In boost for Israel-Sudan deal, Trump removes Khartoum from US terror blacklist

Sudan announced Friday that US President Donald Trump had signed a waiver to remove Khartoum from the State Department’s blacklist of state...

Bauzá, un santo varon.

UN SANTO VARÓN No suele ser habitual, salvo en los casos más extremos de narcisismo…

Government’s energy blueprint needs to return to drawing board

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has started discussions on the government’s new Basic Energy Plan. The government should radically...

Why Beijing may want to keep Trump in the White House

Donald Trump has frustrated and enraged China during a tumultuous first term, but Beijing may welcome his re-election as it scans the horizon for...

Oxford English Dictionary was born from a bond of friendship

A film, seen without knowing any background information about it, can sometimes captivate you with its unexpected content. For me, one recent...

How the green revolution is harming Africa

NEW DELHI – The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations World Food Programme, declaring that...

Darfur remains caught uneasily between war and peace

Despite the latest peace agreement signed earlier this month, journeying through Darfur in the heart of a 17-year armed conflict area is an arduous...

Why is the Turkish opposition demanding early elections?

Speaking on a television programme two weeks ago, the head of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, urged the head of...

PM to propose increasing fines for schools reopening in violation of virus rules

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that next week he will propose increasing fines for educational institutions operating in...

Getting to yes: What the press is saying on October 23

1. Sudone deal, almost: If the announcement of ties with the UAE came like a lightning bolt on a clear day, then normalization with Sudan is...

Reflections on Leadership

Last week I received the sad news that a cousin in Jerusalem had died of Coronavirus. Our parents were first cousins and unsurprisingly we had a...

Trump: The End of US Democracy – Rise of US Fascism

I have taught the Holocaust and anti-Semitism for 45 plus years. Today, I am afraid. We seem to be reliving history. We are at a point that both...

A Seed

I was a freshman at Pitt on October 27, 2018, the day of the Tree of Life shooting. I was on the second floor of the Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s...

When You’re Falling in a Forest…

“Have you ever felt like nobody was there? Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere? Have you ever felt like you could disappear?...

Quarantining with my Holocaust survivor grandmother

A woman I quarantined with inadvertently shamed me on a regular basis. As strange March rolled into tragic April which rolled into tragic and...

Reform and neutrality

Justice Ministry, prosecution should realign relations Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl created a stir Thursday by criticizing Justice Minister...

Haaretz Cartoon

Arab states should avoid an arms race with Iran

Iran secured a significant diplomatic victory earlier this month when the United Nations arms embargo, imposed in 2007 over concerns about...

Fakt sme si to pokazili?

Každý má na výber – testovanie alebo karanténa. Bez testovania sa nedá ísť do práce. Lebo platí zákaz vychádzania. Je výnimka – do...

Why isn’t China Intervening in the Events Occurring in Kyrgyzstan?

Over the past few years, the lion’s share of the countries in Central Asia (CA) have been undergoing a period involving social, economic, and...

Zatohla dežela?

Glede tega (in žal še marsičesa) je Slovenija res zatohla dežela. Saj piha, ja, imeli smo tudi že nekaj vetrolomov, a to je pač tako, če zapiha...

The Final Stretch

As November 3, the date of the United States elections approaches, the anxiety level of the country has increased to the point that the name of the...

Hyogo, Japan football groups fail to firmly deal with racial slur

The Hyogo Football Association failed to take rigorous action against discriminatory remarks made by a man who was serving as secretary-general...

‘Going Out of Business. Closing Up’

I was literally stunned to see the many photos of famous shops across America now posting signs that sadly read “Going out of Business. Closing...

Will the latest approach finally rid us of Bibi?

For years, the loony left has tried to get rid of Netanyahu. It didn’t work at the polls. Disputed court cases against him are going nowhere. But...

Biden swats away attacks as Trump tries to go after son Hunter

WASHINGTON (AFP) — For a week US President Donald Trump has accused Joe Biden of corruption and threatened to unleash devastating accusations...

The Journey Continues

This week’s Parasha may be Noach but I’m looking forward to Lech Lecha, next week’s Torah reading about the call to Abraham.  I’m focusing...

The Dove and the Olive Leaf

Texts and Contexts: Noach In this week’s Bible reading, Noach [1], we read about the dove that Noach sent to see if the waters of the flood had...

Let’s dismantle Ashkenormativity with allyship

This week, an article in my school newspaper accused my university’s Jewish population of excluding non-Ashkenazi students and leaving “JOC [Jews...

Education Torah: A Proposal for Learning Kashrut

All too often, kashrut is viewed as a set of rules that are meant to be followed and not understood, technicalities with little or no underlying...

The IDF is great — but not perfect

Israelis and Zionists in the Diaspora have reason to be proud of the Israel Defense Forces. Its victory in the War of Independence — despite...

Parshat Noach: Fighting for the World

One of the classic questions in Parshat Noach is the Torah’s profile on Noach at the onset of the parsha. “This is the line of Noach,” it...

English Departments in the Ideological Thrall of Identity Politics

In July, the English Department of the University of Chicago posted an odd statement on its website. In response to the deaths of George Floyd,...

The world is changing: China launches campaign for superpower status 

The outdated notion that China ‘just wants to do business’ should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s...

Big Tech Reckoning

The Middle Eastern Past Is Never Dead

BERLIN – The images were touching. In early October, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas visited the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin with his Israeli...

The Everlasting Mao

Recovery and Renewal at the UN

NEW YORK – The international community urgently needs new tools, ideas, and initiatives to meet the common threats and challenges faced by the...

Education Ministry backs outdoor learning in step toward schools reopening

The Education Ministry announced Friday that it would back a plan allowing for students to learn outside in what will likely solve a dispute with...

Philadelphia Jewish museum to honor David Copperfield, Houdini

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia-based National Museum of American Jewish History will honor two men who entertained the world with their magic....

Foreign policy is being forgotten in the race for the White House

We are two weeks away from the election of the President of the United States, with the race pointing to a Joe Biden win after a fractious and...

Ofsted are not following the law – they are a law unto themselves

Eli Spitzer’s podcast interview with HMCI, Amanda Spielman, proved to be another insight into the agenda-led thinking of Ofsted. The difficulties...

United (Socialist) States of America? Trump-Biden showdown is a battle for the capitalist soul of the country

Perhaps not since the Great Debates of 1858, between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, which focused on the issue of slavery, has there been a...

The Psychology of Trump’s Debate Rudeness

LONDON – The US Commission on Presidential Debates muted the microphones of President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden during...

The news media can, and should, help hinder the spread of coronavirus misinformation by taking a few simple steps.

“We’re not just fighting a pandemic; we’re fighting an infodemic,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s...

In politicizing intelligence, America is blaming everyone but itself for its self-inflicted woes

You would be justified in thinking that the various news conferences put on by US law enforcement and intelligence officials in which foreign...

Iranian hackers targeting US voters identified by ‘dumb mistake,’ report says

Iranian hackers were quickly identified as responsible for an email campaign threatening US voters due to a “dumb mistake,” according to a...

Blaming Russia for Hunter’s problems was a big misstep, Joe, and it may prove to be your downfall

It’s safe to say that Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden, is having a rough time. After...

ADL slams US effort to declare rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’

The Anti-Defamation League has strongly criticized a reported US decision to declare several major international human rights groups...

In Nagorno-Karabakh, drones rain death but won’t bring quick end to war

Each day brings new reports of the horrors of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. As attempts to...