Tax reform should take into account longer-term challenges

Discussions have begun in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on the Tax System on fiscal 2021 tax reforms, which will be...

Damage from Trump's trade wars won't heal quickly: analysts

After four years in office, Donald Trump has failed to achieve his promise to eliminate the U.S. trade deficit, and dealt a lasting blow to the...

Moon's troubled green energy policy

By John Burton While President Moon Jae-in has been praised for his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, his efforts to address another global issue...

Multilateralism in US election

By Javier Solana MADRID ― When Donald Trump became the U.S. Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2016, many predicted that he would tone...

The Anniversary of Gaddafi’s Death and the Current Reality in Libya

“Security problems, political discord, oil blockades, corruption, and Libya’s foreign debt, which has reached 270% of its GDP, all torpedo...

Court-packing isn’t the issue

Republicans and Democrats over the last couple of years have been busy trying to bend the courts into their own direction. Republicans have been...

Four startups join Visa’s innovation center in Tel Aviv

Four new startups will join Visa’s innovation center in Tel Aviv in a bid to get the startup and development community working in tandem with the...

Attackers pepper-spray soldier, try to steal his gun — police

Two men pepper-sprayed a soldier and attempted to steal his gun at a bus stop near the West Bank, police said Monday morning. The suspects were...

Kosher Movies: The Dancer Upstairs

Terrorism is very much a part of the world’s landscape at this point in history. Terrorist attacks occur not only in Israel, but in the United...

An Encounter with a Sudanese Military Official

Many years ago, when I conducted my PhD research on Rwandan foreign policy, I had the fortunate opportunity to visit the Rwandan Peace Academy....

Trump’s pandering to QAnon should be a deal-breaker

American Jews are participating in a critical presidential election next week. In most presidential elections, 25-30% of Jews vote for the...

Need to brace for 'tapering'

Asset bubbles could trigger systemic risks Korea, like most other industrialized countries, is struggling with excess liquidity amid the COVID-19...

Wrong history perception

Xi deserves criticism for distorting Korean War fact Chinese leader Xi Jinping deserves criticism for his remarks apparently glorifying China's...

Europe epicenter of virus crisis again

By Andrew Hammond Europe has been jolted yet again in recent days becoming ― for the second time ― the epicenter of the global pandemic. Yet...

America deserves patriotic debatable debate

By Martin Schram Throughout this most disastrous year in U.S. presidential history, President Donald Trump dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic perils...

True or false?

By Robin Rhee The attempts which are made to establish the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, are akin to launching quests to capture a...

Plan for 1st-2nd graders to attend school part-time lashed as ‘ludicrous’

City officials on Monday lambasted the government’s decision to allow first and second grades to only reopen part-time starting next week, calling...

Pien, queen of the bees

Pien is 10 and having treatment for cancer. After learning that crop pesticides and other human activities pose a mounting threat to bees and, by...

Golan Druze town of Majdal Shams to be cordoned off as infections mount

Ministers voted late Sunday to impose a five-day closure in the northern Druze town of Majdal Shams, which has seen virus cases jump in recent...

Pittsburgh congregations mark 2 years since shooting under shadow of COVID-19

PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle) — Two years after 11 loved ones were ripped from their families, multiple bodies and minds were injured and...

New venture seeks to pave way for Israeli businesses in UAE

With Israeli companies’ interest in doing business in the United Arab Emirates increasing following the signing of a peace deal between the two...

Is America Great Enough for You Yet?

For the vast number of American Jews, Donald Trump and his followers have become the repository of bullying, intimidation, racism, anti-semitism,...

Erdoğan vs. Macron: Round two

Here we go again. Few spats and a couple of phone calls later, we are back at square one on the Erdoğan-Macron front. Or even worse perhaps this...

Animal Abuse – A Matter of Party Loyalty? Seriously?!

Recently, there was a vote in the Knesset to institute a law that would demand harsher punishment towards animal abusers. What is wrong with our...

Break Free from Inertia (Eruvin 78)

Our patriarch Yaakov escapes the wrath of his brother, Esau, and heads off to Charan.  On the way, he puts his head down to rest for the night. ...

Longing for Israel on #InternationalArtistsDay

  One of the things on my bucket list is to attend the Jerusalem Biennale.   According to their website http://jerusalembiennale.org, “The...

Never Let A Serious Crisis Go to Waste….Implications for Schools (Part II)

On August 24, 2020, I posted a BLOG on this platform entitled “Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste: Implications for Nonprofits (Part I). The...

Is Israel More Constitutionally Observant Than America?

So who has the superior system of constitutional law, the US or Israel. In Israel, there are fears that a nationalist religious government could...

The need to touch

Touch is the first sense by which we encounter the world, and the final one to leave us as we approach death’s edge. ‘Touch comes before sight,...

Why do so many Asian nations want to be in China's debt?

Beijing's debt-trap diplomacy likely to cost it dearly over the long term

The hypocrisy of the Taliban’s mantra of inclusion has been exposed during the intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha.

The Afghan peace process entered a pivotal phase with the start of the long-awaited intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha on September 12. Shortly...

Book burning in Jerusalem: City to set up cameras after arson at Reading Station

The Jerusalem municipality on Sunday vowed to quickly rebuild a popular outdoor lending library and set up security cameras after vandals set the...

‘Thank you Rabbis,’ Trump tweets after support letter from 13 Orthodox leaders

JTA — “BREAKING,” tweeted Mishpacha, a magazine for Orthodox Jews, Saturday night about a letter signed by 13 leading Orthodox rabbis...

Over 58 million ballots cast in early US vote, surpassing 2016

AP — With nine days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee...

The integration of the Arabs in Brazil is at the expense of their language and culture

In Brazil today you can see Arabic dishes alongside local fare on the menu; you might hear occasional Arabic names and words; and someone may even...

Ahilova peta ustavnega loka

Povsem razumem in podpiram mnoga prizadevanja za spremembo sedanjih razmer, v katerih mediji (po oceni trenutne oblasti seveda pristranski in...

Cabinet appoints high-level committee to rule on future of Haifa Bay area

The cabinet on Sunday appointed a committee of top officials to examine the future of Haifa Bay, long home to some of the country’s worst...

Wary of angering public, Iran has few ways to contain virus

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As coronavirus infections reached new heights in Iran this month, overwhelming its hospitals and driving up...

Naming new cardinals, Pope Francis appoints first Black US prelate

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first...

The Azedarach Tree

Chill autumn gusts whipped the gaunt branches of the azedarach tree across the road and the wind above propelled ragged clouds across the sky. A...

UAE-based Israeli businessman Koen said bidding $50 million for Israir Airlines

A Dubai-based company is offering to buy Israir Airlines, one of Israel’s largest carriers and tourism companies, for some NIS 170 million ($50...

Did a Lebanese reporter go to jail for talking to me?

The setting was the 1991 Middle East peace conference in Madrid. It was before the Oslo process between Israel and the PLO – the Palestine...

The peace with Sudan and its discontents

The folk of the Far Left must have become  frum.  The vociferous militants and supporters of Yachad, who tweet almost every day, have become...

Will Biden Help Israel Take on Turkey?

Israel has a lot at stake in the eastern Mediterranean, not least Turkey’s challenge to the regional order. Would Biden deal with Ankara’s...

Sudan confirms it agreed to talk to Israel for terror delisting, economic aid

Sudan on Sunday confirmed that it had agreed to normalize ties with Israel in exchange for being removed from the US terror blacklist,...

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...

Last Call for Transatlanticism

BERLIN – Many Americans have already voted, and many more will soon go to the polls in what will be the world’s most important political event of...

COVID-19 explodes the myth that women ‘opt’ out of the workforce

In August and September, more than a million people dropped out of the workforce. Eighty percent of them were women. Women have been losing jobs at...

The Arab League and regional leaders will forget Arafat's warning at their peril

I miss Yasser Arafat. Like many revolutionary leaders he was flawed but he had guts, determination and a courage that reflected the Palestinians he...

Can Covid Reduce Global Inequality?