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Avdija’s breakout NBA season ends as Trail Blazers knocked out of playoffs

Avdija’s breakout NBA season ends as Trail Blazers knocked out of playoffs

Israeli basketball star scores 22 points as team loses to San Antonio Spurs

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Housing policy out of sync with shifting demand, especially for smaller homes, study finds

Housing policy out of sync with shifting demand, especially for smaller homes, study finds

Research center says failure to account for growth of number of households driving prices out of reach, leaving more families in rentals, with major...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

From Lab to Life: Can Science Reverse Aging?

Source: depositphotos.com For us seniors, there is special interest in the process of aging.  This is why I read with great interest the amazing...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Maital

What an Eight-Year-Old Taught Me About Money

What an Eight-Year-Old Taught Me About Money

A simple breakfast question revealed how rarely we ask why we earn what we earn.

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Psychology Today

Maarit lassander ph.d

J.D. Salinger asked publishers to remove mention of Jewish-Irish heritage, letters show

J.D. Salinger asked publishers to remove mention of Jewish-Irish heritage, letters show

Request made by acclaimed author ahead of 1951 publication of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’: ‘Don’t know that I’d like to have that Jewish-Irish...

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The Times of Israel

Jackie Hajdenberg

Cynická obluda: Nepredstaviteľné peniaze

Chalani tam hore by už naozaj mohli aplikovať aspoň základný zmysel pre mieru.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Freedom in the Age of AI

Freedom in the Age of AI

The New Shemot of Consciousness Yesterday, after programming, I started watching an online conference on AI. I listened to several presentations, and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yosef B. Moran

Building What We Don’t Have (Yet)

I would like to begin with a question. Why do so many Israeli Jews who identify as secular still fast on Yom Kippur, still feel a deep attachment to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steve Freedman

Trump said prepping for extended Iran blockade, says Tehran ‘better get smart soon’

Trump said prepping for extended Iran blockade, says Tehran ‘better get smart soon’

‘No more Mr. Nice Guy,’ US president declares, adds Iran’s leaders ‘don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal’; Hegseth to testify before...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Daily Briefing Apr. 29 – The case of the ‘stolen’ Ukrainian wheat

Daily Briefing Apr. 29 – The case of the ‘stolen’ Ukrainian wheat

US bureau chief Jacob Magid on the stalled negotiations between the US and Iran, a rare vote for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and a former...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Palestinian couple nabbed on suspicion of living under fake Israeli identity for 20 years

Palestinian couple nabbed on suspicion of living under fake Israeli identity for 20 years

Pair lived double life between West Bank and Rahat after allegedly purchasing Arab Israeli woman’s ID; police say case is longest-lasting identity...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

After years in limbo, court lets Syrian convert live in Israel with husband, a disabled vet

After years in limbo, court lets Syrian convert live in Israel with husband, a disabled vet

Interior Ministry had repeatedly denied couple’s efforts to build a home in the country, despite woman’s conversion to Judaism and severing of...

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The Times of Israel

Sue Surkes

Trump sa dostal do patovej situácie. A rozhodne si ju neuľahčuje

Sebavedomie Iránu je oprávnené. Vie, že čím dlhšie počká, tým silnejšia bude jeho pozícia.

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SME.sk

Hospodářské Noviny

Report: Katz hired unqualified political allies as consultants at Defense Ministry

Report: Katz hired unqualified political allies as consultants at Defense Ministry

Channel 12 investigation says minister gave role to Likud operator Yair Shalom, despite the latter reportedly being suspected of credit card fraud, as...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

How U.S. Foreign Policy Affects the World and America Itself

How U.S. Foreign Policy Affects the World and America Itself Contemporary U.S. foreign policy remains one of the key drivers of global instability,...

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New Eastern Outlook

Simon Westwood

My Classmate Thought Jews Asked for It. He is Not Alone.

My Classmate Thought Jews Asked for It. He is Not Alone.

“Isn’t the Holocaust when the Jews made everyone hate them and got themselves killed?” A schoolmate remarked this casually to me during a lunch...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Daniel zeman

We Didn’t Fear the Shorter, Longer Way

There is a popular and powerful song sung in Religious Zionist circles – I myself have sung it many times with all my heart and soul – that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Avidan Freedman

What the Phrase “Create a Genocide” Shows Us

During an interview on Bloomberg’s The Mishal Husain Show last week, Wendy Sherman, who served as deputy secretary of state in the Joe Biden...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Josh Warhit

The UAE’s OPEC exit is not about oil; it is the end of Gulf solidarity

The UAE’s OPEC exit is not about oil; it is the end of Gulf solidarity

For decades, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) functioned as far more than an oil cartel. For its Gulf members, the...

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Al Jazeera

Anas abdoun

The World Edges toward Apocalypse

This week, an old quote purported to be from theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, came to mind in the face of new drone technology being used by...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sherwin Pomerantz

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza — A Cry at Sea to the World’s Dormant Conscience

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza — A Cry at Sea to the World’s Dormant Conscience

While the world’s attention has been hijacked by the new American, made-for-Israel war against Iran, a quieter act of resistance is gathering on the...

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Middle East Monitor

Jamal Kanj

The Trans-Siberian Kindertransport: From Austria to Russia, Japan, and America

Hiroshi Suzuki, the Japanese Ambassador to the UK, has shown his affection for British culture through his endearing bond with one of Britain’s most...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Amy Williams

Living Without an AI Kill Switch

Living Without an AI Kill Switch

OXFORD—It has long been clear that slow-moving governments are not keeping pace with rapid AI progress. But Anthropic’s announcement that its new...

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Project Syndicate

Ngaire Woods

European airlines face biggest crisis since COVID as Iran war drives up fuel costs

European airlines face biggest crisis since COVID as Iran war drives up fuel costs

Aviation experts warn European carriers may begin rationing jet fuel supplies during summer holiday season, after prices surged nearly 84 percent...

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The Times of Israel

Joanna Plucinska

Price of oil rises as Iran talks remain stalled and Strait of Hormuz closed

Price of oil rises as Iran talks remain stalled and Strait of Hormuz closed

Financial expert says US blockade of Iranian ports strains oil system, with consequences for future prices, while Qatar warns of ‘frozen conflict’...

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The Times of Israel

Afp

Netanyahu's Double Disaster Gives Naftali Bennett Hope

Netanyahu's Double Disaster Gives Naftali Bennett Hope

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Haaretz

Aluf Benn

US and Pakistan Seek to Settle Iran-US Conflict

US and Pakistan Seek to Settle Iran-US Conflict

US and Pakistan Seek to Settle Iran-US Conflict The US, with the active mediation of Pakistan, is aiming to settle the conflict with Iran, the latter...

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New Eastern Outlook

Anvar Azimov

Globálna hrozba umelej inteligencie je už tu

Predstavme si napríklad masívny kyberútok, ktorý paralyzuje energetický systém v Číne

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SME.sk

Angela Huyue Zhang

Nič nepochopili (píše Michal Havran)

Intelektuálnemu klubu z Čifárov niektoré veci trvajú dlhšie

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SME.sk

Michal Havran

The cards they cannot play: Iran, America and the trap of unusable leverage

The cards they cannot play: Iran, America and the trap of unusable leverage

The strangest feature of the Iran war is not that both sides have leverage. It is that neither side can fully use the leverage it has. That is the...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Mojtaba Touiserkani

Cynická obluda: Fico do Moskvy bezpečnejšie

Indície o premiérovej ceste prichádzajú z rôznych zdrojov a zapadajú do seba.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

1,000 years of Japanese swords

1,000 years of Japanese swords The Japanese sword as the soul of the samurai Samurai rules for peace and war The Great Wave by Hokusai I-Kiribati...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Sanctions Are Inevitable, Despite Israelis' Obliviousness

Sanctions Are Inevitable, Despite Israelis' Obliviousness

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Uri Bar-Joseph

Restoring trust in strained Korea-US alliance

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The Korea Times

Choo Jae-Woo

How We Stay in Love Despite Our Partners' Limits, or Our Own

How We Stay in Love Despite Our Partners' Limits, or Our Own

Part 2: What philosophy teaches us about limits, grace, and the self.

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Psychology Today

Susi Ferrarello Ph.d

Seven Challenges in Early Recovery From Addiction

Seven Challenges in Early Recovery From Addiction

It’s hard to avoid obstacles that we ourselves create in addiction recovery.

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Psychology Today

Peg o'connor ph.d

The worst pro-Israel influencer ever

My kids think I am too old for social media. They might be right. Since the war started on October 7th, I have been posting on Facebook about Israel,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Aron Schoenfeld

Konzervativizmus by mohol zachrániť Ameriku

Skutočný konzervativizmus - s malým "k".

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SME.sk

Abby Mccloskey

Mečiarova veta, ktorá stále platí: Skutok sa nestal

Remiáš – prípad, ktorý štát nechal zomrieť.

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SME.sk

Beata Balogová

IDF says senior Hamas intel operative who helped plan Oct. 7 killed in Gaza strike

IDF says senior Hamas intel operative who helped plan Oct. 7 killed in Gaza strike

Iyad Shambari served as operations chief in terror group’s intelligence division; separately, 9-year-old killed in strike targeting man who ‘posed...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Trump’s Hormuz Illusion: Why American Oil Will Not Protect US Households

Trump’s Hormuz Illusion: Why American Oil Will Not Protect US Households

Donald Trump has leaned on a simple argument throughout the Iran war: the United States produces so much oil that the Strait of Hormuz is no longer...

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Middle East Monitor

Ervin hoskins

The Evil Eye Beyond Superstition: The Talmud’s Theory of the Observer Effect

The Evil Eye Beyond Superstition: The Talmud’s Theory of the Observer Effect

The Talmudic discussion of Zugot—pairs—and broader Jewish ideas of ayin hara (the evil eye) and harmful spiritual forces present a striking yet...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Ezagui

Science educators can’t be silent on Palestine – I can’t be silent about them.

The academic journal Cultural Studies of Science Education, published by leading academic publisher Springer Nature, recently published an article...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joseph Mintz