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Suga deserves criticism for sending offering to shrine Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has infuriated South Korea and China again, this time...
Time-worn labor laws should be revised to boost job creation The country's unemployment situation is getting worse, increasingly being affected by...
As normalization sweeps the Gulf, Israeli anti-occupation activists advocating for Palestinian rights face a new fight for relevance and influence...
From time to time in late autumn, people spot circular heaps of woven branches left on tree trunks. They are handcrafted by wild bears. As they...
Vladimir Putin has long sought to portray himself as strong statesman and guarantor of stability, at home and abroad. Now the Russian president is...
Time-worn labor laws should be revised to boost job creation The country's unemployment situation is getting worse, increasingly being affected by...
By Tong Kim While North Korea's nuclear arsenal is being advanced, South Korea struggles to keep the cohesion of its alliance with the United...
The pandemic has prompted European citizens to accept changes in social behavior that would have seemed impossible only a year ago. People have...
Dva prizora iz filma bosanske režiserke Jasmile Žbanić Quo vadis Aida?, ki so ga premierno prikazali na letošnjem festivalu v Benetkah, se...
On 13 October 2020 the directors of NASA and seven other national space agencies signed the Artemis Accords, a document purporting to articulate...
Writing these Monday columns, I have the feeling of living a Groundhog Day over and over. When the meaningless action for the sake of action...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — US President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden went on offense Sunday, with each campaigning in states they are trying...
WILMINGTON, Delaware (AFP) — A rosary around his wrist, Joe Biden often speaks of the great comfort his Catholic faith has brought him in...
In these difficult times, Israel finds itself facing a fresh scandal on an almost daily basis. The latest was the bold statement made by the...
Leah, a former client who has been grumbling for months about her daughters not paying enough attention to her, “especially now that I am stuck...
Random reader: You may or may not believe this, but I, the faithful collator of this work of uncategorizable literature, most ardently wish that I...
I know how Trumpian that title sounds. Believe me, it’s not! Giving all due respect to the scourge is what we do, the man and I, and what we’ve...
In this remarkable shiur, the rabbi consolidates ideas from recent lectures making the powerful case for the trajectory of history moving evermore...
Telepsychology, sometimes called Telemedicine, has exponentially grown as a way to get psychotherapy since the onset of COVID-19. In fact, more...
Whoever wins the 2020 election will be immediately confronted with a full plate of thorny political issues, from impossible national debt to...
LONDON (AP) — The chair of Britain’s Hay literary festival said Sunday the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festival’s...
AP — An Israeli man hospitalized with the coronavirus has been granted the rare chance to take part in his son’s wedding after the Jerusalem...
I write this as an Emirati who has been following, studying, and researching political and strategic issues for years. Based on my daily...
Israel’s decision-makers are not listening to expert advice on the health crisis, a veteran of several Knesset sessions has charged, accusing...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has pushed nearly all Middle East nations into the throes of an economic recession...
ATHENS, Greece — A prosecutor on Monday recommended that all former lawmakers of Greece’s extreme-right Golden Dawn party who have been convicted...
What a stupid question! But, wait, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, seems to think so. He told a group of European lawmakers...
With the end of the first month of the Jewish calendar, you can feel new beginnings in the air. Last week, the Israeli cabinet voted unanimously in...
Rev. Dr. Gary Mason knows what it means to advocate for peace and reconciliation. He’s been doing it for years in Northern Ireland through his ...
They say from every crisis, a lesson can be learned and undoubtedly, the coronavirus pandemic – a global crisis the likes of which has not been...
Rent-seeking policies end up slashing disposable income and capping demand
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat was downgraded to critical condition Monday morning at a Jerusalem hospital where he was moved for treatment...
WACKY RACESIf politics wasn’t racy enough right now with a space race, an arms race and a tech race taking place between the Chinese and the...
US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has begun manufacturing hundreds of thousands of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine ahead of its expected approval next...
A flight lauded as the first commercial shuttle from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed at Ben-Gurion airport Monday morning, a hopeful...
The Health Ministry has sent the Education Ministry its guidelines for reopening schools after the country’s second national lockdown, sparking...
The national tally of active coronavirus cases dipped below 30,000 on Monday morning for the first time since September 8, according to figures...
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein admitted that authorities were falling short in their mission to keep schools from operating in ultra-Orthodox...
The irrelevance of Soft Power stems not from its theoretical dimension, but from a changing global landscape. The 21st century will be...
Media reports on ultra-Orthodox Jews often describe them as a cohesive community with homogeneous religious practices, voting patterns, and...
Likud MK David Amsalem, the cabinet minister in charge of digital services, was angry on Saturday night. “Guess which privileged public shows...
By Michael Bergmann Watching the opening debate between former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and his opponent was painful. Even more upsetting...
By Dick Polman Maybe you remember this Trump gem from 2016: "I think (Hillary) was out there with classified information. She was giving it to...
An overarching “Taiwan problem” continues to gravitate toward the center of the entire system of relations between the two leading world powers,...
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Monday announced that there would not be a criminal probe into Environmental Protection Minister Gila...
The leader of the fight against the coronavirus urged decision-makers Monday to not rush the opening of schools, warning that pupils could bring...
Is there a foolproof way to announce our existence to other intelligent life-forms? It’s a brainteaser with vast potential consequences, and one...
NovaQuest Capital Management LLC, an investor in life sciences and healthcare, said Monday it has invested $20 million in Israeli biopharmaceutical...
Fresh Paint, known as Israel’s largest art and design fair, will launch digitally on October 28, after being postponed from its usual slot in the...
To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2020 in October, Israeli women’s weekly magazine LaIsha is featuring performing artist Eylon Nuphar, a...
The story of the Tower of Babel is an etiological story brought, in part, to explain why people are spread throughout the world and why it is that...
In all the places we can choose Poor Finland has but 1500 Jews. 1200 in Helsinki, 200 in Turku, but those who like fresh air Will settle with the...
Margaret Atwood has always been a strong critic of repression of speech. She and New Yorker magazine editor Jia Tolentino talked about this...
There are currently around fifty countries in the world that are ruled by a dictator. The unfortunate citizens of these countries have little, or...
Embed from Getty Images “Turn toward the high-quality ones.” Today’s Daf Yomi discussion of interconnected households extends the considerations...
In a few days, Jewish-Americans are going to take part in an inexplicable assault on themselves—their culture and heritage, their religion and...
Having watched most of the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett I am impressed by her credentials, scholarship and that she is an...
Recently Donald Trump said the following: If I lose the election “maybe I’ll have to leave the country”. Was this simply a slip of tongue? Was...
The first decision you need to make is determining which business entity you will use because the type of business structure you choose determines...
The beginning of Israel’s exit from its second lockdown has been beyond chaotic. Even if adjustments are made in the next few days, it would be...
The public outrage following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbury earlier this year flooded bookstores in the United...
Public support is crucial for any agreement between Japan and the United States on Tokyo’s financial contribution to the U.S. forces stationed here,...
Washington – It’s been a month and a half since Shinzo Abe’s abrupt resignation, and Washington’s attention quickly shifted to successor...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Central African Republic (CAR), a former French colony based on an exploitative divide-and-rule system, is a textbook example...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s developments as they unfold. The United Nations says it will stockpile one billion syringes around...
Commentary. This is the true face of our Europe: rich and powerful, but increasingly selfish, closed in on itself and intent on building walls....
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, the largest American Jewish weekly west of New York, has ceased print production as of its...
NEW YORK (AP) — After entire nations were shut down during the first surge of the coronavirus earlier this year, some countries and US states are...
It has been announced that Ben Gurion Airport will be reopened as part of the loosening of Lockdown 2.0. While I welcome the decision, I feel...
When Amsterdam’s Liberal Jewish community moved into a modern new synagogue in the southern part of the city in 2004, tensions between Dutch Jews...
Speculation that China may be seeking to lower the temperature in its fractious dealings with Australia appears to be premature. This follows...
The future that the US has planned for Palestine is already determined, no matter whether President Donald Trump is re-elected or Joe Biden...
The Israel Defense Forces put up a series of barricades on highways and roads near the southern Gaza Strip on Monday as it performed an unspecified...
The U.S. president himself just supplied what may be the best argument for making the effort to vote this time. Against him
A Russian fighter jet reportedly came with a mile of an Israeli passenger aircraft before being warned off by Cypriot air controllers, the Ynet...
Several lawmakers on Sunday condemned a decision to admit senior PLO official Saeb Erekat to a Jerusalem hospital for COVID-19 treatment, saying...
The father of a student and the head of an Islamist pro-Hamas group urged the killing of a French teacher who was beheaded for showing pupils...
Chinese companies have tended to conduct investments in Southeast Asia through subsidiaries in Singapore, leveraging the city state’s advantage as...
BERKELEY – The US recovery is losing momentum. Job growth is slowing, the economy is still down 10.7 million jobs since February, and 36% of...
Two women were found dead at their homes on Monday in suspected murders by their partners. In the southern city of Beersheba, police were called to...
Trump llegó al gobierno con un discurso de aristas autoritarias. Por ejemplo, cuando dijo de Xi Jinping que “es ahora presidente vitalicio, (…) y...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran recorded its worst day of new deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with 337 confirmed dead on Monday. The...
JTA — US Jewish voters are set to vote 75 percent to 22% for Joe Biden, according to a poll by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) published...
A US-based former Olympic swimming medalist secretly escaped Israel last week after testing positive for COVID-19, breaking the law and resulting...
A merchant once sold a barrel of wine with oil floating on top. The purchaser believed that it was a barrel of oil, and invited guests to share...
LONDON – An old Zen Buddhist saying cautions, “Do not mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon.” By focusing too much on the means,...
Japan occupies an unusual space in the global imagination. At once a futuristic nation of innovation and robotics, and simultaneously, for those on...
Back in the naive days of March, when lockdowns were starting to begin in earnest in most of the country, many of us were hopeful that after...
By Jason Lim The Korea Society's Annual Gala Dinner held Oct. 7 was the organization's premier event of the year, held to mark the U.S.-Korea...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the alternate prime minister, was briefly hospitalized Sunday morning after “not feeling well,” his office said in...
The Employment Service announced on Sunday that over 260,000 people were added to the unemployment rolls over the past month — since the Jewish...
Three writers, Scott Burns, Amitav Ghosh, and Elizabeth Kolbert will discuss on October 20 how the art of storytelling has failed to take on the...
Back in April 2016, the Wall Street Journal published an interesting article entitled “CERN Is Seeking Secrets of the Universe, or Maybe Opening...
When Vice President Joe Biden landed in Israel in 2010, he was greeted by the announcement of plans to build 1,600 housing units for Jewish...
I'm so tired of struggling. You know, I was doing well for a really long time. I was happy. Every day. And this happens, every couple years, where...
Without meaning any offence in any form to the good people of Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, the suggestion that, after 45 years of EU membership,...
PARIS, France (AFP) — Millions of Europeans faced tough new coronavirus restrictions on Saturday as governments stepped up efforts to slow a surge...
More than 200 Israeli startups are expected to participate in a virtual conference later this month in a bid to lead European companies to greater...
The first conference of the “Popular Initiative for Normalization with Israel” was held today in Khartoum, in another sign that the Sudanese...
CONFLAN-SAINTE-HONORINE, France (AFP) — Thousands of people across France are expected to join rallies Sunday in a show of solidarity and...
JTA — It wasn’t until I started converting to Judaism that I realized that anti-Semitism is very much alive and well — and it’s only getting...
Was that headline too aggressive for you? Trust me, I’m beyond caring. It took Israel five months to hit 1,000 fatalities. Then five weeks to hit...
By Robert Skidelsky LONDON ― On Oct. 6, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a tweet claiming that the common flu sometimes kills "over 100,000"...
Steven L. Shields I am an American. I am a Christian. I am a Democrat. I am voting for the Democratic Party candidates in the election this fall....
Over the coming decade, Japan will get economic tailwinds from a force never before experienced in economic history anywhere on this scale: the...
Economists like to think of themselves as mathematicians — or, if feeling momentarily humbler, as physicists. This year’s winners of the Nobel...
By Kim Ae-ran Talking much about the countermeasures for the pandemic, some religious leaders point out the importance of living in brotherhood or...
Red paint covers a statue of Christopher Columbus on Oct. 14, 2019, in Providence, Rhode Island, after the statue was vandalized on the day named...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected the notion that political considerations played a part in the drawing up of an exit plan from...
The standoff taking place in the Eastern Mediterranean, despite attempts on the part of the international community to reduce its intensity, is...
Reportage. The difference between the Libyan camps and the smugglers is hope. The boss knows this well, and in order to keep it alive, he uses a...
1. Spelunking with the Haredim: There are a few ways to look at Israel’s opening gambol out of a month-long nationwide lockdown, and specifically...
In a major victory for environmental activists, and particularly for the organization Adam Teva V’Din, which has lead a years-long campaign,...
The government decided on Sunday to set a goal for women to fill half of the country’s senior civil service positions within two years, and to...
In a recent article that I wrote, I went over the results of a US survey made with the millennials and Gen Z community. The results were...
Attached is a statement from the Office of Rabbi Sacks. A text version can be read on the thread below. pic.twitter.com/cNUYKDDdQr — Rabbi Sacks...
In my New Jersey day school’s 5th grade religious studies class, Rabbi W. always kept our attention, mostly through an energized flow of bible...
“And it came to pass, when men multiplied on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them…” ויהי כי החל האדם לרב על...
There is a distinct number of Members of Knesset who will jump at every chance to spew their hatred for one group or person or the other. The...
Did you think that your thoughts build or ruin the world around you? They do; they are our desire’s “brain” that designs the world we live in....
There was a reality show where women went to places like the bathroom or the shower or a cafe and ended up giving birth, when they didn’t even...
Last week, I urged Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives to re-impeach President Trump on newly documented corruption charges. I...
For too many, 2020 has been an a nnus horribilis , filed with pain, disease, and heartbreak. The coronavirus has killed more than a million the...
“Let us make a name for ourselves,” was the motto of the building campaign for the tower of Babel. It was several hundred years after the great...
Last Sunday, I opened my phone to see a notification that my friend from midrasha had suddenly lost her father to corona. I watched the funeral via...
I invite you to join me for an unusual and extraordinary theater experience. As we enter the room, there are no house lights, no playbills. ...
New mobility venture should not repeat Tada failure SK Telecom said Friday that it would jump into the domestic mobility service market by forming...
Japan should not dump irradiated water into sea Japan is likely to release contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
Trump has proven to be an unreliable, moody, short-sighted and overly transactional ally for India. On critical issues like China and Iran, trade...
In Nottingham, where I live, people are angry and upset by the recent restrictions that have seen the city and the surrounding county placed into...
MK Ayman Odeh, head of the majority-Arab Joint List Knesset faction, has said Israel’s normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen. CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have released a comedian, who was working for...
After axing its Fulbright exchange programme with China in July, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now wants the China government-run Confucius...
Outside of the Jewish town Yitzhar, a red warning sign was put up and quickly taken down last week. On the sign was a warning to Arabs. The sign...
Thousands of people rallied in central Paris Sunday in a defiant show of solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the...
Blue and White has reportedly warned that should the dysfunction in the coalition continue and a state budget for 2021 fail to advance in the...
Fewer coronavirus headlines? Yes please! argues DW's Cristina Burack. The situation is too serious to risk the information we really need getting...
What: Israel and Hamas conduct a prisoner exchange following the Gilad Shalit deal struck a week earlier, releasing over 1,000 Palestinian...
A woman holds a sign at the Unity March Against Racism in Chicago, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. AP By Scott Shepherd Racial tensions in America are...
Almost one-quarter of Israeli university students are considering quitting their academic studies due to financial stress, with over half having...
Defying the law, a leading ultra-Orthodox legislator told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the community would not agree to close down...
Interview. Philosopher and economist Philippe Van Parijs is one of the leading basic income theorists in the world. We spoke with him about the ‘...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The latest première at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A decade-long UN arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired...
Most of what’s appeared in the media leading up to the Zionist Congress convening this week has to do with the intrigue of negotiations revolving...
It is Not Good for Persons to be Alone – Fully Accepting LGBTQ Jews As much of the western world has come to better understand human sexuality,...
In the past decade, the proliferation of new infrastructure and connectivity projects the Indo-Pacific region has resembled Jagdish Baghwati’s 1995...
Israel and Bahrain on Sunday formally declared that they have made peace and have established formal diplomatic relations, only the fourth such...
New Jersey’s Holy Name Medical Center is joining forces with Israel’s Sheba Medical Center to develop new solutions in digital health and...
MUSKEGON, Michigan (AFP) — US President Donald Trump campaigned at a frenetic pace Saturday in a three-state trip that started with a Michigan...
Earlier this week, the American public watched carefully the congressional hearings of President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Amy...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed Sunday to enable 28 weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi and Dubai, following the normalization...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday vowed to take “whatever measures necessary” to prevent Iran from purchasing weapons after a United Nations...
“Normalization” is possibly the most understated word to describe the seismic changes triggered by the signings of the Abraham Accords. Israel,...
I am a proud General Zionist. A General Zionist? What is that? We are an international group of Zionists who believe that the World Zionist...
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox elementary schools with tens of thousands of students opened Sunday morning in open defiance of government restrictions....
US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun’s visit to Dhaka this past week was seen as part of Washington’s attempt to raise its visibility in...
Israel began to emerge Sunday from its month-long coronavirus lockdown, the second this year. As of Sunday, Israelis can once again travel more...
Fewer than 400 new coronavirus cases were confirmed Saturday in the country, the lowest figure in months, as Israel’s second COVID-19 wave appeared...
The indefinite postponement of a major retrospective to honour the Jewish artist Philip Guston has sparked fury in the art world. The exhibition,...
I had just signed off my radio show on Kol Yisrael-English. It was 12:45 pm on Friday, October 14, 2016. On any Friday, I’d be rushing off after...
Authorities in New York ordered the cancellation of a wedding that could have brought together more than 10,000 people in violation of rules to...
Senior Palestinian Liberation Organization official Saeb Erekat, who was recently diagnosed with COVID-19, is reportedly being taken to Hadassah...
A joint US-Israel delegation is headed to Bahrain Sunday morning to sign a series of bilateral agreements between Jerusalem and Manama, including a...
For months, experts have repeatedly told us that no one is safe from coronavirus until we are all safe. If that is true, we should be going all out...
A joint US-Israeli delegation arrived in Bahrain Sunday afternoon to sign a series of bilateral agreements between Jerusalem and Manama, including...
Ten, kto videl vyčíňanie vagabundov vydávajúcich sa za športových fanúšikov, musel byť v šoku. Z tej luzy išiel strach. Oni...
Criticizing the monarchy was not a factor during previous periods of social unrest
O tomto vo svete bezprecedentnom akte sa tajne radil s najbližším okruhom ľudí. Dokonca sa o tom neunúval informovať ani hlavu štátu....
With the easing of the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, Israelis are expected to once again converge on the country’s beaches and national parks....
Embed from Getty Images “An heir is like his father’s foot.” The discussion continues (and continues) on renouncing rights to a courtyard for...
Horrendous calamities can bring clarity to things that in normal times can be fudged. The corona crisis, from the beginning but especially in its...
Israeli actress and former Miss Israel Gal Gadot recently announced that she will portray Cleopatra in a forthcoming Paramount Pictures movie. In a...
בסייד Thomas Friedman and I both graduated from St. Louis Park High School, four years apart, with the year I graduated, 1967, and our suburb,...
A wealthy individual once took a business trip with his assistant, leaving his pregnant wife at home. While overseas, the businessman died. The...
You are a film wizard; Capable of black magic. With your fingertips, You have the power to distort. With your postmodern spells, And your...
Following the signing of the Abraham Peace Accords, the new business horizons opening between Israel and the UAE have been the subject of countless...
Donald Trump’s personality is inseparable from his policies. Our Republican friends want us to think of Trump as a lovable bigot who means well,...
Crisis is an opportunity for innovation. How can your business make the best of this situation and come out stronger than ever? As the economy...
Happy end of the lockdown! Another one is behind us! Now can we also, please, stop zooming before turning into zo(o)mbies? So we can go out of...
At a weekend rally in Michigan, President Trump sarcastically intoned the name of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the woman who had the audacity to...
Most Israelis believe political considerations are the leading factor in the government decision-making process as it seeks to bring the country...
Three advisers to the government’s coronavirus czar, Ronni Gamzu, have threatened to resign in outrage over the illegal opening of hundreds of...
MONACO (JTA) — This tiny wealthy country on France’s southeastern coast is famous for its beautiful beaches, coastal mansions, and splendid...
Max Kruse started for Union Berlin against Schalke on Sunday, despite breaching the DFL's (German Football League) hygiene protocol. Failing to...
What a long strange trip it’s been. Sunday, Israel’s environmental minister Gila Gamliel finally completed an important regulatory mission for...
The state prosecution told the High Court of Justice on Sunday that it believes there is no justification to open a criminal probe into Prime...
Japanese management gurus are big on the benefits of communication. A major reason Japanese companies have so many meetings, after-hours drinking...
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin will lead an American-Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to move forward with...
DENVER (AP) — A man described by US prosecutors as a neo-Nazi and white supremacist pleaded guilty on Thursday to a hate crime for plotting to bomb...
Picture this: An American citizen has moved to and lives in a foreign country. He becomes a naturalized citizen of his host country, but he has...
During Nazi Germany’s air assault on Russia, Galina Makeeva survived more than 100,000 firebombs dropped on Moscow by the Luftwaffe. In an...
JTA — Orthodox Jewish housing associations in the United Kingdom may continue to restrict residency to Orthodox Jews, Britain’s highest court...
AFP — A history teacher beheaded in a Paris suburb on Friday had been the target of online threats for having shown pupils cartoons of the Muslim...
Important new “testimony” has emerged about the dubious sale of state-owned land to Moritomo Gakuen which cannot be overlooked. An individual...
When writing this column, I always keep in mind that some people will be having their breakfast as they read my words. That is why I make a point...
Dragi Slovenci! Vaše države in zgodovine ne poznam preveč dobro in znanih mi je le nekaj osnovnih stvari. O zgodovini Slovenije na primer vem samo,...
A man who apologized as he allegedly stole NIS 100 (approximately $29) from a grocery store in the central city of Bat Yam was set to be charged,...
Over the course of the last decade, Qatar’s media coverage was due to its role in staging and putting into motion a number of Color Revolutions....
Analysis. The Chinese president is laying the groundwork for a new five-year plan focusing on the internal market and technological...
The Israeli Left – which in this environment points an amorphous, yet large sector of the public who wish for peace through dialogue and call for...
Interview. 'It’s taken a century, but feminism is finally widely accepted in the USA by today’s young women, and WW’s time has come again.'...
It is not the first time that Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a leading halachic authority in the Israeli charedi community, has issued rulings that their...
With only three seats less than Likud, Yamina’s respected leader Naftali Bennett, stands a strong chance of being elected prime minister if new...
In a very recent question, Donald Trump asked “What would I do if I lose the election?” and one of his own replies stunned the American public’s...
In these days of low-trust, fake news, conspiracy theories, social media rants and high confusion, I decided to turn to two doctors I trust. They...
Whatever you think of Candidate for VP, Kamala Harris, she was interrupted 11 times to Mike Pence’s five during their debate. Again, no matter...
It’s election time in the US and that question is on most of our minds again within the Jewish and American-Israeli community. Which US...
By David Tizzard Still as wide as he is tall and with a flattop that would make Guile from "Street Fighter" proud, an emotional Chairman Kim...
Former state attorney Shai Nitzan responded on Friday to the release of old recordings in which Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit is heard...
A new book by a former Trump Organization executive alleges that, as head of the real estate conglomerate for decades, Donald Trump made...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York tabloid’s puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden’s son has raised some red flags....
Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now. A father of six children, Al-Akhras was arrested by...
Ministers voted Friday to allow the reopening of daycares, preschools and kindergartens in virus hotspots — all of which are...
The United Arab Emirates’ Etihad Airways this week launched a Hebrew-language website amid high hopes for burgeoning tourist and business trade in...
Three children are hospitalized in the intensive care unit of an Israeli hospital for treatment for a rare inflammatory syndrome that can cause...
On December 1, 1982, a new 500 shekel bill was introduced into Israel’s currency. The face on the bill was that of Baron Edmund de Rothschild, or...
JTA — A rabbi has been assaulted outside of his synagogue in San Diego and an Orthodox man was beaten on the street in the Brooklyn neighborhood...
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh drew the attention and concern of the world when they fled deadly violence in Myanmar in 2017. Three years later,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has crushed economies, sent joblessness soaring and killed more than a million people worldwide. But there are a few ways in...
V prvem valu epidemije, ko še nismo povsem razumeli tega, kar se nam dogaja, smo zmotno govorili o demokratičnosti virusa covid-sars-2. Ta virus...
Israel recorded 26 new coronavirus deaths over the past 30 hours, according to Health Ministry figures published Saturday evening, even as the...
JTA — When Alex Goldstein first set out to memorialize Americans who died of COVID-19, he was overwhelmed by the vastness of the task ahead. That...
The following article was written by someone who prefers to remain anonymous, but I think there is much food for thought here. I’m reprinting...
JTA — For so many American Jews, the recent clashes between Governor Cuomo and the New York ultra-Orthodox Jewish community over new COVID-19...
Following the fateful story of the Garden of Eden, “Hashem, God, made for Adam and his wife, leather garments, and he clothed them.” What is...
Following the normalisation agreements between Gulf states and Israel, the US administration and the Israeli occupation started talking about the...
“Our lives have become very hard. They burned Lebanon. They burned its economy. They burned their own people.” Merched Bou Mansour reflected...
Ahead of a partial lifting of lockdown restrictions on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the imposition of the nationwide closure...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran announced Saturday that its death toll from the coronavirus has passed the milestone of 30,000, in what has been the...
‘Če je vojna, je vojna za vse,« so bile udarne besede Jelka Kacina v torek v oddaji 24 ur zvečer. Skratka, hočete še kaj? Zapremo vrata?...
Peti protikoronski paket ukrepov je največ kritik doživel v delu, ki obravnava dodeljevanje dodatnih sredstev, namenjenih skrajševanju čakalnih...
AP — A California man who pleaded guilty to attacking anti-racism protesters at a white nationalist rally and at a torch-lit march through the...
Anti-government activists streamed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem for the first time in weeks Saturday...
DUBAI (AFP) — At the plush Armani hotel in the shadow of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, a rabbi switches on the stoves at what is...
Anti-government protesters were attacked at several locations Saturday night, as tens of thousands in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and around the country...
I was born in the 1980s to a Bosniak family in Višegrad, an ethnically diverse town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. A couple of years later,...
Blue and White chairman and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz warned on Saturday evening that should the dysfunction in the coalition government...
The top official charged with leading Israel’s response to the coronavirus warned Saturday evening against becoming complacent and urged ultra-...
Seven hundred thousand Jewish immigrants poured into Israel during its first years statehood, straining its relatively limited absorption capacity....
Embed from Getty Images “Hurry, and do whatever you must do before the day goes out.” Anyone who lives in a high-rise apartment in the middle of...
I never imagined that I would write a blog about avocados. The world as we know it is coming to an end. Tens of thousands, no, hundreds of...
“Trump Under Fire for Retweeting Conspiracy Theory Claiming Bin Laden Still Alive.” If you can’t fight them, join them? Of course, as with any...
It is fitting that after a month of total lockdown when almost everyone in Israel seems to be adrift, that the focus has been on submarines. It is...
The Corona virus in a way has taken over our lives. Having said that, I know that indeed I am lucky to be very near to my closest family members in...
The 2020 Nobel Prizes have been announced. As a proportion of the world’s population – 0.2% – Jews should have won two Nobel prizes over the...
Not long after one of my grandfather’s was in Israel during its establishment, my other grandfather was drafted into the Egyptian army against...
Methusaleh is best known for being the person with the longest lifespan explicitly mentioned in the Bible. However, a little-known tradition about...
And the sheep was silent. Not even a tiny bleat. Apparently it is not the way of sheep to complain too much. But it hurt me just to think about the...
The date of October 14 may have been penciled in the official calendar for some time as a significant date for officials both in Shenzhen and Hong...
A seven-foot statue of Medusa holding a man’s severed head was unveiled in New York this week. For six months, this sculpture, made by the...
The law isn’t always right and it’s not just people who can be taken hostage. In a disgraceful decision deemed legitimate by the UK’s highest...
PARIS (AP) — For the second time in three weeks, terror struck France on Friday, this time with the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a...
Dejstvo, da so čistke tako burne in pogosto nestabilne, priča, da stranka nima dobre notranje informiranosti, premišljenega kadrovanja,...
Further widespread coronavirus testing was performed on Saturday for staff at preschools and daycares, in a bid to prevent any fresh outbreaks when...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they happen. PARIS — Some 20 million French people are preparing to spend their first...
JTA — The late Jewish Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is getting her own statue in her native Brooklyn. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo named...
JTA — At least a dozen campaign signs supporting Jewish congressional candidate Josh Eisen were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, with at least...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared headed for a landslide win and a second term in office Saturday during early...
JTA — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of Europe’s most prominent nationalist and anti-immigrant leaders, has often faced accusations...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US and Russia on Friday rejected each other’s proposals for potentially salvaging the last remaining legal constraint on...
BOBIGNY, France (AFP) — Well-liked and committed teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by a teenager in a Paris suburb on Friday, enjoyed getting...
Uzbekistan is undertaking a significant reform effort with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s leadership. Very soon, Uzbekistan will have a unique...
Prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi Chaim Kanievsky has ordered Haredi boys’ schools to reopen on Sunday, though doing so continues to be prohibited...
Despite failures at home, demonstrators advanced the struggle against autocracy
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