Amid escalation, CIA chief said visiting Israel, West Bank

CIA director Bill Burns is visiting Israel and the West Bank where he will hold meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and intelligence...

A Uyghur Reflects on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

As a Uyghur, it is deeply meaningful for me to honor the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Together with individuals of...

Likud’s Edelstein says judicial overhaul won’t pass without compromise

The governing coalition’s controversial judicial overhaul plan will not pass without lawmakers holding talks and compromising on it, Likud...

A Battle Between Israeli Patriots and Parasites

There are patriots, and there are parasites. Parasites cannot exist without suckers, and patriots cannot live without democracy. It’s hard to be...

Ravnatelj (ne) bom. Z odvetnikom ali brez njega

Konec avgusta 1982 sem se po počitnicah vrnil na šolo. Dobra volja me je hitro minila, ko me je obstopila skupina starejših učiteljev in rekla:...

Podcast: At the Israel Museum, touring 7 new wonders of the ancient world

This week on Times Will Tell, host Amanda Borschel-Dan takes you with her to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem for a first-time viewing of seven new...

Singapore’s Lunar New Year traditions evolving as youth attitudes towards customs change

Many Singaporeans are shunning traditional Lunar New Year’s customs like visiting family, and are instead choosing to travel to ‘escape’ seeing...

Netanyahu says open to dialogue — but judicial overhaul to go ahead without delay

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he was open to dialogue on his government’s proposals for a sweeping makeover of Israel’s...

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

Although there are widespread predictions that house prices will fall in the course of 2023, the most recent market data (from October to November...

Nazir: Enthusiastic Approval or Reluctant Acceptance?

As we begin studying Masechet Nazir in the daf yomi cycle this week, many of us are confronted with the very basic question of the Torah’s stance...

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Reflections on New Antisemitism

Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to reflect on the past, and how modern-day circumstances prove that the ominous specter of antisemitism...

Elections and judicial reform: Voting for a policy or the party?

Major political issues tend to raise profound questions of political philosophy. The current, ongoing controversy in Israel over “judicial reform”...

Power Corrupts and Religious Power Faithfully Corrupts – Part 1

With a new ultra-orthodox, super nationalist government officially empowered in Israel, millions of Israelis feel liberal democracy is dangerously...

No Compromise and No Dialogue: War

Thugs break into a person’s home, screaming, cursing, breaking everything in their way and threatening to take revenge on the family and set the...

Help Redeem the Past on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

“May this archive, which serves as restitution for the victims and their families, be a warning to all future generations to never again allow such...

VOX POPULI: Busting burglary ring shows there is no ‘complete confidentiality’

A scrap of paper bearing written instructions for a drug deal is folded multiple times and wrapped with tape. It is then taken to a local bakery,...

EDITORIAL: Transport chaos highlights risk of undue optimism and complacency

The coldest winter snap of the season triggered transportation chaos across much of Japan, resulting in massive road, rail and other delays....

Begging Japanese companies to hike wages is not the answer

Inflation is the modern era’s “Black Ships” that forced Japan to open trade with the U.S. 170 years ago, according to the head of the...

Bet you didn’t know you needed a sleep coach

A decade ago, high achievers would boast of how little sleep they got as if it were a sign of courage and stamina. That flipped on its head in...

U.S. President Joe Biden’s border travesty

CHICAGO – On the eve of U.S. President Joe Biden’s inauguration, immigration advocates were optimistic that the incoming administration would...

On Palestinian unity on the ground

There is one point that stands out recently, and that is the cessation of the demands to end the division or the demands to seek reconciliation....

US to Send Abrams Tanks to Ukraine: Will it make any Difference?

The recent announcement that the United States will be sending at least 31 M1 Abrams tanks along with a growing number of German Leopard 2 main...

Russian-Israeli businessman hit in latest batch of US sanctions over Ukraine war

A Russian-Israeli businessman is among a group of individuals and entities hit with US sanctions on Thursday for assisting in Russia’s invasion...

Israeli envoy: The UN, founded upon ashes of Holocaust, is failing its purpose

UNITED NATIONS — Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, lashed the world body for its disproportionate focus on Israel and for antisemitism...

UN chief calls for curbs on online hate speech in Holocaust Remembrance Day address

UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried rising antisemitism and issued an “urgent” call to combat online hate speech in...

Biden announces appointment of Jeff Zients to replace Ron Klain as chief of staff

WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Friday announced the appointment of Jeff Zients to become the next White House chief of staff Zients, who...

Lod is bleeding

You probably missed it, and who can blame you? Between growing chaos in Israel’s government and the horrific news reports of multiple mass...

Lessons from Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount Visit

Knesset coalitions rarely reflect uniformity. Americans live in partisan times. Democratic and Republican voters regard supporters of the other...

The First Mitzvah, The First Step To Enlightenment

What is the very first mitzvah that was commanded to the Jewish nation in the Torah? It was not “I am the Lord your God,” which was the first of...

A Return to the Past

“Inside Every Progressive is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out” [‘Final Battle’ by David Horowitz, Front Page] “–it is both our...

Celebrating Tu Bishvat as if Environmental Sustainability Matters 

Since Tu Bishvat, the “New Year for Trees,” has increasingly become a “Jewish Earth Day,” why not use Tu Bishvat Seders as, among other...

At times of challenge and controversy, Jewish peoplehood is a timeless value

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1963, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where...

For the Common Good

Kuroda’s head-fakes make the unthinkable plausible

Straight talk is meant to be core to credible economic strategy. To be effective in steering the ship, central banks want great store to be placed...

Helping Middle-Income Energy Exporters Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit

Australia aims at strengthening its ties with Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia does not actively participate in the present geopolitical game being played on the world stage and strives to maintain...

Jacinda Ardern wasn’t perfect, but she blazed a trail for women in leadership

Her empathy, self-awareness and deft handling of crises in the face of rampant sexism and hatred made New Zealand’s former prime minister an...

Iran and Saudi Arabia – rivalry or partnership?

Iran and Saudi Arabia stand out among many Middle Eastern states in terms of their status, historical content, natural resources, and scale. The...

My blackness

At times I’ve tried to escape it. Other times I’ve embraced it. But at all times, people have attempted to define me by it - by Colin Grant Read...

After IDF raid, far-right MK suspended from Twitter for call to ‘keep killing them’

Far-right MK Almog Cohen was temporarily suspended from Twitter on Friday after tweeting his support for a deadly IDF raid and urging them to...

Tense calm in Jerusalem, Gaza border after a night of rocket fire, Air Force strikes

There was a tense calm on the Gaza border on Friday after a night of rocket fire from Palestinian terror groups and Israeli retaliatory air strikes...

Kiss frontman Simmons wants to rock Holocaust memorials with Never Again concert

UNITED NATIONS — Gene Simmons, the bass player and co-lead singer of the iconic rock band Kiss, called for widening identification with the...

London gets a taste of Roladin with new gourmet doughnut shop in city center

Israeli bakery chain Roladin recently opened a gourmet doughnut shop in the heart of London’s tourist district, offering the eatery’s famous...

FDA adviser: Israel’s fast actions, big data, gave US a ‘window to future of COVID’

Israeli research has given US health policymakers a “window to the future” that helped shape policy on COVID shots and “convinced everybody...

Ten wounded, several seriously, in shooting attack in Jerusalem; gunman shot

At least six people have been shot and wounded in a suspected shooting attack in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, medics said Friday night....

Even among its advocates, changing the Law of Return proves trickier than expected

Lawmakers, rabbis and activists debated the Law of Return and the government’s plans to restrict it on Wednesday night, with even supporters of...

(STRAN 210) Kolumna Boštjana Narata: Ljudje in riti. Različnih ideoloških ter političnih barv, vonjev in okusov

"Mnogi ljudje pravijo, da jim je zima všeč, ampak v resnici jim je všeč to, da so pred njo na varnem. Nobenih težav nimajo glede tega, kaj bodo...

In a first, German parliament spotlights Nazis’ LGBTQ victims

BERLIN (AFP) — The German parliament will for the first time on Friday focus its annual Holocaust memorial commemorations on people persecuted...

Auschwitz liberation anniversary marked as European peace again shattered by war

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the liberation of the Nazi...