Valuable social agreement

Introduction of two new systems significant for all stakeholders The Economic, Social and Labor Council Wednesday reached a social agreement on the...

Debate over relief funds

Bipartisanship needed to help virus-hit people A debate is gaining momentum over the push for a new emergency relief package to help the...

Daily virus cases top 1,000 for first time in a month as reopening continues

The number of new daily coronavirus cases diagnosed in Israel rose to over one thousand on Wednesday, a level not seen in over a month, according...

Trump remains unpredictable

By Donald Kirk The rise of Joe Biden is ushering in an array of old and new names vying for the president-elect's ear, or the ears of those close...

'Hotel beggar'

By Park Moo-jong "Do you know the word, 'hoggar'?" I asked many foreign friends of mine, who asked in return, "Beg your pardon?" When I first...

North Korea and President-elect Biden's foreign policy

By Troy Stangarone When Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Jan. 20 he will assume the presidency in the midst of a global pandemic that has...

What a 95% effective vaccine could do is pretty exciting

In wealthy Western countries with lots of older people, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has killed roughly 1% of those infected with it,...

Hypocrisy on parade: UN views human and religious rights

By John J. Metzler It is the season of blatant political hypocrisy. This is the point where the U.N. General Assembly is quickly moving through its...

Trump outsources drug price regulation

President Donald Trump has largely been a corrosive force on health care issues, working to undermine the Affordable Care Act and advancing...

Why the West continues to get China’s future wrong

API Geoeconomic Briefing is a series provided by the Asia Pacific Initiative, an independent think tank based in Tokyo. The series will look into...

Hwangudan, hidden in the center of Seoul

By Richard Pennington The high-handed way in which the Japanese took economic, political and military control of Korea in 1910 and held it until...

Being addicted to golf

By Kim Jeong-kyoo My favorite pastime is golf. It is plain fun and exhilarating. Golf addicts come from all age groups, from young children to aged...

Ant Group and WhatsApp show the risks and upside of Big Tech finance

Principles of fairness can help guide sector's growth across Asia

All our food pantries and soup kitchens can’t solve this crisis

JTA — This week, families around the country will celebrate Thanksgiving amid a new and devastating reality. While our celebrations might look...

The Weight of Gold – Jacob: The Fear of Living

Embed from Getty Images When I helped guide a young Christian business associate through a spiritual crisis, little did we know that it would...

Travelling Man

I love Ya’akov. Of all the Avot, I just feel this connection to and affection for Ya’akov  Avinu . Not that, God forbid, there’s anything...

Moving past apartheid: one-state is not ideal justice, but it is just and possible

Once again, Europe's top diplomats expressed their 'deep concern' regarding Israel's ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim...

Libya's bribery has marred political dialogue

The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) is continuing in Tunis amid reports of bribery. On 23 November, acting head of the United Nations...

(POGLED) Vlada nas je pozabila, dajmo mi ne pozabiti vlade

Predsednik vlade Janez Janša je konec marca ob vrhuncu spopadanja s prvim valom epidemije koronavirusa dejal, da oblastniki ob pripravi...

'Abenomasks' turn up in a pandemic-era time capsule

I recently had a surprise re-encounter with "Abenomasks," the face masks that the government distributed to every household in Japan this past...

Pozdrav iz Celofanije

Po nekaj urah zapletanja na egiptovski meji na Sinaju sem zaslišal odrešilni vzklik. »Maršal Tito,« je glasno in z nasmehom rekel uslužbenec...

James Wolfensohn, former World Bank president and philanthropist, dies at 86

JTA — James Wolfensohn, the World Bank president and philanthropist who helped shepherd Israel’s exit from the Gaza Strip, has died at 86....

Ministers approve pilot plan to reopen markets, 15 malls, starting Friday

Government ministers on Wednesday approved a pilot plan to open 15 malls around the country as Israel continues to emerge from its second...

Back in 1620, the Pilgrim leader behind the 1st Thanksgiving was Hebrew-obsessed

After leading the Pilgrims through a difficult first winter at Plymouth Colony and going on to help establish and govern the second successful...

Six weeks after Facebook vowed to ban Holocaust denial, it’s still easy to find

JTA — As of Wednesday afternoon, one of the first results in a Facebook search for “Holohoax” — a term popular with Holocaust deniers — was...

Trump’s Jewish outreach adviser gets COVID; stood next to Giuliani at presser

An adviser to US President Donald Trump who focuses on Jewish outreach was diagnosed with COVID-19, he said Wednesday, a week after appearing next...

Our Original Yiddishe Mamme-Rachel Imenu

Embed from Getty Images We are introduced to Rachel, one of the four Matriarchs, in this week’s Torah reading Vayetzei[i]. Like the other...

Biden's foreign policy will put Americans first alongside democratic allies

By Trudy Rubin Does anyone recall the old Alka-Seltzer commercial that sang: "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, Oh what a relief it is?" That song ricocheted...

Will the US Face Penalties for its War Crimes?

The official statement from Angus Campbell, the Australian Chief of the Defense Force, delivering an apology to the people of Afghanistan for the...

Human rights activist Irwin Cotler named as Canada’s first anti-Semitism envoy

JTA — Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister and a human rights activist, is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s choice as his nation’s...

First commercial Flydubai flight takes off from Dubai to Tel Aviv

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Budget airline flydubai on Thursday launched direct flights to Tel Aviv, the first scheduled commercial...

Janucá in the Calle: Celebrating in Madrid, Spain

I devoured one last napolitana de chocolate from La Mallorquina, the renowned bakery in the heart of Sol, before flying back home to the United...

Limiting life of nuclear plants to 40 years should be continued

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, new nuclear safety regulations were created to impose a 40-year limit on the operational lifespan of...

Papanomics: Francis called for a new economic model

Analysis. ‘Things cannot go on the way they are. The present world system is certainly unsustainable from a number of points of view and is...

Tel Aviv human rights film festival shifts online

The Solidarity Tel Aviv Human Rights Film Festival will take place online, December 3-10, featuring films from Israel and abroad dealing with the...

Rape added to corruption offenses against Or Akiva mayor, former minister

Yaakov Edri, the mayor of the city of Or Akiva and a former government minister, is suspected of rape, along with other serious offenses, a court...

A Look Into Netanyahu's Speech Comparing Domestic Violence to Animal Abuse

Former Maccabi Games pitcher celebrates LA’s World Series win — as team analyst

NEW JERSEY (Jewish Standard) — Sammy Elias isn’t a cork-popping kind of guy under normal conditions, so when the Los Angeles Dodgers won the...

Forever fifteen

Today (Friday November 27) we mark yet another agonizing birthday. My sweet daughter Malki would now be thirty-five years old if Hamas operative...

Haaretz Cartoon

Israel's Education Ministry Is Promoting Exclusion of Women

Black Cube to pay Israeli TV network £350,000 after dropping UK libel suit

A UK court earlier this month ordered the Black Cube intelligence firm to pay an Israeli TV network £350,000 ($468,000 or NIS 1.55 million) after...

Here it comes again, that feeling, here it comes again

Is Saudi Arabia suddenly kosher? The State of Israel was able to start a peace process with the PLO because the latter was lying on its political...

Argentines mourn Maradona, ‘the most human of gods’

AFP — Stunned Argentines were plunged into grief Wednesday by the death of the country’s favorite son Diego Maradona, a sublimely gifted sporting...

Grateful, yes. Satisfied, no.

How many “gratitude” emails did you get today? I got a ton, which got me thinking about the way things are versus the way I want them to...

What’s In a Name?

Texts&Contexts Vayeitzei In this week’s parashah, Vayeitzei [1] , we read about the birth of eleven of Jacob’s twelve children. About the first...

A Thanksgiving Wish – Respect and Civility

A friend recently sent me a link to a 2017 video by the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. That video contains many lessons for these divided and divisive...

One-to-Many and Many-to-One

And he arrived upon the place and lodged there all night, because the sun was set; and he took from the stones of the place, and put them under his...