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Israel has list of all Oct. 7 participants, aims to kill or arrest each one — WSJ

Israel has list of all Oct. 7 participants, aims to kill or arrest each one — WSJ

Report says IDF used videos filmed by Hamas operatives during the attack and facial recognition tech to track down terrorists, has crossed...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

US Treasury removes anti-Israel UN envoy Francesca Albanese from sanctions list

US Treasury removes anti-Israel UN envoy Francesca Albanese from sanctions list

A week after federal judge nixed Trump administration’s sanctions on firebrand UN special rapporteur on free speech grounds, she is quietly taken...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Iran said recovering military abilities faster than expected, producing drones again

Iran said recovering military abilities faster than expected, producing drones again

China and Russia helped Islamic Republic blow past US intelligence community predictions, sources tell CNN; Pakistani field marshal in Tehran, as...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Living Alone Made Me Dangerous

Somewhere between heartbreak, solitude and survival, I stopped confusing male attention with emotional safety. At 11:43 on a Tuesday night, a married...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Talyah Ginsberg

Cynická obluda: Koaličný Kulový blesk

Toto bude vyžadovať obrovskú dávku neexistujúcej vzájomnej dôvery.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Antisemitism in Germany ‘worse than any time since the Holocaust,’ annual figures show

Antisemitism in Germany ‘worse than any time since the Holocaust,’ annual figures show

The number of attacks fell 13% in Berlin in 2025, but a ‘societal climate’ of attacks on Jews pervades in the country, government report finds

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Trump napovedal pogovor s predsednikom Tajvana, Kitajska se je ostro odzvala

Trump napovedal pogovor s predsednikom Tajvana, Kitajska se je ostro odzvala

Predsednik ZDA Donald Trump je v sredo napovedal, da bo govoril s predsednikom Tajvana Lai Ching-tejem, kar bi predstavljalo odmik od diplomatske...

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Dnevnik

Sta

Shavuos: Transition from Maamad to Mishkan

The concept of the *Mishkan* (Tabernacle) is frequently misunderstood as a purely functional ritual facility, a cosmic spiritual factory where...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gedalia Walls

Asymetria extrémov alebo prečo je krajná ľavica nebezpečnejšia než pravica?

Kto by chcel za suseda fašistu? U ľavičiarov to ale neprekáža...

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SME.sk

Aktuálně.cz

Iranian sources say regime has decided to keep highly enriched uranium in Iran, defying Trump

Iranian sources say regime has decided to keep highly enriched uranium in Iran, defying Trump

Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said to refuse to give up stockpile of near-weapons grade nuclear material, which US and Israel have demanded be...

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

Daily Briefing May 21 – Royal Commission: Antisemitism soars across Australia

Daily Briefing May 21 – Royal Commission: Antisemitism soars across Australia

Nomi Kaltmann weighs in from Melbourne on Australia’s emotional, ongoing Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion

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The Times of Israel

Nomi Kaltmann

Take care of you and it is not up to you

Repeat after me: MY SUCCESS IS INEVITABLE We are living in miraculous times. In the blink of an eye life happens, and all we can do is keep riding the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

AOC, leading Dems condemn Texas candidate who said she’d put ‘Zionists’ in ICE jail

AOC, leading Dems condemn Texas candidate who said she’d put ‘Zionists’ in ICE jail

Maureen Galindo, running in Democratic primary to represent San Antonio in DC, says most ‘American Zionists’ are probably pedophiles; PAC backing...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

The Option Britain Burned

On May 13, 2026, the British government used the King’s Speech to announce the Energy Independence Bill — legislation that will permanently ban...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Israel deports some 430 foreign flotilla activists, holds one Israeli participant

Israel deports some 430 foreign flotilla activists, holds one Israeli participant

MFA says all foreign detainees deported; condemnations of activist humiliation video continue as Italy asks EU for sanctions on Ben Gvir, Poland looks...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

How China and U.S. navigate the Strait of Hormuz stranglehold

How China and U.S. navigate the Strait of Hormuz stranglehold

When U.S. President Donald Trump declared aboard Air Force One last week that Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed the Strait of Hormuz “must reopen,”...

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The Japan Times

Imran Khalid

Aloha ʻāina

Decoding ancestral knowledge Slingshots of the oceanic She never dances alone Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

The loss of home

On civilisational fatigue, multicultural universalism, and the disappearance of cultural loyalty in the Netherlands The Netherlands no longer seems to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gabrielle bartelse

The crises caused by the Iran war will hit the world in four waves

The crises caused by the Iran war will hit the world in four waves

If tomorrow Iran, the United States and Israel were to announce a peace deal and the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen, the war would not be over. Wars...

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Al Jazeera

Umair waqas

Shavuos: The Strength to Overcome All Challenge

Shavuos: The Strength to Overcome All Challenge

It is no secret that Jews in both Israel and around the world are facing tremendous challenges at this time. And addressing these challenges demands...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Pinny Arnon

Make immigration boring

Make immigration boring The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs by...

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Aeon

Alan manning

Down an alley past police barricades, visitors throng to London’s unsettling Nova exhibition

Down an alley past police barricades, visitors throng to London’s unsettling Nova exhibition

At Wednesday’s opening of Oct. 7 memorial display, locals come to bear witness despite — and because of — security fears and a hostile climate...

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The Times of Israel

Lianne Kolirin

When Trauma Responses Show Up as Overprotective Parenting

When Trauma Responses Show Up as Overprotective Parenting

For some, a child’s independence can activate unresolved wounds.

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Psychology Today

Kaytee Gillis

Can Judaism Be Saved

Arthur Green, Can Judaism Be Saved: Its Future After Gaza (Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025) pp. 139. It seems that the Israeli election will be...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Berenbaum

Shavuot, Marriage and the Together Forever Formula

The topic of marriage has become a dominant theme in this week’s holiday observance of Shavuot as well as this week’s Torah portion of Naso and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Susan Barth

Nie je demografický kolaps vlastne dobrý nápad?

Ľudia viac scrollujú a menej spolu spávajú.

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SME.sk

Gwynne Dyer

The Court That Already Disqualified the Witness

Lithuania used procedure to shield LGGRTC from review. It cannot now use the same institution as certified proof against Artur Fridman. In 2020,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

It Will Clear

There are days when consciousness turns on itself and what it finds is not comforting. These are not feelings. They are observations. And it is that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gil Mildar

STVR je slúžkou vládnej moci

Vedenie vedome ponecháva politikom pocit, že relácie sú ich majetkom.

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SME.sk

Ján k. balázs

Eurovision and tunnel vision

Eurovision and tunnel vision

As I watched Noam Bettan belt his way to second place in Vienna last week, I thought about the gulf between his real self and the avatar of the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lynda ben-menashe

To be a light

What does it mean – to be a light? To illuminate the world. The spiritual and metaphysical meaning : Acting as a beacon of hope, kindness, and truth...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ayala Weinberg

Allyship won’t flirt with you from across the bar

Spanish Guy and I walked out of a bar on Valencia Street, hands brushing, almost holding. I like a guy to make the first move. The sounds of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jessica ghitis

Na radiu po pomoti »pokopali« kralja Karla III.

Na radiu po pomoti »pokopali« kralja Karla III.

Na britanskem radiu Caroline so v torek popoldan prekinili program in objavili novico o smrti 77-letnega kralja Karla. Kasneje so se opravičili in...

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Dnevnik

Tak

The Beauty of Torah

The beauty of the Torah is not only the profound wisdom and truth contained in it, but it is also an ongoing set of laws, waiting to be uncovered. It...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Dehumanisation, colonialism and its accomplices

Dehumanisation, colonialism and its accomplices

Colonialism is dehumanising. It is something akin to a spectacle that several world leaders and ministers have partially woken up to that fact, after...

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Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Ako má Európa hovoriť s Putinom

Európa by mala byť pripravená na rokovania s Ruskom.

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SME.sk

Radovan Geist

Hviezda vlády: zo sociálneho bytu na luxusné dovolenky

Andrej Babiš sa za ministerku zatiaľ postavil.

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SME.sk

Jindřich Šídlo

The Myth of the Deserving Billionaire

The Myth of the Deserving Billionaire

TEMPE—In 1981, President Ronald Reagan wanted to cut funding for children’s nutrition programs as part of broader spending cuts that were billed...

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Project Syndicate

Teresa Ghilarducci

Featured Post

Featured Post

“And it was in the days of the judging of the judges…” (Ruth 1:1) The opening words of the Book of Ruth seem merely to tell us that these events...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ilana Sober Elzufon

Cynická obluda: Ďalšia, s ktorou Fico nič nemá

Je neuveriteľné, že ani v tomto prípade nikto nedá Ficovi ochutnať z jeho vlastnej medicíny.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Why Are China’s Young People Fed Up?

Why Are China’s Young People Fed Up?

MADISON—For several years now, a significant share of young Chinese people, disillusioned with their economic prospects, have embraced “lying...

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Project Syndicate

Yi Fuxian

What 'Strangers' by Belle Burden Says About Women and Money

What 'Strangers' by Belle Burden Says About Women and Money

Why women struggle to protect their finances in marriage.

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Psychology Today

Elise Buie Esq

(POGLED) Kolumna Dejana Verčiča: Kdo vlada? Kdorkoli zmore. Za destigmatizacijo in deidiotizacijo politike

(POGLED) Kolumna Dejana Verčiča: Kdo vlada? Kdorkoli zmore. Za destigmatizacijo in deidiotizacijo politike

Politika ni bolezen demokracije. Brez politike ni mogoče usklajevati interesov, sprejemati skupnih odločitev, razporejati omejenih virov ali...

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Večer

Dejan Verčič

San Diego mosque shooters, who met online, called for genocide of Jews and Muslims

San Diego mosque shooters, who met online, called for genocide of Jews and Muslims

Holocaust-denying teens praised Hitler, called all women ‘evil,’ in violent writings; terrorists killed beloved security guard Amin Abdullah as he...

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The Times of Israel

Ap

Vlada nadzor na meji s Hrvaško in Madžarsko znova podaljšala

Vlada nadzor na meji s Hrvaško in Madžarsko znova podaljšala

Vlada začasni nadzor na meji s Hrvaško in Madžarsko, ki ga izvaja od oktobra 2023, podaljšuje še za šest mesecev, do 21. decembra. Na današnji...

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Dnevnik

Sta

Threat Isn’t One Thing

Threat Isn’t One Thing

Why a health scare and a climate crisis push your thinking in opposite directions.

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Psychology Today

Onurcan yilmaz

A Commencement Address for Us All: Shavuot 5786

This is the season of commencement addresses. Across the country, graduates are putting on caps and gowns, there is one person in the family taking...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Aaron Starr

Koalicijska pogodba: vitka država, denar naj sledi pacientu, razumne politike varovanja okolja

Koalicijska pogodba: vitka država, denar naj sledi pacientu, razumne politike varovanja okolja

Dan pred glasovanjem o mandatarstvu Janeza Janše v državnem zboru so stranke nove vladne koalicije, SDS, trojček NSi, SLS in Fokus ter Demokrati,...

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Dnevnik

Anže Lebinger

Should We Change the Torah Reading Cycle (Again)?

What does the holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost) symbolize? There’s no clear answer because its “meaning” has undergone change over time. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Demand soars for Israel’s weapons tech, even among countries claiming to boycott Jewish state

Demand soars for Israel’s weapons tech, even among countries claiming to boycott Jewish state

Sales of battle-tested Israeli arms more than doubled over past 5 years, hitting record of nearly $15 billion in 2024, including to states that...

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The Times of Israel

Ap