will probably have outperformed the rest of the world during the coronavirus pandemic....

Michael Horowitz, Israeli prosecutor of Nazi guard Demjanjuk, dies aged 69

Yes, Michael Horowitz’s biggest claim to fame was his work as a top prosecutor in the famed Israeli war crimes trial against John Demjanjuk, the...

What the Middle East can expect from President Biden

Not since George H.W. Bush, whose career in public service had included stints as CIA Director, Ambassador to China, and two terms as Vice...