Israel's Coalition of Contagion

Triage looms as Japan muddles through response over pandemic

The word triage, which derives from the French verb "trier" meaning to sort or select, initially applied to wool and coffee beans. Medical triage,...

Will Biden undo Trump’s last minute legacy?

While the second state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic has expanded in Japan, the incumbent U.S. president faced a second impeachment in...

India: Tractors at the Republic Day Parade?

“Republic Day” is one of the three national holidays celebrated annually in India on January 26, marking the enactment of the country’s...

Whatever gets your pox off: What the press is saying about COVID, shots and Iran

1. Holding steady on the cusp of disaster: The good news in Israel is that the number of new coronavirus cases no longer appears to be rising. The...

Napoved vremena in kratek dan

Nevihtni pojavi ali vsaj plohe (to so »nevihte brez grmenja«) povzročijo tudi precej bolj neenakomerno krajevno razporeditev količine padavin,...

Jay Rosenzweig On His Jewish Background And Passion For Equality

For Canadian investor, entrepreneur, songwriter, equality, and human rights activist, Jay Rosenzweig , the sight and thought of airports and flying...

Speech in exile

Moshe complains to God that since speaking to the Israelites things have only gotten worse. God tells Moshe to return to the people and tell them...

A spiritual lesson from the vaccine

I am grateful to be among the fortunate, country-wise and age-wise, who have received the vaccine against the Corona virus — both doses. The...

Why facts don’t matter anymore

“The downside of higher education is that it gives you the confidence to maintain baseless fantasies in defiance of common sense.” Derek...

The U. S. election and halachic ‘truth’

The Shulchan Aruch, Code of Jewish Law, states that if three identical pieces of meat, one which is unkosher and two which are kosher, become mixed...

Onward to 2021!

Our collective efforts have mitigated the negative financial impact of 2020, and we have embarked on a path toward recovery in 2021. I am...

Israeli humanitarian aid

Israel adopted an official humanitarian aid agenda in 1958, 10 years after its founding. In 54 years, Israel has provided aid to 140 countries,...

What’s in a name?

Yesterday was Rosh Chodesh Shevat, the first day of what we consider to be the month in which we celebrate the new year of the trees in two weeks,...

Trump and the Golem

Shortly after the 2016 election, I found myself in Berlin at the Jewish Museum. Upon exiting the museum, I stumbled upon a temporary exhibit titled...

Moshe’s sense of justice

In the shift from Bereshit to Shemot, we see the Jewish people go from a thriving nation to a persecuted people. As quickly as we said “Chazzak...

Los retos del sector turismo: enfoque en la segmentación y estimulación de la demanda

La pandemia global no fue un evento predecible en 2019, pero ha acelerado muchos de los cambios previsibles que esperábamos en el futuro. Es muy...

Lessons learned from an uncertain tree

Scientists or not, we have all turned into exceptional lab rats. Surveys conducted around the world have clearly indicated that people’s perception...

Americans must come together to rebuild their fallen democracy

The political crisis in the United States has raised serious questions about the future of the country’s democratic system, which is on the brink...

Letters to the Editor: What Rabin's Assassination Teaches Us About Suppressing Trump Supporters

AG slams Ohana, says he won’t defend order in court to not vaccinate prisoners

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit lambasted Public Security Minister Amir Ohana’s directive not to vaccinate prisoners in a Friday letter...

Can America lead again?

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s impending inauguration has raised hopes that his administration will “make America lead again.” If the United...

Japan must embrace international cooperation in the age of COVID-19

Since the onset of winter, the rampaging coronavirus has seemed unstoppable. Yet, compared to the Spanish flu of 100 years ago, the number of...

Ten years after the revolution, Tunisia's president is polarising the country

It is ten years since the people of Tunisia took to the streets and started what became known as the Jasmine Revolution which led to the ouster of...

The Pandemic of Fear

Through a new podcast, Vik’s ideas still ‘fly’

Culture. A podcast in six episodes by Samuele Sciarrillo recalls with voices and sounds the young activist and manifesto contributor, ten years...

Nova fiskalna paradigma

Ko je oktobra lani potekalo redno letno srečanje dveh glavnih globalnih institucij, IMF in Svetovne banke, je Financial Times glavna sporočila s...

Scottish court upholds conviction of Lockerbie bomber, family to appeal

EDINBURGH, United Kingdom (AFP) — Five judges at Scotland’s highest court of criminal appeal on Friday upheld the conviction of the only man...

Perspective on a 2nd Intifada turning point

This week an Israeli district court delivered a verdict, barring the film Jenin Jenin from being screened in Israel, and ordering the film’s...

I Could Have Died When My Car Was Sabatoged, But I Also Taught Torah: Va’Era

Although shabbat is coming soon, I started this dvar Torah watching settler cows in planted Palestinian fields (again). In “God Wrestling,”...

With ambassadors like this…

“Love him or hate him” began a recent New York Times farewell article about US ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman. And we are left in no...

Sheldon Adelson’s coffin arrives in Israel ahead of funeral in Jerusalem

A coffin carrying Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson arrived in Israel Thursday evening, ahead of the pro-Israel and GOP megadonor’s...

America’s White Liberal Media Is Complicit in Trump’s Rise, and His Insurrection

There was no ‘economic anxiety’ among the pro-Trump mob besieging the Capitol, from CEOs to Olympic champions. There was, though, plenty of...

Sheldon Adelson laid to rest in small funeral service in Jerusalem

Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson was buried Friday in a small funeral on the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City, with...

Twitter has found an unlikely enemy in an angry political class that doesn't want to be silenced

Aside from celebrities cautiously expressing varying levels of distaste with Donald Trump being banned from Twitter, another response has come from...

More power for law enforcement would not have stopped Capitol riot, their inherent bias to the right is the REAL problem

In the wake of the recent Capitol riot in the US, coupled with new information from the FBI that suggests all 50 state capitals could soon be under...

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer describes pain at seeing ‘Camp Auschwitz’ T-shirt

JTA — Longtime CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that he was happy that his late parents, survivors of the Holocaust, did not live to witness...

Netanyahu challenger Gideon Sa’ar pledges change to Israeli-US ties with Biden

AP — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top challenger in upcoming elections is promising a tough line toward Iran and the Palestinians, yet...

The dangerous fault line linking Trump cultists to 9/11

What the global war on terror can teach us about handling paranoid conspiracies

From Israel/Palestine to the US, lies lead to violence

The Arab conflict against Israel was built on one huge lie, which is the claim that Jews have no right to self-determination in Palestine....

Labor board members call on former PM Ehud Barak to run in party’s primaries

Leading board members of the floundering Labor party on Thursday called on Ehud Barak, its former leader and a former prime minister, to return to...

Hollywood could teach Joseph Stalin some new tricks about erasing history amid calls to remove Trump's ‘Home Alone’ cameo

If you blinked, you’d have missed it – a brief cameo appearance by Donald Trump speaking to child actor Macaulay Culkin in the 1992 film ‘Home...

America’s Post-Trump Reckoning

Call the Senate vote on Trump’s removal and be done with it

U.S. President Donald Trump deserved to be impeached, again — this time for his sustained and unprecedented attempt to invalidate the results of...

Sex therapist Dr. Ruth gets COVID-19 vaccine in NYC

JTA — The famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer normally goes to the Javits Center in New York City for a book fair, where she talks and signs...

With power crisis, out-of-work woodcutters see opportunity in Gaza

With a chainsaw in his car, Ahmed Abdelal tours the Gaza Strip, asking around for people wanting to cut down trees, regrow orchards or make way for...

An unimpeachable blog

It is astonishing and dismaying watching the no-longer United States tearing itself apart. Cries for impeachment rend the air without any real...

Insulting to the Apartheid struggle, all Israelis and Palestinians

The Guardian’s reporting of B’Tselem’s ludicrous claims that Israel is an undemocratic, apartheid state is unhelpful to building peace and...

Coronavirus patients’ info given to Shin Bet without their knowledge

The  Shin Bet security service received the phone location data of 144,870 Israelis confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 during December and...

Biden unveils $1.9 trillion plan to curb pandemic, steady economy

US President-elect Joe Biden will propose injecting $1.9 trillion into the US economy when he takes office next week, as evidence mounts that the...