Iran’s supreme leader says women in cartoons must wear hijabs

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently declared that women depicted in cartoons or animated films must wear the hijab head...

‘Moral evil, economic good’: Whitewashing the sins of colonialism

In 2017, a professor at Oxford University in the United Kingdom proposed a research project. The key thesis: that the empire as a historical...

Biden, Saudi king hold first phone call ahead of release of Khashoggi report

US President Joe Biden reaffirmed the US commitment to Saudi Arabia’s defense but stressed the importance of human rights Thursday in a...

Gojek and Tokopedia merger would add fizz to Asia's tech sector

Union likely to drive job creation through innovation and new startups

How Many Are Unemployed in Israel?

Israeli accused of spying for Hamas, providing intel on rocket defense array

An Israeli civilian was indicted Friday for allegedly acting as an agent for the Hamas terror group inside Israel, providing the organization with...

Top court ruling underscores the separation of church and state

The Supreme Court on Feb. 24 ruled that the Naha city government violated the constitutional separation of politics and religion by allowing a...

Conscientious objectors and alternative service

Government agency allows alternative service for objector based on nonreligious reasons The Military Manpower Administration (MMA) made an...

Mori’s resignation highlights changing gender norms

During an online executive meeting on Feb. 3, former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, in his capacity as president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics...

Australia’s face-off with Facebook is of global import

After a face-off between the Australian government and Facebook, in an outcome that has global import, Big Tech will begin paying for using news...

An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation

Dear Mr. President, The world has welcomed your election and commitment to restore diplomatic engagement with the international community to the...

Low Dishonest Decades

Ten implications behind the Egyptian minister's visit to Israel

The visit of Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla to Israel carried many political and economic implications. The...

Twitter’s moment in the sun won’t last

Twitter shares have surged more than 40% this month — and even briefly touched an all-time high — on optimism that the social-media platform...

The coup leaders and Aung San Suu Kyi have betrayed democracy in Myanmar

What is taking place in Myanmar right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of...

Biden Fine-Tunes the Saudi Trombone

No one doubts today that Biden is not a promising politician, but his one-term administration. As such, he is not making any far-reaching plans,...

Purim on Coney Island

If there is one paradise in the world in which the beauty of the Lithuanian Yeshiva and Hasidic worlds synthesize and coalesce with intoxicating...

The problem with how some ultra-Orthodox factions approach COVID

Several ultra-Orthodox factions have adamantly refused to cooperate with COVID prevention protocols. Many have refused to wear masks and have...

Quarantine Convos: David Sarfati

All throughout quarantine, I spent the time reaching out to a variety of people to learn about their backgrounds and experiences. I wanted to take...

Toplotni rekordi v februarju

No, pri vremenu pa se dogaja ravno to – prav nič se ne trudimo zanje, v času kolikor toliko natančnih vremenskih napovedi nas pravzaprav niti...

Knowledge of the heart, knowledge of the hands

When I was 9 years old, my mother tried to teach me to knit. I say tried because, while she was a fine teacher, I was a terrible student. Truth be...

Australia's Big Tech crackdown is no model to emulate

Australia's decision to make Google and Facebook pay for news has been hailed by many as a triumph for journalism. The reality is a bit more...

Israeli elections: Cakeism and its discontents

 Shortlisted by the Oxford English Dictionary in its 2018 ‘word of the year’, cakeism first shot to fame in 2016 when then Foreign Secretary...

I’ll never get back the years I was ‘chained’

S pring has always been my favourite month of the year. Spring symboliszes renewal. Birth, a fresh start, the promise of tomorrow. Spring also...

Wildfires pose challenges even against modern firefighting

Whether it's a bonfire or a portable camping stove, there is something magical and deliciously warm about any fire that is lit in the mountains....

From tempeh to yoga, pandemic downtime fuels cottage industry boom

Some people got through the long lockdown days by fermenting wild yeast and making sourdough. Ze’ev Fuchs and Shelley Griffel took their leavening...

After oil spill, fishermen at Jisr az-Zarqa net catch despite seafood sales ban

JISR AZ-ZARQA (AP) — After weathering a year of the coronavirus pandemic, the fishermen of an Arab village in central Israel have been dealt...

Give me people with heart!

What do you look for in people? What’s the most important thing for you when selecting a good friend, a good neighbour, a good worker? The kind...

Security Cooperation as Remote Warfare: The US in the Horn of Africa

This is an excerpt from Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Get your free download from E-International Relations. Speaking in 2007, US...

In This Time of Isolation, Connecting With Others Is Vital

During the long months of the pandemic, I have been diligent about getting out for walks in my suburban neighborhood.   Periodically, I stop at...

Raised in one of Rio’s most violent favelas, he’s now a rising artist in Israel

JTA — What caught Crystal Frant’s eye about the Rastafari skater she spotted on the beach outside Rio de Janeiro back in 2006 wasn’t his...

Task force says pandemic on rise again, warns of new worrisome NY variant

Following the opening of much of the economy this week, the trend of declining infection rates has been halted, and certain indicators are once...

New coronavirus variant in New York spurs caution, concern

NEW YORK (AP) — Another mutated version of the coronavirus has popped up in New York City, and experts reacted to the news with a mixture of...

IDF soldier accidentally shot at military base dies of his injuries

A soldier who was shot in the head Tuesday night due to an apparent accidental discharge from another serviceman’s weapon, died of his wounds...

Lets have no martyrs in Cloud Cuckoo Land   

Is Bristol University going to make Professor David Miller a martyr? Is it going to fire him because he sees Jewish conspirators under every pro-...

Russia’s History of Poisonings

On 20th August 2020, Alexei Navalny –  a prominent Russian opposition leader a huge critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin began to have...

Why must Biden engage Iran?

The Iran Nuclear Deal (officially, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action/ JCPOA) was not a foolproof or infallible document. It contained many...

To the core

‘Don’t show off! Don’t pretend to be, be!’ The piercing voice of my stern ballet teacher with the stick and the square glasses still echoes in...

Human Rights Concerns Continue to Dog 2022 Beijing Olympics

There is no denying that either relocating or collectively boycotting the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics would be a significant move. However, both...

PODCAST: Author Micah Goodman on Israelis’ ongoing search for Jewish identity

This week on Times Will Tell, the Times of Israel’s weekly podcast, we’re speaking with popular Israeli philosopher Dr. Micah Goodman, whose book...

The Jewish world’s biggest donor to disability inclusion is pulling its funding

JTA — To many in the Jewish world, the Ruderman Family Foundation is synonymous with efforts to increase inclusion for Jews with disabilities....

The killing of captives in Garê and its aftermath

The day after the tragic news broke out, the AKP media headlines promised revenge and held the US responsible for the event. The İHD, which has...

Israeli HMO: British variant likely behind 70% jump in serious cases

Clalit Health Services, Israel’s largest HMO, issued a report Thursday on the British coronavirus variant, which it says was the likely cause of a...

(POGLED) Doba mesnih kroglic ali kako je v deželo prišla Ikeamanija

Priznam, naročil sem Ikein katalog. Slovenskega, ki je, kot je dramatično najavljeno, izšel "prvič, zadnjič in nikoli več". Teža...

Police break up parties, hand out 1,300 fines on first night of Purim curfew

Police on Thursday night dispersed several Purim parties around the country that saw dozens or hundreds of people congregate against health...

The fuss over Palestine at Bristol University just proves how bourgeois and out of touch academia is with real Britain

Cards on the table, I am an advocate of free speech and I don’t buy the recent rhetoric from sections of the left that the new public and...

Desničarski jastrebi so spet poleteli

Včeraj me je »razveselil« dolgo pričakovani uradni tvit koalicijske stranke NSi: »Takoj zatem moramo začeti strukturne reforme, s katerimi...

2 Israeli men in their 20s die of COVID-19 in a day

Two Israeli men in their twenties with no preexisting health conditions died of COVID-19 within hours of each other on Thursday. Ghazi Zoabi, 23,...

Massachusetts school board member calls Jew a ‘kike’ on live TV

JTA — A school board member in Lowell, Massachusetts, called a former school district leader a “kike” on live television, spurring calls for...