Far-right French presidential candidate Zemmour injured as brawl mars his 1st rally

PARIS (AFP) — French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was left lightly injured after being assaulted at his first campaign rally on...

Israel to urge US to act militarily against Iran amid stalled nuke talks — reports

Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Mossad chief David Barnea will push during their meetings this week in Washington with senior Biden administration...

Why Phone Numbers Frighten Israel's ultra-Orthodox Rabbis So Much

The meeting on Monday at the Communications Ministry in Jerusalem was unprecedented. A delegation of rabbis, Hassidic leaders, yeshiva deans,...

Ehud Barak: It’s not clear that Israel or US have a viable plan to attack Iran

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that he did not believe that Israel or the US had a viable military plan to strike Iran’s nuclear...

Myanmar court sentences ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 4 years in jail

BANGKOK (AP) — A special court in Myanmar’s capital sentenced the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to four years in prison on Monday...

Trade coercion presents a growing threat to the global economy

Nations need to go beyond expressions of solidarity

Israeli wounded in suspected West Bank car-ramming, driver shot and killed

An Israeli security guard was seriously wounded in a suspected car-ramming attack at a West Bank checkpoint early Monday morning, security...

Forget 1MDB, could Najib Razak be Malaysia’s next prime minister?

D-E-A-D. That was the state of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak’s political career on May 10, 2018.His party, the United Malays...

Squid Game, Hellbound: will South Korea displace Japan as the new cultural superpower in Asia?

At the beginning of the pandemic, I vowed not to slide into couch-potato mode and crawl out of the television screen looking like Sadako from Ring...

Čarobna moč ogledala

Ob nekih prizorih iz domače politične arene mi je na misel prišla drama ameriškega pisca Tennesseeja Williamsa Noč iguane, prenesena na filmsko...

EDITORIAL: Booster rollout plan should be moved up flexibly if necessary

Japan has just rolled out the booster shot program for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19, starting with health care workers. Elderly people...

How My Passion for Writing Has Sustained Me

Wounded IDF veteran dies by suicide; family says ministry refused to recognize PTSD

An injured Israel Defense Forces veteran who struggled to get officials to recognize that his mental health issues were related to his service died...

Clip shows Palestinian newlyweds openly crossing via gap in West Bank security fence

A video clip showing a Palestinian wedding party strolling through a gap in the West Bank security barrier to enter Israel has highlighted the...

Israel's 'security and military' interests are advancing in its normalisation with Morocco

Morocco has become the first Arab country to sign an open military agreement with Israel. No other Arab country has yet agreed to take such an...

Calm Down Shoshana, We Haven’t All Been Erased

These days there is a popular perception that Haredi Jews are one step behind the Taliban. No, we don’t wear burkhas — not last I checked but we...

Innovation Alley: Chanukah Innovation and Tech

During the pandemic we have seen how companies have helped communities adjust to our new reality. I have followed the growth of temi over the years...

Ankara!

Ankara! This is the house of Muhammed Yalçın, in the old Jewish quarter of Ankara . Mohammed is a very special soul. He loves painting and he...

Zeleno poslovanje po COP26

Kaj je naslednje na globalni podnebni agendi? Letošnja konferenca Združenih narodov o podnebnih spremembah (COP26) v Glasgowu zagotovo ni...

Strengthen cybersecurity rules

Smart home devices in apartments vulnerable to hacking The National Intelligence Service (NIS) confirmed last week that the automatic control...

Restore trust with unity

Yoon should show leadership and visions Yoon Suk-yeol, presidential candidate of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), has inaugurated his...

Ayelet Shaked, the Minister of Discrimination

The institution of admission committees is a dubious mechanism by which cooperative communities (“yishuvim kehilati’im”) and nonmember...

Japan demands COVID tests and tracking

By Pico Iyer This long, strange season of the pandemic has made so many things impossible that it's easy to forget the many things it's made newly...

Boris Johnson stirs up new Irish Troubles

By Trudy Rubin When I first started covering conflict zones many years ago, I resolved never to bother with the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I had...

Open letter to profs Netta Engelhardt and Geoff Pennington

I’m with Einstein Haaretz always has excellent science articles. This time, it reports that an Israeli physicist, a woman, no less, spearheaded a...

Donghak's humanistic egalitarianism

By Choe Chong-dae I recently read "Donggyeong-Daejeon" (The Great Scripture of Eastern Learning) vol. 1, "I am Korean," and vol. 2, "We are...

Don’t Forget Who You Are! (Ezekiel 37:15-28)

Ezekiel was a prophet with utopian yearnings. He prophesied about the restoration of the Jewish people to its homeland, likening them to dry bones...

Taliban war booty exceeds most countries military spending

By John J. Metzler When the Taliban forces overran Afghanistan a few months ago, not only did they capture a country continuously in conflict since...

What were the magic words?

After Yosef admits his true identity to his brothers, he tells them that he is not angry at them and he knows that it was all part of God’s plan...

Cry The Beloved Countries

“We need a ‘Churchill’ who inspires faith in the future and a system that makes real change possible.” [Brenda Katten, Public Relations...

Reflections on inter-Korean peace

By Yang Moo-jin Recently, conservatives and some opposition parties have been criticizing the results of the Moon Jae-in administration's foreign...

Celebrating famous Jews from Ukraine: Barney Balaban

— Join me, Boris Lozhkin, on Twitter  @lozhkin_boris  for news and commentary on Judaism in Ukraine and around the world. Follow me on  Facebook...

Yemen: Is There a Silver Lining to This Country’s Bleak Future?

The United Nations has warned that if the war in Yemen continues through the end of 2021, the death toll of the conflict will have reached 377,000...

VOX POPULI: LDP should launch probe into lawmaker’s slush fund accusations

What is the English word closest in meaning to the Japanese word “tatemae”? Takeo Doi (1920-2009), a Japanese psychiatrist, answered...

Police detain, confiscate gun, from man who threatened key Netanyahu trial witness

Police have detained a man who allegedly chanted death threats at a key witness in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial...

Israel orders high alert at all West Bank crossings after overnight ramming

Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered checkpoints across the West Bank to go on high alert on Monday following a ramming attack earlier in the...

Fauci says early reports encouraging about Omicron variant

US health officials said Sunday that while the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading throughout the country, early indications...

In solo show, comic Alex Edelman says life not black and white for US Ashkenazi Jews

New York Jewish Week via JTA — If you click through Twitter, you may come upon a list of some 250 accounts called “Jewish Nat’l Fund Donors.”...

Grade-schooler whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral is back with Hanukkah song

JTA — Last year, when he was 6, Bibi Shapiro broke the Jewish internet with his impassioned performance of “Avinu Malkeinu,” the plaintive poem...

Couple says they were booted off US flight for refusing to put Jewish items on floor

A US couple is claiming they were kicked off an American Airlines flight in August after they refused to place a bag containing a prayer book and...

What China Learned From the Collapse of the USSR

The geopolitical discourse of our times is dominated by a growing multipolarity, unlike 30 years back, when the world was dominated by two...

What type of Jews do we want to be?

Over the last few days we have been witness to two key events involving attacks on Jews that were captured with clear video footage. The first was...