(POGLED) Ali bo šel slovenski osel še enkrat na led?

Koronska kriza je pretresla svetovno, evropsko in tudi slovensko gospodarstvo. Ni nam bilo lahko v zadnjih mesecih. Ne bo nam lahko niti v...

Suga should seize opportunity to reinvent nation’s energy policy

The Abe administration failed to address key energy policy issues during its seven years and eight months in power, with the procrastination most...

Why do Arab leaders respect treaties with others but not between themselves?

The so-called “Abraham Accord”, as the deal between the UAE and Israel is known, arrived faster than even the most enthusiastic Zionists could...

Two shot dead in Nazareth during club brawl, police search for suspects

Two men were shot dead in the northern city of Nazareth Thursday night in a suspected double homicide, police said. The shooting took place in a...

Hasidic pilgrims begin leaving Ukraine border ahead of Rosh Hashanah

KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Hundreds of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims, who had massed along the Belarusian border attempting to enter Ukraine, began leaving...

Arab States Need the Palestinians if They Want Real Peace With Israel

In the Twilight of Netanyahu’s Tenure

Japan After Abe

Art of repurposing

By Hyon O'Brien I grew up in Korea and went through my teenage years in the 1960's in Wonju, Gangwon Province. One of the things I learned from my...

PS Events: The Green Recovery (Day 2)

Twilight in the Desert for Saudi and MBS?

It appears as if Saudi de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is on a mission to destroy the world oil giant by one after the other ill-...

Immoral French are blatantly putting migrants’ lives at risk by not doing enough to prevent Channel crossings

Something is either right or wrong. Laws can help make that distinction. But we all have a sense of morality, and there’s no lying to your...

Online event reconnects Super Sentai ‘Red’ heroes PREMIUM

‘Imuri’ poses questions on par with other manga masterpieces PREMIUM

‘Press the Reset Button:’ Right-Wing Extremism in Germany’s Military

In June 2020, German newspapers first reported a disturbing – but perhaps unsurprising – scandal involving special forces of the German Federal...

Adelsons said to pledge up to $50 million in final Trump campaign push

JTA — Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam, the pro-Israel philanthropists and major Republican givers, will spend up to $50 million in a final...

Politics is visceral

We live in bodies that feel increasingly unsafe. Pandemics, climate change, sexual assault, systemic racism, the pressures of gig-economy jobs, the...

Days of Remembrance (Daf Yomi Eruvin 40)

Embed from Getty Images “One mention of remembrance counts for both this and that.” The new moon, like Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is...

Dip the lockdown in the loophole: What the press is saying on September 18

1. High Holey Days: Israel is locking down nationally for a second time starting Friday, but if you are reading this, you probably already knew...

The circles on the water

The Rosh HaShana Torah reading comes from Genesis 21, where the intimate story of one couple’s discovery of God becomes the story of two nations....

5781: New parent, new year, new COVID emptiness

This is not how it was supposed to be. Less than a week before Rosh HaShanah last year, I found out that I was pregnant again after a miscarriage....

The Sermon I never Preached

Any fair retrospect will highlight how fortunate we are to live in times shaped by the luxuries of modernity. We enjoy unprecedented healthcare,...

Hillel to Orwell: Israel Distorts the Golden Rule

It was recently reported that Israel plans to bring 2,000 Ethiopian Jews to the Jewish Homeland. This is both too little and too late and yet...

Who is betraying whom?

Embed from Getty Images Twice in the past few days Palestinian leaders have charged fellow Arab states with treachery.  The accusation was taken...

Corona and the New Year

Popular wisdom holds that Bibi’s diplomatic skills balance the Corona Catastrophe. I am not sure. Let’s reconsider: Yesterday, I wrote a blog...

COVID-19: Rabbis with empty shuls

I’m not sure if he had intended it as an innocent comment, a witticism or a dig at the rabbi, but it was enough to send any rabbi into an anxiety...

Being Together in Our Aloneness

We were meant to be attending a small Rosh Hashana tefila with a few families – keeping to the rules of the lockdown and feeling safe in the fact...

Co-creating on Rosh Hashanah

It’s Rosh Hashanah, happy birthday Adam and Eve. The first man and woman were born on this most mighty and unique day. G-d created a multitude of...

Corona Lock Down (Seger) Diary – Day 2

It is just past 14.00 and the Lock Down has officially started. The kids and the grandchildren arrived on time by Israeli standards, if arriving...

The breath of life and the shofar blasts

Rosh Hashanah appears to be missing a critical ingredient that makes up our other holidays. Generally, our holidays commemorate a historical event....

Israelis' Much-vaunted Solidarity, Honed by War, Has Failed in Time of Plague

Israelis are grimly reaping the result of decades of Netanyahu’s divide and rule and incitement: We can no longer come together to fight the...

The Roots of American Misery

A Moment of Truth in the Pandemic

GENEVA – Now almost in its tenth month, the COVID-19 pandemic is still wreaking havoc on economies and lives around the world. But while the end...

Will the Philippines risk war with Malaysia over Sabah?

Manila's bombast more likely an attempt to deflect claims that it's weak on China

Forget the US, Japan’s Yoshihide Suga should visit South Korea first to mend ties

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who this week replaced Shinzo Abe, may want to take a leaf out of one of his predecessors’ playbooks by...

Trump said preparing executive order to sanction any who break Iran arms embargo

US President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order authorizing him to enact sanctions against anyone who breaks an arms embargo on...

Cabinet eases movement restriction to allow travel 1 kilometer from home

Government officials loosened restrictions on movement during the new nationwide coronavirus lockdown, saying on Thursday night that people will be...

Qatar won’t normalize with Israel before 2-state solution reached, envoy says

Qatar has no problem with normalizing relations with Israel but will not do so before a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is...

How to toot your horn: Health Ministry issues shofar-blowing guidelines

The Health Ministry on Thursday issued guidelines for shofar-blowing over the High Holidays, urging precautions to prevent the ceremonial ram’s...

Journalist reckons with Israeli blame for 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre

Recollections of the final harrowing chapter of Israel’s Beirut adventure in 1982 always begin for me with the ambience of Jerusalem’s Great...

Fighting the COVID Infodemic

PARIS/KUALA LUMPUR – The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not only led to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but also fueled an accompanying...

Egypt: will the state allow rapists to act with impunity after the ‘Fairmont Crime’?

Even the most optimistic of observers did not expect the Egyptian government to pay attention to the Fairmont Crime, the gang rape scandal in...

Rivlin wishes Jews around the world a happy new year

Ahead of the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah, President Reuven Rivlin wished Jewish communities around the world a return to normal life in the...

High Holiday content goes online for the Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashanah brings apples and honey and wishes for a sweet new year, but for some, actual hope and spiritual meaning may be hard to come by....

Dockside dealings: Smuggling, bribery, tax evasion rampant at Beirut port

BEIRUT (AFP) — The huge explosion at Beirut’s port last month laid bare a dockside institution riddled with graft which critics say is a microcosm...

Normalisation with Israel and the Palestinian response

There has been a breach in the Arab Front in favour of Israel against Palestine. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has caused a wide rift in the Gulf...

Police said to fear mass requests for Haredi protests a method to evade lockdown

Police have received numerous requests in recent days to approve supposed ultra-Orthodox demonstrations at the end of the Rosh Hashanah holiday on...

A Jew is never alone – A 2020 Vision for Rosh HaShanah

This year, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic,  the global  Jewish community is not only saddened by the need to surrender many of...

New Attempts at Rekindling the Sino-Indian Conflict

At a recent US-India meetup US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led an American effort to take advantage of recent India-China friction. In a move to...